Enormous queues of frustrated fans form outside Anfield as Liverpool delay kick-off for friendly with Athletic Bilbao after teething problems with new electronic ticketing system
- Liverpool hosted Athletic Bilbao for a pre-season friendly at Anfield on Sunday
- A new Near Field Communication ticketing system in in-place for this season
- Complications with the new system has caused huge queues outside the ground
- With Anfield barely filling up just before kick-off, the game has been delayed
Giant queues outside Anfield and a half-empty Kop have caused Liverpool's friendly with Athletic Bilbao to be delayed, with a new ticketing system causing chaos.
The Reds are completing their final pre-season push with games against Bilbao on Saturday and fellow LaLiga side Osasuna on Sunday.
With time ticking down to the 4pm kick-off, posts began emerging on social media showing long queues outside Anfield, with frustrated fans concerned they would miss kick-off.
At 3:54pm the club tweeted: Today's kick-off has been delayed by 15 minutes. We'll now get underway at 16:15 BST.'
However, that post was later followed-up by another, saying: 'A further update to today's kick-off time, which will now be 16:30 BST.'
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Large queues outside Anfield have caused the game against Athletic Bilbao to be delayed
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