KOLKATA: Thousands of Kolkatans spent the better part of Monday evening waiting in a queue. "I was travelling back from office in a shuttle app cab when one of my co-passengers received the link. I immediately checked over the Internet and found that the match was indeed shifted to Kolkata. However, a senior Fifa official in Kolkata said that some tickets were getting sold but the number was far less than those waiting in the queue. "At 8.30 pm, there were around 3 lakh people waiting to buy tickets and because of this heavy traffic there were some technical issues.

Source: Times of India October 24, 2017 03:16 UTC