I'm sure this has been posted before but it's the first time I've read it. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opi...eyre-already-at-the-ground-article643269.html The most recent opportunity to become a proper fan was Milwall away last season.
Yay, I'm a proper fan Went to the Oldham game that was mentioned in the article, plus the replay when Gunnar ******* Halle dived. Also went to a Stoke game that was called off. 94-95 season I think. It was on when we set off, but I don't know exactly when it was called off as we didn't have a radio in the car. When we got there it had been postponed. I think you should get extra points for abandoned matches. I've been to two: Cambridge at home in the 80s and Middlesbrough away also in 94-95 I think.
Re: Yay, I'm a proper fan I went to those. I worked shifts at the time and arranged for someone on nights to come in early so I coud go to the game and in return I had to go in for 6am the next morning. Just got off the motorway at Oldham to learn the game was off. Went to rearranged game and again had to sort out cover. IMO Halle didn't dive, he slipped with nobody around him, even he didn't appeal for a pen.....the ref was the only one in the ground that thought it was!
Re: Yay, I'm a proper fan I went down to London for the Millwall game last year but as we had already paid for the train we were always going to make the most of it. I didn't realise Ian Winwood was writing for the Mirror these days - I preferred when he was a journo for Metal Hammer. I sat behing him at the Reading game last year - seems a bit of his head to me.
Re: Yay, I'm a proper fan I did the oldham one in 1996 and the Millwall one last year, at oldham i seem to remember not seeing one plod at all and people saying it would be called off due to ploders looking for a missing girl and not bothering with the football match the day after they found the girl dead
Hibs away We were a couple of hundred yards from the ground when we got a call saying it was off. My mate Molly went one better though, because he went to the Darlington v Newcastle game the night before on his way to Edinburgh. That one got abandoned in the second half due to crowd trouble. I think he saw around 70 minutes of footy out of the two games he'd travelled to.
Re: Hibs away I confess...I "was" a proper fan (or absolute loon when you look back on it!) I remember the stoke game on the supporters coach and the driver refusing to take us to another away game, remember being stuck on the A1 trying to get to Newcastle in the cup missing redfearns strike and begging stewards to let us in at half time so being stuffed in with geordies, one red shirt amidst the black and white not good! Ayresome Park with the players changing to trainers on the ice rink pitch and being called off at half time. Twerton Park on a Tuesday night in bath to see us lose 2-1 and getting back and stupid o'clock. And of course Oldham having driven through thick fog, head out of the window to see better, gripping the seat with my bum cheeks to get to a ground with no fog at all and a called off game and then beign treated to the worst dive in history in the rearranged game. Ahhhh.... those were the days
Re: Hibs away i went to Millwall, i also went to Hibs. Get in i can say i am a proper fan now These were both after a night out (mad friday) less than 1 hours sleep, millwall i missed the train so got a taxi to donny and even left my wallet at home so had to be subbed by a good fellow bbser, hibs i went after about 2 hours sleep. o well.
