A Gillingham season ticket who turned as much as the primary sport of the facet’s new marketing campaign sparked amusement on social media after reporting that he had been allotted a seat that in reality didn’t exist.
Gills fan Scott Byers wrote on X (previously Twitter) in a now-deleted publish that he had turned up for the League Two season opener towards Carlisle United – solely to search out two seats on his row, together with the one allotted to him, had been lacking.
The metallic fittings for the seats can nonetheless be seen screwed into the concrete steps, however with no precise seat forthcoming, Byers defined {that a} steward had suggested him to ‘look out for another seats this week’.
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The publish acquired over 15,000 likes earlier than being deleted, and sparked a mix of responses from the aghast to the humorous, with variations on ‘I would not stand for that’ or ‘I would not take that sitting down’ significantly standard.
We think about the unlucky fan ended up having a grand previous time regardless after discovering one other place to sit down.
Gillingham ran out 4-1 winners over newly-relegated Carlisle United, with Timothee Dieng opening the scoring within the second minute.
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One Gillingham fan discovered himself seat-less
Jacob Wakeling scored virtually as shortly after half time to double the lead earlier than Jon Mellish gave Carlisle some hope of creating a comeback after their 349-mile journey to Kent – however that was extinguished by additional Gillingham objectives from Jack Nolan and Jonny Williams.
Gillingham completed twelfth in League Two final season after a four-game profitable begin was a dismal run of kind by to Boxing Day.
Carlisle in the meantime landed again in League Two after only a yr up within the third tier, the place they completed backside final season.
