It s an unknown quantity because no other British side has been. It will be like going to the moon. I want to take a blue flag and plant it in their town centre because it was one of the furthest away ties we could have been given.
We will be there to give 100% backing to our team and be good ambassadors for our city. Many fans will be paying for the trip for a long time but it won t matter if they get the right result. We can only hope that we get the same level of commitment and passion from the team.
Mr MacDonald, from Crosby, is flying from Liverpool JLA airport to Katowice in Poland. He will then get a train to nearby Krakow where he will join a coach full of Blues to make the 16 hours cross-border trip to Kharkiv. Other supporters have booked flights to the Ukrainian capital Kiev and then plan to get a train to Kharkiv or make the five-hour drive.
Most are getting to Kiev via Riga in Latvia, Munich and Amsterdam. An Everton spokesman said: Despite the fact that we drew a team from Ukraine we knew the following in the away leg would be enormous. David Moyes and the players have gone on record saying how important the supporters are to them and no more so than during what will be a very important game after the disappointing first leg.
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