Where is the strangest place you've listened to a footie match?

[Hungry Joe.]

I missed the play off final due to being at a friends wedding in Belgium. We drove over 200 miles between Belgium and Dutch border towns without finding a single bar with Sky TV and ended up listening to the match on Radio 5 in a carpark outside Antwerp. I did manage to entertain the truckers with my celebrations of running and leaping around the car park in the pissing rain though.

Where was the strangest for you?

 

[pompeydel]

Middle of the arabian gulf on a ship......'91' play off final

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I listened to both Semi matches in the kitchen of a cottage in Southern Normandy. The signal was very weak, and the 1st leg wasd plagued by someone nearby using a strimmer (or rotary lawnmower) which just about drowned out the radio signal with a rapid 'thwucking' noise...

The 2nd leg I started listening to it in the garden (with the radio just outside the patio doors) but as it became clear (at the time) that we were going out I moved back in doors, where the rest of our holiday group were drinking and generally having a merry holiday time. I almost turned the radio off, resigned to the fact that we were out, only to burst out through the patio doors and run round the garden (in the dark) after Virgo's late late show.

I then proceeded to lie down on the grass in the corner of said garden, punching the air.

The penalties were listened to on a patio chair in the garden, with the doors closed... Once again celebrations were performed in total darkness (other than the light of a setting Venus) when we won.

Everyone else knew we'd won though, just from the whooping and hollering that came from the garden.

A truly surreal evening.

Papa

 

[Artois]

I listened to a match once.

I burnt my ear.

 

[pasty]

Also had to try and find out what was going on during a game at a wedding, but an horrific scenario for you.

29th March 1986.

Sisters wedding - okay so far

Wedding day coincided with Palace away - Bugger !

We lost 1-0 - Double bugger !!

SHE MARRIED A PALACE FAN - AAAAAAHHHHHH !!!!!

 

[Hungry Joe.]

Also had to try and find out what was going on during a game at a wedding, but an horrific scenario for you.

29th March 1986.

Sisters wedding - okay so far

Wedding day coincided with Palace away - Bugger !

We lost 1-0 - Double bugger !!

SHE MARRIED A PALACE FAN - AAAAAAHHHHHH !!!!!

The stuff of nightmares.

Good joke Artois

 

[poke]

probably on falmer bridge on valentines day

 

[Deleted User X18H]

In what was basically an igloo on West Blachington school field hove one saturday in Feb 1987

 

[Sea]

probably on falmer bridge on valentines day

that would have to be my weirdest place too, ah kate, the first time we met!

 

[Trigger]

HMP Lewes

 

[oapdodge]

Agreed on the bridge at Falmer.But a good afternoon.

 

[Bobby's Gull]

Tranmere v reading, if tranmere won or drew then we'd be promoted to the first a couple of seasons ago, in a field in the middle of Buxted, surrounded by horses going absolutle nuts as the result came through that we'd been promoted.

 

[Braders]

on a church toilet

(brighton vs orient(a) , 99-00 season)

while at work (asda carpark , hollingbury)
(brighton vs sheffield wednesday (h) season before this)
(brighton vs grimsby (a) season before this )
(brighton vs port vale (h) this season)

 

[Albion Edd]

On a school history trip in Belgium hearing on Five live that we had just lost 5-0 to Palace

 

[Strike]

At a Youth Cabinet residental in Pulborough, via mobile phone this year (Sheff Wed VS ALBION) even worse the owner of the lodge was a Wednesday fan. AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

 

[saltash seagull]

sat on the wall outside the goldstone for the mansfield boycott game in 96/97 until the gets opened and everyone charged and in and when denny mundee equalised at start of the 2nd half i was stood in the directors box! wired

 

[saltash seagull]

probably on falmer bridge on valentines day

was probably the best place to be not the best game iv ever seen

 

[PaoloRossiJohnson]

For me - Edgar Street...

I mean the actual street, not the ground -

what a weird experience that was, being so near yet so far...


At one point, one of their defenders hoofed the ball right up into the air, and as the commentator's saying, "Oooooo, that's cleared the stand", I look up and see the ball dropping towards me...

It bounces on the road and I catch it...

I'm about to walk off with my prized possession, but I look across the road, and see a policeman staring at me...

Aaah; afternoon officer...

I have no choice but to volley it over to him, and get back to listening to the game...!!!

 

[whitelion]

School prize-giving day at Hove County Grammar, now Blatchington Mill. We could hear the crowd (about 32k I think) Albion v Wolves in the League Cup in 1969.

There was mass-fidgetting going on during said-ceremony. At the end most of the lads charged across the playing-fields and spilled out into Neville Avenue where the crowd noise was pretty deafening. Managed to bunk into the North Stand as only 10mins remaining.

 

[SurreySeagulls]

I listened to the Brighton v Scunthorpe match at Pissfield on 26th September 1998 whilst travelling in a Rolls Royce after getting married. You should have seen the look on the drivers face when my new wife and asked for SCR to be put on