How do Championship teams travel on away games?

If you are not from England, maybe you dint know or didn’t wonder how do the teams from Championship travel hundreds of miles when playing away. Instant thought – “Well it’s the strongest and richest second league in the world, they must have their private jets to fly them wherever needed in only hour or two…” Truth is a bit different though. Clubs’ budgets couldn’t possibly take it and they all use their CLUB BUSSES.

England is the vast country, and in the time of these modern traffic jams, when the highways are crowded on weekends, around the big cities in particular, these journeys can be a real torture. It will remain marked this season that Sheffield Wednesday came home from the outing to Reading with six goals in the net having lost (0-6), but no one even wondered how come. On their way south from Sheffield, driving along the famous, jammed M1 highway, the Owls were held up because of the car accident forcing them to literary get off the bus and run directly on Madejski turf where they were hammered with six goals.

That is why, before the outing in London to Crystal Palace, players had presented an interesting idea which was welcomed by the board. Instead of the club bus, they have decided to travel by train thus cutting the journey from six to about three hours. Manager and the chairman were absolutely thrilled by the idea, while the enthusiastic and always unanimous players decided to finance the tickets themselves since the deal was a bit more expensive than going by bus. Well, coach, we are off to the game, see you at the train station…

Record holders when it comes to traveled miles are definitely Plymouth Argyle. Based in Devon, the far southwest of the country, they need to set off at least a day earlier for most of their outings, booking the sleepover somewhere in the middle of the road. Because of that FA is being mild on them, scheduling them to play two straight away games in Sheffield – within three days they play both Wednesday and United.

There it is! This is how you love your club and enjoy the most popular sport in the world, without burdening yourself with needless stupidities like mansions, pools, jet set company or silly sport cars. Maybe some of the expensive pros could even learn something from Wednesday or Plymouth for a change…

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