Out of interest, how many Gent fans would normally travel to a European away match that's reasonably easy to travel to, such as your Champions League matches last season against Wolfsburg, Valencia or Lyon? Is the demand similar, or is the demand for this one much higher because it's Spurs/Wembley?
2500 fans went to Valencia, roughly the same to Wolfsburg. This was down to ticket allocations.
None were allowed to Lyon due to the Paris attacks.
1. SPURS!
This is our fourth draft in two years: CL, CL last 16, EL and now EL last 32. We never had a "proper" opponent, a big name. No Barcelona, no Madrid, no Bayern and no English team.
Finally we have a big name: Spurs. We all know the club, we see it every week on TV (BBC1 and so MOTH is standard in our TV-channel package), some Belgians are playing quite well there and Spurs play our kind of football: fluid, dominant, attractive. It is not in the genes of Spurs to park the bus. Neither in ours. Also bear in mind that the FA Cup was on our BBC-equivalent during the 80s/90s. We are born and bred on English footie.
2. LONDON!
London is a hop over the channel, roughly 3 hours away. It has plenty of hotels, bars, attractions, is easy to travel to (ferry, plane, bus, train). Wolfsburg: that's a VW factory with some houses around it. So London is a plus. Plenty are coming to see the game and make a weekend of it.
3. WEMBLEY!
Que sera que sera...
White Hart Lane would have been fun but Wembley is the cherry on the cake.
If there is one stadium you have to see it's Wem-be-ley. Being a nostalgic romantic I preferred the old version, but to support your own team in the mothership of football against decent opposition, that takes some beating.
Win or lose, we win.