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ManU Steps Up Fight Against Ticket Touts By Hiring Full-Time Compliance Officer

ManU will appoint a "full-time ticket-tout officer to clamp down on those selling thousands of tickets on the black market," according to Mike Keegan of the London DAILY MAIL. More than 100 tickets have been seized this season from "touts operating near Old Trafford and premises being used as distribution points have been identified." ManU will "step up" its war on the worst offenders "by hiring a ticket touting and compliance officer." Nearly 2,000 tickets have been recovered over the last season and a half, and the club gives three-year bans to "anyone found reselling seats" -- which has been illegal since '94. Only outlets authorized by clubs "can sell unwanted tickets" (DAILY MAIL, 10/2).

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