Leicester City supporters have always travelled well.
Wherever I have gone to cover a City game there has always been a large number of City fans who have made the trip too, making their presence known within the away end of whatever ground.
For me one of the best things about being in the Premier League are the away days and it looks as though the Blue Army are determined to enjoy their trips around the country, visiting grounds they haven't been to for a decade and in the case of the Emirates, a ground they will never have been to before.
It appears the distance doesn't make much of a difference. If anything it makes it more of an adventure.
City have already had two trips to London and after last week's 380 mile round trip to Newcastle they face another long day as they head to Swansea City on Saturday. Just over the horizon there is another trek down to the south coast to face Southampton.
City fans will be clocking up the miles but it doesn't seem to dampen their enthusiasm.
Even standing around, locked outside St James' Park didn't diminish their support.
On arriving at St James' Park it became clear quite quickly there was an issue. It was around 1pm that we stepped out onto the concourse and to the press bench inside an empty stadium, to be greeted by the echoing clanging of the large LED screen situated high up in the stand.
It appeared that part of the outside of the screen had come loose and it was swaying alarmingly back and forth.
Referee Martin Atkinson, who had officiated the Serbia versus Albania game which had to be abandoned during the week because of violence, may had hoped for a quiet afternoon but had a situation to deal with and wouldn't let the gates be open for supporters to enter until the issue had been fixed.
There may not have been a real threat of the whole screen coming down, but even if a small part of the screen had become dislodged and fallen into the crowd it would have done some damage.
The first thing that popped into my head on hearing this was 'why haven't Newcastle noticed the problem before? Why did they need the referee to spot the issue?'
On match days at every ground in the country there are people inside the stadium from very early in the day. Surely someone would have heard the loud banging from the screen and called an engineer to fix it a lot earlier to avoid the need for a delay.
Alas, no.
There have been some strange experiences on the road following City in recent years, from the farce of the blizzard at Ipswich to the delay at QPR last season because of a squirrel pitch invasion.
City fans just have to chalk this one up as another away day they will remember for a long time.
