Bournemouth took the extraordinary, fuel guzzling resolution to FLY to London for his or her Premier League match at Tottenham Hotspur, Each day Mail Sport understands.
The Cherries took to the skies for a 20-minute short-hop to Metropolis Airport, somewhat than choosing a extra eco-friendly practice or bus journey in a carbon heavy transfer which can effectively elevate eyebrows amongst campaigners, different golf equipment and the league itself.
Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium is a mere 113 miles from Spurs’s Tottenham Stadium and might be reached with out site visitors in round two-and-a-half-hours by street. Trains from Bournemouth to Waterloo take round one hour and 59 minutes.
Nevertheless, the Cherries as a substitute determined to fly to London, forward of Saturday’s 1-0 victory which left them with two wins from their opening three video games.
It now stays to be seen if they are going to repeat the trick for the six different top-flight matches they should play within the capital.
The choice would seem like at odds with the Bournemouth’s personal, seven-page sustainability coverage, wherein a complete part is devoted to ‘Sustainable Transport’.
Bournemouth took the resolution to fly to London for his or her Premier League match at Tottenham
The Cherries opted in opposition to for a extra eco-friendly practice or bus journey to the capital
Throughout the part, the membership pledge to ‘develop a home journey coverage that reduces reliance on air journey, contemplating sustainability, efficiency, and logistics’.
It provides that it’ll ‘broaden low-carbon journey choices for followers (e.g. coach journey, public transport information)’ and look to introduce a Cycle to Work and Automobile Share scheme for workers. It might seem that there’s a completely different stance in direction of supervisor Andoni Iraola and his gamers.
Bournemouth have been contacted for remark.
In March of this yr, the Premier League launched an Environmental Sustainability Technique, which it stated ‘reaffirmed its dedication to addressing environmental points and constructing on current work to assist long-term change’.
The technique has three precedence areas together with ‘future-proofing the sport by supporting decarbonisation throughout the Premier League’.
Bournemouth declined to remark. It’s thought the membership have been eager to maximise the time the supervisor had out there to work with gamers between matches. That they had performed at residence to Brentford within the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night time.
