Thousands of Gills fans - old, new and returning - are getting their terrace chants, travels plans and good spiritis in check for their team's biggest game in a decade.

One fan with good reason to be looking forward to Wembley is 10-year-old Sophie Barrett, daughter of Gills' assistant manager Scott Barrett.

Poor Sophie broke both her arms playing on a swing while her father was in Rochdale for the Gills' first leg of the play-off semi-final.

Scott said: "She came to the second leg and enjoyed that immensely, she's into it through her dad and will be so excited."

The schoolgirl is set to travel with her six-year-old brother to the home of the England football team with her mum and grandparents plus two arms in plaster.

Gillingham’s ticket allocation for Saturday’s play-off final is running out with just a few thousand seats remaining.

The club can sell up to 38,000 tickets for the match but by this morning only "a couple of thousand" seats remain on sale in the Gillingham section.

Supporters wanting to sit together are now restricted to the upper-tier seats, which are priced at £26. Spaces elsewhere are limited to singles and they are priced at £36 and £46.

Club Wembley ticket, at £56, are still available.

The ticket office is open for sales today up until 8pm and with no more queues now is an ideal time to buy. Alternatively call the club on 01634 300000, option 3.

Gillingham fans will vastly outnumber their rival Shrewsbury fans as the Shropshire side have only sold around 20,000 tickets for the match.

But with a combined attendance likely to reach 60,000 on Saturday it will smash last season’s figure by some margin. The game between Stockport and Rochdale attracted just 35,715.

To read more on Sophie and the build up to Wembley don't forget to pick up the print edition of the Medway Messenger this Friday with our special 16-page Gills final pullout.

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