· 10 September 2025, 17:00
**Newcastle United-centric social media has been abuzz with fans absolutely fuming at the idea that the club have sent at least 45 tickets to a private school in Dundee to put on a coach trip for their pupils to come and watch the Newcastle United versus Barcelona Champions League match next week.**
While over 100,000 fans waited in virtual queues to try and grab tickets unsuccessfully, a group of kids who likely don't even support Newcastle or even care about the club one way or another, have been handed the opportunity to be part of one of the most magical nights of Newcastle's season.
As we said this morning, the fact that the club have kept aside tickets for schools to offer to their pupils isn't an issue. The problem is that these tickets have gone to a school in Scotland rather than one of the many schools in the local area that would have filled those seats with passionate Newcastle United supporting kids.
Since that was reported this morning, however, [The Mag have done a bit of digging](https://www.themag.co.uk/2025/09/now-made-public-that-multiple-dundee-schools-handed-newcastle-v-barcelona-tickets-newcastle-united/) and found that it's not just this one school in Dundee who have been sent tickets.
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There is more than one school benefitting from this ticket scheme
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The Mag were contacted by a parent whose child attends the High School of Dundee, asking if they were going to cover the other two schools that had been handed the same opportunity.
We, like The Mag, were only aware of the High School of Dundee, but The Mag did some further digging and found that Harris Academy in Dundee are offering the same trip for their students.
There's thought to be a third school doing the same, but they haven't been able to corroborate this.
They could have done this for literally any other match
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There's a chance that all three schools are vying for the same 45 tickets, but we highly doubt that. So there's potentially 150 tickets going to non-Newcastle United supporting guests.
It's a small number in the grand scheme of things, and were it for a random Premier League or domestic cup game, we're sure there wouldn't be anywhere near as much uproar, but there are people who'd sell their kids to go watch Newcastle United take on Barcelona at St James' Park.
It's a game where the atmosphere is going to be everything, and the more seats taken up by non-supporters, the less intimidating that atmosphere will be.
There's still no update from the Newcastle United Supporters Trust who have been hounding the club for a response, but it doesn't look like we're going to get one.