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The football fans who travelled to the wrong countries for matches

A Welcome to Wales road sign
Welcome to Wales. Albeit the one not in Yorkshire. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

“Has there ever been a case of a team travelling to the wrong country by mistake, Slovenia instead of Slovakia for example?” tweets Stephen Dinsdale.

In 2019, the former snooker world champion Neil Robertson had to forfeit a game after driving to the wrong Barnsley. So far, we haven’t been able to find any football teams who have made a similar mistake, whether travelling domestically or internationally. Football fans, on the other hand, aren’t always known for their clear-headedness, and there are plenty of stories of away supporters who weren’t particularly satnav savvy.

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