had a journey in thailand that started by leaving the beach on koh phangan by longtail round to another beach (no road), a taxi into the town, another taxi over a road that had been made by just bulldozing over a big hill, an afternoon waiting for a ferry in hadrin, then over to big budda on koh samui.
we went to a bar owned by a mates mate and as we walked in he said, "good news and bad news, the bad first.....my satellite is bust, wait wait dont lose it !! there's a bloke coming to pick you up and take you to his restaraunt to watch the game..... he's a blue !!"
so he gets on the blower and some thai bloke arrives on a plak 90, to take me and mrs bog, he was the blue, he started watching us on tv in the 80's and got his calling. so we sat in his restaraunt with an everton union jack on the wall and some german bloke, eating and drinking and watching the semi-final against spurs at elland rd. with Ammo sticking it right up fritz in the corner and herr klinsmann.
we went home in the back of a pickup, he came with us and put a crate in the back, it was about an hours drive.....took feckin ages on that plak.
i did a hike in malaysia as well to a place where i was told our game was on, i walked in and they were all malaysian man ushoited fans. they were just made up to have an english football fan around, it was all they had to be made up about as big dunc twirled his shirt infront of the gwladys st.
i would've flown home for the cup final if i could've got a ticket.