Leicester recall fans’ tickets

LEICESTER TIGERS have been forced to ask almost 150 of their fans to return tickets for next month’s Heineken Cup quarter-final with Munster at Welford Road.

The European Rugby Cup board demanded that the reigning champions supply Munster followers with their rightful allocation of 4,000 tickets and gave them until Friday to hand them over, or else run the risk of losing home advantage.

The Tigers claimed yesterday that they were forced into asking for 147 tickets back from Tiger fans after the ERC told them they had 30 minutes to reply to a fax demanding a resolution, or the clash would be switched to another venue.