No disagreement re: the Pidge situation but, after you've done it the hundreds and hundreds of times I have, you probably have become so immune that you wouldn't describe the journey from Manchester as terrible. I'm based 7 miles north of the city centre towards Bolton, and my Saturday morning journey for home matches has become so routine these last 37 years that I know exactly where I need to be at various check points along the way in order to make it within the reasonably leisurely time of 2 hrs 25 mins to my relatives' place in Boston. Ironically, its the better weather conditions of early and late season, that can lead to that time stretching a few minutes with the extra traffic on the 30 odd miles from leaving the A1 at Newark.
On the other hand making journeys in and around Manchester is REALLY terrible. I work in the city centre and my journey to and from work takes just as long as it does to drive the first 55 miles of the my Saturday morning jaunts to Boston.
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Respect there my man👍