| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? 10:14 - Nov 25 with 2024 views | Happy_Satsuma |
Went for a mates Stag do to watch Real Madrid which was a hefty old journey - anyone have a similar story> |  |
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| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 10:20 - Nov 25 with 2023 views | Bigbrother |
Once saw Southern United in New Zealand (albeit I didn't go there to watch them!) |  |
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| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 10:27 - Nov 25 with 2020 views | Wizaard |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 10:20 - Nov 25 by Bigbrother |
Once saw Southern United in New Zealand (albeit I didn't go there to watch them!) |
Went to Latvia for a pre-season tour. Six days with games in Riga and Ventspils.
Also went to Salzburg for an Austrian tour when MacMahon was manager but the team cancelled late on. |  | | |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 10:58 - Nov 25 with 2016 views | terminallytangerine |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 10:27 - Nov 25 by Wizaard |
Went to Latvia for a pre-season tour. Six days with games in Riga and Ventspils.
Also went to Salzburg for an Austrian tour when MacMahon was manager but the team cancelled late on. |
Rome 72. | | | |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 12:16 - Nov 25 with 2003 views | Fountain |
Lisbon last May. | |
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| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 12:21 - Nov 25 with 1998 views | tonysoprano |
Went to the Anglo Italian Final against Bologna . What an away trip that was ! Non BFC related saw a pre season match in Spain , Lloret v Espanyol . |  | | |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 13:50 - Nov 25 with 1984 views | BigHandsOliverKahn |
Surely the criteria for this must be that you only travelled for the game... not tag a match onto a stag do?
I've watched games in places like Bolivia etc but was already travelling at the time.
I did once intentionally cut short an inter-rail trip and go from Greece by train through Eastern Europe and up to our match at Carlisle. That felt a bit weird.
Setting off from home and doing a round trip in a day, it will be the South Coast clubs like Torquay or South East like Gillingham and Maidstone. | | | |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 14:14 - Nov 25 with 1974 views | basilrobbiereborn |
I think it would have to be somewhere on the South Coast for me too. I was too young to go to either Anglo-italian final.
On a slightly related point, what's the longest you've been out for a game that didn't involve an overnight stay somewhere?
My best (worst?) would be a home game with Swindon whilst the railways were still in the aftermath of Hatfield. Left home at 4.30 (no trains into town), and had a six hour journey via Birmingham and Manchester to get to Blackpool by noon. On the way home, the last two trains down the West Coast line were cancelled because of high winds in Scotland. I ended up on a cross-country train to London Paddington from Preston - going via Manchester, Birmingham and Reading. Two night buses followed, eventually getting me home at 2.30 a.m. - 22 hours after I'd left, and all for a 2-2 draw. And I couldn't sleep, after all that…. | |
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| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 14:58 - Nov 25 with 1966 views | wespens |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 14:14 - Nov 25 by basilrobbiereborn |
I think it would have to be somewhere on the South Coast for me too. I was too young to go to either Anglo-italian final.
On a slightly related point, what's the longest you've been out for a game that didn't involve an overnight stay somewhere?
My best (worst?) would be a home game with Swindon whilst the railways were still in the aftermath of Hatfield. Left home at 4.30 (no trains into town), and had a six hour journey via Birmingham and Manchester to get to Blackpool by noon. On the way home, the last two trains down the West Coast line were cancelled because of high winds in Scotland. I ended up on a cross-country train to London Paddington from Preston - going via Manchester, Birmingham and Reading. Two night buses followed, eventually getting me home at 2.30 a.m. - 22 hours after I'd left, and all for a 2-2 draw. And I couldn't sleep, after all that…. |
Went to watch Monaco last year - one of the worst games of football in one of the most lovely surroundings I've ever experienced - better than Chesterfield on New Year's Day!! | |
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| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 19:56 - Nov 25 with 1944 views | Wizaard |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 14:14 - Nov 25 by basilrobbiereborn |
I think it would have to be somewhere on the South Coast for me too. I was too young to go to either Anglo-italian final.
On a slightly related point, what's the longest you've been out for a game that didn't involve an overnight stay somewhere?
My best (worst?) would be a home game with Swindon whilst the railways were still in the aftermath of Hatfield. Left home at 4.30 (no trains into town), and had a six hour journey via Birmingham and Manchester to get to Blackpool by noon. On the way home, the last two trains down the West Coast line were cancelled because of high winds in Scotland. I ended up on a cross-country train to London Paddington from Preston - going via Manchester, Birmingham and Reading. Two night buses followed, eventually getting me home at 2.30 a.m. - 22 hours after I'd left, and all for a 2-2 draw. And I couldn't sleep, after all that…. |
In answer to Robbie's question, when we won at Cardiff with Kevin Phillips scoring a brace, I set off from our house to pick up the minibus at 7.00 on the day of the match. Picked up the lads in Leeds and then Sheffield and got to the game in plenty of time.
Coming away, it was snowing like nobody's business which slowed us down considerably. Just South of the turnoff for the M42 on the M5 we were going along about 30 mph and were hit sideways on by a Jaguar unable to cope with the snowy conditions.
After a couple of hours on the hard shoulder with Misfit, we were taken to Frankley Services on a tow truck. Eventually, the RAC agreed to take us home, and delivered two hire cars around 3.00 in the morning. Eventually got home at 7.00am after dropping my portion of the lads home.
Not a good end to what had been a great game. | | | |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 20:11 - Nov 25 with 1937 views | ribble |
Barcelona. Stag do. | | | |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 09:12 - Nov 26 with 1905 views | TwoPhillips |
| Furthest you've travelled for a football game? on 20:11 - Nov 25 by ribble |
Barcelona. Stag do. |
To watch Blackpool I went on the Nortgern Ireland tour a few years back - that was a good craic!! | |
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