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I have no idea what would happen as what happened last night is unprecedented.

Thousands of English supporters did turn up ticketless in 2006, at the request of the German Football Federation, and largely did behave themselves with no need for water cannons etc. If you start acting a bell-end in front of riot police you will most likely get a clunk on the head. Behave and...

We're the police unprepared? If they weren't, and were making decisions on-the-hoof then they dealt with a difficult situation even better than I thought.

It will be interesting to find out what actually happened. Now the dust is settling I'm of the opinion that both sets of supporters and the police have handled themselves very well. This could have been total and utter carnage had one or more of these three groups reacted differently.

Personally I have no idea but I find it very hard to believe the club were knowingly selling thousands and thousands of tickets to German addresss and credit cards.

It would appear Arsenal supporters had sold tickets to them. They're being reported as "ticketless supporters" but most seemed to have got hold of tickets for the home end.

"20,000 Cologne fans gained entry, the scene was fevered and edgy but largely peaceful as supporters intermingled in the stands. It really could have been so much worse given the numbers involved, and the state of intoxication of the Cologne fans who seemed to have spent most of yesterday...

Police reported "no significant disorder" on the BBC. Looking at it another way you could say Arsenal, Islington Council and the plod etc handled a difficult situation well?

Bloody Facebook. Nothing's private these days.

When I close my eyes I see them everywhere.

I've no idea who he is. I just typed "typical friendly England fan" into Google and he popped up.

.....and this is probably an appropriate moment to show this photo. Again, another typical German supporter.

Come on, it's not difficult to see why. Here are two typical German supporters and an English one: As an aside that England support looks like a fat Mickey Adams.

Wouldn't happen in Germany.