Benn denies Reading/Leed slip

Although Digital Spy have renamed Melvyn Benn as Melvyn Bragg, they're reporting his denial that last week's Reading/Leeds ticket cock-up was down to them. Apparently, everyone misread their "this isn't a confirmation email" as "this is a confirmation email":

"There were no tickets for Reading and Leeds that were cancelled at all, there were a number of applications that were rejected but at no time was a completed and confirmed application ever cancelled.

"Everybody got a note that said thank for your application and this isn't a confirmation, confirmation will be sent within the next three or four hours and some people took that as being that they'd got the tickets.

"But they didn't get the tickets because either they'd inputted the wrong card number or the card didn't have enough money on it."

Curious - you'd have thought that since you can sit in a cafe in St Petersburg and pay with a card which instantly is accepted, the Reading/Leeds computer would have been able to check cards faster than "three or four hours".