After my first lads’ trip to Germany, I got talking to a German poster on here about how to get match tickets at face value for trip two.
The second year, we did three matches in three days. The middle game was 1.FC Köln at home to Augsburg. He managed to get ten tickets in a row, eight for me and my mates, the other two for him and his mate.
He warned us to be in the ground an hour before kick off but us all being English, we knew best and spent the day in the boozer until about fifteen minutes before kick off.
At the gates, four of our eight print at home tickets didn’t scan and I had to go to a ticket hub to get new tickets printed. I was third in the queue and thought I’d check City’s score at Newcastle (not yesterday) while I waited. KDB had just scored, in fact, I’m sure he must’ve scored while I was loading up the BBC sport app.
Being slightly inebriated, I let out a “FUCKING GET IN!”, startling the local fan in front of me. He turned to see what I was shouting about. I apologised and explained that my team had just scored in England. He asked who I supported and I told him Manchester City.
He immediately asked “Are you Kev?”
Amongst a crowd of 50,000, I was stood behind my German friend’s best mate who had heard all about our visit.