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- Many couldn’t see the start of the match because they were stuck outside
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Thousands of traveling Wrexham fans were unable to watch the start of their side’s FA Cup tie against Blackburn after huge queues formed outside Ewood Park before kick-off.
The fourth round match was intended to be a historic occasion for the League Two club, with the winners set to play a home match against Newcastle in the last sixteen.
But the evening quickly turned sour when fans were kept out of the stadium due to logistical issues.
When the match started at 7.30pm, very few of the 7,000 Wrexham fans had actually made it to their seats.
Instead, they were held outside the turnstiles, waiting to be searched by security before entering.
Thousands of Wrexham fans only entered Ewood Park after kick-off on Monday evening
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Supporters were left furious at the way they were treated, with one insisting the match should not have started until the fans had gotten into the ground.
They posted: ‘@FA @BBCSportWales match between Blackburn and Wrexham should never have started with so many away fans still outside. Fans are confined to stairwells and appropriate access for disabled fans. Then they wonder how disasters happen.’
Another fan posted a photo at 7.32pm – two minutes after kick-off – showing they were still a long way from the turnstiles, while labeling the situation a ‘mess’.
The match will be shown on the BBC and football reporter and Wrexham fan Bryn Law revealed that some fans had started watching the match on their phones after failing to get into the ground in time.
Many Wrexham fans did not enter the stadium to see Andy Cannon give them the lead
Sammie Szmodics scored twice in the final 15 minutes of the first half to put Blackburn in control
“Mass… people watching the match on their phones,” he wrote on X, after previously describing the scenes outside the end as “chaos”.
He claimed things didn’t get better when he went inside, posting on
The disastrous organization meant that many Wrexham fans missed seeing their team take the lead in the 19th minute through Andy Cannon.
But Blackburn hit back thanks to a Sammie Szmodics brace either side of a Sam Gallagher strike to take a 3–1 lead into half-time.