Call for Heed fans to pack the stadium
GATESHEAD are hoping for a late surge in ticket sales for their big Easter Monday showdown with leaders Lincoln City.
The Heed have sold 600 tickets for the clash with titlechasing Imps and are in real danger of having less support than the visitors.
Lincoln have cleared a thousand tickets for a game that will be televised live on BT Sport and expect to sell significantly more.
Gateshead’s play-off hopes are hanging by a thread and they need a win tomorrow at Sutton United.
The Heed’s Easter weekend games are both against this season’s two big FA Cup giantkillers, Lincoln famously reaching the quarter-final.
Danny Cowley’s Imps host lowly Torquay United on Good Friday before heading for Tyneside.
Gateshead chairman Richard Bennett is hoping for a gate approaching 3,000 and has appealed for more home backing.
Bennett said: “It’s great to be on television but at the same time we need people at the stadium showing their support.
“We want a good home following in the Tyne & Wear stand to show the rest of the country our support in front of the BT Sport cameras.
“There will be a large turnout from Lincoln, so it would be great to go toe-to-toe with them on and off the pitch.
“It is a massive game in front of a big crowd, which should be a good advert for the Vanarama National League.”
The game against Lincoln on Monday afternoon is Gateshead’s penultimate home match of a campaign that ends on Tyneside against Bromley on 29th April.