text: While most football fans face travel misery over Easter, Manchester City have laid on free coaches to take their supporters to London for Monday's Premier League clash with Crystal Palace. The reigning champions have shelled out for six coaches to transport around 3,000 people to Selhurst Park, notoriously one of the most difficult top flight grounds for Northern club fans to reach. The move was made after TV scheduling for the 8pm kick-off made it virtually impossible for supporters to return home by either train or plane on the same night. David Silva (right) celebrates scoring in City's 3-0 defeat of Crystal Palace earlier this season . Around 300 City fans have been afforded free travel on six coaches to take them to Selhurst Park . Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of football fans are facing a travel nightmare this weekend because of the Easter rail shut down. Despite more than 30 Premiership and Championship games scheduled for the long weekend, large parts of the rail network are set to be closed for repair works. More than half the games are set to be affected by delays and disruption, forcing fans onto the roads. Many grounds will not reach full capacity over Easter as rail closures disrupt travel plans . Labour has accused the Government of failing to learn from the Boxing Day chaos, when nearly a million football fans faced nightmare journeys to follow their team. Ministers were warned of the potential problems in advance Labour has claimed – but they failed to scrutinise the planned level of maintenance work. Every single major artery on Britain's railways was shut down. No trains ran between England and Scotland or Wales on the East Coast, West Coast or Great Western mainlines. The Midland, Cross Country and East Anglia were also shut.
target: Manchester City face Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Monday .
  Champions have put on free coaches to take fans to Selhurst Park .
  Rail closures over Easter will disrupt fans' travel plans across country .