Union Saint-Gilloise are attempting to dam Rangers followers snapping up tickets for the house finish for the primary leg of their essential Champions League qualifier in Belgium subsequent week after cottoning on to artful Ibrox punters taking out membership schemes for the Jupiler Professional League aspect.
Rangers followers have been allotted simply 750 briefs for the match which might be held on the residence of USG’s Belgian high flight rivals OH Leuven's Den Dreef Stadium, round 18 miles from the capital of Brussels, with their very own Stade Joseph Marien less than UEFA commonplace.
That isn’t sufficient to fulfill the demand of the hundreds of followers who need to journey throughout the North Sea hoping to see Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s aspect transfer a step nearer to reaching the Champions League group stage. And a few are going to nice lengths to attempt to get into the stadium - even when it means sitting within the residence part.
Union Saint-Gilloise have allotted 8,400 for residence followers with the membership’s 5,600 season ticket holders every given the chance to purchase two every. They then launched a membership scheme - at round 25 euros per particular person - to present precedence for any remaining tickets that went out to a public sale. However they've taken the choice to shut down that choice after fears that some Rangers followers had opened up accounts in a bid to snap up any briefs and can now take a look at different methods of distributing the briefs.
Wily followers of Rangers’ Europa League conquerers, Eintracht Frankfurt, took a staggering 25,000 followers to the Nou Camp final season regardless of Barcelona allocating the Germans simply 5,000. The Spanish aspect tried to cease visiting followers shopping for residence finish briefs by insisting on a Spanish financial institution card to buy - and there have been stories that Frankfurt supporters opened up accounts to purchase tickets.
Union Saint-Gilloise face Charleroi of their first residence league sport on Friday evening earlier than the primary leg of their tie with Rangers on Tuesday. That is adopted by the return at Ibrox seven days later.
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