Fans forced to buy tickets over the phone for Saturday's crunch Carlisle match

They were taken off the clubs website earlier this week.

Author: Joseph GartlyPublished 18th May 2023

Carlisle United fans now have to buy tickets to Saturday's crunch play-off game over the phone, after tickets were pulled from the clubs website earlier this week.

It's after Bradford fans began purchasing tickets in the home sections of the ground, prompting safety concerns.

Manager Paul Simpson said: "I'd encourage Carlisle fans to get out as quick as they can and get the tickets bought up so nobody else can buy them.

"We can't do anything about it, but those things won't affect what goes on on the pitch.

"My focus is making sure the players are right, our level of performance is right, but we've got enough really experienced people and enough stewards inside this football club on a match day to deal with these incidents.

"I hope all the fans turn up this weekend and give the same sort of atmosphere, behave, and I hope they all come and make it a really good advert for league two football, a good advert for Carlisle and Bradford, just like the crowd at Valley Parade last Sunday did."

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