Ross County football club ticket sales are in chaos after company accidentally deletes its website

The problem has happened just days before the team’s big Scottish Premiership match against Celtic this weekend

Ross County players celebrate with the Scottish League Cup (Reuters)

A leading football club’s website has completely disappeared after the company running it deleted a host of pages.

Ross County’s website was deleted along with a host of other pages when hosting company 123-reg accidentally removed clients’ websites, wiping the Scottish League Cup winner’s presence from the face of the web.

Host 123-reg looks after 1.7 million sites in the UK and has said that sites were removed when it was trying to clean the content of some of its servers. But instead a stray script wiped a number of real websites away at the same time – including that of Ross County.

The problems come just days before the team’s match against Celtic in the Scottish Premiership this weekend. Fans are now left unable to buy tickets for that game – which must be purchased in advance – or any other without heading to the team’s stadium.

As well as the ticketing systems, the website holds other important information for fans of the team.

“There’s an awful lot of information on that website including tickets, information about how to book places on buses and, of course, merchandise,” operations manager David O’Connor told the local Ross-shire journal. “It’s not always easy for people to make it in to Dingwall during the working day to get tickets so that alone is a real inconvenience.”