From Berlin to Bishop Auckland. The historic Olympiastadion to the Vest Construction Stadium. EURO2024 final to pre-season friendly.
Euro 2024 final day began with a hearty ‘build your own butties’ continental breakfast at the Loginn hotel near Berlin airport, over which we planned our day ahead.
For the fourth time in 24 days, we boarded our Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt, accepted our free bottle of water and piece of chocolate and headed for the semi-finals of Euro 2024.
The time of 3am Saturday found us dodging late-night revellers in Bolton on our way to Manchester Airport for another flight to Frankfurt for the Euro 2024 quarter-final in Dusseldorf.
Round of 16 day began with continental breakfast in the Intercity Hotel in Essen and excitement was in the air as England fans and other nationals packed the breakfast room - all discussing England’s chances of getting to the quarter-final on Saturday against Switzerland, in Dusseldorf.
In dire need of some football therapy after the traumatic events of a fortnight ago, and in the spirit of when you fall off your bike, the best thing is to get straight back on it, I made my way to Wembley to watch another team in yellow take on another team in white for the 2024 Champions League Trophy - Borussia Dortmund facing Real Madrid.
The fan verdict after a disastrous afternoon against Oxford in the play-off final
Wanderers fan Alan Houghton gives his view on the play-off semi-final second leg
Wanderers fan Alan Houghton has his say on the 3-3 draw at Peterborough on Saturday
There was a bit of a surreal atmosphere as we gathered for what was the last scheduled home league match of the season. After Tuesday night's disappointing draw against Shrewsbury Town, the Doombar deliberations were split between hoping former favourite Elias Kachunga, along with his Cambridge United teammates, could do us a favour and take points off Derby County, and the realisation that we are in the play-offs again.
