I'm not sure why? but this coach has reminded me of another occasion many years ago In Istanbul (not 2005)...
Anyway, the misses and I were in Istanbul for the footy (can't remember the year, getting old). For what ever reason the club advised fans to meet for a bus transfer from some where near the Blue Mosque. More often than not we would usually make our own way to a ground, but as we were around that area we decided to try and get one of the buses. We done the usual thing when on these trips, find a place to have a beer and bit of food and wait (nearby) ...anyway too cut a long story short, the organisation by the Club was some what short of nothing
not many stewards about and no buses to be seen. I seem to remember there was a BIG concern for possible trouble on this trip. There were several fans starting to get frustrated and angry at the lack of communication and there was no sign of coaches and kick off was approaching.
All of a sudden we get a whisper that some of the Scouse lads have organised a private bus for them and their mates, which will be just up the road. I grab the misses and drag her up the road (not literally, I may add
) yes she was questioning what or even why I would do this?? I told her to be quiet and go with the flow. when we tried to get on the bus this lad said no sorry this is a private bus we have organised for us and friends, so we had to step aside (he literally pushed us out of the way). Standing back, and having the misses saying 'see, told you we should of stayed where we were and waited'. I thought to myself no way am I not getting on the bus...So back we went, try again, same lad I told you before, looked at him and said to be honest mate, if you was in my position with your misses there would be no way he would not try and get on the bus, by this time lads behind were getting frustrated with us holding things up (it was not he best of conversation, as you can imagine
) All of a sudden with a little push (and dragging the misses through some lads in front) we was on the bus
. this bloke was trying to shout at us to get off, but his mates thought it was really funny and also they were having a go at him because I was with my Bird and they thought he should of let her on anyway. We got ushered to the back and the lads said he would calm down (he was not happy because a load of the lads were giving him a hard time for not letting us on in the first place as we had been in and around them for quite a while.
They say what happens abroad should stay abroad, so just picture us on the back of a coach, full of lads doing?
?? There was another couple of girls on the bus as well but this trip to the game was one of the BEST. It was BOSS on that coach
.
We only just made the Kick off as well.
Just in case anyone is wondering? yes we did pay the £10 each that everyone was paying and also the lad came up to us (collecting the money) and said Fare play, he would of done the same.
Me and the misses have laughed about this on many a Euro away trip and also wondered how on earth someone got a coach organised at such short notice?
