I'm one of the "lucky" 1,000 to be allowed into Carlisle v Southend on Saturday, one of the ten Football League test events.
It's going to be very different - it was already scheduled as a 1pm kick off even before they knew they could allow fans in. No food and drink available inside and the three of us can't sit together.
This is also the first Carlisle home game since 2005* where it was touch and go whether I would get a ticket. Due to the ticketing arrangements I've had to have notifications switched on for the club's Twitter account to get early in the phone queue for when our stand went on sale - with plenty of false alarms including the announcement of the match officials and the club congratulating one of the players for impregnating his wife.
*when we had to move a home game to Gretna due to the flood, a game which was subsequently postponed anyway.
It's going to be very different - it was already scheduled as a 1pm kick off even before they knew they could allow fans in. No food and drink available inside and the three of us can't sit together.
This is also the first Carlisle home game since 2005* where it was touch and go whether I would get a ticket. Due to the ticketing arrangements I've had to have notifications switched on for the club's Twitter account to get early in the phone queue for when our stand went on sale - with plenty of false alarms including the announcement of the match officials and the club congratulating one of the players for impregnating his wife.
*when we had to move a home game to Gretna due to the flood, a game which was subsequently postponed anyway.
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