So here's what happened...
My mate was let down for a ticket and I picked him one up from someone selling one.
When he got the ground, his ticket wouldn't scan and he was locked out. A steward finally got his superior to check it and he was let in.
When he got to "his seat" someone was already in it.
This will be the reason it didnt scan, I'm guessing.
I can understand the club accidentally selling a ticket in the public sale which had been earmarked for a ST. I've heard of that happening before when the computer has fooked things up.
This seems a coincidence though. Everything on the tickets was identical including the name which I've blanked out.
My mate obviously didnt know the guy sitting in the seat nor did he know my mate (and I've got no idea who was sitting there either)
Mate eventually managed to find another seat somewhere along the stand.
Genuine error by the club? Two tickets sold on as spares?
I'm just glad my mate didnt get locked out of the game.
Maybe after the original has been lost and asked for a new one? When you turn up to your seat and someone is in it you get priority because he has found the original? Just a guess but thought they wrote Reprint on it.
I wondered about that...but then BOTH the guy in the seat and the ticket my mate had (as the 2nd picture shows) had that written on it.
That's not a mirror image either, its the two of them trying to figure out what's going on