TICKET prices for Scotland's vital World Cup qualifying match against
Italy at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, on November 18 will remain largely
unchanged from previous international matches, the Scottish Football
Association said yesterday.
Despite complaints that prices at the Scotland-Portugal game earlier
this month were too high and led to a poor turnout of 22,000 spectators,
the SFA said all prices will remain unchanged apart from a #5 reduction
to #15 for seats in the upper Govan stand.
Mr David Morris, the SFA's head of international matches department,
said that early inquiries about tickets indicated that the Italy match
could attract a capacity 38,000 crowd.
''Compared with the Portugal match, the early signs are that there is
a much greater and keener interest,'' he said. ''Whether the match sells
out remains to be seen but we hope that the fact that Italy is a very
attractive fixture will mean we'll be well on the way to a capacity
crowd.''
Tickets for the match will go on sale through the usual outlets -- the
SFA, Scottish Football League, and Rangers ticket offices -- from
Monday.
Postal applications also will be accepted at the SFA offices in
Glasgow and a credit card hotline will open tomorrow although
applications will not be processed before Monday.
Vouchers from match programmes at the previous games against Portugal
and Finland will entitle spectators to a #3 and #1 price reduction
respectively on all tickets for the Italy match, or #4 if they have both
vouchers.
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