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Because (as with one of the games last year) at half 9 this morning when my wife bought our five tickets and they rocked up in our purchase histories they were numbered consecutively, so a few assumptions required but pretty obvious they started at 0000001 and mine was around the 80 mark. (Un)fortunately we don't have a bunch of people with staggered eligibility this year so I can't check different days like I could last year, but I'm sure people could check their purchase histories and post approximate numbers.

I would imagine the difference in cost of policing 10,000 rather than 5,000 in the ground itself is negligible, especially if we had an end to ourselves - but I have no idea how policing costs are charged away from the stadium.

Italian law will mean they still have to give their address and details to match some ID, so I assume they just won't sell tickets. Tbh I'm pretty sure in practical terms everyone will get in, just don't hold me to that.

The Echo article is really reaching, isn't it? It's practically "Football fans attempt to get into match 2 months away with 40,000 empty seats disgrace".

Anyways, as of 5 minutes ago we'd sold 82 tickets of the 800 available for Hapoel Be'er Sheva away.

Yeah, I know - the reality is rather different from the expectation, but you'd imagine that's not what the local police are going to go on.

That would only leave me with a 99% success rate over thirteen years then? Tragic.

Yeah, and while that was impressive for the level he was at at the time, Pochettino got basically the same team Adkins left in the bottom half into 8th. Despite Osvaldo.

Not in the post-takeover period, no.

Yeah, from looking at the Metro maps online - and the previous metro maps from 2014 showing lines under construction, I'm not sure that half of the Metro line 5 was even built when I went in Jan 2015 - the Tram service 16 definitely wasn't running despite there being lines going right past the ground as it was barricaded off, and I don't know if it runs any more (but doesn't matter if the Metro's open). Basically the one or two day ATM tickets cover you for as many tram, bus or metro journeys as you want in that period, only about eight Euros for two days. Single tickets are a bit more complicated, hence wanting to get a pass. Oh and beware "helpful assistants" in the Milan city centre transport hubs, they want tipping for helping you do something you can definitely work out yourself.

Because Batman's dense.

Our group in Denmark was about 50% women, and I can count the actual yobs I know of who were there in single figures. Though that still makes them about 1-2%.

Seemed pretty clear to me, but equally you didn't actually specify it. FWIW there is a 100% correlation for me between success of the manager and highest league position achieved with Saints. So it goes Koeman Pochettino Adkins Pardew Wotte

In the away end they've hidden them under some kind of plastic sealant.

Yeah, I mentioned that after last season's annual Newport County victory in Fratton. They're much better than they were, glad they wasted the money on something that would need to be destroyed to modernise the ground anyway.

Probably because every time Saints don't win a game, the "opinion" is really tedious trolling by the same boring posters. I have loads on block now for being tangibly delighted when things aren't going perfectly and endlessly banging the same dull drum, only appearing when the team doesn't win and never around when they do. They're obvious trolls and not worth the time or effort of even reading their posts, and the occasional quoting by people who do shows me I'm not missing anything. Some of them are calculated wums, others are just a bit stupid though and they're even less worth engaging with.

Yeah, he was gutted that we conceded a goal and didn't win. Good.

It's a no from me, too.

Sounds like the metro station at San Siro is open again anyway. Still haven't heard anyone actually confirm that yet, seems to be on all the maps and timetables though.

Lino gave that one though.

The only time I've ever thought this was at half time last season against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. The ref was so bad it just seemed obvious he was actively favouring Chelsea. We won that one 3-1, and nearly everything he did in the second half favoured us.

Yes, and I did to get a Serie A ticket. It was print at home. And they didn't check my ID at the ground, though there's plenty of evidence to suggest that's an anomaly. Whether they allow people with English details to buy tickets for a European match... who knows? Logic says they won't.

Sounds like default text from Inter's site to me then.

It's due to the formation - when the ball's out wide at the back all of the space is in front of our full back on the other side. Worked nicely pre-season when Cedric found himself on the edge of the box after Van Dijk fired one off.

Probably about £40 petrol in the car plus about £20 for parking though. Divided by the number of people in the car. Options.