The team flew from Birmingham to Madrid after undergoing training for four days at their training grounds at Wilford. Twain was very familiar with Spain's capital. He had been in Madrid numerous times before.
The moment the team stepped out of the airport, they could tell that the city was gearing up for the Champions League Final. Promotional banners and posters were hung everywhere, on the walls, by the sides of the roads, all the way to the hotel that they were staying in. The team might not have set foot in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium yet, but they could already envision the sort of scenes that they would see there.
