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It's Further Than You Think.
Topic Started: 21 Jul 2015, 01:23 PM (461 Views)
Darlington
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It is often the bug bear of many lower league clubs and a cause for concern. Travel and the distance they have to go for some matches.
When you are not cash rich like Chelsea and Man City, every penny counts and a long journey can mean extra costs of overnight stays and the cost of getting there in the first place. If you can't do it in a day there is the question of the next match and rotation of squads may be on the cards.

Lots to think about but I was reading the about the League Cup first round and some perhaps interesting ties and the one that caught my eye was Plymouth Argyle v Gillingham which is further than I thought anyway.

Not eye catching when you see it like that but apparently that tie is the one that gives the longest journey of any team in the round. It must perhaps be me and when they show maps on the TV they scale them down but I never though it was 255 miles for Gillingham to travel or over 500 in a round trip!

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That is a bit of a trek!
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I agree Darlo.
In an even bigger geographical area like Spain you find regionalization, in Spain's case 1st tier, 2nd tier then FOUR basically regionalized leagues instead of levels 3 to 6 ...
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I've got myself some Euro 2016 tickets in France this summer and we've got to travel from Toulouse to Lille (basically border of Spain to border of Belgium) in one day to watch 2 games of football. Ridiculous the travelling you have to do!
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