Only just been catching up with posts due to circumstances recently. Most
glanced through and
taken in but this thread really brings home memories. Dave said the whole
european adventure
was brilliant. Absolutely. Totally agree with him and shown by the comments of
listers on the
various games. Not going to cover them all but some of the outstanding one's
for me.
Munich - No problems with their fans. Just a great time. Stopped with Stuart
and Traudi who lived
in Munich. There where seats but they could be put up and then the catering
staff coming round
the stadium dispensing draught beer (they have containers on their backs) and
worst.
Anderlecht - Probably our best performance of any (as has been said). Superb
football, no
problems and an easy trip down from Amsterdam and back.
Valencia - I'd been at a meeting in Milan, got the night train to Barcelona,
changed for train to
Valencia and waited dozing on the station till Jabba and Andy Ewart turned up
to find me. They'd
arrived the day before and I crashed out on their floor. A glorious day going
round the city, a bit of
hassle getting into the ground but had worse, losing Jabba and Andy in the
ground but then we
found each other again at the Argie bar where Argentinian-Yorkshire friendship
cemented. As I
remember it we drunk them dry. The only real hassle was on my way back when I
was mugged in
Barcelona where I had to stop overnight for an early morning flight. (and
despite the Sarge's
memories I didn't get mugged at most games).
The the adventure continued the next season with two outstanding memories.
Troyes - We picked in a mini-bus in Amsterdam and collected people on the way
down. There
where about ten to twelve of us (can't remember exactly). Got to Troyes early
afternoon and meet
up with more listers. We may have lost the game but still got through.
Afterwards the dodgy bar
with halloween decorations where Clare was taken with the graffiti, in
particular 'L'etudiant, comme
le fleuve cherche suiver son cours sans quitter son lit'. We drove back through
the night and after
dropping everyone off John and I got the the hire about 6.30. They didn't open
till 07.00 so we
went and had a coffee and beer at a market cafe then back to the hire firm,
sort things out and
then to bed.
Eindhoven - This was truly memorable. We'd made contact with the PSV list
before the game and
we organized lots of things over two days, get togethers, five-a-side games on
blow up pitches,
dutch tv coming and filming us showing hows fans could have fun together rather
than fight.
Those where great days indeed. What chance of a repeat sometime?
guy
On 10 Nov 2017 at 14:07, MATTHEW GAYNOR wrote:
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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