{"id":529694,"date":"2026-03-11T18:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529694\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:48:21","slug":"barcelona-fan-gutted-at-missing-newcastle-game-after-going-to-wrong-st-james-park-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529694\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona fan \u2018gutted\u2019 at missing Newcastle game after going to wrong St James\u2019 Park | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Barcelona fan\u2019s navigation mishap turned into an unexpected adventure when he arrived at the wrong St James\u2019 Park on Tuesday for a Champions League<\/a> clash, ending up 366 miles from where his team were playing.<\/p>\n

The Spanish fan, who had travelled from London expecting to watch Barcelona<\/a> take on Newcastle in the first leg of the last-16 tie, instead found himself at the turnstiles of third-tier Exeter\u2019s St James Park.<\/p>\n

It was only when he presented his ticket to staff that the mix-up became apparent but rather than turn him away, Exeter staff took pity on his plight and provided him with a ticket for their League One<\/a> match against Lincoln.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our volunteers came to the office to let us know that this guy had turned up expecting to see FC Barcelona,\u201d said Adam Spencer, Exeter\u2019s supporter experience officer. \u201cHis English wasn\u2019t great, but from what we could gather, he\u2019d come from London.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy guess is he\u2019d put St James Park in his phone and then just followed the directions from there. He was pretty gutted and a bit embarrassed. So we sorted him out a ticket and he got to watch a game at the real St James Park. He\u2019d be welcome back any time.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Bar\u00e7a fan watched Exeter lose 1-0 to the league leaders, Barcelona salvaged a 1-1 draw in Newcastle<\/a> after Lamine Yamal netted a penalty with the final kick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Barcelona fan\u2019s navigation mishap turned into an unexpected adventure when he arrived at the wrong St James\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-529694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}