Oxford United duo Luke Foster and Matt Day had to endure a nightmare journey from London for England C's friendly game with Bosnia & Herzegovina on Tuesday.

The England party finally arrived in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo 24 hours late.

The problems began on Sunday evening when the party arrived in Vienna to find that their connecting flight to Sarajevo had been cancelled due to bad wea- ther.

After a night in an airport hotel and a 5am wake-up call, the group took to the air, but after two aborted landings they found themselves back in Vienna.

There then followed some frantic negotiations by Leagues Manager Mike Appleby to find an alternate route as the airport in Sarajevo closed for the day.

Fortunately, he managed to find seats on a flight to Split in Croatia and upon arrival there followed a six-hour coach trip to Sarajevo.

The group finally arrived at their hotel base at 9.15pm, some 16 hours after their wake-up call – hardly ideal preparation for the match.

Both Foster and Day played the whole 90 minutes, with Day, who switched from right back to left back, scoring one of the England goals – though they were already 4-0 down at the time.

Luke Moore scored again for England C, but Bosnia struck twice more to end up 6-2 winners.

Day said the journey there had been pretty awful.

"It was terrible really, though nothing anybody could do about it, it was because of the weather," he added.