Far too much paranoia here for me (yes, Rome/Italy can be a tricky place to go), but be honest most Euro away's have their danger. Yes-Italy most probably is worse than others.
Here are a few places to remember we went to that had their dangers and risks...Turkey not long after the Leeds Fans were killed, Romania where we had tanks outside our hotel and the railway station, Russia, even when we played Bayer Laverkusen having to use Cologne as the main place to stay so we had a footy special put on and the Cologne fans waited for us to come back and ambushed the platform (just like they had done to other English clubs) poor children and women with no where to go (fuckin skum bags, they caught us good until our hardened lads/men ran them down the streets and the rest of our supporters could get back to their hotels safely).
There are certain rules of self discipline to try to stick to (no. i'm not trying to be high and mighty-just trying to put Euro away's back into context)
Keep your eyes open and your wits about you,
Try and not have too much to drink before the match (I have my misses with me and still find it difficult not to get carried away in the Sun and having a good time with fellow reds).
This is the one people will laugh at most (and think who the fuck does he think he is? the answer just another person trying to give good advice from my experiences that I have had in the past and know I will experience in the future!), but please try your hardest to make the effort to go to the ground earlier and in NUMBERS/Groups because they WILL get the ones that go last minute all bevvied up who are in smaller groups.
This is my last point I'd like to say...we've got some where in the region of 5000 supporters heading out to Rome, In that amount of people no matter where they are from or for what reason they are travelling? there will always be some that will want to cause/look for trouble, and it will happen next week, so if you do see it and decide to just stand back from a distance and observe (film it) be very careful because this can be when you are vulnerable as they are clever fuckers (yes even cowardly) because they wont want to fight the others that stand their ground they prefer to just pick off numbers to claim some sort of victory and boast
As you can tell I'm not a youth anymore but I do still like to enjoy Euro away's the same as the next supporter of the MIGHTY REDS. Stay safe and lets hope we get big Ears back
