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 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[…]
By early 2007, the South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club decided to hit Oxford, the furthest north we had ventured for a meeting (except the mainland NISC 5 a sides). There were four Northern Ireland fans based in Oxford, none of whom had actually attended our meeting our even joined our club, and with Read more about The City of Oxford Turns Northern Irish! SOENISC at The University Derby – Oxford United v Cambridge United[…]
December 2006 came round rather quickly and suddenly the South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club were a year old, and as with a tradition that began a year earlier, we were off to Weymouth again, for what will forever be known as our WAGM (Weymouth Annual Green Meeting). The date was set as the Read more about WAGM = Weymouth Annual Green Meeting (December 2006)[…]
Actually a bit of a sad story this one…I did indeed first get into football in the 1986 World Cup. Northern Ireland had qualified again, and my Dad had managed to go to a few of the matches in the previous 6 years or so, including buying me a programme for the 1-0 win over Read more about My (LOST) Mexico 86 Panini Album…and the day I fell in love with football (May 1986)[…]
It all reached a very very surreal peak when I led the troops of the South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club all the way to the Isle of Wight in the first year of my chairmanship of the club. It may just sound like we fancied a party on the island, but the story Read more about The Isle of Wight was The Isle of GREEN – Taking Over The Island (November 2006)[…]