Bournemouth V Real Madrid

[Con]

was only full v atletico because of cheap tickets

[Carlos]

Indeed, full of kids. Yet we are a massive club.

[Guest bwfcdan]

Maybe if we look at it this way, spent the last 15 years in League One & Two and had never seen such players that Real Madrid possess, would we have filled the Reebok?

 

Certainly not at the prices Bournemouth were charging but I'd imagine a sizeable crowd would have attended if tickets were reasonable.

[DazBob]

Just imagine the cost of the clean-up operation though, when you've got a stadium full of Diddleses releasing 20odd years of pent up frustration.

 

I'd not go out of fear of being bukkaked.

Edited July 22, 2013 by DazBob

[gonzo]

I remember getting all excited when we played Liverpool in a friendly at Burnden park.

 

Now I couldn't give a shit if I never see them play again.

Edited July 22, 2013 by gonzo

[COYW]

There's no dignity in fawning over a team they've paid to come to play them in a pre-season friendly, whilst ripping off their own supporters for the privilege of watching them get battered. 

[Marc505]

I remember getting all excited when we played Liverpool in a friendly at Burnden park.

 

Now I couldn't give a shit if I never see them play again.

Beat them 4-1 didnt we? One of my first ever games that. Someone tell me who scored, all I can remember is that weird ginger kit Liverpool played in. 

[magic legs]

Beat them 4-1 didnt we? One of my first ever games that. Someone tell me who scored, all I can remember is that weird ginger kit Liverpool played in.

That just tells you how much you can read into friendlies.

[Kane57]

Remember being devastated that we lost 0-6 to Brondby in pre-season - went on to win the league that year if memory serves.

[smeghead83]

We played inter Milan in a friendly about 10 years ago at the Reebok, I think the attendance was 22000 that day, tickets were around 20 quid. The fact that Edgar davids was playing at the time added 10000. I bet an Edgar davids' barnet side wouldnt bring us out in droves!

[pato]

Beat them 4-1 didnt we? One of my first ever games that. Someone tell me who scored, all I can remember is that weird ginger kit Liverpool played in. 

I remember David James crying at the "Bruce" chant

[superjohnmcginlay]

I remember getting all excited when we played Liverpool in a friendly at Burnden park.

 

Now I couldn't give a shit if I never see them play again.

What about Liverpool?

[Zico]

We played inter Milan in a friendly about 10 years ago at the Reebok, I think the attendance was 22000 that day, tickets were around 20 quid. The fact that Edgar davids was playing at the time added 10000. I bet an Edgar davids' barnet side wouldnt bring us out in droves!

 

doubt that

 

ED playing at the Reebok after a couple of years in the PL was no big deal

 

it wasn't like when Ruud Gullit turned up at Burden

 

I only went because it was a sunny day with nowt else to do

 

also went to Sheff Weds the day before

 

not been to a friendly since

[smeghead83]

Davids was the pin up boy of the fifa computer game franchise at the time so I reckon a few kids wanted to see him in the flesh. I remember getting a ticket for the east lower and was told it was a sit where you want. It was that packed in there that a bunch of us were escorted to the west upper instead.

[tomski]

Gullit was major, cant believe how excited I was to see him and couldn't quite believe we'd beaten up one of the main men of football Italia.

[DazBob]

Gullit was major, cant believe how excited I was to see him and couldn't quite believe we'd beaten up one of the main men of football Italia.

 

 

Aye, I too was hugely excited to see him playing at Burnden Park. 

 

Thing is, as someone who had known us only ever play in the bottom two leagues it was exciting just to see players who I'd heard of and/or seen on the telly.  There was also a lot less football on the telly in those days too, so that made it even more exciting.

 

I remember getting giddy when we signed Bruno N'Gotty because I'd not only heard of him but he was also great on Champ Manager.

[Sweep]

I remember getting giddy when we signed Bruno N'Gotty because I'd not only heard of him but he was also great on Champ Manager.

 

That was around the time we should have signed To Madeira and Maxim Tsigalko as well  -  but as usual the board didn't want to pay out the cash required. No fucking ambition!  -  I can't even begin to imagine how many goals they would have scored between them

[Kane57]

Gullit was major, cant believe how excited I was to see him and couldn't quite believe we'd beaten up one of the main men of football Italia.

 

Gullit and Vialli in the same game - was fantastic.

 

Remember feeling something similar when we played Chelsea and they had Shevchenko - loved old Gazetta Football Italia so he was  great one to see.

[Traf]

Maxim Tsigalko would have fitted in well at Bolton.

 

He could have been the Sean Davis of old. Due to injuries I think he only played about 130 games in his entire 11 yr career.

But he did score about 60 goals, making him a more viable prospect than the likes of Pedersen, Holdsworth and Elmander to name but three.

[DazBob]

That was around the time we should have signed To Madeira and Maxim Tsigalko as well  -  but as usual the board didn't want to pay out the cash required. No fucking ambition!  -  I can't even begin to imagine how many goals they would have scored between them

 

Tsigalko would never have gotten a work permit ... unless Gartslime used underhand tactics to give him dual nationality...

[Kane57]

Good point - Tommy Svindal Larsen would have been available, mind.

[Sweep]

Tsigalko would never have gotten a work permit ... ...

 

Maybe, but To Madeira would have got one.

 

I expect Carlos as our resident Portugese football  expert will be able to pass comment on how good he could have been

[tomski]

I remember Dennis Wise getting alot of shit from the Burnden terrace that night and took it well if I remember. I think Gullit and Vialli still excite me more than Messi or kaka.

 

Perhaps its like Daz says tv has killed that excitement off or Ive grown up a little, probably more tv though.

 

CWP Shane Tolley was the find of that game. I have Fm ruined my life on kindle and its brilliant how the players who were mint on there are remembered by loads very fondly. Except Andri Sigporrson who is a baker or summat now and was very embarrassed about his cm past.

[Kane57]

My brother bought me that "Football Manager Stole My Life" book at Christmas, it has interviews with people like Svindal Larsen and Sigporrson etc but they seem more bemused by their online fame than owt else.

 

That said, Cherno Samba was supposedly a proper wanker.

[DazBob]

Perhaps its like Daz says tv has killed that excitement off or Ive grown up a little, probably more tv though.

 

 

 

I think the amount of footy on telly has taken away a lot of the excitement.  I reckon that's why I look forward to World Cups and the like a lot less now, not simply because I'm older.

 

In World Cups you'd see players who you'd heard were brilliant but you tended to see very little of them on the telly.  There simply wasn't the coverage. 

 

If, say, Neymar, was playing 20 years ago he'd have rocked up at a World Cup and we'd have hardly heard a thing about him .. and the suddenly he'd have turned into an overnight global sensation.  All the kids would suddenly want to be Neymar on the playground the day after.

 

It's no longer like that.

 

Maybe nostalgia is getting the better of me though.

Edited July 23, 2013 by DazBob