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Every year, I try to do a bit of a groundhopping trip in a country I haven't seen live football in yet. It often revolves around a European midweek, as it allows me to see multiple matches in multiple grounds on a Wednesday/Thursday before a few more potentially on the weekend.

Next season, I want to go to Celta Vigo, I've wanted to since just under a year ago when I was in awe at Balaídos on a YouTube vlog.

They're in the Europa League proper next year, so ideally I'd go to see them on the Thursday, then fly over to Madrid or Barcelona on the Friday, and catch a few games in whichever city I choose, men's and women's.

So I suppose the crux of my question is...would I have difficulty getting tickets to see Celta Vigo? Especially in the Europa League?

Or would I be better off going to Madrid first and trying to get tickets to whatever game Getafe/Real/Atletico are playing in Europe, then heading to Vigo ahead of the weekend to see them in La Liga?

My preference (if possible) is to go to Vigo first and see the European game there, before heading to Madrid as I'd be spoilt for choice between men's and women's games, irrespective of whose home games fall on that weekend.

Hoping to sit down and draw up a plan once the La Liga fixtures are out (next Tuesday I believe?)

We have drawn Kazakhstan in the first round of the World Cup qualifiers.
Away in the first leg, whole round taking place over the week of 7-13 October.

Should we beat them, we will play the winner of Belgium v Poland in the second round in the fortnight of 26 November-5 December. Second leg at home again should we be there.

What are people's thoughts on users adding matches with adapted rules to the app?

So to explain what I'm talking about, matches with deviations from the globally adopted rules of first-level professional football. For example, organised competitions with 7-a-side, rolling subs, shorter halves, different rules around set pieces etc.

Case in point: somebody in my contacts on the app recorded attendance at the World Sevens Football (W7F) tournament. If you're not familiar with that, it's a tournament running since last year which includes the women's first teams of some major clubs, has different rules (7-a-side, a smaller pitch, 15-minute halves, rolling subs, no offsides, draws settled by golden goals). The most recent edition happened last month in Brentford's Gtech Community Stadium and included eight WSL clubs. A ticket is for the entire day and includes entrance to all matches in that day (there would be a lot of them fit into the one day session).

Another example more familiar to some might be Baller League.

My skepticism isn't with the tournaments themselves. Indeed I watched W7F on TV last month and really enjoyed it. I'd happily go to attend that or Baller League.

But when it comes to Futbology, should those matches be recorded?

Reasons against it might be that it can allow users to artificially inflate the number of games they've been to of a given club, or their match count in general. Easy to rack up matches when one ticket includes multiple matches in one session and they're only half an hour from start to finish. Additionally, as the games in W7F were high-scoring it's even easier to inflate one's goal count by adding them to the app.

But maybe I'm overthinking it and football is football.

Any thoughts?

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