derekfaejapan Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 (edited) I've adopted Omiya Ardija who play in the Japanese J-League 2 as my local team. Been following them for a few years now. We had an awful season last year, relegated from J-League 1 and also sold our best player Zlatan Ljubijankic to our local city rivals (Urawa Red Diamonds). Things have been pretty good recently, just past the midway point in the season here and we're 8 points clear and looking pretty shit hot...Ticket prices at Omiya are about 11 quid, the atmosphere is pretty decent, no trouble at all plus you can take your own booze into the stadium What's the setup with your own local teams? Edited July 10, 2015 by derekfaejapan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecie Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 <-------- Club Africain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekfaejapan Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 <-------- Club Africain How do you get to their home games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 My Irish mate here keeps wanting to drag me to a Chicago Fire game. He's a big football fan. Our fitba', not the Irish type. He's a Cork City boy. So he's constantly on at me to see Maloney play here. But the thought of a bunch of stupid Yanks squealing at saaaaccer puts me off. Daft young tarts eating popcorn and hotdogs just isn't fitba' for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euan2020 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Been in south africa 4 years and never went to 1 match - even on tv quality looks pish - although 1 of my mates went to Cape town ajax match and said good atmosphere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecie Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 How do you get to their home games? I don't anymore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donaldo87 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Not overseas but might have to pick up a London team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave78 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 I kind of follow St. Patrick's Athletic. Only been to a handful of games though (and even most of them were big game 'glamour' euro ties against eastern european teams). Got papped oot the uefa cup last night by Skonto Riga. My Irish mate here keeps wanting to drag me to a Chicago Fire game. He's a big football fan. Our fitba', not the Irish type. He's a Cork City boy. So he's constantly on at me to see Maloney play here. But the thought of a bunch of stupid Yanks squealing at saaaaccer puts me off. Daft young tarts eating popcorn and hotdogs just isn't fitba' for me. I went to a Seattle Sounders V Houston cup game about 8 years ago. It was nothing like you describe! Decent crowd (about 20k... probably more now that the MLS is more popular), good stadium, beer in your seat.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark frae Crieff Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 When posted to London in the early 90's used to go watch Barnet...Their prized asset was Steve Bull of Wolves cousin..Proper game where the crowd could change half during half time... Also cracking pub at tube station "The Dandy Lion.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParisInAKilt Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Melbourne Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Lived in Hamburg HSV fur me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunchy Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Lived in Hamburg HSV fur me What not St pauli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Nnnnoooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Aberdeen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALBANACH Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 I'v been to see Perth Glory a few times. The quality of football here is fairly average and I prefer to watch the Aussie Rules now anyway but I do enjoy going along with a few mates, sitting in a nice stadium in good weather having a laugh with drinks as you watch. Before I moved to Australia I lived in Copenhagen and I regularly went to watch BK Frem, the second oldest team outside of the UK. They had serious money problems around 15 years back and were relegated to the equivalent of the juniors, they have been slowly working up through the leagues since. Great atmospheres at their games with flags, drums , flares and full strength beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Hellas Verona to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yourname Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Montpellier for me. Was here when they won the league in...2012? Then saw them play 2 champions league matches (Arsenal and Schalke), in that will surely be their first and last champions league campaign. Gone downhill since then due to selling the entire team, but finished 7th or 8th last season and am looking forward to the new season already. Not spectacular, but a fairly honest hardworking team....a bit like France's version of stoke but with (very) slightly better football Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Elvis Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Melbourne Heart They're deed... Sydney FC for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 My Irish mate here keeps wanting to drag me to a Chicago Fire game. He's a big football fan. Our fitba', not the Irish type. He's a Cork City boy. So he's constantly on at me to see Maloney play here. But the thought of a bunch of stupid Yanks squealing at saaaaccer puts me off. Daft young tarts eating popcorn and hotdogs just isn't fitba' for me. I saw the Whitecaps play, canny mind who against but it was OK, they won 4-0 and Robson and Miller played. We moved from family zone which was cheap tickets to "the south side" where the main supporters group is with a megaphone. Me and my mate from Shrewsbury made more noise than them ourselves but the atmosphere was OK. It's growing every year and if I still lived over that way I'd consider going to most games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdam scot Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Ajax for me. Had a season ticket for last 10 years, as well as a Partick Thistle season card . On occasion been to a Jags game on Saturday and then flew back and watched Ajax on the Sunday, not much of a difference. When I moved here a lot of expats ( for want of a better word ) preferred to sit in pub and watch Scottish games live on TV than go watch Ajax. Coming originally from Campbeltown and going to any game in Scotland meant a lot of travel then with a club as famous as Ajax on doorstep I wasn't going to miss chance to go watch them. For many a year it was very barren by Ajax standards, no league title for 8 years and then possibly with worst team I had seen they won 4 in a row. Best thing though has been seeing a lot of players starting their careers here before moving onto bigger clubs, the list includes Suarez, Ibrahimovic, Sneider, Van Der Vaart, Vertonghen, Vermhaalen, Aldeirwerld, Eriksen, Huntelaar, Blind, Maxwell, Chivu, Emanuelson, Galasek, Grygera, De Jong amongst others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 (edited) What not St pauli HSV are a proper club with proper fans. St Pauli are the hipsters version of Bayern Munich. I'm off today to see the real Hamburg alternative Altona 93 play at Dulwich Hamlet Edited July 11, 2015 by aaid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Dulwich Hamlet That sounds more foreign than any team I've seen mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Gills Mcginty Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Neftchi Baku, been to a few of they're European games, Inter played them and wee Philipe Coutinho was termendous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Neftchi Baku, been to a few of they're European games, Inter played them and wee Philipe Coutinho was termendous There's always one smart arse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Gills Mcginty Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 haha, how's that? I am a smart erse, but on this occasion its not on purpose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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