Big demand for Boro tickets

There has been a big demand for tickets for Charlton's FA Cup replay at Middlesbrough. The club's new phone system has been swamped and earlier in the day there were reports of long queues at The Valley.

Charlton's special projects director Rick Everitt reported, 'As at 1.45 there had been 13,433 phone calls today (obviously including repeats) and five minutes ago 2,600 tickets had been sold.' The Rickster later reported that by 5 p.m. sales had reached 3,500. 5,000 are available in total.

The trains and the planes have now sold out and it is not possible to provide more, but coach travel is still available.