England fans could exploit visa loophole to travel to Kaliningrad without tickets

• Some ticketless fans thought to have arrived in Russian exclave
• FSF obtained a number of Fan IDs with same reference number

Hundreds of England fans could expose a loophole in the Russian security service’s ticketing system to travel to Russia for the World Cup as excitement grows behind Gareth Southgate’s team.

England supporters have begun to trickle over the border from Poland and Lithuania into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad for the final group game against Belgium on Thursday. Security was tight at both land-entry points but it has emerged that some fans could exploit weaknesses in the visa protocol to enter Russia without tickets.

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