England coach Roy Hodgson knows they face a battle against Poland in tonight's World Cup qualifier - thanks to his own FA.
As England seek the victory that will ensure they compete in next summer's finals in Brazil, the Football Association have been criticised for granting a bumper allocation to Poland supporters for the Wembley showdown, due to the large Polish community in the United Kingdom.
Hodgson understands why the FA have taken this step, which the governing body say is in the interest of crowd safety, but knows it risks giving Poland a boost.
"I presume it will," he said. "I'm sure they'd rather play in front of 18,000 fans than hardly any fans at all, like we've had to do sometimes away from home, and like Montenegro had to do in the game on Friday night [when England won 4-1 at Wembley].
"We have a lot of Polish people in this country and from what I understand the FA were virtually forced into this decision to let the Polish FA have the tickets - otherwise there could have been safety problems with the infiltration of Polish fans among England fans.
"Our players are used to playing in games where the opponents have their support. 65-70,000 against 20,000 is a good margin in our favour. If our fans get behind us I don't fear that."
