Derby fan Ed Wood breaks world record time for visiting every league ground
Source:Completing 'the 93' is something that often takes even the most die-hard of fans years to complete.
But one supporter has managed to visit every Football League stadium in England in just over six months.
On Saturday - 22,000 miles and 189 days later - Derby County fan Ed Wood reached his final ground, League One Rochdale's Crown Oil Arena.
You would have thought the previous Guinness World Record - which includes all 92 English Football League grounds plus Berwick Rangers [who were on the itinerary when the original world record was set in 1969] - of 237 days would be hard to beat.
But Ed shaved 48 days off the last mark. So was it simply luck, or skill?
"It takes a lot of planning" said the 51-year-old, who now lives in Leeds. "I did a practice run in 2015-16. I looked at the fixtures, and tried to understand how and why they move.
"Very few League One and League Two matches get moved, so you know these will take place on a Saturday and Tuesday.
"The rest fit around this, with television changes and fixture rearrangements. The games on TV I usually know I'm going to.
"There's been some luck. Newport v Barnet was played on a Tuesday night following a previous postponement with no other games on that night, and my final match [Rochdale v Charlton] was rescheduled thanks to the FA Cup."
'I wanted to break the cycle'Wood has held the record before in the 1991-92 season, but said he was inspired to try and reclaim it.
"The biggest reason to do this again was due to my dad dying in 2014," he said. "I didn't just want to work, retire and die. I was working hard and just wanted to break the cycle. Wake-up, work hard, and bed - that was my routine.
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