If you could only visit one stadium........
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towser44 said:
It would have to be a big derby somewhere in Eastern Europe for me. Probably Red Star vs Partizan in Belgrade (if someone could guarantee my safety ha ha!)
Been to the Belgrade derby as a friend from Serbia I go Lazio with is a Crvena zvezda fan. Another one of our mates is Spartak Moscow. We haven't been to the Moscow derby yet. I'm a regular at Lazio so the Rome derby is a bit yawn yawn these days. Dinamo Bucuresti vs FCSB was lively a few years ago.
I was in Germany, visiting my elder son and his family some 7 or 8 years ago, maybe more, maybe less.
He married a German girl that he met while stationed in Bielefeld, NRW, in the army, and they have two sons.
I took the elder boy to watch Arminia Bielefeld play Kaiserslautern, much to his mother’s chagrin.
My son said, “Don’t let him wear a Bielefeld scarf dad, this game is worse than West Ham against Millwall, they are nutters.”
As expected, it was like the monkey house in a zoo, and I was understanding one word in one hundred.
Bielefeld won 2-0, so my grandson was well pleased, even more pleased when he heard over the P.A. system, that his brother’s team, F.C. Dortmund had lost at home.
When we got back, my daughter-in-law, who is fluent in English, said, “Was it okay Papa Frank?”
I said, “Yes, but I couldn’t understand what Wolfgang, (my grandson), was shouting, VERPISS DICH! and FICK DICH!”
My DIL put her hand to her mouth, wide eyed, and my son said quietly, “Dad, that’s Fu*k you, and Fu*k off.”
My grandson looked at me, shaking his head, saying, “Nein Opa”, (No Grandpa).
He’s 23 now, and in the German Diplomatic Service, in Berlin, so I hope that he’s better behaved.
He married a German girl that he met while stationed in Bielefeld, NRW, in the army, and they have two sons.
I took the elder boy to watch Arminia Bielefeld play Kaiserslautern, much to his mother’s chagrin.
My son said, “Don’t let him wear a Bielefeld scarf dad, this game is worse than West Ham against Millwall, they are nutters.”
As expected, it was like the monkey house in a zoo, and I was understanding one word in one hundred.
Bielefeld won 2-0, so my grandson was well pleased, even more pleased when he heard over the P.A. system, that his brother’s team, F.C. Dortmund had lost at home.
When we got back, my daughter-in-law, who is fluent in English, said, “Was it okay Papa Frank?”
I said, “Yes, but I couldn’t understand what Wolfgang, (my grandson), was shouting, VERPISS DICH! and FICK DICH!”
My DIL put her hand to her mouth, wide eyed, and my son said quietly, “Dad, that’s Fu*k you, and Fu*k off.”
My grandson looked at me, shaking his head, saying, “Nein Opa”, (No Grandpa).
He’s 23 now, and in the German Diplomatic Service, in Berlin, so I hope that he’s better behaved.
Francis85 said:
The old Arsenals stadium.
They are flats now.
More bad memories, Avenell Road, I went there in the late 70s, early 80s, with a Gooner that I worked with, we were both Black Cab drivers, I was West Ham through and through, and we were away to Arsenal.They are flats now.
We had a bet, whoever lost, bought dinner, they creamed us, 3 or 4 nil, maybe more, it’s still too painful, Cliff decided on a steak house in Holloway Road.
F/F to a couple of years back, same fixture at The Emirates, this time my younger son, another Gooner, and we have the same bet.
3-0 this time, and he has his wife and two kids in on the dinner, plus my wife, who’s only too keen, as a Millwall supporter, to see a Hammer suffer.
My sophisticated kid plumps for Almeida, the D & D place, now called Radici, and they tune me up to a whisker under £400!
Didn’t break my heart, he’s my youngest, if he’d said The Ritz, he could have had it.
towser44 said:
It would have to be a big derby somewhere in Eastern Europe for me. Probably Red Star vs Partizan in Belgrade (if someone could guarantee my safety ha ha!)
This, or maybe Dortmund v Schalke, or Galataseray v Fenebache.Worldwide, Boca v River and the Bombonera. I speak from recent personal experience.
towser44 said:
It would have to be a big derby somewhere in Eastern Europe for me. Probably Red Star vs Partizan in Belgrade (if someone could guarantee my safety ha ha!)
For the atmosphere, I would be exactly the same. Those games look something else...If it was just a stadium visit, it would be the Nou Camp for me.
AJB88 said:
towser44 said:
It would have to be a big derby somewhere in Eastern Europe for me. Probably Red Star vs Partizan in Belgrade (if someone could guarantee my safety ha ha!)
Been to the Belgrade derby as a friend from Serbia I go Lazio with is a Crvena zvezda fan. Another one of our mates is Spartak Moscow. We haven't been to the Moscow derby yet. I'm a regular at Lazio so the Rome derby is a bit yawn yawn these days. Dinamo Bucuresti vs FCSB was lively a few years ago.
Yours,
A Lokomotiv fan.
I've been to a Madrid derby, Real v Rayo Vallecano at the Bernard Bowl. There was only a tiny section, up in the Gods, allocated to Rayo fans, must have been about 200 of them. They are the only ones who made any kind of noise, despite losing 5-0. Didn't stop the whole match. Sometimes the "big" clubs are just full of tourists (like wot I was). I are now a massive Rayo fan and wish I'd been in their section.
Edited by ElectricSoup on Thursday 8th November 11:51
I’ve been to a lot of big games. Liverpool v Everton, Liverpool v United, Liverpool games all over Europe. Arsenal v Totteringham, Sunderland v Newcastle, Celtic v the now defunct Rangers, the Milan Derby back in the late 80s and a fair few more, but nothing will ever come close to the All Ireland semi final in 2005, Tyrone v Armagh in Croke Park and I support neither team. It was the most tense, charged atmosphere I have ever felt and there is no segregation at a GAA game. There was no hint of trouble but it was like nothing I had ever experienced at any venue and I had been to the Champions League final in Istanbul a few weeks beforehand.
Come to think of it Ireland v England in the six nations also in Croke Park was pretty special but for different reasons. The Irish rugby crowd aren’t known for their atmosphere and they don’t like crossing the Liffey to a proper stadium, but it was a very historic occasion and as a nation I’d like to think we all grew up a little that day.
Come to think of it Ireland v England in the six nations also in Croke Park was pretty special but for different reasons. The Irish rugby crowd aren’t known for their atmosphere and they don’t like crossing the Liffey to a proper stadium, but it was a very historic occasion and as a nation I’d like to think we all grew up a little that day.
I went to. J league match about 5 years ago between Yokohama Marinos and Urawa Reds at the 2002 World Cup final stadium in Yokohama.
The stadium was about 1/2 full but behind each goal were each set of ‘ultras’ who for 90 minutes gave it absolutely everything.
We sat along the side of the pitch drinking beer thinking how s
t the game was but how amazing the atmosphere was, like the best European matches for noise.
Funny old place Japan.
The stadium was about 1/2 full but behind each goal were each set of ‘ultras’ who for 90 minutes gave it absolutely everything.
We sat along the side of the pitch drinking beer thinking how s
t the game was but how amazing the atmosphere was, like the best European matches for noise.Funny old place Japan.
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