Man Utd issue statement as Rangers fans get tickets in home section - 'Absolute disgrace'

Manchester United person insisted they took each imaginable measures to forestall Rangers fans making it into the Old Trafford location end, but person launched an investigation

Manchester United person launched an probe aft a ample radical of Rangers fans were capable to get entree to the location extremity astatine Old Trafford.

United hosted the Scottish giants successful their penultimate Europa League clash connected Thursday. A bizarre own-goal from Jack Butland handed the Red Devils the pb earlier Cyriel Dessers netted an equaliser 2 minutes from time.

But United skipper Bruno Fernandes popped up to people a last-gasp winner and spare Ruben Amorim's blushes. The triumph was marred by reports and videos of Rangers fans taking up seats successful the location end.

The distant extremity had been sold out, with much than 3,000 Rangers fans officially successful attendance. And United person present insisted they took the 'strictest imaginable measures' to forestall Rangers fans from buying tickets successful the location sections.

"In anticipation of the risks astir tonight’s game, we took the strictest imaginable measures to forestall income to distant fans successful location areas. Tickets were lone allocated to radical who existed connected our database anterior to the gully taking spot successful August," a spokesperson said.

"Hospitality tickets had the aforesaid restrictions applied. Tickets forwarded by play ticket-holders and members besides had the aforesaid restrictions applied (i.e. they could lone beryllium forwarded to fans connected our database anterior to the draw).

"Whilst the unauthorised touting of tickets has go much hard since our instauration of in-app integer ticketing, it cannot beryllium wholly eliminated. All examples of distant fans successful location areas volition beryllium investigated implicit the coming days, with the strongest imaginable sanctions taken against the registered holders."

Video footage from Thursday's crippled shows groups of Rangers fans connected the concourse and successful immoderate cases, successful the stands of the location sections. Some were heard singing "your metropolis is blue", possibly a double-edged notation to United's rivals, Manchester City, arsenic good arsenic their ain side, starring to a furious effect from United fans.

One said: "Why are determination Rangers fans successful the location sections?!" Another added: "Nothing to reassure you rather similar the existent STEWARD informing you that determination are loads of Rangers fans successful your country earlier you instrumentality your seat."

A 3rd instrumentality observed: "There's a radical of possibly 50 Rangers fans close adjacent to the distant end, but intelligibly successful the location section. Clapping on to songs and a video circulating of them signing connected the concourse arsenic well. Incredible that United could fto this hap again."

Another blasted: "Absolute disgrace the magnitude of Rangers fans successful the location extremity tonight. Stewards incapable to bash thing arsenic nary enactment from the nine oregon Greater Manchester Police."

A 5th added: "Letting Rangers instrumentality into the location fans conception - disgraceful." A sixth concluded: "Current seating situation. Seems @ManUtd person nary contented selling hospitality seats to distant fans. Surrounded by Rangers fans. Shameful."

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