Published: 12:20, 22 February 2026 | Updated: 12:21, 22 February 2026

One of the smallest clubs in the Premier League would appear to have one of the competition’s biggest carbon footprints. Back in August, Inside Sport revealed that Bournemouth bosses had seen fit to fly the 100 miles from the South Coast to London for their match at Tottenham Hotspur.

And the gas-guzzling Cherries were at it again last weekend, deciding to return to the capital by air on Friday for Saturday’s match at West Ham United in the shortest of hops that would have taken around 20 minutes.

With trains from Bournemouth to Waterloo taking less than two hours and a car journey from stadium to stadium coming in at two-and-a-half hours on a clear run, the move will again have raised eyebrows.

A reminder that this is a club which has its own seven-page sustainability policy, in which an entire section is dedicated to ‘Sustainable Transport’ where they pledge to ‘develop a domestic travel policy that reduces reliance on air travel, considering sustainability, performance, and logistics’.

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