The Euro 2020 host venue options
Yeah, but I didn't travel between venues, I only went to one match in Poznan. There were direct flights to Poznan, but couldn't afford a flight to Poznan. I had to get up at half past death to catch the first flight to Berlin. I slept on the grass next to the parking lot at Berlin airport for a while and then I was picked up by a Dutch car and we drove to Poznan. Watched the match. Couldn't stay in Poznan because we couldn't book a place to stay in Poznan. So we drove back to Germany and stayed there.
These are the lengths I had to go to in order to avoid Polish price gouging. The alternative was staying in a tent in the rain in Poznan with a few thousand drunk 21 year olds. It's great for them, they can take weeks off work and think it's brilliant to spend a couple of weeks in a field.
But what about families or older people who want to take in a football match? You can expect them to be sleeping on the grass at Berlin airport.
Don't tell me that Copenhagen or Stockholm wouldn't be better able to cope. They have much more accommodation and much larger airports with more available flights. Sure, the direct flights might sell out, but there are other indirect routes to those airports. Poznan airport is fucking tiny. Bigger cities with better accommodation and transport links would make the match attractive for a much wider audience, and we might not have to suffer Ireland being sung off the pitch after being humiliated.
but spreading a tournament over eight venues in an area as big as France and Germany put together is a stupid way to run a tournament. Poland and Ukraine couldn't afford to host this tournament properly, and the Ukraine end was held together with twine and massive bribes. For Irish fans, travelling to paris, staying for a couple of days, and then moving on to another european city in another european country is fucking insane, and brings all of the shit aspects of hosting a tournament in a couple of huge countries, with none of the benefits of a traditional tournament.
These are the lengths I had to go to in order to avoid Polish price gouging. The alternative was staying in a tent in the rain in Poznan with a few thousand drunk 21 year olds. It's great for them, they can take weeks off work and think it's brilliant to spend a couple of weeks in a field.
But what about families or older people who want to take in a football match? You can expect them to be sleeping on the grass at Berlin airport.
Don't tell me that Copenhagen or Stockholm wouldn't be better able to cope. They have much more accommodation and much larger airports with more available flights. Sure, the direct flights might sell out, but there are other indirect routes to those airports. Poznan airport is fucking tiny. Bigger cities with better accommodation and transport links would make the match attractive for a much wider audience, and we might not have to suffer Ireland being sung off the pitch after being humiliated.
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