Newport County had been pressured to shut their ticket workplace after employees suffered ‘appalling abuse’ as followers tried to purchase tickets for the FA Cup sport towards Manchester United on Sunday.
The League Two facet host United within the fourth spherical of the FA Cup at Rodney Parade in one of many membership’s greatest video games of their 112-year historical past. But the build-up to the sport has been overshadowed after membership employees had been topic of ‘threatening behaviour’.
Newport stated that each one remaining tickets for the cup tie could be made obtainable to buy on-line from 10am on Monday. The tickets, which have since all bought out, had been solely obtainable to buy at a most of two per particular person.
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In an announcement, Newport stated: “Unfortunately, this resolution has been made after the appalling abuse and threatening behaviour the ticket workplace and help employees obtained throughout the precedence buy interval on Thursday.
“The membership is not going to condone this behaviour in direction of any member of its employees and can make use of a zero-tolerance coverage going ahead which can end in stadium bans or authorized motion.
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“The club’s small pool of staff has worked extremely hard across long hours in recent weeks to organise the two sell-out games against Wrexham and Manchester United. The club would like to thank them for their dedication and commitment.”
Newport need to stun United and Erik ten Hag by trying to achieve the fifth spherical for simply the second time of their historical past – final reaching that stage in 2019 once they had been overwhelmed by the eventual champions Manchester City.
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The Exiles noticed 9,537 in attendance on Saturday as they beat Welsh rivals Wrexham 1-0 to increase their run to seven with out loss in all competitions. An analogous attendance is anticipated once more when the twenty-time English champions come to city – with 1,400 tickets allotted to travelling supporters.