Lincoln City supporters hoping to buy tickets for December’s trip to Cardiff City have been left waiting after a global Microsoft outage delayed Friday morning’s general sale.
The Imps had planned to open general sale on Friday 13 November, just over three weeks before the match. In an update on the club’s Facebook page, City said the outage had prevented them from opening sales as planned. The club gave no revised sale time. “We will update as soon as we are able to do so,” the Imps said.
The Championship match is scheduled for Saturday 5 December, with a 3 pm kick-off at the Cardiff City Stadium. It’s the Imps’ first game in December, with back-to-back home matches against Stoke City on Wednesday 9 December and Norwich City on Sunday 13 December to follow.
There are good memories of our last visit to Cardiff. Rob Street opened the scoring ten minutes into the second half on 7 March, and Dom Jefferies came off the bench to add a second in front of a crowd of more than 27,000, including around 3,000 travelling Imps. That 2-0 win took us two points clear of the Bluebirds at the top of League One.
We had already beaten Cardiff 2-1 at Sincil Bank in December. Both sides went up automatically, with the Imps winning the title and Cardiff finishing second.
The Microsoft outage reached UK users on Thursday evening and continued into Friday, with disruption centred on Exchange Online, the service that handles email for many Microsoft 365 customers. Some Outlook users were unable to open their inboxes or send and receive emails, while problems were also reported with Teams and Copilot. Microsoft said some of its servers were struggling under heavy demand and that its initial attempts to restore services had failed to produce a lasting recovery overnight.
In its latest update on Friday morning, Microsoft said it was bringing affected systems back into service in stages and had seen some improvement. Services were still running below normal capacity, though, with reliability varying across the affected products. Microsoft gave no timetable for a full recovery.
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