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PAUL WATSON EXPLORES SOME OF THE MORE INHOSPITABLE AND UNUSUAL PLACES WHERE MATCHES TAKE PLACE…

Thanks for coming! Baltika Kaliningrad players applaud their fans after their match at Zenit Saint Petersburg in February

WE ARE often told that a Premier League ground is ‘a tough place to go’, meaning that there’s a heated atmosphere in the stands or that the hosts rarely lose on home soil. But there are some cases where the term might be used more literally. Sometimes football’s geographical and political quirks can leave teams with fixtures where th...

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