FULHAM fans are being offered pints for a quid at Craven Cottage this Saturday. Marco Silva's side face Leicester in their first home game of the season at 3pm. And supporters are being welcomed back to the stadium with £1 pints and 50p soft drinks.

The early bird prices will be available from inside the ground until 2pm. Fulham have slashed the price of a beer to encourage fans to get to Craven Cottage early in a bid to avoid potential chaos. The club are rolling out a new electronic ticketing system and they say "queues" are expected while everyone gets to grips with the new way to enter the ground.

READ MORE IN FOOTBALL Turnstiles at the Riverside Stand will open three hours before kick-off and supporters can enter the Johnny Haynes Stand, Hammersmith and Putney Ends from 1pm. Every person that arrives within the first hour of their stand opening will also be entered into a ballot to win a signed shirt. Fans have praised the club for their incentives, with one saying: "Very clever way of getting people in the ground early hahah I definitely will be.

" Another added: "Going to be messy and I'm all for it." Most read in Football FOOTBALL FREE BETS AND SIGN UP DEALS Both the upper and lower tiers of Fulham's new Riverside Stand will be open for the first time tomorrow. There are new state-of-the-art hospitality seats to be enjoyed by VIPs.

But the Sky Deck experience on the top of the stand is not expected to be available until December. Fans will get a luxury Premier League .