Fans queued in the rain outside Valley Parade from 3am today to make sure of a ticket to City's fourth round cup clash against Newcastle United.

The Bantams have 4,000 tickets for the game at St James's Park on January 23.

And as the queue snaked round the car park and up to Manningham Lane, club officials expected them all to sell before the end of today.

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