Europa League final: Arsenal & Chelsea fans face difficult trip to Baku

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A four-day train journey, a 58-hour drive or a flight via Istanbul - the travel issues facing Arsenal and Chelsea fans going to Baku.

There are currently no direct scheduled flights between London and Baku in the week of the final.

The quickest journey by air on the day of the final takes six hours 55 minutes, with the majority lasting more than 10 hours. That's an eight-day trip for 90 minutes of football - and for a game which kicks of at 11pm local time , so will not finish until around 1am!It takes more than four days to travel from London to Baku on public transport, passing through seven countries. Anyone who watched BBC Two'sThe whole journey would likely include 11 changes and a two-day train journey from Kharkiv in Ukraine to Baku.

When you take in the time needed to eat and sleep, it would probably be best to set off on the Saturday to make the Wednesday night kick-off.

 

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We’re in a climate emergency - surely the game could be played in the UK?

Why don't uefa reamburse Baku with the money in the brown envelopes off man City. Simple really. Play it at Wembley. 👍

londoners whinging again about having to travel-domestic final happen on their doorstep since they began, spoilt brats-they're weak.

With British clubs contesting both European finals this could have been a glorious celebration of leaving the EU if it was not for the parliamentarians who have done their best to thwart implementation of the referendum. Opportunity lost for national celebration.

UEFA Fifa Come on, do the right thing and relocate both finals to Wembley, The Olympic Stadium or Cardiff.

No English players in the teams a few British lmfao then again terrorist have British passports

What a joke 🤣

Idiotic and irresponsible location. Appalling for the fans plus how does this align to meeting environmental targets and reducing carbon emissions

What part of Chelsea & arsenal are English?

We keep being told that there's an impending environmental catastrophe, and yet 200,000 English football fans are being forced to travel 1000s of miles to 2 random predetermined cities and be ripped off in the process. How can UEFA get away with this?

Sillyness personified. Hold it in Cardiff or even wembley. Why have two london teams travel to baku?

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