Football

LOL
We had a fight with a load of aggressive locals on the beach in Tel-Aviv in my youth. We had a job setting up deck chairs and they refused to pay us for some reason or other so we went along the beach 'un-setting them'
Istanbul was nice, it was only in one of the seaside resorts that one guy threatened to stab me because I wouldn't buy a chess board. I told him to fuck off and the next thing I knew 10 of the fuckers appeared out of no where and I had to make a break for it.

Those were the days :)

You're filling me with confidence :) I was in Istanbul for the 2009 UEFA final and the atmostphere was great. It was played in the Fenerbahce stadium and didn't see a whiff of trouble. Really fancy the Kiev fixture, never having been there, but it will probably be the scariest (and most expensive flight). Don't think that tickets will be too hard to come by.