Strangest place you've watched the Whites

[CAPSLOCK]

On the night of Heysel, I was in Willows Lane Park watching a reserve team play a charity match on a gravel pitch, but I can beat that

1984, I watched us play here

http://moyolapark-fc.com/xcx07/index.ph ... &Itemid=48

It was in the private grounds of a country house

The pitch was in a bit of a clearing in the trees

There were no stands and armed cops/police patrolled the trees

Moyola Park will entertain Cliftonville FC on 23rd May 2009 to bring down the curtain on 129 years of football in the famous Moyola Park which is one of the oldest grounds in the World.

Club Chairman Robin Martin said “This will be a very sad day for all involved with Moyola Park either past or present and also football in general”.

Numerous teams have played in the Park including some from across the water which included, Queens Park, Airdrie, Raith Rovers, St Mirren and Bolton Wanderers, along with local clubs such as Linfield, Glentoran, Derry City, Coleraine and the first team to grace the hallowed turf, Cliftonville. Other teams to play in the Park in the famous Garvin cup where Shankill Strollers and Derry Harps to name but a few.

A few days earlier, I'd been to Windsor Park and got a severe bollocking for having driven down The Falls with mainland plates

[superjohnmcginlay]

Skopje. Well I say watched, I know I was there.

[Bruce Rioja]

On the night of Heysel, I was in Willows Lane Park watching a reserve team play a charity match on a gravel pitch

We used to play Brandwood Street on that, absolutely hated it. They always used to beat us on it and I always used to end up with blood running down my shins. We mullered them on grass though.

Anyway. Borgas.

[ratbert]

Does Gigg Lane count as a strange place?

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Does Gigg Lane count as a strange place?

Bugger! I was just going to type that!

[CAPSLOCK]

On the night of Heysel, I was in Willows Lane Park watching a reserve team play a charity match on a gravel pitch

We used to play Brandwood Street on that, absolutely hated it. They always used to beat us on it and I always used to end up with blood running down my shins. We mullered them on grass though.

Anyway. Borgas.

I'll give you Bourgas

Skopje could've been anywhere, any one of loads of games I've been to

Being on the beach in 80degree heat pre match was 'different'

[TonyDomingos]

Pre-season friendly against Lyngby in Denmark in July 2000.

A beautiful summer's afternoon, with an endless supply of beer and hot dogs from a van parked at the top of the terrace. A trip to the so-called free state of Cristiana the previous day for smoking "supplies" ensured a mellow mood....

Team made up of mostly trialists & reserves were greeted by "who are ya?" from the few dozen Bolton fans there. Lost 6-0, but a great day out in an obscure Copenhagen suburb.

[spraggy]

I remember listening to the FA cup quarter final v Charlton on a shortwave radio on the roof of a hotel in Pokhara, Nepal. Happy days!

(I've just re-read the thread and this doesn't really count - woops!)

[TANGODANCER]

Directly behind a support at Goodison. Spent the whole match doing a Harry Worth impersonation and saw next to fxxk all of the game.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Directly behind a support at Goodison. Spent the whole match doing a Harry Worth impersonation and saw next to fxxk all of the game.

Perhaps Harry Worth in the shop window references
may be lost on our younger readers, TD, unless there are re-runs or he was active longer than I thought.

[TANGODANCER]

[Juewanderer]

I'm not sure this counts as it was our reserves , but i was unfortunate enough to be in attendance for Fleetwood V Bolton pre-season game(which Bolton lost) ..... Seemed like the logical thing to do with me living in Blackpool, how wrong could i be. There was about ten Wanderers there and it was like a scene from Village of the dammed, everytime i glanced around i found i was being glared at.

I ended up escaping at half time feeling lucky to be in one piece...all in all ,not a good experience

[Harry Genshaw]

Northampton away on the last day of the 1988/89 season was a bit odd. They shared the ground with the cricket team and had already removed one of the stands running the length of the pitch in preparation. It seemed odd watching professionals ducking under a rope to pick the ball up on a bit of open park land.

[marshall_42]

On the night of Heysel, I was in Willows Lane Park watching a reserve team play a charity match on a gravel pitch, but I can beat that

1984, I watched us play here

http://moyolapark-fc.com/xcx07/index.ph ... &Itemid=48

It was in the private grounds of a country house

The pitch was in a bit of a clearing in the trees

There were no stands and armed cops/police patrolled the trees

Moyola Park will entertain Cliftonville FC on 23rd May 2009 to bring down the curtain on 129 years of football in the famous Moyola Park which is one of the oldest grounds in the World.

Club Chairman Robin Martin said “This will be a very sad day for all involved with Moyola Park either past or present and also football in general”.

Numerous teams have played in the Park including some from across the water which included, Queens Park, Airdrie, Raith Rovers, St Mirren and Bolton Wanderers, along with local clubs such as Linfield, Glentoran, Derry City, Coleraine and the first team to grace the hallowed turf, Cliftonville. Other teams to play in the Park in the famous Garvin cup where Shankill Strollers and Derry Harps to name but a few.

A few days earlier, I'd been to Windsor Park and got a severe bollocking for having driven down The Falls with mainland plates

Nothing wrong driving in Belfast with French plates...unless of course you meant plates from the adjacent island close to the mainland?

[bobo the clown]

In a bar in Ashkelon, Israel, just 5m from the Gaza border, with Helicopter gunships overhead and anti-diver speedboats at sea as we beat Spurs a good few years ago.

Funny ... you know how DSpurs have a lot of Jeswish fans ? Well ..... a lot of unhappy locals as we won.

[General Mannerheim]

im fairly wet behind the ears for this kind of stuff, but Serbia was pretty fookin strange!

[seanworth]

I understand this is supposed to be watching live but regardless I remember watching Bolton vs Chelsea in 98 while in an outside bar in Mae Sot on the Burmese border. Back then it was rare to catch a Bolton game in Thailand. The excitement turned into depression though with the result. At that time I felt we would never go up again and the chance to watch Bolton again seemed very remote, a bit like where I was. To top it off it was 7 days later that I came down with dengue.

[William the White]

I understand this is supposed to be watching live but regardless I remember watching Bolton vs Chelsea in 98 while in an outside bar in Mae Sot on the Burmese border. Back then it was rare to catch a Bolton game in Thailand. The excitement turned into depression though with the result. At that time I felt we would never go up again and the chance to watch Bolton again seemed very remote, a bit like where I was. To top it off it was 7 days later that I came down with dengue.

If we are allowed this - and i don't see why not - I watched the home defeat by wolves at the end of 1977, mentioned by Worthy in another thread, in a house made of mud bricks in Omdurman. It had a camel tied up outside that kept making camel noises (do camels bray, and, if not, what do they do?) which I accompanied by groans of despair as promotion disappeared over the horizon until camel and i were the cacophony twins...

[seanworth]

I understand this is supposed to be watching live but regardless I remember watching Bolton vs Chelsea in 98 while in an outside bar in Mae Sot on the Burmese border. Back then it was rare to catch a Bolton game in Thailand. The excitement turned into depression though with the result. At that time I felt we would never go up again and the chance to watch Bolton again seemed very remote, a bit like where I was. To top it off it was 7 days later that I came down with dengue.

If we are allowed this - and i don't see why not - I watched the home defeat by wolves at the end of 1977, mentioned by Worthy in another thread, in a house made of mud bricks in Omdurman. It had a camel tied up outside that kept making camel noises (do camels bray, and, if not, what do they do?) which I accompanied by groans of despair as promotion disappeared over the horizon until camel and i were the cacophony twins...

Now that's impressive and during the 70's no less. Were you simply traveling or working?

[CAPSLOCK]

Or option 3 - striking