Demand for tickets for the first competitive match at London's rebuilt Wembley stadium has caused the Football Association's website to crash.
Sixty thousand £10 tickets went on sale at 1500 GMT for England's under-21 match against Italy on March 24. It is a test event which it is hoped will allow a safety certificate to be issued, enabling Wembley to stage May's FA Cup final before a 90,000 crowd.
The FA said there were early problems, but they had been fixed. A spokesman said tickets had been selling at the rate of 6,000 an hour.
He added the FA was confident it would sell-out the 60,000 tickets, an "unheard of" amount for an under-21 game.
But still not every attempt to buy tickets was successful. At 1830 GMT on Monday the site carried this message:
"Apologies, but due to massive interest in the England Under 21 match at the new Wembley Stadium, we have currently closed the queue for tickets.
"Please try again later."
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