Blues fans' iron will! 1,500 in trek to Ukraine for FC Metalist tie.(Features)

From: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) | Date: October 1, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: By GREG O'KEEFFE

THOUSANDS of miles, hundreds of pounds and a knife-edge game is nothing to the hordes of Ever-ton fans making British football history this weeks.

The routes have been painstakingly planned, credit cards pushed to their limit and now up to 1,500 Blues are expected to travel to Kharkiv, in the Ukraine, to watch their team in the Uefa cup clash on Thursday.

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