Any English team playing in Spain is obliged to have at least one incident of a topless, sunburnt, overweight man throwing a plastic chair across a town square. Frankly it would be a disgrace if two English teams go to the Basque Country and there aren’t multiple arrests along with overly aggressive policing inside and outside the stadium.
Don't think there was any issues when both EL and CL finals were all English affairs in 2019? Chelsea fans in Poland with cheap beer should be interesting though.
2008 between United and Chelsea also. Although it being in Moscow would have no doubt scared the living ****e out of them.
Similar for the 2019 EL final in Baku ... 2019 CL final was Madrid so things could have gone wrong but didn't ... but Bilbao is likely to be sweltering and H4H's scenario becomes much more apposite in such circumstances ...
The match is an absolute **** to get to. Was looking at overnight ferry to Santander on the way out, then back from Bilboa. The whole thing would have been a week away. EasyJet do one flight a week into Bilbao or Biarritz, and they are on the wrong days. Ryanair go to Biarritz and Santander from Stanstead, but it's another week long trip in the case of Santander.
Could possibly fly in to Toulouse and cross over? ... my brother-in-law drove to Bilbao from the midi-pyrennes just for a day out not that long ago...
Yeah, Toulouse and Bergerac are options with Ryanair but **** knows what days they fly there, it won't be every day. I'd love to do the ferry one, we get Brittany Ferries club Voyage discount (you pay fort it) as we use them every year. I haven't got a week leave to take though!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c071e2ggge0o Football fans watch the game together without fighting who'd have thought it.
Was thinking Zaragoza as the flights are semi-frequent but the flight back the day after the match is a cool £540
The year we won the title the last game (having already won it) was away at Chelsea where they did the whole guard of honour thing ... I sat in the Matthew Harding and soon worked out there were literally a couple of hundred Leicester fans scattered around the stand too ... However, given the Ranieri factor and that Eden Hazard's goal in that infamous 2-2 at the Bridge against their hated rivals, Spurs, had confirmed us as Champs, the atmosphere was positively warm and friendly with many congratulating us ... A moment that stood out was when Hazard went on a mazy dribble only to have the ball nicked off him by the incomparable N'Golo Kante ... instead of cheering Kante the packed away end started singing 'Eden Hazard, he's one of our own' ... which prompted both much amusement and the whole ground standing as one to sing 'We all ****ing hate Spurs' ... Now I concede, on any other day and in any other circumstances, it would have been absolute carnage .
