Your guide to the football trip of a lifetime, on a budget

For the price of a Premier League ticket, or even a Republic of Ireland one, the football fan’s trip of a lifetime could be yours. That was the plan, at least, as three of us jetted off to Germany for a weekend of Bundesliga action (working title, läds on tour).

Images of Bayern fans protesting Arsenal’s £64 away tickets, or the chaos and carnival of 20,000 Cologne fans descending on the Emirates, were on our minds but did the Bundesliga’s promise of affordable tickets and a party atmosphere hold up?