The Good/mad/stupid/hilarious Days Gone By...

[MSingh]

Ok, no brownie points or Blue Peter Badges to be given out but let's hear some of your Stories no matter how obscene, that are worthy of a mention, some of the insane Mileage you've done, some of the Money that was wasted, the Jobs you've lost doing it, Women probably too ??

I'll start with some Mileage ones, Palermo from Thailand in the UEFA Cup a few Years back, 28 hours travelling door to door, WW3 ensued & we lost 3-0, 31 hours coming home & grand Sterling lighter n the pocket.

West Ham US/Canada Tour 2008, was well worth it though if not to just see a 24 stone lunatic out of Bethnal Green jump in a Fountain in a Club fully naked at the moment the MLS presented their Jewel in the Crown David Beckham who went on to say " there was never a doubt he wasn't West Ham "..

I'll use 3 x Blackburn Trips as my examples for domestic Games..

Blackburn Away when they were good, was only about 16 & had the Tickets but couldn't afford the Train so me & a Pal dodged Tiicket Inspectors at Euston, got to Watford Junction, changed Trains to head North & had to sit in a blocked Toilet full of sh*t for 2 hours whilst the Ticket Inspector banged on the Door finally getting to Blackburn after more dodging of Ticket Inspectors only to see that we were 2-0 already & for Shearer to get his Hat Trick at 15:24 just as we took our seat !!!!\

Blackburn Away with Arry in charge, Sunday afternoon, drove up, lost 7-1 with Road Works starting on the M6 whilst the Match was on meaning we got home 8 & a half hours later, no fun at all..

Blackburn Away, FA Cup Replay in the Mid 90's, Mate pulled out at last minute but i had a Ticket & a Coach Ticket so still went albeit on my own, ended up getting nicked for throwing a coin which i never did & kept overnight in Blackburn & getting booted out at 05:00 in the morning on one of the coldest February morning on record with not even enough $ in my pocket to buy a <deleted> Pie !!!

[whichschool]

I was offered a place in a minibus to Toulouse in 1998 for the WC, never had any idea where it was until after a 22 hour journey on a come down in a back breaking seat i finally arrived ..... thought <deleted> to sitting in it on the way back and managed to jump the train all the way from the South of France to Cherborg .. we were met in Paris by 1000s of old bill at 6am ... dont know what kind of thugs they think the English are but i never thought anyone was interested in a ruck after a long train journey at that time in the morning.

I went to about 40 away games by the age of 13, saw a promotion in 1984 but in that time never saw one away victory, stuck my finger in over 1500 scotch eggs at service stations in this time though

[mrbojangles]

Being a City fan, travelling abroad hasn't been something that I've had to do Singhy. I think even the city players only needed passports a couple of years ago

[imola]

took my two sons , both french and at the time 7 y and 5 ytoo watch a tourno in france , game was hibs v marsielle, told them both , you today will see the best football team in the world!!!! ie hibs , the oldest one tells me , in french, he loves zz, i tells him hibs turned him down, , try teling him , but georgie best played for us, yep , dad get fuc$$d, hibs , its not easy

[MSingh]

Come on Chaps, this thread could potentially give us a fair few giggles if we all muck in..

That's if of course most of you have been to Football Matches, which is dubious to say the least ...