Away Toon Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 First game Huddersfield against Birmingham maybe in 1966 as we lived there at the time. Lots of A.S.Cannes games, saw both Viera and Zidane when they were really young. Used to go and watch Marseilles play at Monaco just to watch the annual invasion of the principality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Away Toon Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Saw a very dull Mallorca against Real Madrid with Ronaldo playing. My Spanish is not great, Catalan even less and Mallorquin inexistent but apparently they were singing some very rude songs about Mourinho who was manager at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Loads of Coventry games back in the day, including their most famous ever, the 87 Cup Final. Once went to Old Trafford with a mate to watch Man U play West Ham in the late 80's. My mate's lad was on the books at Villa as a youth so we had free tickets to see them occasionally , once sat directly behind the Arsenal bench with Dennis Bergkamp directly in fron of me , during Rioch's reign. Nuneaton vs Smoggies in the Cup, good day out was that. Love a day in Nuneaton, it's like going back to the 70's Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Parka Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Barnsley Vs Bradford city the game they got promoted. Class pitch invasion. Various non league clubs including: Grantham, Stamford, Worksop, Retford, Gainsborough, Harrogate Railway, Harrogate Town, York, Bradford PA, Eastwood, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Charlton Athletic vs Norwich City, Boxing Day 1997 Durham City vs Bedlington Terriers sometime in the early 2000s Chester-le-Street vs someone or other around the same time New York Red Bulls vs Real Salt Lake in 2008 Various Burton Albion games when I lived and worked there in 2014 Gateshead vs Cambridge United (playoff final) in 2014 Napoli vs Roma in 2016 Hertha Berlin vs Eintracht Frankfurt in 2017 Various Carlisle United games when I lived and worked there 2015-17 Done England senior and u21 games when they've been in the NE (Albania and Ukraine at SJP/u21s vs Turkey at the stadium of shite) then England vs Slovakia and Sweden vs Belgium at Euro 2016 too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Some Photo's from Porto game on Saturday. https://photos.app.goo.gl/daA47Lc4d89j78io8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Been to 5 or 6 Hertha BSC games including one away at Hamburg. NY Red Bulls v someone in 2015 Loads of Northern League, mainly West Allotment Celtic, Heaton Stannington, North Shields and Whitley Bay. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morla84 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Sydney FC v Newcastle Jets in 2012 Sat in the away end when backpacking in oz, I was gutted to be missing the one decent season we've had in years back home. Jets were wearing black and white stripes and won 5-2. I was pretending to myself it was the oz version of the wearside derby, with Sydney and Newcastle being near each other Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 A couple of Montreal Impact games in 2012-13. Got to see Nesta play in his twilight years. Chile v. Panama in the 2016 Copa America. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astroblack Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Thought I’d add a little with each game. Tottenham vs Sporting Lisbon - 2010 - This game was a pre season friendly double header with Man City - NY Redbulls playing after. Gareth Bale was the standout player. He didn’t do much but he beat a man with a piece of skill and it was like ‘oh yeah, he is supposed to be good’. This was right before he stepped his levels up. NY Redbulls vs Man City - 2010 - Think the standout players during this game were Emmanuel Adebayor and Adam Johnson. My brother stupidly screamed ‘John Terry’ when Wayne Bridge walked by. He was under the impression you could just say anything at football games. Luckily he didn’t hear him. Tbf he felt bad about it right after. Argentina vs United States - 2011 - Messi was the standout player for sure. Everything he did was just so quick. Players would get the ball off him for a millisecond but messi would get it straight back off of them. Mascherano was also exceptional. He was pinging diagonals left and right. Pinpoint accuracy. Every pass went straight to a man. Ran the show. Tottenham vs Swansea - 2013 - My first Premier League game. I was so excited. It was absolute shite. Game finished 1-0. Soldado pen. Andros Townsend was probably the most effective player on the pitch. I remember Danny Rose having a really poor attitude. He’s expend unnecessary energy getting upset and moaning about. NYC FC vs Orlando City FC - 2017 - Really poor game. It was weird because NYC were the home team but were wearing their away kit which is grey and Orlando were wearing white instead of their usual purple so it was really hard to tell what was going on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybe_next_year Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Roma v AC Milan. Stadium was half empty and isn’t great, this was just after a couple of English fans had been stabbed in Italy too, so felt a bit dodgy. Saw Red Star Belgrade win the league title at home. Fans were crazy, setting off flares and fireworks throughout the game. Although they spent more time protesting against Kosovo than celebrating winning the league. Saw Albania v Lichtenstein in Elbasan, which is an absolute hole (although it claims to be twinned with Newcastle), missing the last bus back and somehow got invited to a wedding that evening. One of the ultra groups, instead of watching from the stadium, were all on a couple of balconies in an apartment block overlooking the ground and were setting off fireworks and flares from there. Saw a couple of Albanian teams too, saw KF Tirana play Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League, was probably more police there than fans, but the posh seats were only €10 so couldn’t complain. . Went to see an Albanian third division match, which was shockingly bad quality, but a good laugh, at one point a fan went and tripped over the away team’s winger, to which the reply was a slap from the police and sent back to his ‘seat’. Also saw Sheffield Wednesday getting promoted to the championship against Wycombe (I think) making me one of the few Geordies to ever see Nile Ranger score Saw the England games at SJP, can remember Robbie Fowler scoring (a header I think?). Went to nearly all the Olympic Games at SJP as well, was great to see the stadium without any Sports Direct signs, was slightly ruined when Brazil played there the annoying mackem child behind me constantly shouting ‘Neymar’. Also saw one of the Olympic semi-finals at Wembley , saw part of the triathlon earlier in the day too, which was probably better than the football to be honest. Given the money I’m saving this year by not having a season ticket/travelling up to Newcastle for the home games/ the expense of the away games in London. I’m hoping to add a lot more this year. So I’ll be very much using this thread for ideas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BergenMagpie Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Atletico Madrid 2 -1 Malaga (2003). Was a Real Madrid fanboy at the time and was gutted they didnt have a home game that weekend. Roma 1 - 7 Bayern Munch (2014). Hoped for a nailbiting classic where Totti would score the winner in overtime, but instead it was 5-0 to Bayern after 36 mins. AC Milan 1 - 0 Juventus (2016). Not the most exciting game, but a great goal from Locatelli. Was also fun to see Donnarumma and Buffon in opposite goals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoForJoy Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Just remembered another couple. Argentina vs Germany - World Cup Quarter Final in Cape Town. Maradona's inadequacies as a manager shown to the world as the were whopped 4-0. Jonas was on the bench. A few days later Holland vs Uruguay - World Cup Semi Final in Cape Town. Had good seats for this and saw up close how dirty Holland were. They outmuscled Uruguay. Final score 2-3. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Vélodrome for OM - ASSE tonight. Awful game, brilliant spectacle. Cracking atmosphere even though it was only 2/3rds full. Mackem Khazri getting all sorts of stick too. Magnifique. Fully recommended, any amounts of hashish doing the rounds n all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Going to Leverkusen-Monchengladbach in November Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Off to Atletico vs Bayer Leverkusen CL game later this month and then off to Spain vs Romania next month both at the Wanda. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Alka-Seltzer ultras. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Alka-Seltzer ultras. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raconteur Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Just back from my first Western United match - a new club in the Australian A-League. All Western Utd’s “good” players are in their mid-late 30s - Alessandro Diamanti is club captain, while Scott MacDonald has someone pushing his wheelchair around. (I say that the day he scored what will probably be the only he gets in our colours). Utterly shit match, quality was dire. My daughter started asking before half time if we could go - but she was playing in the half-time “entertainment” - a scratch match of melee-ball. All in all - Western United: 2/7 would not bang Another boring detail - Wanderers fielded Alexander Meier (my daughter was his mascot) and while Wikipedia lists him as 84kg, the WSW website has him at 96kg (over 15st) and even that's generous. He had the biggest arse I've seen in a professional football field. And at 1.96cm (6' 7") that makes him a huge human being. Shame, I remember him being decent on CM/FM decades ago. PS I shelled out A$120 for the WUFC kit - on current exchange that’s GB£65.88. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Loads of League of Ireland and Ireland games. Going to Everton-Norwich in a few months as well. Hopefully get to a Barca game before the end of the season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Barcelona 3-2 Sevilla - 2013 Class game, Messi did nowt except score 2 goals. Rakitic was the best player on the pitch and he was at Sevilla. Hated the atmosphere at the Camp Nou though PSG 0-1 Lorient - 2011 Their first home league game after the Qatari takeover and they paraded Pastore before it. Loads of flags and atmosphere was one of excitement. Ended up losing and the anticlimatic feel in the stadium felt very Newcastle-esque Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Pictures from Atletico vs Bayer Leverkusen. 1st half was poor, 2nd half was Ok. Atmosphere by Atletico Ultras was good though. Finished 1-0 Atletico. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Leeds v QPR in corporate tomorrow. Looking forward to it, QPR can’t defend and score loads Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Leeds v QPR in corporate tomorrow. Looking forward to it, QPR can’t defend and score loads Always a Leeds wanker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Spot which one is me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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