Gillingham unable to increase Wembley ticket allocation
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Gillingham will not be
able to obtain any more tickets for the play-off final at Wembley
once they sell their allocation of
38,000.
That’s the message from Gills chief
executive Mark Jones as more than 30,000 tickets were sold within
two days of going on sale at Priestfield.
With opponents Shrewsbury having an
allocation of 21,000 tickets, hopes were high that more Gillingham
fans could obtain tickets if necessary.
But Mr Jones (pictured) revealed
that segregation at Wembley means there will be no further tickets
if Gills sell their initial allocation.
He said: "Shrewsbury took an
additional 5,000 tickets and because of the section of the stadium
they took them in, it means that we cannot have more than 38,000
because of segregation and the agreements with the police.
"That will be our maximum and that
includes the 3,000 Club Wembley tickets and another 400 corporate
hospitality seats.
"I didn’t know what to expect. I
haven’t experienced it here before but it shows the size of the
club.
"We are allowing everybody to buy
eight tickets per person now. Everybody can come now for the final
5,000 seats we have left."
Sunday, May 17 2009
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