Watch as crowd noise is pumped into Baku stadium ahead of Europa League final despite Uefa insisting Arsenal vs Chelsea will be sell out

UEFA are covering themselves in the case there is no atmosphere at the Europa League final – by blasting out crowd noise.

In footage posted on Twitter, cheers, jeers and whistles can be heard being boomed around the Olympic Stadium in Baku.

The Guardian’s Amy Lawrence wrote: “Arrived at the stadium. Sounds like a rehearsal of loud piped crowd noise.”

Clearly Uefa are getting ready to make the plenty of noise inside the stadium tomorrow night because there may not be many actual fans there to do the job for them.

As revealed by SunSport, Uefa are adamant that the game will be a sell out.

But despite the two finalists being handed just 6,000 tickets each, we understand more than half of these have been returned by both Chelsea and Arsenal.

The difficult, expensive and lengthy journey means plenty of supporters have decided to watch the game on TV rather than in Azerbaijan.

Uefa have given the vast majority of tickets inside the 67,000-seater stadium to corporate clients or sold them to the general public – and insist most of the returned seats have been snapped up by locals.

‘MAJORITY SOLD’

A Uefa spokesperson said: “Approximately 6,000 tickets have been returned by the two finalists together.

“The majority of these tickets have already been sold to local fans in Azerbaijan and we are confident that the remaining ones will also be sold as demand is very high.”

Some of the Gunners and Blues supporters that have are making the journey have landed in Baku.

They will no doubt be enjoying themselves this evening ahead of the clash, which kicks off at 11pm local time.

But unsurprisingly, those on Twitter were keen to mock Uefa for the fake noise.

One joked: “Just like WHL,” of course referring to Arsenal’s rivals Tottenham’s ground.

Another said: “Do they have the “what do you think of Tottenham?” chant in their piped noise? What a farce!”

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A third wrote: “They will need that to create a atmosphere! still p***ed off at UEFA #notfairplay”

And someone quipped: “Should have a few mannequins or blow up dolls to make it look full too.”

But one claimed that the noise was to test whether the officials could communicate properly – especially with the VAR in operation for the first time in the Europa League.