Paris in the morning - "it'll be an experience!"
Bordeaux face Lyon tomorrow night at the Stade de France, Paris, in the final of the French League Cup. And I'm going!
I will be amongst the 23,000 Bordeaux fans making their way up to Paris, and will be in one of the 170 coaches that have been commissioned to transport some of the fans! There are even 6 additional trains making the trip to Paris (on top of the hourly TGV service). Despite not being a particular fan of coaches, I am rather happy to be making the trip by coach and not train because a) it was much more expensive and b) I don't really fancy being part of the thousands of fans trying to get from Montparnasse (in the south-west) to the Stade de France (in the north-east) on the Metro...!
Saying that, the coach trip is 9 hours each way, and I'll be spending it in the company of fellow Bordeaux fans and rather a lot of beer, oh my poor liver!
My seat in the ground is superb and thanks to the Stade de France's official site I can actually see the view I'll have from my seat (see above)! It should be a superb game, as Bordeaux are (I think) the only team to have defeated Lyon (who are the League's runaway leaders) in both fixtures already this season. Both teams were in this season's Champions League and both teams have no significant injury problems heading into tomorrow night's match.
I'm really looking forward to it, not so much the 6.30am start, but I think I summed it up well when I told Nico I was going: "it'll be an experience".
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