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I know the club said "no colours" but suits and bowties is a bit much...

Yes, definitely. Would do a couple of things slightly differently: stay in Marseille for a couple of days so I could see a bit of the city & the old port; and get a ticket in block B so I could be on an earlier wave of buses out, rather than getting back to La Joliette at midnight. Those buses...

Police have been asking to see our tickets (or, since the obvious route from the metro to the collection point is through the cordoned area, our confirmation emails). Bit bureaucratic but it means the square is pretty much exclusively Albion.

Yes. With the police having notionally banned us from the tourist parts of Marseille I thought Avignon might be a nice place to spend a couple of days. Loved it (and to keep vaguely on topic for the thread, ate & drank very well). Would recommend.

Blimey. Good luck staying awake until the final whistle. If you happen to be sitting next to me and I see you nodding off in the second half I'll give you a friendly elbow in the ribs.

That's a good point, well made. My first reaction was that the only way Scotland is ever going to go to a World Cup again is to concoct a hosting bid with San Marino and the Faroe Isles but actually... taking Spain & Portugal out of the European qualifying pool probably brings our odds in to...

Just acknowledging Julio Enciso winning the Ballon d'Or in 2029. Got their fingers on football's pulse, these FIFA lads.

I'll be with the side responding "Nous sommes vin rouge, nous sommes vin rouge, nous sommes vin rouge Hove garçons"

It's a while since I last spent much time in France and my experience over the last couple of days is that the situation is much improved. Most restaurants short of Michelin-starred fine dining places have a vegetarian/vegan option right there on the menu. No need to ask if the chef will make...

I have no idea how good it is but I spotted this vegan burger place next to La Joliette & it's my plan for a quick dejeuner before being herded onto the buses: https://flower-burger-marseille.fr/fr

I hope this doesn't help anyone (in that I hope nobody ends up needing this kind of help) but I see that there's a British Consulate in Marseille at 10 Place de la Joliette so that's (a) easy to remember and (b) handy.

I thought historic Avignon would be a football-free place to chill for a couple of days before the match until I went for a walk in the Jardin des Doms and discovered this photo of Jason Steele in action against AEK Athens.

If everyone could wear a sticker with their season's best time from the official running thread on it, that would be really helpful.

I was on a Thameslink to St Pancras, got in at 09:00 then hit a mobile signal dead zone passing Selhurst (should've guessed they don't have reliable internet yet...) and by the time I reconnected it was sold out. Sounds like I'd have been very lucky to get through the system in time on a phone...

Agreed. Everyone on 220-264 points should boycott the Ajax away game for at least an hour on Monday morning.

That's the thought that I've been clinging on to. Sometimes our play looks effective but sometimes it looks disjointed. Yes we've got players who are well versed in the system now so it's not quite the same situation but the way Zerbismo (are we calling it that?) works it needs everyone to know...

I don't know that I'd claim that it's the bestest ever, but the one-off album that I've listened to most over the years must be One Dove's Morning Dove White.

Bit of franglais but I don't think any of us will find swearing in French half as satisfying... Qu'est-ce que f*cking Qu'est-ce que f*cking Qu'est-ce que f*cking c'est que ça? Although I don't think they've got any sort of weird mascot to sing it at.

I think we scored our first goal in the 47th minute and our second in the 46th. So, er, yes? Or maybe no? That's the kind of bending of spacetime that does my head in. It's possibly something to do with scoring the second goal at close to the speed of light.

"Wee" is not an adjective I'm ever going to use about Baleba! Except perhaps as an ironic nickname like Little John. Maybe we could have a midfield duo of Wee Billy (actually wee) and Wee Carlos (really f*cking not).