With UEFA slapping CSKA Moscow with a stadium ban due to their fans' misbehaviour in a game against Viktoria Plzen last December, the Russian side have had to play their Champions League group stage game against Bayern Munich on Tuesday evening behind closed doors.
Despite the ban, a small gaggle of enterprising Bayern fans have made the 2,300-mile trip to Moscow after coming up with a novel way of circumventing the UEFA sanctions imposed on the fixture.
Having told German magazine 11 Freunde of their plan to do so, the 70 Bayern fans in question clubbed together and spent "a few thousand euros" hiring themselves an office in the high-rise tower next to CSKA's Arena Khimki stadium in order to watch their beloved side in action.
Baut mehr Hochhäuser neben Fußballstadien! Viele Grüße von nebenan ;) @Sky_Kai #CSKAFCB pic.twitter.com/9ijvZWdgzP
— Club Nr. 12 (@clubnr12) September 30, 2014
That's some impressive dedication to the cause, right there!
But wait, there's more!
Apparently the Russians, in an attempt at hospitality, have served the Bayern fans some fried Weißwurst -- all well and good, except that Weißwurst is supposed to be boiled!...
Die Russen hier oben im 18. Stock sind gastfreundlich und servieren uns gebratene (!) Weißwurst. Da haben sie wohl etwas falsch verstanden.
— Club Nr. 12 (@clubnr12) September 30, 2014