Back to 1990 then for this little blog post. As you may know I am a Glentoran supporter. Due to the fact that I have lived in England for 5 years, I obviously don’t go to see them a lot anymore, but there were times in the early 1990s that I used to go almost Read more about Bangor 2-1 Glentoran (Budweiser Cup, 20th October 1990)[…]
When I think back now – its kind of like, yes I’ve been to Anfield, I went there to watch Liverpool v. Tottenham Hotspur, and it was 12 years ago and now that I’ve done that I can tick it off without any real need to visit Anfield again. Anfield is the home of the Read more about Liverpool 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Anfield Trip, Liverpool, England February 1996[…]
September 2004 came round, and AFC Bournemouth were playing some incredible football. We beat Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 at Hillsborough one Saturday in the league, then knocked Blackburn Rovers out of the Carling Cup the subsequent Wednesday night (a match which I went to and will recount at some stage), and then we had the task Read more about “Go Home; You Might As Well Go Home!!” – AFC Bournemouth 5-0 Doncaster Rovers…September 2004[…]
It was early 2007 and I was busy planning more South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club days out. The first one was Oxford to meet Jimmy Quinn and Darren Patterson, the next one was Weston Super Mare to let Sammy G host a meeting, and the third one fell into place rather easily! Probably Read more about 4-0 And You Still Don’t Sing! (De Ja Vu in Gillingham Kent 13th May 2007)[…]
Winter in Switzerland will always sound appealing, and this one crept up so slowly and passed by so quick I barely noticed. It was in March 2007, and even recounting the experience 18 months on is hard to do, now I reside with a lovely wisdom-full Swiss lady called Corinne Luescher, the hazy memory Read more about Switzerland Snowtime🇨🇭: My Time Backpacking in Zurich[…]
It was one of those cities (and Slovakia one of those countries) that I had somehow missed on my 2007 World Tour, despite it being one of those I was so close to at certains points. I was fairly close to Mexico, when in Los Angeles. I was also close to Australia when in New Read more about To Bratislava…[…]
I first met Sammy G (Sam Gordon) back in 2006 at the SOE NISC meeting in Bristol. He came with his son, Chris and is an ex Belfast man now living in Weston Super Mare. As it was the idea to rotate all the meetings, we decided to finally hold our Weston Super Mare meeting Read more about Weston – Super – Mare, April 2007[…]
If you told anyone who religiously followed the Northern Ireland football team in the 1980s that we could ever go FOUR years without a home win, they’d laugh at ye…however things got rather grim once upon a time as a true Northern Ireland die hard. With 1999 being a total disaster at home, with no Read more about “Four years, it only took four years…”: Northern Ireland 2-0 Azerbaijan[…]