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Reading FC to take action on away ticket sales after QPR chaos
A number of QPR fans managed to purchase seats in the home sections of the Select Car Leasing Stadium for the Championship fixture against Reading last weekend

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• BY JONATHAN LOW
• 17:32, 16 SEP 2021

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A number of QPR fans made it into the home end against Reading(Image: PA)

Reading FC have vowed to ensure there won't be a repeat of the chaos in the stands seen at the match with QPR last weekend.

With Rangers selling out their allocation of tickets for the game in just a few hours, it meant many other fans were frustrated they could not get a ticket for the game at the Select Car Leasing Stadium.

QPR, who apologised to their supporters after their allocation swiftly sold out, had hoped to host a 'beamback' of the game at their home ground but the club's chief executive issued a statement to express their disappointment that Reading had rejected the proposal.

Following this, a number of away fans managed to purchase tickets in the home sections at the ground.

A significant group in the Lower West stand made themselves known very early on during the game, much to the ire of the home supporters who were sat alongside them.


Eventually, the group were shepherded away from the area by the stewards and into the rest of the QPR supporters located in the South Stand.


The Supporters Trust at Reading (STAR) subsequently met with the club to discuss ticketing and fan safety following the game to try and ensure the incident does not happen again in the future.

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A statement on the STAR website confirmed a number of measures will be put in place by Reading for future games to avoid similar scenes.



They include enhanced checking of online purchases (identifying fans by postcode and/or lack of loyalty points), especially for games where the away allocation is likely to sell out, plus there will be a minimum level of loyalty points required for seats in the home end but near to the away fans.

Reading FC will also make visiting clubs aware of the maximum allocation of tickets when the initial allocation is requested.

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Additionally, the club is considering extending the segregation netting next to Club1871 to make the distance between them and away fans greater.

This is to make it harder for fans in either section to launch objects such as bottles, something which allegedly occurred during the QPR game in both sections, according to the statement from STAR.

 

Should be fun when they come to Loftus Road.