I do look back at some of those trips and wonder how we all came back unscathed
- more luck than judgement I think.
Rome games somehow the police missed us when sweeping the bars pre-match to put
us on coaches - so we ended up walking to ground and getting in 5 minutes
before KO - no trouble at all.
Milan I seem to remember the police making us walk around the whole stadium
before letting us out in an effort to delay our arrival to the city
Moscow - Escaping through a hole in a fence from the Leeds fans compound to get
back to the bar before the Leeds coaches.
Prague - Walking across a very dark park after the game - pitch black
Ukraine - The list crew stumbling around pissed on vodka and entirely lost
until friendly police gave us a lift to the game.
Only hassle I had was some police baton bruises at Valencia - but that was due
to the crush at the turnstiles - nothing to do with the home fans
Matt
From: {broken-address} Richard Walker
<[email protected]>
To: {broken-address} Nicholas Armit <[email protected]>
Cc: Leeds List <[email protected]>; "James A. Lundon @ Gmail Home"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 10 November 2017, 7:57
Subject: Re: [LU] 17years ago
I think most were put off with their experience in Rome first time. They kept
us in the ground after the match for ages and then put us on busses and dropped
us at different places around the city, the idea being we wouldn't all
congregate and cause trouble - bloody ridiculous policing.
> On 9 Nov 2017, at 13:32, {broken-address} Nicholas Armit
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Rome is worth two visits Dave! :-)
> Nick
> On Thursday, November 9, 2017, 8:25:24 AM EST, [email protected]
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
> yes Anderlecht was great - possibly the best football-wise, we totally
> destroyed a team with a long unbeaten home euro record, and we played some
> scintillating stuff BUT the sing-a-long after the Milan game was just
> something else - probably unique in the whole of football
> From memory we did try and have a bit of a sing with the players after one of
> the later games (possibly Anderlecht ?0 but it was not anywhere near the
> same level being preplanned and a pale imitation. Milan was just totally off
> the cuff as we were kept in for ages by the police
> The after match celebrations in Milan and the hotel I was in were special
> too - I did not make it to bed at all, and we emptied everyones mini bar
> after the barman left at 4am so we could keep on drinking and enjoying the
> night.
> It almost went wrong when one lad stepped over a velvet rope and touched a
> huge 'Ming' vase - taller than me- and set it rocking. For a minute it looked
> like it was going to fall and break but it rocked and rocked for what felt
> like ages and then righted itself.
>
> The whole European adventure was brilliant and really was 'living the dream'
> for those of us lucky enough to be able to go , especially to the away games
> I feel sorry for the younger fans who are unlikely to experience it- because
> it was new to us all we took huge numbers 5 or 6,000 were normal size
> followings. If we had carried on in europe I am sure that this would have
> dropped right down. (we took 6,000 to Rome for Roma game but only 900 v Lazio
> a year later, lots, like myself, giving it a miss since I had already been to
> that country, city and ground
>
> Dave
> > __
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