Although Wolfsburg does technically have an airport (Braunschweig-Wolfsburg) this is really only in use for private flights.

This makes getting there a little trickier by plane but your best option is to fly in via Hannover. BMI plies the route from London Heathrow whilst Air Berlin links the city with London Stansted, and FlyBe offers Southampton to Hannover.

The transfer then isn't too bad. A train shuttles between the airport and Hannover Hauptbahnhof (main station) every half an hour, at six minutes and 36 minutes past,  and the 20 minute journey will set you back 2.70 euros.

From Hannover station you can catch an ICE which whisks you east to Wolfsburg in just 40 minutes.

Matchday station: The main station, complete with away fans outside.

If Hannover doesn't meet your needs Berlin is a little over an hour away by ICE in the opposite direction, although your journey from either Berlin Tegel or Schonfeld airports into the city do make for a long transfer.

Plan C could be Hamburg, the train journey with a stop at Hannover by ICE taking a little over two hours - although buying a ticket on the day can be expensive.

You can save a few quid by getting a cross country train which go via Gifhorn.

However, if you do got for that make sure you go through Gifhorn Stadt station to the one just called Gifhorn.

Unlike we did, and sussed all was not well just as the train doors shut. We then had to race a taxi across town from one to the other, and wait an hour for the next train. And Gifhorn station is truly in the middle of nowhere.

Heading to Wolfsburg from England by train is relatively straightforward, if quite long. Do the St Pancras to Brussels route, then take a train to Cologne and change there for the final three hour leg direct to Wolfsburg. Expect the journey to take you between ten and 11 hours. Check out the german train site Deutsch Bahn for details (there's an english version).