Fans ready to paint Moscow blue

PLANES, trains and automobiles, intrepid Blues (and Reds) are utilising any means available to get to Moscow.

They have to, as there aren’t enough flights to satisfy demand. Some friends who are afraid of flying are taking three days to travel to the Russian capital by train (St Pancras to Bruges, Bruges to Cologne, Cologne to Moscow), and even some nutters who are driving and left some time last week. But you HAVE to be there.

I think something we have known for quite some time has finally dawned on the Moscow authorities - they simply are not ready to hold an event such as this.