Many people pick up the Sunday papers, or turn over the TV channel to see football played abroad, and wonder what it is like to experience it first hand. This book does a good job of telling you how you can get those experiences, and for a lot less than you think. Many companies advertise European Football breaks, quoting prices up to £500 for a two night trip to see such games as the Milan derby. Through personal experience Stuart Fuller will show you how you can do the trip for less than half of that.

The book covers some of Europe’s most popular destinations such as Barcelona, Milan and Prague as well as some of the more unusual football cities including Valencia, Bilbao, Verona, Cagliari, St Etienne, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Reykjavik. The book takes you through a brief history of each club, an overview of the stadium, a guide on how to get to the stadium as well as information on the city in terms of where to stay and what else to see and do. Of course it also gives you some idea of which budget airline flies to the cities and how to use public transport to get to and from the airport.What makes these guides different is that the writer and researchers have actually been to the venues, the cities and the countries to watch the games, to stay in the hotels and to drink in the bars.

For tournaments such as World Cup’s and European Championships the researchers visit each place at least 3 times in the run up to the tournament, trying out different types of public transport as well as arriving and departing the city via different routes – all to give the reader a number of alternatives to allow Independent fans to make their own mind up, rather than relying on organised trips.

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