Already horrendous, before folk book!

Got to be a fan charter trip, even for the riches of Chelsea and Arsenal.

Leisure would have sorted a few Jumbos for us Clarets!

Would have liked to have tested him!

They could have watched Race Across the Wod and worked out a journey over there

less than 8000 match tickets to each club as well

bfccrazy wrote:They could have watched Race Across the Wod and worked out a journey over there

Or someone could have looked at a map first and realised that Azerbaijan is nowhere near being in Europe.

Doesn't look that bad pricewise if you're prepared to be a little circuitous. It's much more expensive than Europe to fly out there at any time. It'd be mad to just fly in and out for the match anyway - might as well make a holiday of it and take a few days either side.

Chester Perry wrote:less than 8000 match tickets to each club as well

Reckon that will be plenty. Even for such a big game the cost and hassle in getting to Baku will limit it to the diehards I think.

The BBC don't seem to have much of a grasp geopolitical reality.

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via beautiful Donetsk and Rostov-on-Don. And that's before Grozny, Makhachkala and the rest of tourist hotspots Chechnya and Dagestan.

Yer but would you have gone there if Burnley got to the final ?

I am hoping Ireland get them on the International games .

thatdberight wrote:The BBC don't seem to have much of a grasp geopolitical reality.

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via beautiful Donetsk and Rostov-on-Don. And that's before Grozny, Makhachkala and the rest of tourist hotspots Chechnya and Dagestan.

Can’t believe (well I can) that the beeb are daft enough to publish that picture. Some cockney will end up thinking that’s the best way to get there....

You can keep Azerbaijan, but life is too short not to visit Uzbekistan.

Train it! Adventure of a lifetime!

https://www.seat61.com/Caucasus.htm#Lon ... s_by_train

London to Tbilisi (Georgia) & onwards to Yerevan (Armenia) or Baku (Azerbaijan)...
Step 1, London to Istanbul: Travel from London to Istanbul by train, as shown on the London to Turkey page. The journey takes 3 nights and departures are daily.

Spend at least 1 night in Istanbul.

Step 2, Istanbul to Tbilisi (Georgia) by train and bus as shown in the section below. Journey 2 nights, 3 days to Batumi, 3 nights, 3 days to Tbilisi.

Step 3, Tbilisi to Yerevan (Armenia) by train as shown here or Tbilisi to Baku (Azerbaijan) by train as shown here. Journey 1 night.

Baku-Yerevan: There is no train service from Baku to Yerevan, but you can travel from Baku to Tbilisi and from Tbilisi to Yerevan.

Book a week, or two, in Turkey.
Fly Istanbul to Baku, return
Enjoy rest of your holiday in Turkey.

You can get to Baku for about £70 if you leave Thursday. Getting back I haven't looked at.

You can drive it in around 60 hours, if you don't stop or sleep.

FactualFrank wrote:You can drive it in around 60 hours, if you don't stop or sleep.

Do-able with a group of you although if you're at 60 hours, you might as well stop to sleep and make it 75.

£70 with a flight, a bus and a train leaving Thursday afternoon, arriving Saturday morning and with a day in an interesting city "at your leisure" on Friday. Not bad. If I had a match ticket.

FactualFrank wrote:You can drive it in around 60 hours, if you don't stop or sleep.

Hope I can charge up on the way!

ZizkovClaret wrote:Train it! Adventure of a lifetime!

https://www.seat61.com/Caucasus.htm#Lon ... s_by_train

London to Tbilisi (Georgia) & onwards to Yerevan (Armenia) or Baku (Azerbaijan)...
Step 1, London to Istanbul: Travel from London to Istanbul by train, as shown on the London to Turkey page. The journey takes 3 nights and departures are daily.

Spend at least 1 night in Istanbul.

Step 2, Istanbul to Tbilisi (Georgia) by train and bus as shown in the section below. Journey 2 nights, 3 days to Batumi, 3 nights, 3 days to Tbilisi.

Step 3, Tbilisi to Yerevan (Armenia) by train as shown here or Tbilisi to Baku (Azerbaijan) by train as shown here. Journey 1 night.

Baku-Yerevan: There is no train service from Baku to Yerevan, but you can travel from Baku to Tbilisi and from Tbilisi to Yerevan.

Not sure about that one travelling through Armenia as once you have a visa they may not allow into Azerbaijan .
I recall around 5 or 6 years ago when Ireland played there one lad had a page missing out of his passport and was sent back on the same flight we were all on it was said that he "may have been to Azerbaijan " and that was it with customs .

Tribesmen wrote:Not sure about that one travelling through Armenia as once you have a visa they may not allow into Azerbaijan .
I recall around 5 or 6 years ago when Ireland played there one lad had a page missing out of his passport and was sent back on the same flight we were all on it was said that he "may have been to Azerbaijan " and that was it with customs .

There's no problem unless you've been to Nagorno-Karabakh. Standard Armenian / Azerbaijani stamps and visas don't cause a problem. A missing page in your passport, if spotted, would cause you a problem in plenty of places.

You don't need a visa for Armenia in any case.

this is when the more optimistic of us Clarets make a killing by selling our flight tickets to the member of the Cock knee tribe

Just watch it on telly

claret wizard wrote:You can keep Azerbaijan, but life is too short not to visit Uzbekistan.

I took a picture of that one and sent it to my mates asking who fancied a week away

You’d think the clubs could get permission to put on large screen tellies at each club for something like this.

Bin Ont Turf wrote:Or someone could have looked at a map first and realised that Azerbaijan is nowhere near being in Europe.

Other than Azerbaijan being in Europe, you are absolutely spot on.

mikeS wrote:You’d think the clubs could get permission to put on large screen tellies at each club for something like this.

They are allowed and are exploring it. Liverpool is looking at something on the docks because they've got concerts in this summer.

From The Times, "Tottenham Hotspur are considering opening their new stadium for a screening of the Champions League final against Liverpool next month"

Not seen anything about Chelsea/Arsenal.

thatdberight wrote:They are allowed and are exploring it. Liverpool is looking at something on the docks because they've got concerts in this summer.

From The Times, "Tottenham Hotspur are considering opening their new stadium for a screening of the Champions League final against Liverpool next month"

Not seen anything about Chelsea/Arsenal.

Seeing as Spurs will have the facilities already in place for showing their Final, maybe they can open it up to Arsenal & Chelsea fans watching theirs there

wilks_bfc wrote:Seeing as Spurs will have the facilities already in place for showing their Final, maybe they can open it up to Arsenal & Chelsea fans watching theirs there

I'd love to see the state of their shiny new stadium the next morning...

TheFamilyCat wrote:Other than Azerbaijan being in Europe, you are absolutely spot on.

Nah