Where abroad have you watched football/sports events?

[ToffeeDan]

By abroad I mean outside the United Kingdom (so no, not Wales or Scotland or Northern Ireland (if you're English)

At the ground/venue:

1. Your team

(Everton) Belgium (pre-season), Germany (UEFA Cup)..

2. Any other game

Mallorca (v West Ham), Israel (league games - double-header)

3. Other sports:

Green Bay (American Football), France (Grand Prix)

[Barrett]

I have only seen one sports game abroad and that was Nurnberg vs Everton in the UEFA Cup in 07/08.

[foxes1]

I have seen Leicester City played Red Star Belgrade in Vienna.

Also seen
French Lge matches in Montpellier and Amiens.
Italian Lge game at Venezia.
Once saw Port Vale play Ajax 'B' in Lloret -De-Mar.

[Auchinleckian]

Seen Grimsby play pre season tours in both Denmark and Sweden at the start of the century (this one, not the last!) On holiday have watched games in Naxos (largest island in the Greek Cyclades) Lanzarote, Majorca, Marseille vs Nice last season, Barcelona vs Shaktar Donetsk 2005 C.League, GAIS (Gothenburg) AIK Gothenburg, Orgryte (Gothenburg)
Seen Wales play France in the 6 Nations at the Stade de Paris (me, the wife, and 30,000 other Welsh folk - amazing) and seen Auchinleck Talbot in Belfast, the first time a Scottish Junior team have played in Northern Ireland.
Sure have watched numerous other games but memories fade with time.....

[surfinjim]

Toronto Blue Jays v Seattle Mariners at American Rounders!


Shouldn't say that really as it is now one of my favourite sports.

Jim
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Bolder, Blackhall, Williamson, Smith, Pickering, Hornsby, King, Johnson, McCulloch, Mellor, Curran.

Scorers; Mellor, King, Curran, Smith (pen)

GODS EVERY ONE OF THEM!

[stodin]

Forest - Auxerre

Notts County - Brescia

Hucknall - Llanelli

England -
Poland x2
San marino at bologna
Sweden (Malmo) England v Denmark Euro 92
Norway x2
Georgia
Marseille
Toulouse
Lens
St Etienne
Paris
Nantes
Montpellier
Italy
Holland
Switzerland

Gaelic football - Dublin

[Barrett]

Oh have also watched Barcelona at the Nou Camp vs Getafe.

[Tigerhawk]

Other sports : I bowled in Vienna does that Count, in the European Corporative Championships

[Wulfrunian]

watched barcelona v wolves at the neu camp in european cup.
PSV v wolves in UEFA cup
watched world karate championships in the olympic centre in tokyo,
Also watched a baseball game in the tokyo dome....what an amazing experience. The crowd was just amazing (but so choreographed)
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[PRESTON WCFC]

I've done quite a few

Real Madrid v Espanyol

AC Milan v Inter, Juventus,

Inter v some team who played West Ham in the UEFA Cup

Atalanta v mantova

Lazio v Valencia

Bad Ems v Bayern Munich

Also did 5 days of Athletics at the Athens Olympics inc the day we won two golds

Oh and to top it also did the opening ceremony of the Turin Winter Olympics
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[James]

Seen Ice Hockey overseas, 32 NHL games in the USA/Canada and 2 Minor league games in USA.

Seen games at:
Anaheim Ducks(x3)
Atlanta Thrashers
Boston Bruins(x3)
Chicago Blackhawks(x2)
Columbus BlueJackets (My team )
Dallas Stars(x3)
Detroit Red Wings
Los Angeles Kings
Montreal Canadiens
Nashville Predators(x3)
New Jersey Devils(x2)
New York Rangers(x2)
New York Islanders
Philadelphia Flyers
Phoenix Coyotes(x3)
Phoenix Roadrunners (Minor league game)
Providence Bruins(Minor league game)
St Louis Blues
Toronto Maple Leafs
Washington Capitals(x2)

Been to many different stadiums/arenas for American Football, Lacrosse, Basketball, Soccer, Nascar and Baseball across USA/Canada although not watched any of the other sports yet.

Saw a local Cricket game in Bermuda.

[oldbolt]

I saw Bolton's Uefa Cup ties at Lokomotiv Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and Atletico Madrid.
Other than that Belgium v Wales in a World Cup qualifier at Anderlecht's ground in Nov 1992.

[Barrett]

I'd love to be able to watch derbies all across Europe or even just the BIG games.

I've obviously done an English derby: Everton vs Liverpool.

I'd love to do the following games though:

AC Milan vs Inter Milan
Barcelona vs Real Madrid
Rangers vs Celtic
Porto v Sporting Lisbon (is that the biggest game in Portugal?)

And I can't think of anymore at the moment!

Are they hard to get tickets for?

[craig]

Cardiff v Swansea!

[Barrett]

Craig wrote:

Cardiff v Swansea!

I want to watch 'BIG' games

How hard would it be to get a ticket for this mate?

[Senior82]

Went to the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow to watch Russia V England in 2007. Been to quite a few others but that was the furthest.

Not seen Wednesday abroad yet (unless Wales counts?!)

Went to Toulouse to watch Sheffield Eagles play in March (In a LEAGUE match!!!)

[Senior82]

Forgot to mention I have also been to see England rugby League team in Toulouse too, and me and two mates already have a savings fund going for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup in Australia

[arsenal288]

1971 koln v arsenal (germany)
1995 zarragoza v arsenal (paris)
a malta v croatia(before the war) world cup qualifier
and a tupenny 'alfpenny' game in ichmeler(turkey)
and now tell us kind people.......
what was the worst game you have ever watched ...LIVE!.
mine was.....plymouth v brentford (year?????) 1-1 draw and the plymouth supporters where going bonkers(rioting) so they told the brentford supporters that they had to stay on for 1/2 hour after the game?????????????????????????????? there was only 2,800 people at the game...not quite a riot situation aye!. the game was that bad i left before they locked the gates to keep us in.
i have never seen seagulls shit sutch big missiles, but only on the away support...homing gulls me thinks

[James]

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what was the worst game you have ever watched ...LIVE!. mine was.....plymouth v brentford (year?????) 1-1 draw and the plymouth supporters where going bonkers(rioting) so they told the brentford supporters that they had to stay on for 1/2 hour after the game?????????????????????????????? there was only 2,800 people at the game...not quite a riot situation aye!. the game was that bad i left before they locked the gates to keep us in. i have never seen seagulls shit sutch big missiles, but only on the away support...homing gulls me thinks

hmmm funny that i had a very unpleasant experiance at Plymouth when i went with my cousin to see them at Home to Gillingham early/mid 90's, after the game we were near the train station and the plymouth fans were hurling bricks etc at the gills fans there, we looked at each other and though stuff that, i said i got an aunt in cornwall so we stood on the opposite platform got the train into cornwall and went home the next day, first sighting of football violence and was appalled to be honest

[ToffeeDan]

Worst game: Well from an Everton perspective: 0-4 home v Bolton late 2005 would be right up there (and only weeks after going to The Hawthorns where we gave in 4-0 - Gallagher gave a pen when Earnshaw belly flopped INTO the area). The week before, strangely, I had enjoyed us dominate in a 1-1 at Old Trafford. Here we were ok for 30-40 minutes but some of the Bolton boot boys made sure they softened us up and the ref (Wiley), frankly was just dire. We went 1-0 down against the run of play and, for a while still did ok. But they hit us (literally) 3 times in 5 minutes late on and it was a dispiriting moment - to lose 4-0 at home against an ordinary team. Next up we were walloped 4-0 at Villa (Mike Riley allowed a double-handball in the build-up to (I think the first) and a clear shove in the box (for the 2nd) but miraculously we had one disallowed too). Prior to this game we had our rare home defeat to West Ham (1-2) - it happens every 11 years apparently (72, 83, 94, 05).

This wasn't the best fortnight of my life either - my mother died a few days later (on the day we lost 3-1 at home to Liverpool, frankly it could have been 10-1 for all I cared)

But that game sticks out in my mind cos it's just about the only time I've regretted going to the game (it was a 400 mile round trip in those days).

2-6 at home to Man U, 0-5 at home to Liverpool would be a couple of results worth erasing from the memory banks!!

In terms of entertainment - or not in these instances - some 0-0 draws over the years have been awful.