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    #51
    Euro 96:

    Elland Road Bulgaria 1 Spain 1
    Anfield Italy 2 Russia 1

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      #52
      Another one for Bulgaria - Spain at Elland Road. Anybody else go to England - Scotland at Euro '96? (obviously not Alex....)

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        #53
        Part One
        ear Ground City Home Away Competition
        1988 Neckarstadion Stuttgart Ireland England European Championship Finals
        1988 Waldstadion Frankfurt Italy Spain European Championship Finals
        1988 Rheinstadion Dusselforf Holland England European Championship Finals
        1988 Waldstadion Frankfurt USSR England European Championship Finals
        1988 Volksparkstadion Hamburg Germany Holland European Championship Finals
        1988 Neckarstadion Stuttgart Italy USSR European Championship Finals
        1989 Vojo Kushi Stadium Skhoder Albania U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        1989 Qemel Stafa Tirana Albania England World Cup Qualifier
        1989 Stadion Miejski Jastrzebie Zdroj Poland U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        1989 Stadion Slaski Katowice Poland England World Cup Qualifier
        1990 Stadio Sant'Elia Cagliari Ireland England World Cup Finals
        1990 Stadio Sant'Elia Cagliari Holland England World Cup Finals
        1990 Stadio Sant'Elia Cagliari Egypt England World Cup Finals
        1991 Stadion Miejski Pila Poland U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        1991 Stadion Miejski Poznan Poland England European Championship Qualifier
        1992 Malmo Stadium Malmo Denmark England European Championship Finals
        1992 Ullevi Gothenburg Holland Scotland European Championship Finals
        1992 Malmo Stadium Malmo France England European Championship Finals
        1992 Idrottsparken Norkopping Germany Scotland European Championship Finals
        1992 Rasunda Stadium Stockholm Sweden England European Championship Finals
        1993 Stade C Vanden Stock Brussels Belgium Faroe Islands World Cup Qualifier
        1993 Stadion Slaski Katowice Poland England World Cup Qualifier
        1993 Stadio Renato Dall'Ara Bologna San Marino England World Cup Qualifier
        1996 Boris Paichadze National Stadium Tbilisi Georgia England World Cup Qualifier
        1997 Stadion GKS Katowice GKS Katowice Poland U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        1997 Stadion Slaski Katowice Poland England World Cup Qualifier
        1997 Stadio Centro d'Italia Rieti Italy U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        1997 Stadio Olimpico Rome Italy England World Cup Qualifier
        1998 Stade Geoffrey Guichard Saint Etienne Yugoslavia Iran World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade Velodrome Marseilles Tunisia England World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade de la Mosson Montpellier Italy Cameroon World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade Geoffrey Guichard Saint Etienne Spain Paraguay World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade Velodrome Marseilles Holland S Korea World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade de Gerland Lyon USA Iran World Cup Finals
        1998 Stadium de Toulouse Toulouse Romania England World Cup Finals
        1998 Parc Lescure Bordeaux S Africa S Arabia World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade de Beaujoire Nantes Yugoslavia USA World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade Felix Bollaert Lens Colombia England World Cup Finals
        1998 Parc des Princes Paris Brazil Chile World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade de France Paris Denmark Nigeria World Cup Finals
        1998 Stade Geoffrey Guichard Saint Etienne Argentina England World Cup Finals
        1998 Rasunda Stadium Stockholm Sweden England European Championship Qualifier
        1998 Gelredome Arnhem Holland Ghana Friendly
        1998 Stade Josy Barthel Luxembourg Luxembourg England European Championship Qualifier
        1999 Hristo Bonev Stadion Vratza Bulgaria U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        1999 Bulgarian Army Stadium Sofia Bulgaria England European Championship Qualifier
        1999 Polish Army Stadium Warsaw Poland England European Championship Qualifier
        1999 Hampden Park Glasgow Scotland England European Championship Qualifier
        2000 King Baudouin Stadium Brussels Belgium Sweden European Championship Finals
        2000 Jan Breydel Stadium Bruges France Denmark European Championship Finals
        2000 Philips Stadium Eindhoven Portugal England European Championship Finals
        2000 De Kuip Rotterdam Spain Norway European Championship Finals
        2000 King Baudouin Stadium Brussels Italy Belgium European Championship Finals
        2000 Philips Stadium Eindhoven Sweden Turkey European Championship Finals
        2000 Jan Breydel Stadium Bruges France Czech Republic European Championship Finals
        2000 Stade du Pays de Charleroi Charleroi Germany England European Championship Finals
        2000 Amsterdam Arena Amsterdam Slovenia Spain European Championship Finals
        2000 Philips Stadium Eindhoven Italy Sweden European Championship Finals
        2000 Stade du Pays de Charleroi Charleroi Romania England European Championship Finals
        2000 Gelredome Arnhem Slovenia Norway European Championship Finals
        2000 King Baudouin Stadium Brussels Italy Romania European Championship Finals
        2000 King Baudouin Stadium Brussels France Portugal European Championship Finals
        2000 Stade de France Paris France England Friendly
        2000 Tehtaan kentta Valkeakoski Finland U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        2000 Olympiastadion Helsinki Finland England World Cup Qualifier
        2000 Stadio delle Alpi Turin Italy England Friendly
        2001 Qemel Stafa Tirana Albania U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        2001 Qemel Stafa Tirana Albania England World Cup Qualifier
        2001 Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium Athens Greece U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
        2001 Olympic Stadium Athens Greece England World Cup Qualifier
        2001 Olympiastadion Munich Germany England World Cup Qualifier

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          #54
          Part two (part three will have to follow, my list is very out of date)
          2002 Amsterdam Arena Amsterdam Holland England Friendly
          2002 Saitama Stadium 2002 Saitama Sweden England World Cup Finals
          2002 Ulsan Munsu Stadium Ulsan Brazil Turkey World Cup Finals
          2002 Busan Asiad Stadium Busan S Korea Poland World Cup Finals
          2002 Big Bird Stadium Suwon USA Portugal World Cup Finals
          2002 Sapporo Dome Sapporo Argentina England World Cup Finals
          2002 Kashima Soccer Stadium Ibaraki Italy Croatia World Cup Finals
          2002 Miyagi Stadium Miyagi Mexico Ecuador World Cup Finals
          2002 Oita Stadium Oita Tunisia Belgium World Cup Finals
          2002 Shizuoka Ecopa Stadium Shizuoka Cameroon Germany World Cup Finals
          2002 Nagai Stadium Osaka Nigeria England World Cup Finals
          2002 International Stadium Yokohama Yokohama Ecuador Croatia World Cup Finals
          2002 Shizuoka Ecopa Stadium Shizuoka Belgium Russia World Cup Finals
          2002 Niigata Stadium Niigata Denmark England World Cup Finals
          2002 Oita Stadium Oita Sweden Senegal World Cup Finals
          2002 Jeonju World Cup Stadium Jeonju Mexico USA World Cup Finals
          2002 Daejeon World Cup Stadium Daejeon S Korea Italy World Cup Finals
          2002 Shizuoka Ecopa Stadium Shizuoka Brazil England World Cup Finals
          2002 Nagai Stadium Osaka Senegal Turkey World Cup Finals
          2002 Stadion Antona Malatinskeho Trnava Slovakia U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
          2002 Tehelne pole Bratislava Slovakia England European Championship Qualifier
          2003 Stadio Communale dei Marmi Carrara Italy U21 England U21 Friendly
          2003 Rheinpark Stadion Vaduz Liechtenstein England European Championship Qualifier
          2003 Kings Park Stadium Durban S Africa England Friendly
          2003 Stade de France Paris Cameroon Turkey Confederations Cup
          2003 Cair Skopje Macedonia U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
          2003 Skopje City Stadium Skopje Macedonia England European Championship Qualifier
          2003 BJK Inonu Stadium Istanbul Turkey U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
          2003 Sukru Saracoglu Stadium Istanbul Turkey England European Championship Qualifier
          2003 Mestalla Stadium Valencia Spain Norway European Championship Qualifier
          2004 Stade El Menzah Tunis Mali Guinea African Cup of Nations Finals
          2004 Stade de 7 Novembre Rades Tunisia Senegal African Cup of Nations Finals
          2004 Stade Taieb Mhiri Sfax Algeria Morocco African Cup of Nations Finals
          2004 Estadio Algarve Faro Portugal England Friendly
          2004 Ullevi Gothenburg Sweden England Friendly
          2004 Stadio Luigi Ferraris Genoa Italy Spain Friendly
          2004 Estadio da Luz Lisbon France England European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio D Alfonso Henriques Guimaraes Denmark Italy European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio do Dragao Porto Holland Germany European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio do Bessa Porto Greece Spain European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio Cidade de Coimbra Coimbra Switzerland England European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio do Dragao Porto Italy Sweden European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio Municipal de Aveiro Aveiro Holland Czech Republic European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio da Luz Lisbon Croatia England European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio do Bessa Porto Denmark Sweden European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio Muncipal de Braga Braga Holland Latvia European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio da Luz Lisbon Portugal England European Championship Finals
          2004 Estadio Jose Alvalade Lisbon France Greece European Championship Finals
          2004 Sepp Doll Stadion Krems Austria U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
          2004 Ernst Happel Stadion Vienna Austria England World Cup Qualifier
          2004 Stadion Mosir Rybnik Poland U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
          2004 Stadion Slaski Katowice Poland England World Cup Qualifier
          2004 Shafu Baku Azerbaijan U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
          2004 Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium Baku Azerbaijan England World Cup Qualifier
          2004 Santiago Bernebau Madrid Spain England Friendly
          2005 Soldier Field Chicago USA England Friendly
          2005 Giants Stadium New Jersey Colombia England Friendly
          2005 Parken Copenhagen Denmark England Friendly
          2005 Milleneum Stadium Cardiff Wales England World Cup Qualifier
          2005 Windsor Park Belfast N Ireland England World Cup Qualifier
          2005 Stade de Geneve Geneva Argentina England Friendly
          2005 Stade Marcel Picot Nancy France U21 England U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
          2006 Commerzbank Arena Frankfurt Paraguay England World Cup Finals
          2006 Zentralstadion Leipzig Holland Serbia World Cup Finals
          2006 Olympiastadion Berlin Brazil Croatia World Cup Finals
          2006 Allianz Arena Munich Tunisia S Arabia World Cup Finals
          2006 Frankenstadion Nuremburg Trinidad England World Cup Finals
          2006 AOL Arena Hamburg Ukraine S Arabia World Cup Finals
          2006 Rheineenergiestadion Koln Sweden England World Cup Finals
          2006 Veltins Arena Gelsenkirchen Portugal Mexico World Cup Finals
          2006 Westfalenstadion Dortmund Brazil Japan World Cup Finals
          2006 Fritz Walter Stadion Kaiserslautern Spain S Arabia World Cup Finals
          2006 Gottlieb Daimler Stadion Stuttgart Ecuador England World Cup Finals
          2006 Veltins Arena Gelsenkirchen Portugal England World Cup Finals
          2006 Skopje City Stadium Skopje Macedonia England European Championship Qualifier
          2006 Stadion Maksimir Zagreb Croatia England European Championship Qualifier
          2006 Amsterdam Arena Amsterdam Holland England Friendly
          2007 Ramat Gan Stadium Tel Aviv Israel England European Championship Qualifier
          2007 Olympic Stadium Barcelona Andorra England European Championship Qualifier
          2007 Darius and Girenas Stadium Kaunas Lithuania Georgia European Championship Qualifier
          2007 A Le Coq Arena Tallinn Estonia England European Championship Qualifier
          2007 Luzhniki Stadium Moscow Russia England European Championship Qualifier
          2007 Ernst Happel Stadion Vienna Austria England Friendly
          2007 Niedersachsen Stadion Hanover Germany Cyprus European Championship Qualifier
          2008 Croke Park Dublin Ireland Serbia Friendly
          2008 Olympic Stadium Barcelona Andorra England World Cup Qualifier
          2008 Stadion Maksimir Zagreb Croatia England World Cup Qualifier
          2008 Dinamo Stadium Minsk Belarus England World Cup Qualifier
          2008 Olympiastadion Berlin Germany England Friendly
          2009 Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium Seville Spain England Friendly
          2009 Komplett Arena Sandefjord Norway U21 England U21 Friendly
          2009 Central Stadium Almaty Kazakhstan England World Cup Qualifier
          2009 Central Stadium Almaty Kazakhstan U21 Montenegro U21 Euro U21 Qualifier
          2009 Amsterdam Arena Amsterdam Holland England Friendly
          2009 Dnipro Arena Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine England World Cup Qualifier
          2009 Sheikh Zayed Stadium Abu Dhabi UAE Manchester City Friendly
          2009 Khalifa International Stadium Doha Brazil England Friendly

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            #55
            Madre mía

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              #56
              Holy fuck, Sid. I was impressed/intimidated enough by Merlin the Happy Pig's list but I don't know what's more gangsta about yours - that it begins with the tiny-yet-chilling phrase "Part One" (the OTF equivalent of that moment Sonny turns and quietly locks the bikers in his bar in A Bronx Tale) or that it ends with another decade unlisted.

              No - no - hold that result: My favourite bits are where you do the U-21 game the previous evening as well as the full international. I talk a lot about the handful of games and venues I have done, but I think you've attended more international matches than I've watched on the telly.

              Feels right that we've never been at the same game (up to 2009 anyway) - you're on a different planet there. Brilliant.

              Bring on Part Three.
              Last edited by Alex Anderson; 07-04-2019, 16:16. Reason: I'm not gonnae go on about how I didn't get into that Euro 2000 play-off first leg. Not again. Those lists deserve better.

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                #57
                I've just realised I've seen 2 Wales games at the Liberty Stadium as well

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                  #58
                  St Andrews 1980 England B 1 Australia 0
                  Villa Park 1982 Villa 4 East Germany 2
                  Villa Park 1995 Brazil 1 Sweden 0
                  Villa Park 1996 Scotland 0 Netherlands 0
                  Villa Park 1996 Netherlands 2 Switzerland 0
                  Villa Park 1996 Scotland 1 Switzerland 0
                  Villa Park 1996 Czech Republic 1 Portugal 0
                  Last edited by 1974ddr; 07-04-2019, 17:38.

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                    #59
                    I saw the last international at Varsity Stadium in (I think) 2000. Canada 0- 0 Mexico

                    A ton of games at BMO since then (including every match at the 2007 FIFA U-20s)

                    Stade de France, vs. Germany in 2001, vs. Serbia 2008.



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                      #60
                      Originally posted by Merlin the happy pig View Post
                      17/6/2006. Czech Republic 0-2 Ghana.

                      19/6/2006. Togo 0-2 Switzerland.
                      MTHP and I chased each other around the Rheinland 13 years ago, it seems

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                        #61
                        Originally posted by seand View Post


                        SECONDLY.... well my second related post will have to wait for over the weekend, cos it'll be an Alex-sized Alex-style ramble off piste, off topic before eventually rambling back on topic. Self-indulgent weekend cliffhanger ahoy!
                        Finally back to this thread and triangulation, and a bit of a ramble. I'm a Liverpool sympathiser and I've been to maybe 20 Anfield games (yeh, I'm that big a fan). Anyway, my first game was in March 1992, my Dad, god-bless-‘im, brought me overnight on the ferry and train, an almost spiritual pilgrimage for a callow young Irish gloryhunter. A first glimpse inside the ground was quite breathtaking, watching Barnes, Whelan and Rush warm up, the legendary Kop swaying to the right and the structure of the new Millennium Stand (now Kenny Dalglish Stand) taking shape above the modest existing Kemlyn Road Stand. It was a club and a time on the cusp, the griminess and ‘authenticity’ or pre-Taylor football (terraces, smoking, primitive football, the football pink newspaper, an almost entirely Hiberno-British line-up, the club shop was a portakabin in the corner of the car park that a modern Tier 7 non-league club would be ashamed of) contrasted with the nascent development of modern football (hideous modern kit design, the move to all-seater, tourist spectators, big money signings, albiet British ones). Dean Saunders scored either side of a Paul Stewart goal for Spurs and you could be forgiven for thinking the almost two year wait for a league title wouldn’t last much longer.
                        Fast forward a couple of years and I'd another opportunity to visit Anfield (and Old Trafford) on a visit to a family friend in Manchester. I had Liverpool tickets sorted, these being the days when you could ring up and buy tickets. My tickets were for the main stand but in an uncommon display of awareness and good taste I decided I was swapping them for Kop tickets, to experience the fabled terrace just once before its imminent demolition- much to the disgust of my ManYoo supporting colleague who would have rathered the relative gentility of the stand. Anyway I found a suitable scally selling tickets and exchanged a pair of nice glossy colourful printed Main Stand tickets for a couple of mangy looking season ticket vouchers for the Kop. Looking back I guess we were blessed not to have been shafted, but I assume our friendly neighbourhood scally ticket tout was astounded to find someone wanting to swap main stand tickets worth three times the price for Kop tickets. On the terrace about an hour before kickoff it was fairly busy but we got ourselves a good central spot not far in front of a barrier.
                        Anyway, it was all going swimmingly to start. Ian Rush scored in front of the Kop early in the first half, and we experienced the tidal celebration tumble down the terrace. "Ian Rush! Ian Rush! Ian, Ian Rush, he gets the ball, he scores the goals, Ian Ian Rush!" Surely this was the beginning of a vintage Liverpool performance, eviscerating the relegation threatened opposition. Nicol, Barnes, Rush and Whelan has all seen better days, but the like of Fowler, Redknapp, McManaman, David James and Rob Jones hinted at better times ahead. Liverpool huffed and puffed and went in 1-0 up. Into the second half and there were two further goals. Who scored them? WHO SCORED THEM, ALEX, eh??? You know already don't you.... fucking JO fucking STEIN fucking FLO. Two goals into the Kop end, the bloody Scandinavian cheek of him. Liverpool 1 Sheffield United 2. So it seems, Eck, that our trivia obsessed, list fetishizing, Europhiliac, OTF stereotype connection goes beyond the entirely obvious Rangers-Dundalk love-in. Not only did we share a stadium in a foreign UEFA land (and it doesn't get more foreign than Ingerlund)… not only did we share an actual match, fulfilling the triangulation criteria on this thread… we actually shared a terrace, nay THE terrace, at a match in the foreignest of foreign lands.
                        Last edited by seand; 08-04-2019, 12:55.

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                          #62
                          I've only seen two England (men's) internationals. One a WC Qualifier in 2001 at Anfield against Finland (2-1), and a friendly at Old Trafford against Sweden (1-1).
                          I saw GB women at the 2012 Olympics beat Brazil at Wembley, and i've think I saw two international friendlies at the Emirates. Definitely saw Portugal v Brazil (2-0), and I think it must have been Argentina v Brazil (0-3).

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                            #63
                            Well, I know there were fellow OTFers or ex-OTFers at at least one International match I've attended as a bunch of us met up in a bar beforehand.

                            Anyway, the list:-
                            Fritz Walter Stadium, Kaiserslautern, 12 June 2006: Australia vs Japan (WC Finals pool match)
                            Fritz Walter Stadium, Kaiserslautern, 17 June 2006: Italy vs USA (WC Finals pool match) - this was the one with the pub beforehand
                            Gottlieb Daimler Stadium, Stuttgart, 19 June 2006: Spain vs Tunisia (WC Finals pool match)
                            Emirates Stadium, London, 2 March 2010: Brazil vs Rep.Ireland (random friendly)
                            Wembley Stadium, London, 9 August 2012: Japan Women vs USA Women (Olympic gold medal match)
                            Stade de France, Paris, 10 July 2016: France vs Portugal (Euro Championships final)

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                              #64
                              Saw all the venues in Euro96.

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                                #65
                                Seand - it's official: we are football.

                                Let's go find a real forum and leave behind all these plastics with their "I've been to every England game in every country and tournament they've ever played - and the U-21 game the night before in a city 200 miles away from the full international venue" lists.

                                Let's go find a place where a couple of celts can get more stream of consciousness anecdote mileage from our half a dozen trips to England in the 90s than these wannabes can squeeze out of attending every fixture in the history of the Africa Cup of Nations.

                                Incredible. We've stood on the Kop for the same game - both watching Liverpool NOT SHOOT INTO IT, SECOND HALF.

                                I love this stuff. If I'm honest, half the reason I go to games involving neither my club nor country is to feel part of the wider community of fandom or to experience specific stadiums and/or atmospheres that I grew up watching on telly. Often get tarred with the trainspotter brush (there are far worse brushes to be tarred with) but as the real heavy duty game-attenders on this thread show, I'm far from prolific enough in my bagging to deserve that accolade.

                                Star Wars fans can't ever get a ride on the Millennium Falcon but football fans can get along to (I can't say Millennium Stadium - even though I have been there ... and said it) the grounds they see hosting whatever player captures their imagination. And that I can be on the same terrace for the same game as yourself, quarter of a century ago, despite nether of us coming from Liverpool (No "typical" jibes from Evertonians, please) just proves my point about (a) there being a wider football community and (b) how we can jump in and out of it any time we like.

                                Jesus! Jumping in and out of lives and travelling in time? I've just realised how much the second series of The OA has affected my patter ...

                                I've just finished watching that second season on Netflix and you can keep it. Us both seeing Dave Basset's Sheffield United win at Anfieldin 1994 is a far more mind-bending, parallel universe-blending headfuck. To hell with anyone claiming it's only a coincidence (yeah, and we're both football tourists on a thread specifically about finding games more than one of the posters has attended) - at least ours is much better written than The OA and not, in our case, by someone thinking up storylines purely to make us look, like, amaaaaazing and fully realise our life-long ego trip of being a skinny, blonde angel who's better than everyone else and, more importantly, more emotional than everyone else*).

                                For us both to be there for a game Liverpool didn't score into the Kop second half is pretty cool.

                                I then took it a step further two years later by not seeing Scotland shoot into the Kop as I sat in it (in the very back row) seeing neither France nor the Netherlands score a goal into it over 120 minutes, despite both having some pretty useful players on the pitch. Please have that as your revenge for the bad vibes I brought down the M74 in 94.

                                Although Rush had already got some personal revenge on me by scoring the only goal the first time I saw Wales play, in a World Cup qualifier at Hampden a few years earlier. And while I actually felt Tore Andre did well in his spell at Rangers, some would say he epitomises the financial ruin of my club and, undoubtedly, the Flo family got more than enough revenge for you against my country: Havard Flo ruined Scotland's last goal at a major international tournament and Tore Andre ensured our last game at a finals would have been even more painfully irrelevant if we'd managed a four-goal swing against Morocco - scoring one of Norway's brace against Brazil the same night.

                                And know that, in my two subsequent trips to Anfield, I sat in the now-gone version of the main stand and the top tier of the Anfield Road and Liverpool were just fine both times. Christ, even Benteke managed a goal v Bordeaux (Bordeaux! Where Havard Flo scpred that goal v Scotland in 98)

                                Forgiveness is begged, Sean.

                                More coincidentally, the season after you saw Deano Saunders making Liverpool look like champs I saw him put Villa top of the league (I brought the Holte End more luck).

                                Proper mental though. I don't care what anyone says, this is pretty cosmic. And if The OA III begins with a young Ayrshire couple shagging in 1968 as, forty-odd miles away, Dundalk play at Ibrox, Brit Marling is getting sued. Or I'm at least getting a walk-on.

                                Walk o-o-on. With ... Yeah, it was a privilege to see Ian Rush knock one into the Kop End but it definitely did feel, especially in hindsight, that we were getting a kinda micro-tribute to the full Kop experience that day.

                                Talking of Ayrshire, one of the great Shankly anecdotes is about the dramatic clarity with which he heard the ball hitting the net for England at Hampden when he was playing for his country. As much as I would have preferred to see the classic Liverpool comeback win into the Kop, second half that day, I can still remember the noise of the ball hitting the back of the net so close you could touch it - and the seconds it took for the cheers to come from those awful, purple-coloured seats they had in that corner of the one-tier Anfield Road back then.

                                My other main memory, apart from my own Brit Marling-esque self-indulgence as I made my sister take a photo of me (one of those little disposable party cameras you used to get in petrol stations) as I headed up the stairs and then another as I first stood on the actual Kop for the first time, is a scary old Koppite shouting at Julian Dicks, "You're not in London anymore, Dicks - you might be a hard man down there but ..." something about southern puffs etc., which made me think I better keep my accent quiet or, by his laws of geography, if a fight breaks out everyone will wonder why I'm running away. sobbing.

                                They wouldn't understand it's because I'm just so much more emotional than mortals.
                                Last edited by Alex Anderson; 09-04-2019, 15:43. Reason: *I don't like The OA but I've watched every episode. I've also been to every league ground in Scotland.

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                                  #66
                                  Not much really.

                                  England v Cameroon, Wembley, 1997. England won 2-0 but I missed both goals in the loos (44 and 45 mins). I did however see Chris Sutton's only appearance for England.

                                  England v Netherlands, White Hart Lane, 2001, van Bommel scored a cracker. I was sat a few seats from the pompey bellringer (quite smelly)

                                  Ukraine v Saudi Arabia, Hamburg, 2006 world cup. Really rather dull. I succumbed to fever and bought a half and half scarf.

                                  Austria v Bosnia Herzegovina. Last year, 0-0 but quite good fun with about 15k away fans

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                                    #67
                                    Elland Road and Old Trafford for Euro 96 games.
                                    A few Wales games at Ninian Park and the Millennium Stadium while I was at uni down there.
                                    Easter Road for a 2006 World Cup warm-up game between South Korea and Ghana, which was fun.
                                    An England women's friendly at the Keepmoat in Doncaster.

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                                      #68
                                      Originally posted by seand View Post

                                      MTHP and I chased each other around the Rheinland 13 years ago, it seems
                                      Maybe literally on the first game, as I remember them stopping all the trams and having to walk to the stadium.

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