Away fans are PROPER fans.
It's all well and good cheering on your side at a home game - but it takes a special kind of supporter to make the trip to certain away games.
We're not talking about a match that's just up the road. We're talking about those trips which require a serious level of commitment to your club. Journeys like the 800-mile round trip Carlisle fans faced when they travelled to Plymouth last season.
However, if the Carlisle supporters who made that journey deserve some credit, spare a thought for the Spartak Moscow fans who attended their team's Russian Cup tie against SKA-Khabarovsk.
The match - in a domestic competition, don't forget - was played on Wednesday night. And incredibly, it saw Spartak fans having to travel 5,000 miles to get to the game.
FIVE THOUSAND MILES!
The reason is pretty basic. Moscow is in the west of Russia, Khabarovsvk is in the east… and Russia is absolutely massive.
All of which left any Spartak fan wanting to see the game in a bit of a pickle. The drive is just over 100 hours - so, realistically, it would probably take an average fan a little more than a week to make the journey by car.
Not that the journey would have been worth it.
Spartak lost the match 1-0.
Imagine going all that way to see your team lose…
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