Ever been to a game abroad!?

[Storer68]

Yup loads

saw Cologne play Inter Milan in 1986/6 when Liam Brady was playing for Inter.

went to the World Cup in 1990 and saw about 20 games there including the Final, and england in the semi final in Turin.

went to the european Championships in 1988 and suffered england being rubbish (beaten by Ireland, Holland, and the Soviet Union,

seen games in Togo and the Ivory Coast, saw Sydney FC play New Zealand Knights in Sydney last year

 

[Mr Blobby]

This one is from Besiktas v FC Kosice in the UEFA cup

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Have you ever been to a game abroad and if so which ones!?

I'm doing a feature on my blog whereby people send in photos from their European Football Weekends. It would be good to have few Albion fans on there so if you've got any photos and you've got nothing better to do stick them on here or email them to me and I'll put them on the site.

You can see some of the ones I've been sent in here:

http://europeanfootballweekends.blogspot.com/2008/08/readers-photos.html

Yes, I went to a league game in Malawi one, Lilongwe against Blantyre, if I remember rightly. Great fun. Lost the pictures, sadly

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[7:18]

have seen Toronto FC play many times against Canadian and North American sides, also Koln beat Unterhaching 4-1 a few years ago, in a nicely renovated world cup stadium!

 

[The Mole]

Botofogo vs Sao Paolo at the Maracana - great atmosphere (at night) - not much of a match though

 

[Foolg]

Bologna v Fiorentina, Espanyol v Real Madrid, Nantes v PSG/Bordeaux/Caen, Croatia v Jamaica (98), 12 @ WC 2002, 3 @ Euro 2004, Ukraine v Tunisia WC 2006,

what was nantes like, keep thinking of going to see them as they have a half decent ground dont they, and we stay down there a lot aswell.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

saw us play in le havre in 2005

who didn't ,did you manage to get on the boat /club before the gas got fired off after the match

 

[Jamon Jamon]

Been to quite a few in Europe, but at Barca V Cadiz bumped into Postman John (Donavon? also follows Celtic) and his mate Paul (also long standin Albion regular)
small world eh?

 

[Billy Mays]

I haven't actually although should I ever consider it I understand that DJL writes a first class blog that could help a chap out with all the sorts of things a chap considering doing so would need to know.

This would be the same DJL who wrote the now defunct and sorely missed The Last Post. He is in short an absolutely corking chap.

 

[Half Man Half Biscuit]

Thanks for all replys chaps. You can see some of your good work here:

http://europeanfootballweekends.blogspot.com/2008/08/readers-photos.html

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Hey my pictures are there! Cheers mate!

Now very motivated to go and see a Turkish elague game asap

 

[Meade's Ball]

I saw Milan V Roma a few years ago. 1-1, i think it ended up. I was sat next to a 4ft 8 assassin in a pin-striped summery purple suit, his cohorts larger and silent in his company, his hair pasted stylishly, a cigarette permanently lit in it's unsplit copper holder. He was the sort who could disappear in a flash, in the time between two vigorous applauds; then reappear in your hotel room galavanting with your wife plain-facedly and paying for things with your chequebook after mirroring your signature with perfection and your accent when phoning for room service. Not a great game itself, but the crowd seemed interesting.

Also went to a game after a wedding in north-West spain. Celta Vigo won 2-0, and it was about £7 to get in. Bargain. As it was in August the majority of people were on holiday so the numbers were few and those who made it stood on their seats all topless and screaming, their bare shoulders tickled by their mullets.
Good day out.

 

[Storer68]

Yup loads

saw Cologne play Inter Milan in 1986/6 when Liam Brady was playing for Inter.

went to the World Cup in 1990 and saw about 20 games there including the Final, and england in the semi final in Turin.

went to the european Championships in 1988 and suffered england being rubbish (beaten by Ireland, Holland, and the Soviet Union,

seen games in Togo and the Ivory Coast, saw Sydney FC play New Zealand Knights in Sydney last year

just rememberd.

saw West germany play holland in at the San Siro when cowd control was the carabineri (police) sat on the terrces with loaded rifles - no flares went off that day!

 

[Man of Harveys]

I've seen my German team MSV Duisburg play three times now, once at the old stadium when we got dicked by Hannover in about -10c and twice at the new flash one. You get Koenig Pilsner served to you at your SEAT by a bird with a big vat of it on her back and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the pretzels and currywursts were fantastic.

After the last game I went to (a comprehensive victory) we headed into town and had a surprise round of celebratory beers bought for us completely out of the blue by the ever-excellent and aimiable Duisburg manager Rudi Bommer, who was having a quiet evening out with his missus slightly spoilt by my pisshead cousins and their demi-tramp mates cheering at him as they both walked in. I might well be wrong but it's hard to imagine a top notch Championship manager here doing the same thing, especially if you'd seen the state of these sots.

 

[Simster]

Switzerland v Tongo in WC 2006.