Favourite foreign team(s)

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Spain - Málaga. Al fella lives out there, we had season tickets up until 3 years ago, been to San Siro, Porto, Dortmund in CL watching. Hard times.

Germany - FC Koln/SpVgg Unterhaching - Went to watch Hamburg 3 years ago, ended up in Koln away bar, infected. Unterhaching 3rd Tier Munich Team, went when in Munich, and it's an amazing experience.

Netherlands - AZ. Followed them when i was younger, visited them, when they won the league in 2009, and it was boss.

Loosely pay attention to Genoa in Italy, Luch Vladivostok in Russia.
 
Sampdoria.

I was working in London in the early-'90s, the year when the European Cup Final (was it still called that then?) was at Wembley between Barcelona & Sampdoria. I was in digs in Wembley, so headed to the ground to get a programme. Touts trying to sell me tickets for between £50 & £100. Bang on kick-off time, a tout came back and offered me a £12.50 ticket for £20, so I took it. Scoreboard end - Sampdoria fans! Now I've been in some pent-up Everton ends in previous decades, but those Italian fans were something else! I could only understand one word of all they said: 'Bastardo!' - bellowed at the ref every time he gave a decision against them, even if it was right at the other end of the pitch and they couldn't have a clue about it! The most hilarious 120 minutes of my life watching football. Unfortunately, a certain player named Koeman scored the only goal of the game, but the Sampdoria fans took it with good grace and applauded the only Barcelona player who came down to the scoreboard end to applaud them (that was never shown on TV - the Barcelona player tried to beckon the rest of his team-mates to come down to him, but they did not see him).

Never forget that night with the Sampdoria fans!
Might that "Bastardo" have been a chant for
Lombardo? :) (My favourite all time Palace player.)
 
Might that "Bastardo" have been a chant for
Lombardo? :) (My favourite all time Palace player.)

No. Every time the ref blew his whistle against Sampdoria, they were all shouting 'Bastardo!', and a whole pile of them were trying to scale the wire fence at the front each time. I tell you, that was some experience!
 
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