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Just got my tickets for Prague, going by the queue to buy them on the website i'm assuming there's not a huge amount in the first bucket as i logged in without a wait and had them bought by 2mins past 9.

Think that's a bit of a naive view having been there. I can only speak for what I saw but the mix of Israeli, Arab, Muslim etc was very noticeable and all were friendly. I assume the problems are in the border regions and occupied regions more, but the impression I got is the average person didn't give a **** about those politics and just wanted to get on with their lives in peace. Personally I've come away with a very different impression of the whole conflict and now think it's much more leaders and religious nuts who don't represent the general populace of tel aviv at least. And that's from someone that has had deep political misgivings of Israel in the past Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Was a superb trip, Israel is a really nice country, and tel aviv is a great place to go on the **** (well if you don't mind spending £6 a pint anyway). Loads of bars and clubs fronting onto the beach, with staff hardly ever letting your pints finish and all the bonuses that come from a beach view. To the game itself happy enough with a point, it's a long way to travel with a rotated team and playing a side that hasn't ever lost at their new ground. Must admit I do think we'd have won it if we'd played a full strength side, but winning the home games and not losing away gets us through. Also think if Virgil had scored it would've been a very different game. Fair play to their fans too, made one hell of a racket all game and one the loudest grounds I've ever been in, albeit one of the weirdest approaches (across a desert track). Have to say I wasn't really sure what the Leonardo Di Caprio stuff was about at the start of the game but it has to go down as one of the least threatening and most laughable things i've seen at a football game. Not at all once you were in the country, although the security checks at the airport were like nothing i've ever seen in my life. Absolutely mental and weirdly ten times worse on the way out than the way in, with some of our fans getting stuck at passport control for going on an hour.

Just done mine but leaving tomorrow. Can't ****ing wait. This one feels like a proper European game. Brazzer thanks for all the info, sounds like you lot are a decent bunch and I think it's safe to say no one but the computer nerd are taking this for granted! By the way how come you have a picture of Jim Morrison on that flag? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anyone got a guess at how likely Be'er Sheva are to enforce the fire certificate rule for flags? I've got one with no fire cert' & am thinking of taking it anyway

They f*cked up my Sparta ticket too and sold my season ticket seat (that i've had since SMS opened) to someone else then dumped me miles from where i was supposed to be and my friends were. Fortunately they sorted it for the rest and i've now received all my tickets, be interesting to see if they have sold my seat again as well.

Where does it say that? That's an absolute disgrace from the club if it's true. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Have to be honest it's going to be one hell of a trip for those of us going. A proper adventure and actually not as expensive as people made out. Personally think it's a shame we didn't sell more really. If you booked early like most of us did it's not massively more expensive than what some people have paid for Milan. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Or drink in bethnal green where there's a ton of pubs and hop on the central line or the number 8 bus that drops you outside.

Replica kits, duckfaces, couples that are loved up and the hastags #buzzing and #awaydays Sometimes our support takes cringeworthy to a new level...

Amazing, if you come as Mario i'll come as Luigi, man we'll be the banter boyz for today (maybe we should get that on shirts too). It'll be so many lolz... Some people really don't get sarcasm do they...

Ah man I can't wait for the fancy dress, also all those "epic" social media selfies and people "buzzing" for the game. Hopefully everyone will sit down too so I can get a good view. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Midtjylland was pick up from outside the train station in denmark, you needed to provide ID to pick them up and it was pretty straight forward. I don't remember Vitesse but i think it wasn't long, a couple of weeks or so. Inter will be different as the club have to print each ticket with the correct details on it (and cross check against passport numbers), then give those details to Inter. After that i believe it's going to be sent by recorded delivery so i'd assume 3 weeks plus. Yeah fair play mate, and like you well know there's always a way to get in if you really want. I know that's the argument, but i do a considerable number of aways each season (about 10-15 on average) and chat to and know our away fanbase well. I also know that many of the members do a lot of home games (if not all) AND aways. For many i speak to it's about having the cash up front, or not knowing exactly how many games they'll actually make that stops them from getting a season ticket. In my view it'd be great, and probably not that difficult, for the club to introduce a fairer system. One whereby the offer the first criteria of each level to season ticket holders, then have a second window at that criteria for members who've done a certain number of home AND away games, then drop them down from there. That way you wouldn't just end up rewarding people for being rich enough at the start of the season to buy a season ticket, and instead reward people on loyalty instead.

It irrationally annoys me that season ticket holders with no aways get in ahead of members that have done aways, and that's me speaking a season ticket holder too. It just goes against every ingrained bit of English fair play to me.

Ironed creases in the front? Jesus fella, do you wear loafers with them too? I'm assuming you're a fairly badly dressed man from that.

Yup make that another one here, be out on the **** for the football and have no interest in political statements like that. Would be very disappointed with any of our fans that decided to use it as an excuse to play student politics.

Loving the people who, despite being no where near the two main areas that make any noise, swear blind that those that are in the middle of those areas are wrong, despite the fact it might just be their own mistake and they're too stubborn to admit it. Also i said previous all there was was two rounds of "one markus liebherr", and one fairly weak attempt at "who the f*ck is Ronald Koeman". But you know, why not use it as a brush to tar your own support, despite the fact you are definitely wrong...

that's because no one sung it

I think you mixed it up with theirs only one Marcus leibherr that was sung twice. The only Koeman reference was who the f*ck is Ronald Koeman after our first goal Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We're going to get f*cking slaughtered by the skates for how tin pot this is. And the worst thing is they'd be f*cking right... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sadly that horse has bolted for Inter, but i'd assume/hope no one is stupid enough to email Sparta Prague or Saints for that game (though to be fair i'll be in the away end for all the games), since i'm a hundred percent sure that the reason it became an issue is because of those people. It's so f*cking sad that people are so desperate to be the first to post information on social media that they've maybe jeopardised the chances of many Saints fans to get in in the home ends. I mean think about it rationally, if you're the home club and a load of away fans turn up in the away end and UEFA etc. can see you've had emails from the away fans asking about it first (that they've gone and posted on social media) then what are you going to do? If the same fans had bought in silence and just happened to got in you could've washed your hands and said we can't know who's a Saints fan and who's an english Inter fan, and can't ban them just based on their nationality. Like i said before i was staggered how f*cking dumb those people were, and if i was ticketless for this game i'd be pretty damn seething at them to be honest as they've risked you a chance of seeing us in the san siro.

Still don't actually believe they will enforce it to be honest. Personally think they put a message out simply to cover their backs in case UEFA asked questions about if they'd done due process (should there be a ton of Saints in the home end). Likewise i reckon Saints put the message out to try and put off people booking flights on the off chance (i'm not sure which club would get the fine for not controlling fans to be honest, but if it was particularly noticeable i'd guess the home club). Also i hope that the mongs that decided to email Inter and Saints about it have learnt their lesson, next time round keep your f*cking mouths shut and go about your business quietly and everything will be fine. Don't spend half your life emailing, tweeting or messaging on facebook, the club who's home end you're trying to get into. Genuinely baffles me how a section of our support could've been so f*cking clueless and thick.

My guess would be that by the end of today we'll have sold in the region of 2-3k when taking into account supporters clubs/corporate/sponsors and people who have qualified. The next window will be a bit of a land grab I guess, and I'm start to doubt it'll even make it down to 3 aways now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd pay seat numbers no attention mate, once you're there no one is going to sit in their "seats" anyway (plus they're not seats they're bits of plastic bolted to the concrete), the numbers are definitely not seat numbers btw, just indicators of confirmation, so you can pretty easily tell how many we've sold from it. For what it's worth i know people who booked on linked tickets but the "seat" numbers were apart anyway, i think that just shows how crazy the demand must be. Also anyone know what we're up to on Be'er Sheeva? Would be great if we could push that into the 500 mark today too.

Milan tickets bought, looks like they're flying out the door as mine was seat number 1035!