Why the fuck is the Kessler Froch fight in Herning?

[skel1983]

Are these promoters/organisers for real?

I was seriously thinking about going to this just after my brithday and me my old man and his mate were planning on going, but that has been fucked right up by the joke of a venue.

Did a bit of research today when it was confirmed in Herning, there are flights to the nearest airport Billund which are very rare, now once you get to Billund it is around 70km to Herning from the airport, there are only two buses a day that go to Herning yes thats rite fucking two!!! Now if your lucky enough for your flight to coincide with the bus timetable it will then take you over 2 hours to get there, there is no rail link to this place but they decide to have this fight in this obscure place in Denmark why I havent got a fucking clue.


Why not Copenhagen? What a ball ache really fancied this. Wonder how many fans will fuck this off now? Just think if you were to get the bus how the fuck would you get on it?? Just imagine say 5 thousand fans go over even two thousand now there is about 2 flights a day going to Billund so this bus that runs twice which what will hold 100 people tops would you say? How the hell are these fans getting to the venue, the bus will be full to the rafters? I heard a taxi would cost you in excess of 300 quid FUCK THAT!!!

[eagle]

Does seem strange to have it in such a remote place! Would a toen that difficult to get to have a decent stadium?

[skel1983]

Does seem strange to have it in such a remote place! Would a toen that difficult to get to have a decent stadium?

Bizzare mate, I know Froch aint happy and he is protesting it, I think this will effect the fans going over bigtime, Denmark is one of the most expensive countries in the world, cant see fans forking out for taxi's or renting cars aswell as the cost of hotels flights and general spending money.


Maybe it's a ploy from Kesslers people to minimise as many Brits as possible going? or maybe i'm being a bit harsh. But very strange indeed.

[eagle]

HAHA Billund is known for being the home of LEGO. Its population is only 6033, but apparently the airpot i the second busiest in Denmark. It all seems strange.

[zbolt]

its strange to have it in remote place

[ono]

HAHA Billund is known for being the home of LEGO. Its population is only 6033, but apparently the airpot i the second busiest in Denmark. It all seems strange.

It's true. The stadium is actually made out of lego. It's all very strange.

[Fenster]

You meant 500 or 200 Froch fans right Skel?

[Mikkel_K]

I'm late to the party on this one, but it seems to go ahead in Herning, so I might as well chip in still.

I don't really get why they put it there either, and no, Herning is not a particularly interesting city to visit (to put it mildly). To be honest, I've used pretty much the same condescending language to describe the place on a number of occasions (often related to their football team which I really don't like).

Still, for a Dane it does seem a bit strange to read all the stuff about Herning being such a remote place that is almost impossible to reach for Brits. That is simply not true - or at least it is not more remote in the sense of difficult to reach than Cardiff or indeed Nottingham would be for Danes. In both of those instances I (to use myself as an example) would have to shell out for public transportation after landing in a British airport, and if I were to lower the budget for the flights, I'd probably be landing in airports 70km or more away from those places too.

Anyway, there is fours airports in Jutland that flies to England. All of these are within 100km of Herning, and all of them have bus- or train connections to there. I have no clue whether it is correct that there are only two straight buses from Billund to Herning every day (I assume so, as this is what is reported), but a quick look-up in 'Travel Planner' suggest that more options are available.

Anyway, I would be glad to help if anyone has questions about how to get to Herning easy and cheap. Just let me know, and I will try to look up options (I am not known in the area, so pubs, hotels etc - I have no clue there. I do know my way around Copenhagen and Århus though, and those places are well worth visits too).