Hello, everybody and welcome to soccer 101.

This week, inspired by Bortemus Herculane trip to Newcastle all the way from, I believe it was New England to Atlantic City equivalent, the longest away day in the Premier League.

We wanted to spend some time discussing everyone's favorite topic, travel.

Yes, one of the seven things you are not supposed to mention at a dinner party is now the topic of a 101 episode.

How do clubs in the Premier League travel to away matches? How different is it from other leagues around the world? And what levels of comfort are we talking about with me to talk it all out as a man who only travels in his own gilded coach? It's Graham Ruffin. Hello, Graham. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. Yes, it's one of those old schoolschool limousines with the champagne flutes, and there's

something that flips over. I'm not entirely sure what's on the other side. I've never pressed the button. But there's a button and something flips over inside my gilded coach, was it? Or carriage? I can't quite remember. So that's when you're traveling by road. When you're traveling by rail, you have your own car, right? That just gets attached at the back? Or do you go in the front, are you not riding in the back

with all the poppers? No, it's

it's roller coaster rules, right? You know how roller coasters are faster at the back? So my carriage is at the back. Yeah, I want to get there quicker. The logic there just completely checks out. Very sound, very sound. But yeah, Graham, we're going to talk about it because I think it's a thing that we just don't really, we only talk about travel when a team is late or maybe when the team bus is attacked or when a manager is sacked just before getting on the team bus, as was the case with I believe Stephen Gerard and maybe Frank Lempart.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So let's talk it out a little bit.

Generally speaking in the Premier League, how are teams getting to their away days?

Yeah, so there are a number of different options that are available to Premier League teams.

So the first thing to mention here, and it's already been referenced in your lead-in is the UK or England, obviously, in relation to the Premier League, is a small country.

So particularly in relation to the US, so is a small country. So particularly in relation to the US.

So they're not travelling in the grand scheme of things great distances,

and that may be influencing some of the choices that they're making.

But teams will still often use chartered flights.

I'll start with that.

Chartered flights to get to matches.

So there was a BBC study.

They faced quite a bit of criticism for this, actually, in recent times.

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