Game delayed by 30 minutes after ticketing troubleMikel Arteta: ‘Thank you to everybody for the patience’
Arsenal are investigating the technical problems that left thousands of supporters queueing outside the Emirates on Saturday afternoon and led their opening game of the Premier League season against Nottingham Forest to be delayed by 30 minutes.
Some estimates suggested as many as 35,000 fans were still to enter the stadium at 12.30pm, when the match was due to kick off. The scenes outside were chaotic but largely good-tempered as it became apparent a technology failure left them unable to pass through the gates. It was clear as the appointed start time approached that the opening stages of the match would be played to swathes of empty seats if kick-off was not put back.
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