When Arsenal drew Villarreal in the 2006 Champions League semi-final, there wasn’t much time between the quarter-final and semi-final draw- certainly not enough to drag our feet over accommodation and travel options. Having travelled to every other Champions League game that season- not expecting that our European odyssey would take us this far, we were happy to settle for the least resource intensive option. We booked on to one of the Arsenal Travel Club’s chartered flights, flying out on the morning of the game, include a coach transfer from Valencia airport and then we’d be ferried back to the airport and flown home immediately after the game. Usually, we prefer to make more of a...
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