Their stadiums may only be separated by an 12 kilometre hop across London, but Chelsea and Arsenal fans now face a long journey to the eastern edge of Europe for the Europa League final.
Will Chelsea and Arsenal fans be willing to travel almost 4000 kilometres to see their team potentially lift the Europa League trophy? Photo: AFP
Success for both sides ensured the Londoners will meet in an all-English final in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday, 29 May.
That means supporters will have to travel 3972 kilometres to watch the game in a city further east than Riyadh in Saudi Arabia or Baghdad in Iraq, and closer to Mumbai in India than it is to the English capital.
You might think modern transport would mean journeys would be straightforward.
You would be wrong.
There are currently no direct scheduled flights between London and Baku in the week of the final.
If you want to fly to the game on the day then a lengthy wait in somewhere like Istanbul or Kiev would be needed.
The quickest journey by air on the day of the final takes six hours 55 minutes, with the majority lasting more than 10 hours.
The only way to fly direct to Baku for the game would be to leave London on the Saturday beforehand and return a week later, three days after the trophy has been lifted.
That's an eight-day trip for 90 minutes of football - and for a game which kicks of at 11pm in Baku (12am NZT and 8pm BST), so will not finish until around 1am!
So what about the train?
It takes more than four days to travel from London to Baku on public transport, passing through seven countries.
The whole journey would likely include 11 changes and a two-day train journey from Kharkiv in Ukraine to Baku.
A drive from London to Baku takes 58 hours by car, passing through seven countries. Photo: Google Maps
Of course, you could drive, but that is hardly an enticing prospect.
The fastest route would take 58 hours and passes through England, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Azerbaijan.
When you take in the time needed to eat and sleep, it would probably be best to set off on the Saturday to make the Wednesday night kick-off.
For the victors, another game thousands of miles away against English opponents will only be a matter of months away - the Champions League winners will face the Europa League winners (either Arsenal or Chelsea) in the Uefa Super Cup in Istanbul, Turkey on Wednesday, 14 August.
But if you think those trips are remarkable for two teams from the same city, they are nothing compared to the 2018 Copa Libertadores final.
In December, the second leg of south America's showpiece event - originally due to be staged in Buenos Aires in Argentina - was moved almost 10,000 kilometres to Madrid after the Boca bus was attacked on its way to the stadium.
-BBC