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European Stadiums You Have Visited to Watch a NON-City Match
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Rösler von Stretfordbömber
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Quite a few over the years in France and Germany. Lokomotiv Stadium in Nizhny Novgorod, Dynamo Stadium (utter hellhole) in Moscow right before they closed it. Arena Khimki in Moscow (where we played CSKA this year, but not for that match)
Best anecdote as to locals - at Nurnberg last year a bunch of their fans singing the "U-we, Uwe Ros-a-ler" song to me when they found out I was a City fan. Surprised the hell out of me that they knew we used to sing that. (Or did we get that from them originally?)
Kind of crazy - that ground in Nurnberg is right by where Hitler used to review parades. You can even go and stand on the podium where he used to watch them.
Best anecdote as to locals - at Nurnberg last year a bunch of their fans singing the "U-we, Uwe Ros-a-ler" song to me when they found out I was a City fan. Surprised the hell out of me that they knew we used to sing that. (Or did we get that from them originally?)
Kind of crazy - that ground in Nurnberg is right by where Hitler used to review parades. You can even go and stand on the podium where he used to watch them.
bammy blue
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Benidorm vs Barcelona B while on holiday there, Football Manager legends Bojan and Geovanni Dos Santos played for Barce, the locals spent most of the time eating some form of nuts and spitting the shells all over the place. The ground was more like a Roman Colosseum than football stadium.....
the god Gerry Gow
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bammy blue said:Benidorm vs Barcelona B while on holiday there, Football Manager legends Bojan and Geovanni Dos Santos played for Barce, the locals spent most of the time eating some form of nuts and spitting the shells all over the place. The ground was more like a Roman Colosseum than football stadium.....
Went to one if those Fiesta games at Benidorm. Was in November and went to game in a tshirt n when the sun went behind the hill it was freezing.
Also went to Barca v Espanyol in their version of the community shield. Saw the second leg at the Nou Camp
lancs blue
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Just internationals for me, the highlight was getting hold of a ticket for the Euro 2008 Final via a UEFA ballot. Spain v Germany at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna (the refurbished ground where City won the 1970 Cup Winners Cup) and a first "live" view of a certain David Silva. I wondered why so many German speakers around me were wearing Spain shirts until I realised they were local Austrians wanting their neighbours to lose.
Also visited Stadium of Light and Jose Alvalade in Lisbon and Estadio Dragao and Estadio Bessa (Boavista) in Porto for Euro 2004.
Also visited Stadium of Light and Jose Alvalade in Lisbon and Estadio Dragao and Estadio Bessa (Boavista) in Porto for Euro 2004.
bigf42
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Back in the 80s on holiday in Portugal went to the old Stade de luze, Benfica vs Setubal, stuck up on the very top level, concrete bench, fortunately summer so the metrics didn't play up, cheap, only about 2 quid...
Been to a few others Milan vs Juve in the Italian charity shield, San Siro is a shit hole... Still Zidane was pretty impressive
Real Vs Barca, Bernabeau in the Spanish charity shield,
Athletico vs Getafe league game,
Barca vs AC Milan in the Joan Gamper trophy, Eto'o scored
Servette, various games over the years
Lille vs Arras, real local derby
Does Scotland count?
Been to a few others Milan vs Juve in the Italian charity shield, San Siro is a shit hole... Still Zidane was pretty impressive
Real Vs Barca, Bernabeau in the Spanish charity shield,
Athletico vs Getafe league game,
Barca vs AC Milan in the Joan Gamper trophy, Eto'o scored
Servette, various games over the years
Lille vs Arras, real local derby
Does Scotland count?
Frank the Yank
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All of these were YEARS ago when I was regularly in Europe:
Bernabeu-quite a few games there including two barca games. BTW Barca won BOTH games one with Maradona one with Lineker
Atocha San sebastian-The old stadium in the middle of the city.
Atletico Madrid-Forgot whom they played and the result
Eibar-Small town up north.
La Coruna-When they were in the top flight. Again forgot whom they played
Salamanca-In 1982 saw a lot of games there. That season they were in the top flight and saw a 0-0 v Real Madrid. Saw Peter Barnes play there. The supporters gave him a lot of shit!!!
Anerlecht in Brussels
Lokeren once
Ajaxs old stadium the small one
PSG
Bayern Munich
Panthanaikos-Played a small club and it was CRAZY even in a half filled stadium. Train back into the city got bricked!!! It was madness. I could not imagine what a proper derby would be like.
think thats it!!!
Bernabeu-quite a few games there including two barca games. BTW Barca won BOTH games one with Maradona one with Lineker
Atocha San sebastian-The old stadium in the middle of the city.
Atletico Madrid-Forgot whom they played and the result
Eibar-Small town up north.
La Coruna-When they were in the top flight. Again forgot whom they played
Salamanca-In 1982 saw a lot of games there. That season they were in the top flight and saw a 0-0 v Real Madrid. Saw Peter Barnes play there. The supporters gave him a lot of shit!!!
Anerlecht in Brussels
Lokeren once
Ajaxs old stadium the small one
PSG
Bayern Munich
Panthanaikos-Played a small club and it was CRAZY even in a half filled stadium. Train back into the city got bricked!!! It was madness. I could not imagine what a proper derby would be like.
think thats it!!!
lazza
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One of the weirdest football experiences of my life was at Sparta Prague. A group of us were in Prague for a stag weekend about 10 years ago, and we ended up in a back street bar full of Sparta fans on the Friday night, and they urged us to come to the game the next day, against Banik Ostrava. Half the group couldn't be arsed (wanting to stay in the city centre for cheap beer - although it turned out beer at the stadium was half the price we were paying in the city!) but half of us decided to go.
Anyway, it turned out that there had been massive protests outside the ground a couple of days before because Poborsky had been suspended by the club, and it had turned into a full riot with the police wading in with batons.... little did we know what was going to happen...!
The game kicked off, and everything seemed to be going normally, until, at some unknown signal, all the Sparta fans got up out of their seats and left the stands! We were left sitting there with about 50 others wondering "what the fcuk?!". All the fans disappeared behind the stands, stayed there for 5 minutes, then came back. At that point, the Ostrava fans set fire to the front row of seats in the away "cage", but nobody seemed really bothered.
Second half started, and the Prague fans started unrolling banners in all the stands. One spread across half the opposite stand showing a depcition of the riot. But most bizarrely of all, in the stand at one end, giant banners of the four teletubbies were unrolled, the whole height of the stand!! The bellies of the teletubbies displayed A C A B, and across the bottom of the stand, a banner "All Cops Are Bastards" was unrolled! Then, the entire crowd, home and away, started chanting "A C A B" for the next 10 minutes!! Flares were thrown onto the pitch, helicopters flew overhead, some of the banners were set on fire, the crowds kept surging forward.... but the game did eventually get finished!!
It was complete chaos.... And absolutely bloody brilliant!!
All for £3 entry fee!
Anyway, it turned out that there had been massive protests outside the ground a couple of days before because Poborsky had been suspended by the club, and it had turned into a full riot with the police wading in with batons.... little did we know what was going to happen...!
The game kicked off, and everything seemed to be going normally, until, at some unknown signal, all the Sparta fans got up out of their seats and left the stands! We were left sitting there with about 50 others wondering "what the fcuk?!". All the fans disappeared behind the stands, stayed there for 5 minutes, then came back. At that point, the Ostrava fans set fire to the front row of seats in the away "cage", but nobody seemed really bothered.
Second half started, and the Prague fans started unrolling banners in all the stands. One spread across half the opposite stand showing a depcition of the riot. But most bizarrely of all, in the stand at one end, giant banners of the four teletubbies were unrolled, the whole height of the stand!! The bellies of the teletubbies displayed A C A B, and across the bottom of the stand, a banner "All Cops Are Bastards" was unrolled! Then, the entire crowd, home and away, started chanting "A C A B" for the next 10 minutes!! Flares were thrown onto the pitch, helicopters flew overhead, some of the banners were set on fire, the crowds kept surging forward.... but the game did eventually get finished!!
It was complete chaos.... And absolutely bloody brilliant!!
All for £3 entry fee!
supercity88
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Been to see a few random games - perhaps the most random was a dire affair at the Nordjyske Arena in Aalborg to watch them "fight" for a UEFA Cup qualification place against Esbjerg. Finished 0-0 with neither team interested. Also spent a day in Copenhagen still drunk from the night before and stumbling around trying to remember the name of the hotel my parents were staying in, having arrived that morning from England. Wandered right into a march of Brondy fans down the streets towards the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. Pretty nuts.
Manchester33
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Went to watch AC Milan vs Ajax in the San Siro this season on our way back from Munich.
Incredibly boring game, only exciting point was Howard Webb sending an AC player off and getting abused for the rest of the game. People smoking weed in every corner of the ground, even with stewards!! And the ultras section letting off bangers whenever Napoli's score came on the boards.
It was pretty hostile, especially because a lot of people thought we were AJAX fans!
Incredibly boring game, only exciting point was Howard Webb sending an AC player off and getting abused for the rest of the game. People smoking weed in every corner of the ground, even with stewards!! And the ultras section letting off bangers whenever Napoli's score came on the boards.
It was pretty hostile, especially because a lot of people thought we were AJAX fans!