What are the best pre-season friendlies you have gone to - either for atmosphere,fun, game quality or sheer oddity?
Celtic away in 2001. After a hilarious train journey up to Glasgow (with one or two small drinks along the way), we had a few brews in some boozer near Sauchiehall Street ,then made our way to Parkhead in the pouring rain.
Great ground, great people, absolutely shocking football from Fulham. We lost the game 3-0, but because it was so much fun we all started singing "3-0, we only lost 3-0".
None of us had booked a hotel that evening, believing that Glasgow was a 24 hour city. So after more beers, we went of to a ahem, 'dancing bar' where we danced some of the night away with the ladies. Until about 3am. Then we went to get some food in a kebab shop, noticed a very large pool of blood on the floor and left again immediately. We ended up having drinks in a hotel reception watching athletics while some of us tried to sleep.
At about 5am, we decided to get the first train home. No train running so we slept some more at the station and jumped on a train at about 6am.
Great fun with great people, and there happened to be some kind of football match in between.
I didn't head back to London with the rest of the guys that day. I changed at Crewe and went on down to Bromsgrove as I was meeting my girlfriend's parents for the first time. Talk about first impressions! I turned up at their house stinking of beer and cigarettes with bleary eyes and a football shirt on.
For some reason that relationship didn't quite last.
Marseille 1 v 2 Fulham played down in Nimes during Tigana's reign. There must have been all of oooooh 15 Fulham fans there.
Rennes away was a good laugh a couple of hundred made the trip ... we all had a great day out in Europe .... liitle did we know one day we'd be doing it properly.
Espanyol in Le touget, guessing anywhere between 1500 -2000 Fulham were there. Spent the second half behind one of the goals with Flynny playing football against a couple of French kids and they made us look silly (we was very drunk though) Almost had a fight with a car load of Algerians :033: . and kept winning loads on some weird roulettet wheel only for Flynny to keep losing it. We lost 2-1 i think but could be wrong. Very pleasant seaside town if anyone wanted to visit, spotlessly clean.
I used to like Kingstonian away. Kingston being my home town (Surbiton), i used to love sitting in the pub all day before wandering down to KingsMeadow.
Just had a few good laughs.
Wish we'd play Woking now that thats where i am...
Espanyol was quality cant remember a lot apart from pretending to be a sleep while while fat freddy and ja got extremely wet.And eating frogs legs just taste of garlic,Best part was winding espanyol keeper up and at end of game asking for his shirt to be told to fxxx off which was very fair realy.brilliant laugh.
