England v Poland: FA sticks to its guns in 'own-goal' row over selling 10,000 extra tickets to visitors FA spokesman Scott Field said: "With high demand for tickets from the large Polish community in England the FA took the decision, based on safety grounds, to ensure Polish fans were allocated space in a specific area of the ground, rather than attempting to buy tickets in home areas. Tickets in the home areas have been restricted to previous buyers only, with no tickets now remaining for this fixture. This is the same process that was employed for the successful Scotland and Republic of Ireland fixtures earlier this year. A spokesman for a delighted Polish FA said: "Knowing how many [Polish] people live in Great Britain, we know how many will attend this game, even though now we don't have a chance to qualify. For a lot of people it's a very, very big game and a very special game. I think there will be 20,000 Polish fans. It is England and it's football history. On Oct 17 we will have the 40th anniversary of the game in 1973. After that result we started a golden era of Polish football, we qualified for the World Cup and finished third. We have a big history competing against England. Every time we play England, everyone thinks about this game 40 years ago. Every time we play in a country with a big Polish community ... they live in England but the team from the motherland is your country. It's important for them to be at the game and then support the Poland team. It is always better to go to work the next day and say to their English colleagues, "We beat you."" England have played before huge away followings at Wembley before, notably Ghana's 21,000 fans in 2011 (a 1-1 draw) and Scotland's 20,000 following this year (3-2 England win) while the smaller Republic of Ireland contingent (1-1) were very noisy. Leighton Baines voiced his approval of the enhanced Polish gathering. "If it adds to the atmosphere it is great,"" said the England left-back who starts again in the injury-induced absence of Ashley Cole. When we played Ghana they were amazing and it just made it better. If these away fans add to the atmosphere the home fans are going to produce, then it just adds to the occasion. Baines acknowledged it could lift the Polish team too. "It could work in that manner, but to put a more positive spin on it you'd rather play in a stadium with a good atmosphere, rather than it be a half-empty stadium."" Baines and the rest of the team have their final training session at London Colney on Monday. Roy Hodgson has a few choices to make, mainly either Phil Jones or Chris Smalling for the suspended Kyle Walker at right-back, whether he should insert a more defensive midfielder like James Milner on the left to deal with Jakub Blaszczykowski and whether to tinker with central midfield, withdrawing Frank Lampard for Jack Wilshere or Michael Carrick. He has called in Raheem Sterling, who may be asked to make an impact from the bench. "Raheem Sterling is the type of player who can, if we need him, do what Andros [Townsend] did [against Montenegro] on Friday,"" said Hodgson.