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THE public sale of tickets for Scotland's final Euro 2008 qualifier has been scrapped.
All tickets for the crucial Italy tie at Hampden have been allocated to members of the Scotland Supporters Club.
And they will get just one each - instead of the usual two.
The details were revealed yesterday in an email to the 27,000 supporters club members. It said: "If, after the closing date for SSC member applications (19 October) there are any tickets remaining, these will be allocated to SSC members on a ballot basis.
"Please note we are not anticipating a public sale for this match as we will endeavour to allocate all available tickets to our members."
With 52,000 seats at Hampden, it would have been impossible for the SFA to give two tickets to every supporters club member.
This is believed to be the first time no tickets have gone on public sale for a Scotland international fixture.
Earlier this month there was chaos at the sale of tickets for Scotland's next home fixture in the Euro qualifying campaign against the Ukraine.
Massive queues of Tartan Army foot soldiers turned up at Hampden hoping to snap up tickets only to find there were just 2500 available.
A further 10,000 were sold through the SECC ticket hotline which went into meltdown as the phones went crazy.
For that game the Scotland Supporters Club was allocated 30,000 and the rest went to corporate ticket holders and Ukrainian fans.
There was no one available at the SFA for comment last night. But Hamish Husband of the Tartan Army said: "We knew this was going to be a difficult situation with the increasing number of fans wanting tickets.
"I certainly can't remember a time when there was no public sale of international tickets for a Hampden match. Maybe back in the 1960s or 70s when they were playing England but in those days people wrote in to the clubs for tickets.
"The difficulty is that Hampden is too small. If the tickets are being allocated to supporters club members then it means that it is the regular fans who go repeatedly to support Scotland who are going to get them.
"This sort of thing happens regularly abroad."
As they used to say in the Tennents Lager advert, "I've got mine"
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