BEHAVE and you'll have a great time in Bucharest - that's the message from a Romanian living in Southampton to all Saints fans travelling to Steaua.

Narcis Ursache has lived in Bucharest for many years but is currently studying for a PhD at Southampton University.

The Daily Echo asked him if he had any tips for Saints fans journeying to Romania for the first time.

One pleasing aspect is that the club's first competitive European away match for 19 years shouldn't cost the earth.

Match tickets have cost £20 but, elsewhere, the outlook is much cheaper.

The current exchange rate is £1 English currency to almost 55,000 Romanian lei.

"Romania is quite cheap regarding beer, food and other stuff," said Ursache.

"You can buy a good beer for around 80p in a good restaurant. So don't worry.

"There are many great pubs and bars, and you afford them without doubt.

"The police will be there, but I hope Saint fans will be treated well without provoking anything. But these things are quite hard to predict, because the score was equal here (at St Mary's).

"So Steaua has an advantage, which proves to be a disadvantage for the Saints fans.

"But I'm sure everything's going to be just fine.

"Romanians are very passionate about football, but the more important thing is Fair Play.

"Romanians have a good gallery team (the fans); they are colourful but they do anything to encourage their preferred team, as English people do.

"As long as English fans don't provoke, nothing's going to happen there because Romanians are quite good people, with open hearts and very peaceful.

"But take care how you walk on the street, how you talk, how you meet people, how you look, how you give birth to this city.

"Bucharest depends of you, more, much more than you think about.

"Bucharest exists as we walk in it, as we look at it, as we speak about it, as we make stories about it.

"Roads and narrow streets have their own story. It is the story of the houses and places that watched them, where our precursors lived, worked and hoped.

"There are a lot of old streets with a long commercial tradition, which became new boulevards with lots of block of flats around them."