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Arsenal fans have crashed the club’s website as they scramble to secure one of the 2,000 tickets that are available for their match against Rapid Vienna on Thursday.
Soccer has been played behind closed doors for much of this year since the coronavirus pandemic forced the game to be suspended in March.
Football in England resumed in July for the end of last season and this campaign started without fans in September. England has been on lockdown for a month and that ends next week.
The country’s government has partially lifted the ban on stadium fans through a tiered restriction system and some London teams may have 2,000 fans in their stadiums during this period, Arsenal being one of them.
Arsenal’s game against Rapid Vienna on Thursday will be the first game on English soil to welcome fans to the stadium.
The Gunners posted the limited ticket raffle on their website and said fans will get tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
When the portal was opened, the traffic was so high that fans blocked the website, reports the Daily Mail.
The report claims that fans woke up early Saturday morning to be among the first to get the limited tickets, but some were frustrated after the club’s website crashed.
