Proud to be a Saint and the San Siro is a befitting venue for a world class club like Southampton FC.

Nick, any idea when the actual fixtures are announced?

Two wonderful cities and the San Siro + the Negev desert. A good test for us - I hope we take it seriously...

Hugely excited by this draw. I was hoping to get Inter since the FA Cup final confirmed we would enter at the group phase. Does anyone know when fixtures are confirmed and ticket details? Already planning a trip to Milan.

Great opportunity to qualify for the next round. No iffy long haul flights into the back end of nowhere and minimal disruption to preparation for league matches post travel. Couldn't realistically have been a better draw.

"...where they will be joined by 8 teams.." with bigger budgets who got beat by their peers so they are now allowed to take advantage of teams with lower budgets and win a trophy so their fans can pretend they have achieved something. Not to mention they can pick up some more much needed cash.

This is what makes this competition a joke and shows it what it is: a cash grab by owners by way of tickets, tv rights, etc. It's like the video game scam where you pay for the game, slog through hours and hours to get to the final stage and them the developer nerfs your weapons and says actually it's not the final stage and you have to pay more for the expansion pack.

No Champions League loser should be allowed and make it either for teams under 21s or home born players. Then it would be really interesting.

I kind of agree with Boondock; losing teams from the Champions League should not be dropped into the Europa League, that's just farcical and be littles the competition.
CL or EL; UEFA is hell bent on creating a European Super League eventually. It maybe 20 year away but it's on the agenda.
Looking forward to Inter Milan though, no question about it, an exciting match.