£1,750 FOR A TICKET ON BLACK MARKET

ENGLAND v Wales is the most expensive Test in town with tickets on sale for up to £3,500 a pair last night. The NatWest 6 Nations clash is sold out, but, as with most major sporting events, people are offloading their seats for eye-watering profits.

Interest in the Twickenham showdown has surged since Wales blitzed Scotland 34-7 in Cardiff last Saturday. And tickets with a face value of £100 in the west stand were on re- sale website StubHub yesterday for £1,750.

Rival re- seller Viagogo had two seats in the middle tier, near the halfway line, priced at £1,672 for the pair.

Both websites still have hundreds of seats available and even ones with the worst views in the upper tiers start at £240.

The RFU warned fans against buying second-hand tickets last night.

A spokeswoman said: ‘We are out there every day monitoring, checking and challenging secondary market sites who are advertising Twickenham tickets in breach of our terms and conditions.

‘Our message to fans is clear — do not risk your money because we have the right to refuse entry to anyone who has purchased on the secondary market.’

The most expensive seats purchased via the RFU cost £161 — the highest price of any official Six Nations ticket.

The RFU insist these top price seats represent a maximum of 10 per cent of tickets sold and are largely for hospitality guests and debenture holders. The cheapest seats in the stadium are £41.

The RFU gave this game ‘A+’ status, hence the higher prices. That also means that, unlike at some autumn internationals, there is no provision for ‘family’ deals. They say this is because 50 per cent of the tickets must be sold to rugby clubs — as is written into the RFU’s constitution — and then Wales take an allocation for their fans.