Why Do People Travel With No Ticket?

[OoOGazOoO]

2 hours ago, SteV said:

Why do people go to the pub to watch a match on the TV when they can do that at home?

 

Why do people watch the match at home when they can just sit on NO with very frequent updates?

[SteV]

5 minutes ago, OoOGazOoO said:

 

Why do people watch the match at home when they can just sit on NO with very frequent updates?

They’d rather not end up on suicide watch?

[Holloway]

If you're having to ask that question it sounds like you haven't a scooby what away trips are like

[Jonas]

To be there in case it happens for me. To maybe justify it all.

Was fully prepared to go to Gothenburg for the UEFA Cup final when we lost to Marseilles in the semi, knowing with its small capacity there was a good chance of not getting a ticket and the 98 FA Cup final if it went to a replay.

[craigmadge]

why go on holiday when you could just browse TUI's website with a heater on your face? 

[Earp]

1 minute ago, Jonas said:

To be there in case it happens for me. To maybe justify it all.

Was fully prepared to go to Gothenburg for the UEFA Cup final when we lost to Marseilles in the semi, knowing with its small capacity there was a good chance of not getting a ticket and the 98 FA Cup final if it went to a replay.

Likewise. Went to the semi in Marseilles - absolutely gutted.

 

Flew from Coventry Airport - the terminal was a prefab. £20 return each all in. I was expecting a flying hat and goggles.

[Wallsendmag]

The last one we went to in 2023 out of the 4 of us who went 2 had tickets and 2 didn't. The 2 who didn't have tickets ended up having a better time than the 2 of us who went to the match.

[Matt]

2 hours ago, NUFC91 said:

 

Out trip to Brugge  was class, seen villas fan's there and looked proper tame in comparison, remember that square people hoying footballs out their bedroom windows to our fans below.

 

Remember being in a nightclub walking down stairs and my mate behind me slipped and took me and numerous fans with him to the bottom of the stairs, the bar staff give us all refills and some freebies too, still think that trip topped the champions league ones of late. 

 

Met up with mates from all over in Bruges- trains, planes and north sea ferries. Absolutely class few days.

[Groundhog63]

46 minutes ago, OoOGazOoO said:

 

Why do people watch the match at home when they can just sit on NO with very frequent updates?

 

40 minutes ago, SteV said:

They’d rather not end up on suicide watch?

 

Particularly enjoy the, mid game, bumps of player's individual threads because slaughtering them in the match thread isn't enough 😂😂

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Groundhog63
Because NOT became 😂

[TBG]

4 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

 

 

Particularly enjoy the, mid game, bumps of player's individual threads became slaughtering them in the match thread isn't enough 😂😂

 

 

 

The last standing admin protecting the John Ruddy thread after every other players thread has been decimated following us getting beat.

[samptime29]

One of my favourite ever trips was Bruges away in 2012. Nee ticket but the atmosphere was incredible for 3 days I was there. 

[Shearergol]

This is probably my favourite ever thread. Hope it gets to 1000 pages like it deserves to.

[OoOGazOoO]

1 hour ago, Shearergol said:

This is probably my favourite ever thread. Hope it gets to 1000 pages like it deserves to.

 

Why bother hoping it gets to 1000 pages when it could just get to 999?

[Nucasol]

1 hour ago, samptime29 said:

One of my favourite ever trips was Bruges away in 2012. Nee ticket but the atmosphere was incredible for 3 days I was there. 

Same, that lad in the yellow jacket chant commanding and hanging out the window of the mini square.

[RodneyCisse]

7 hours ago, Hanshithispantz said:

This thread?

[500bhp]

And the opposite to the opening question is.

 

Why do people with no ticket watch the game at home by themselves. Why not go to the pub to see mates and watch it together in an atmosphere with fellow toon fans. 

[samptime29]

10 minutes ago, Nucasol said:

Same, that lad in the yellow jacket chant commanding and hanging out the window of the mini 

 

Out on piss in London Tuesday visiting some pals. Eurostar over Wed morning. So many stories and stuff happening. So much fun like. The chocolate and beer was absolutely incredible in Bruges tbf.

[Geogaddi]

You never know what can happen , went to Brugge that year without a ticket. We were just stood in the square a few hours before kick off and someone came over said his mate had bailed last minute and did I want his ticket. Thought it was some sort of scam at first but it wasn't .

[Nucasol]

8 minutes ago, samptime29 said:

 

Out on piss in London Tuesday visiting some pals. Eurostar over Wed morning. So many stories and stuff happening. So much fun like. The chocolate and beer was absolutely incredible in Bruges tbf.

The beer was weapons grade. Was a complete state by Day 3, missus spewed up all over the AirBnB so spent 2 hours retching whilst cleaning it up.

 

Farted in a tobacco shop and cleared the place out, smelt like a dead animal. Blamed it on some fat sweaty bloke who looked far more befitting of the act and then owned up later on. 13 years later and the in-laws still laugh about it.

[bobbydazzla]

27 minutes ago, 500bhp said:

And the opposite to the opening question is.

 

Why do people with no ticket watch the game at home by themselves. Why not go to the pub to see mates and watch it together in an atmosphere with fellow toon fans. 

 

Because I can comfortably sit and watch the match in my thong, suspenders, fishnet tights and high heels in the house.

But I get sore feet if if I'm stood in a busy pub for ages wearing high heels.

 

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by bobbydazzla

[samptime29]

7 minutes ago, Nucasol said:

The beer was weapons grade. Was a complete state by Day 3, missus spewed up all over the AirBnB so spent 2 hours retching whilst cleaning it up.

 

Farted in a tobacco shop and cleared the place out, smelt like a dead animal. Blamed it on some fat sweaty bloke who looked far more befitting of the act and then owned up later on. 13 years later and the in-laws still laugh about it.

 

I remember Celtic beat Barca night before our game. Unreal atmosphere in pub, loads of class banter. I was with a group of 5 lads, one of last went missing during game. We found him a couple of hours later, asleep outside our apartment door. The 11% beers did him in. We put him to bed and went back out lol.

[Scoreboard82]

Didn't expect to get a ticket for the 23 final but booked everything to go down anyway. Even paid to book in a pub to watch the game then unexpectedly was successful in the ballot. Also booked travel and hotel in Gent when we played Zulte Waragem (UEFA cup?) years ago. Ended up getting tickets for the home end off a Belgian, through this very forum IIRC. Been to some of the big ones, Barcelona, Juventus etc but that was without a doubt the best away trip i've ever done. The lad who got us tickets met us after the game and took us on the drink to a street called Ooverport street. What a night. Thurs night and it was like the toon on a Saturday night. Fantastic.

 

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Scoreboard82

[TheBrownBottle]

Two of my mates bunged the turnstile bloke £40 each in 1999 just before kick off to watch the cup final vs Man Utd.

 

So there is that reason. 

[LFEE]

14 hours ago, BUJ said:

Wembley /Europe? 

 

I can't think of anything more pointless. 

Always a chance of ticket if you know the right people who know the right people.

[TaylorJ_01]

More pointless is travelling to Newcastle when the final is in London.

 

See you Sunday!