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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

Pre -Season Games


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This is ringing a big bell for me. I seem to recall us playing a club in Neuss and Westfalia Herne? 

 

we played a team near Dosseldorf (can't remember their name) a guy called Stephen Rothwell organised the trip we had 2 coaches that went on the ferry from Hull to Rotterdam, remember taking all the flags off the flagpoles and using them like chopsticks to nick everything through the fence of the onboard duty free shop, non of us had a cabin so the crew who were all tiny African blokes gave us all a blanket and tried to bed us all down for the night in deck chairs, we had a trail of blankets all across the North sea, one lad got caught shaging a girl by her dad and all Hell broke loose, they had a prison cell on board and the local plod were waiting for the ship to dock, a couple of lads didn't make it into Holland, we got back on the coach and drove to Dusseldorf arriving in time to cause some serious damage to their beer inventory, some of us found a porno cinema and were enjoying the delights of a few German blueys when a commotion broke out behind us....some young Bolton kid had found a screwdriver and was in the process of removing the hinges from the locked box where they kept the 8mm movies (yes it was that long ago) ....everyone thrown out we all met up to get back on the coaches and go to the game, unfortunatly nobody had took the time to give the drivers directions...we all arrived at half time and the Krouts still wanted us to pay to get in......down went the fence and we all ran up a hill and over the top to discover that the stadium was like a big bowl....the locals didnt see us coming and all ran to the other end....thinking it was WW2 all over again....we feasted on real glass bottles of beer that the sellers brought to you, and I remember they also sold BBQ fish still with their heads on....after the game we all went on the lash befre getting back on the coach driving through Belgium to Calais and back on the ferry to Dover....Brilliant weekend !!

 

Now the following year we played about 3 games on a German tour, definately Stuttgart as we went to their shiney new stadium that was built for the World Cup, we all stayed on a campsite opposite the ground and banged all our old shilling coins in the machings as they were exactly the same size as a German Mark, they had cold bottle beers and buttys in the machines....the owner was well pissed off when he empted the machines the following morning....we definately played a team called Delmahorst because that is where I borrowed the German Horn from that I used to seronade Burnden with.....can't remember who else we played but I flew in for that tour and travelled around on a train pass, soon got sick of trying to sleep on an overnight train, we all bunked in Big Dave's room one night....he was the only guy with any real German money....and one night Roy Greaves, Sam, Reidy and a few others sneaked me into their hotel and I kipped on the floor.....

Now THOSE were the days  !!

 

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we played a team near Dosseldorf (can't remember their name) a guy called Stephen Rothwell organised the trip we had 2 coaches that went on the ferry from Hull to Rotterdam, remember taking all the flags off the flagpoles and using them like chopsticks to nick everything through the fence of the onboard duty free shop, non of us had a cabin so the crew who were all tiny African blokes gave us all a blanket and tried to bed us all down for the night in deck chairs, we had a trail of blankets all across the North sea, one lad got caught shaging a girl by her dad and all Hell broke loose, they had a prison cell on board and the local plod were waiting for the ship to dock, a couple of lads didn't make it into Holland, we got back on the coach and drove to Dusseldorf arriving in time to cause some serious damage to their beer inventory, some of us found a porno cinema and were enjoying the delights of a few German blueys when a commotion broke out behind us....some young Bolton kid had found a screwdriver and was in the process of removing the hinges from the locked box where they kept the 8mm movies (yes it was that long ago) ....everyone thrown out we all met up to get back on the coaches and go to the game, unfortunatly nobody had took the time to give the drivers directions...we all arrived at half time and the Krouts still wanted us to pay to get in......down went the fence and we all ran up a hill and over the top to discover that the stadium was like a big bowl....the locals didnt see us coming and all ran to the other end....thinking it was WW2 all over again....we feasted on real glass bottles of beer that the sellers brought to you, and I remember they also sold BBQ fish still with their heads on....after the game we all went on the lash befre getting back on the coach driving through Belgium to Calais and back on the ferry to Dover....Brilliant weekend !!

 

Now the following year we played about 3 games on a German tour, definately Stuttgart as we went to their shiney new stadium that was built for the World Cup, we all stayed on a campsite opposite the ground and banged all our old shilling coins in the machings as they were exactly the same size as a German Mark, they had cold bottle beers and buttys in the machines....the owner was well pissed off when he empted the machines the following morning....we definately played a team called Delmahorst because that is where I borrowed the German Horn from that I used to seronade Burnden with.....can't remember who else we played but I flew in for that tour and travelled around on a train pass, soon got sick of trying to sleep on an overnight train, we all bunked in Big Dave's room one night....he was the only guy with any real German money....and one night Roy Greaves, Sam, Reidy and a few others sneaked me into their hotel and I kipped on the floor.....

Now THOSE were the days !!

 

Brilliant. ????
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we played a team near Dosseldorf (can't remember their name) a guy called Stephen Rothwell organised the trip we had 2 coaches that went on the ferry from Hull to Rotterdam, remember taking all the flags off the flagpoles and using them like chopsticks to nick everything through the fence of the onboard duty free shop, non of us had a cabin so the crew who were all tiny African blokes gave us all a blanket and tried to bed us all down for the night in deck chairs, we had a trail of blankets all across the North sea, one lad got caught shaging a girl by her dad and all Hell broke loose, they had a prison cell on board and the local plod were waiting for the ship to dock, a couple of lads didn't make it into Holland, we got back on the coach and drove to Dusseldorf arriving in time to cause some serious damage to their beer inventory, some of us found a porno cinema and were enjoying the delights of a few German blueys when a commotion broke out behind us....some young Bolton kid had found a screwdriver and was in the process of removing the hinges from the locked box where they kept the 8mm movies (yes it was that long ago) ....everyone thrown out we all met up to get back on the coaches and go to the game, unfortunatly nobody had took the time to give the drivers directions...we all arrived at half time and the Krouts still wanted us to pay to get in......down went the fence and we all ran up a hill and over the top to discover that the stadium was like a big bowl....the locals didnt see us coming and all ran to the other end....thinking it was WW2 all over again....we feasted on real glass bottles of beer that the sellers brought to you, and I remember they also sold BBQ fish still with their heads on....after the game we all went on the lash befre getting back on the coach driving through Belgium to Calais and back on the ferry to Dover....Brilliant weekend !!

 

Now the following year we played about 3 games on a German tour, definately Stuttgart as we went to their shiney new stadium that was built for the World Cup, we all stayed on a campsite opposite the ground and banged all our old shilling coins in the machings as they were exactly the same size as a German Mark, they had cold bottle beers and buttys in the machines....the owner was well pissed off when he empted the machines the following morning....we definately played a team called Delmahorst because that is where I borrowed the German Horn from that I used to seronade Burnden with.....can't remember who else we played but I flew in for that tour and travelled around on a train pass, soon got sick of trying to sleep on an overnight train, we all bunked in Big Dave's room one night....he was the only guy with any real German money....and one night Roy Greaves, Sam, Reidy and a few others sneaked me into their hotel and I kipped on the floor.....

Now THOSE were the days  !!

 

christ -how do you remember it in so much detail - most of its a blur

Remember one game we all got in by mingling in with the players

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Just re-watched the first half very few positives but ZC looked sharp, Madine aerial threat, we will see more from Feeney and Wallker when their played on the side of the pitch there supposed to play, now the negatives Twardick (not sure what position he was playing) and Hayden White if they get near our first team on a regular basis were in trouble Whites first touch is a tackle and a bad one at that, Danns and Medo central mid are too similar we badly need someone in midfield who's got height and presence who can win the ball and play the easy pass, lots of work to do in pre-season training on fitness as you'd expect be interesting to see how fit they are in 2-3 weeks.

P.S. The you tube feed was superb as was the commentator.????

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