FOUL PLAY OVER FOOTIE TICKETS

Foreign firms sell thousands on black market

- BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG

FOREIGN touts are flooding the black market with Premier League tickets.

Companies are exploiting a legal loophole to cash in on unprecedented demand for thousands of tickets, with fans paying anything from £55 to almost £15,000.

Resale is illegal in the UK. But four of the main companies hawking tickets are registered in Spain, Dubai, Germany and Estonia – and are therefore beyond the scope of UK law.