Order seemed to be restored at Priestfield on Saturday after the chaotic scenes in the first few hours of tickets for Wembley going on sale on Friday.

The majority of season ticket holders secured their places at the home of football on Friday - which meant people who left it until Saturday morning were waiting for around an hour at the most.

That was in stark contrast to the previous day when a mad dash for play-off final tickets left supporters queuing for several hours.

Season ticket holders grouped together requests - with some buying for up to 150 fans in one go for the clash with Shrewsbury next Saturday.

Preistfield laid on more staff to deal with the rush, a measure which slashed queuing to two hours by late afternoon, according to Gillingham's chief executive Mark Jones. At its height, fans were forced to wait up to six hours for the sought-after passes.

Mr Jones described the reaction as "overwhelming", and said it was unacceptable that people had had to queue so long.

He said: "It always overwhelms us. You try to judge it, but we are so pleased people want to support Gillingham at Wembley."

Audio: Chief executive Mark Jones tell of the steps taken to beat the queues

A total of 38,000 tickets have been released to Gillingham, and Mr Jones believed they would soon all be sold - with no further tickets available after that.

Fans not holding season tickets will be able to buy match tickets from 3pm on Saturday. The queuing time is expected to go up then.

Chairman Paul Scally would even be manning the phone lines, Mr Jones said.

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