Anyone travelling to London early from Sheffield for this weekend's game against Crystal Palace may find themselves alongside some familiar faces.
This is because the Sheffield Wednesday players are taking matters in their own hands in a bid to avoid some of the travel problems they have experienced in previous games this season.
The Owls players had to endure a coach trip lasting over five hours on their recent league visit to Reading and a number of the tabloids have today reported that rather than having the possibility of this happening again the players have requested that they travel down to South London on the train rather than on a Friday evening coach.
Selhurst Park is a notoriously hard stadium to get to by road and the move could take hours off the time of the journey.
The club have stressed that they have allowed this at the request of the players-who will be contributing to their own fares, but this has been an optional decision on the part of the playing staff as adequate travel measures would have been provided by the club.
The news will no doubt concern Owls supporters who are well aware of the huge debts hanging over the club. The possibility of a potential takeover seems to have taken a turn for the worst this week with supporters group Wednesdayite withdrawing the offer of the sale of their shares to consortium front man Geoff Sheard. To add to this attendances at Hillsborough have dwindled significantly this season on the back of price rises and this appears to be another embarrassing episode, something you would expect of a small provincial lower league club perhaps but not one from a big city competing in the second tier of professional football in England.