A TORY minister has said that Scotland football fans who have traveled to London for the match against England today should look to “get a ticket home”.
Speaking on talkRadio, the Conservative minister for crime and policing, Kit Malthouse, said it was “not too late” for fans to get on a train back to Scotland.
The news comes as thousands of members of the Tartan Army have headed to the English capital ahead of the game.
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Fans had previously been told by London mayor Sadiq Khan not to travel unless they had a place in which to watch the game pre-arranged.
However, there have been concerns that as many as 20,000 Scottish fans may have ignored the pleas and headed to London for the historic match regardless.
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Asked about such concerns, Malthouse said those without somewhere to watch the match should “get on the train” back north.
He said: “It is, I am afraid, unfortunate that so many came despite encouraging them not to, and I know that the Met Police put a dispersal order in in central London to make sure that people weren’t crowding into the centre.”
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He went on: “I hope that they do obey that, they disperse and find somewhere socially distanced to watch the match, or indeed it’s not too late for them to get a ticket home of course, and get on the train this afternoon if they’ve got nowhere.”
Wembley stadium, where the match is to be played, will be at one-quarter capacity. Normally it can hold 90,000 spectators but today 22,500 tickets have been sold.
Of these, just 2600 have been allocated to Scotland fans.
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