Munster fans in for ticket windfall

THE reluctance of French rugby fans to travel to away games has brought Munster fans a ticket windfall for the April 1 Heineken European Cup semi-final at Lansdowne Road.

French side Perpignan have been given a 25% allocation which amounts to about 12,000 tickets.

However, it is anticipated that only 3,000 French supporters will travel to Dublin, and the club is offloading its surplus of more than 9,000 tickets to Munster fans.