Baffled Arsenal fan buys two match tickets for £350 only to be told they belong to a star forward

A FAN says helium bought 2 tickets for an Arsenal lucifer — and recovered they were fixed escaped to Gunners prima Gabriel Martinelli.

 Nathan Shaw, 51, paid £350 for the brace of tickets intelligibly marked “Player Complimentary”.

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Arsenal insiders said Gunners prima Gabriel Martinelli had not applied to usage the tickets[/caption]

There is nary proposition of immoderate wrongdoing by Martinelli, who did not question to the match

They were for seats successful the distant extremity for his team’s 2-0 triumph astatine Leicester connected Saturday.

He said that aft buying them, helium was called by a nine authoritative saying they were primitively allocated to injured £180,000-per-week Brazilian striker Martinelli, 23.

But past night, Arsenal insiders said Martinelli had not applied to usage the tickets.

They were enactment successful a cardinal cookware and redistributed to a ­contractor who asked for some. Sales manager Nathan, from Hawkhurst, Kent, snapped the tickets up from website Livefootballtickets for £175 each.

He had failed to get 2 of the 3,200 seats successful the distant extremity for himself and pal Cillian Oliver erstwhile Arsenal sold retired their allocation of the £30 tickets.

Nathan, who has a play summons for location games, got a connection from the tract telling him to prime up the tickets astatine a postulation constituent astatine Leicester’s crushed earlier the match, and to bring ID.

The connection named a nine worker.

Our root said the contractor had fixed the tickets to a pal who sold them to the site.

Nathan said: “I was delighted to get tickets but stunned erstwhile I picked them up and they were intelligibly complimentary ones fixed to a player.

“I got a telephone arsenic good earlier the game, and the feline told maine they were Martinelli’s.

“I don’t blasted Martinelli and fishy helium mightiness person conscionable not utilized them and idiosyncratic other has sold them on. I uncertainty helium needs the money.”

There is nary proposition of immoderate wrongdoing by Martinelli, who did not question to the ­Midlands.

Arsenal and the tract were approached for comment.

Sales manager Nathan, from Hawkhurst, Kent, snapped the tickets up from website Livefootballtickets for £175 each