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Grant Fondo

Grant Fondo

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This talk about kick-off times makes me laugh ... i was in Hong Kong for the '98 World Cup, fairly sure? (it was a big night ^_^) the Arg v Eng game finished gone 7am at a bar in Wanchai after penalties. Apart from the result it was a hell of a day, nowt beats seeing it with a few lashed ex-pats :laugh:
 
Slick

Slick

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Good game at Ibrox tonight although they will need to improve quickly especially at the back to get a result at Aberdeen. Hopefully get some more players back for that and we should be fine. :okay:
 
Dayvo

Dayvo

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Grant Fondo said:
This talk about kick-off times makes me laugh ... i was in Hong Kong….
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1990 World Cup semi final England v Germany. I was on the penultimate leg of my 8-month round-the-world trip. I was with a mate from back home (Brentwood) whom I travelled with from Australia. His girlfriend flew out to Vancouver to spend the last month with him before heading back to the UK. Unfortunately they’d had a HUGE row and effectively broken-up but were committed to travelling together (and with me as a very uncomfortable gooseberry).
The game started early (west coast Canadian time), the bar wasn’t open, although beer for breakfast had never appealed to me, anyway.
Two hours later, defeated, deflated, over-dosing on black coffee and stuffed with pancakes, the atmosphere in the car we’d hired was terrible and no-one said anything AT ALL for several hours.
Yeah, I love football, me! 🤨😐
 
Chislenko

Chislenko

Veteran
Dayvo said:
The game started early (west coast Canadian time), the bar wasn’t open, although beer for breakfast had never appealed to me, anyway.
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Some years back we arrived in San Jose for a friendly, (USA v Wales)

Eleven in the morning and a public holiday to boot, not one bar open.

Somebody found out that one bar was owned by an expat so we all turned up there and one of us rang the owner to tell him there was 200 thirsty Welsh people outside and it could be his best beer selling opportunity of the year.

Ten minutes later he arrived, opened up the bar then had a captive audience until the game started (from memory, an evening kick off)

I think the money he took made up for missing his day off.

It turned out to be another of those Wales games of that era, where half the team were "injured for a friendly" and another defeat.
 
Slick

Slick

Guru
At the risk of sounding like Uncle Albert, when did the team sheet become the roster? :wacko:
 
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yello

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I like football. I played it from aged lord knows when until it got semiserious late teens. Then I played off and on, 5-a-side, etc. Point is, I kinda know football, as much as I can, it's sort of part of my psyche. I have notions of what I think is 'good football'. At the risk of overstating it, I love football. Love to see it played to its best.

I happen to think Argentina are the team of the tournament. I truly want Messi to achieve his holy grail, he deserves it IMHO. We don't see players like him too often. He's earned it.

Then why is it that I have no intention of watching the final?
 
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