Sometimes you do what you have to do to follow your favorite soccer team. But the lengths that Burnley FC fan Jason Taylor will be going to to watch his team in action against northern rivals Blackburn next month.
The match is a local derby, but to avoid the kind of trouble that erupted at the Millwall/West Ham game in August the officials at Burnley aren’t taking any chances, and have laid down some very strict conditions for their fans who want to travel to watch the Clarets in action.
Fans will need to gather at their home Turf Moor stadium four hours before kickoff and travel the 13 miles to Blackburn via chartered coach.
The problem for Jason is that he lives just around the corner from Ewood Park, the home of the Blackburn Rovers. But, in order to attend the game, as a Burnley fan he will have to get in his car, drive to Burnley, park, and then get on the coach to go back to ground that is a minute’s walk from his front door. Then do the whole thing again after the final whistle blows.
When he spoke to the British newspaper The Sun about his long strange trip he wasn’t happy. "I'll be getting up at 7.30am for a game four minutes away. I'm very frustrated at these measures which are totally over the top.
"I'll spend the day in the car, the coach and on the motorway."he told them.
But, despite all that, like the true soccer fan he is, he’s going to take one for the team and grin and bear it.
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