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Hundreds queue for 1p football shirts

Alice CullinaneWest Midlands
News imageBBC People are standing in a city centre square surrounded by shops. They are wearing coats and queuing at a red stand that is selling football shirts.BBC
Queues reached an expected wait time of more than three hours

Hundreds of people turned out to buy a football shirt for 1p with queues stretching right round a city centre.

Coventry City fans were able to purchase a coral away shirt at two pop-up shops. By mid-morning there was an expected wait time of more than three hours at the city centre stand.

The company offered the shirts at the CBS Arena and Broadgate Square ahead of the Sky Blues match against Leicester City at the CBS arena.

Fans were queuing for more than hour before the Broadgate pop-up shop, run by online bank Monzo, opened. Some fans on social media joked they would still be in the queue when the match kicked off at midday.

News imageQueues of people are wearing winter coats and queuing to get into a football stadium.
Queues of fans were spotted waiting outside the CBS Arena for the shirts

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