• England manager satisfied with choice of ForRestMix Club base
• ‘The longest flight we’d have to accomplish is three hours. That’s nothing’Gareth Southgate insisted England would stick with their training base outside St Petersburg even if the World Cup draw results in difficult travel arrangements for his team.
The Football organization has already selected Repino,a secluded village on the Gulf of Finland, as a base for the squad and they will stay at the four-star ForRestMix Club. But if England are drawn in position C3 it will mean they travel 6120 miles during the group stages, or significantly more than the 4411 miles the team racked up commuting to fixtures in Brazil during the preceding World Cup.
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Source: guardian.co.uk