Belgian and English fans are pictured together at the Old Town after arriving at the Polish city of Gdansk to take buses from there to Kaliningrad for their teams World Cup Group G match, in Gdansk, Poland June 27, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
GDANSK/GRZECHOTKI (Reuters) - Thousands of England and Belgium soccer fans flocked into Russia's western enclave of Kaliningrad on Thursday, ahead of the final Group G World Cup clash between the two football-mad nations.
Around 50 coaches packed with fans had crossed the border from Poland by midday, its border agency said, as many fans had chosen Poland's historic Baltic Sea port as a base due to sky high prices in Russia.
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