I went to see Taylor Swift and made a big mistake

You’ve got the tickets, made your friendship bracelets and travel plans and you’re ready to go – along with thousands of other Taylor Swift fans.

I was among the 73,000 people who packed into Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Sunday night, the last of her Scottish gigs before the Eras Tour moves to Liverpool this week.

While everything went smoothly in terms of getting there and finding the place, we made one mistake and that was with the merch.

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We knew that the merchandise stalls opened early each day of the tour and in Liverpool there’s been an Early Merch Day today, Wednesday, which has attracted thousands of fans.

But we didn’t want to make the journey to Murrayfield twice, so we avoided going a day earlier and decided to buy it on the day of our concert instead.

We knew it would be busy, but we had no idea that even hours before the show was due to begin, the queues would be snaking around the stadium.

Two of us checked out the stalls on the other side where the queues were just as bad, so we had to simply suck it up.

What started as one queue eventually became somewhat of a cattle market as we were told to move forward towards the stands, where the merch, including £40 T-shirts and £70 hoodies, was displayed up high for all to see.

As time went on we were filed off into separate queues and the four of us waited patiently for our turn. Unfortunately for us, we seemed to have drawn the short straw and every queue was moving apart from ours.

What we should have done was to make sure we’d all got into a different queue and the person who moved quickest could have been tasked with ordering the stuff.

It took us almost two hours to get items we wanted and we missed most of the supporting act, rock band Paramore, which the girls had wanted to see. You live and learn as they say.

If you’re among the fans heading to Anfield this week, take note and get there in plenty of time. On show days, the merch is available from 10am.