Arsenal’s Europa League season has been delayed due to crowd issues outside the Emirates Stadium.
Kick-off has been delayed until 9.05pm, one hour later than the previous 8.05pm kick-off time.
The cause for the delay is due to the enormous amount of Koln fans who have traveled to London in their thousands.
It is estimatde that over 20,000 away fans have descended on North London with those who remain ticketless attempting to force their way into the stadium.
Koln were given a 2,900 ticket allocation.
Ticketless FC Koln fans trying to force their way into the stadium seems to be the cause of tonight's delay in the #EuropaLeague… pic.twitter.com/H1xcnxTSzw
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It's all kicking off now…
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More footage of rowdy Koln fans from inside the Emirates…
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Footage of a Koln fans leapfrogging into the away end…?
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