Australia and England will clash amid packed house in Four Nations Final - Rugby League
The Elland Road Stadium in Leeds, which will feature England and Australia in contention for the Gillette Four Nations title on Saturday, November 19, is a full-house already, with over 34,174 tickets sold on Thursday alone.
Last week records revealed that almost 20,000 tickets were sold and the Rugby Football League (RFL) sources verified that the remainder of the tickets were out by Thursday, with still two more days left to the final showdown.
Some supporters and fans of either side that wish to witness England and Kangaroos lock horns may be left out because of the unavailability of tickets. However, it has also been revealed that an extra 500 tickets were also released early Thursday morning
but they too failed to satisfy the ever-increasing demand of the tickets.
Expressing his thoughts about the sold-out Gillette Four Nations final showdown, Rugby Football League (RFL) chief executive, Nigel Wood said, "This tournament has really captured the imagination of rugby league fans across the world and it's a shame that
many people have had to miss out. We have worked closely with Leeds United to free up as many seats as possible by working around the restrictions caused by the ongoing construction work on the East Stand."
It has been shared by the authorities of the venue-Elland Road, that the Stadium will not be able to utilise its maximum capacity because of the East Stadium is under construction. If the construction work gets completed, which is highly unlikely, more tickets
will be released before the match.
The hype of the final clash between England and Australia is so high that the capacity of the showdown’s venue has run out of space, which is comparable to the situation created in 2009’s final, also at Elland Road, amongst the clamour of 31,042 spectators.
The hiked up demand for the tickets is not solely because of the contending teams. The fact that the Four Nations will be on-hold until 2014 is also one of the contributing factors.
Four Nations will not be played during 2013, because the next Rugby League World Cup is scheduled to take place in the same year. However, the international game programme for the next year is yet to be released.
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