Exotic places watching Town

Followed the end of last season while I was in India for 6 weeks, one of my colleagues is now over here from India for 6 months and I took him to the Accy game so that counts for him.  

Have never heard of anyone who went on the Icelandic tour back in 80s, or the youth tournaments they used to play at NAC Brdea in the 70s Anyone know different? The NAC tournaments were actually won by Town (twice I think) and were used a breeding ground for all the young lads that came to prominence in the 1970s.

Great life experiences JDT. Very frightening at the time, but something to tell the Fishy and
your grandchildren years later.   Probably shape you as a person as well.

The most "exotic" experience I have watched Town was in Scunny in about 1970.  Four of us (all teenagers) caught a very early bus from Mablethorpe.  We were in the ground early in the Scunny end, along with a large contingent of Town fans.  Until more home fans came in and we were forced out.

After the game many Town fans were cut-off at some crossroads and chased by a much larger group of Scunny fans.  Weall had to ran hard to get out of the way.

In the chaos the 4 of us were split into pairs.  We could not get to the bus station to get home.  We had to hitchhike out of Scunny to get to Mablethorpe.  Hitching at a large roundabout (without any colours showing), a van of gypo's came by.  The van had sliding doors. I shouted a warning but as it came by my mate got hit across the back with a walking stick. Very painful.    (We did all make it home eventually).

Scumthorpe is therefore not my favourite away game or town.  Bad memories.    

I well remember a "soccer special" - those were the days - going to Scunny and somebody pulling the chord about a mile outside the town. Police came and weren't very happy at all, especially when  the train emptied and everyone went across the fields to get into Scunny. Think that was probably 1972-3.

The football specials were a great day out, as did the old early bird trains to London when we played the likes of Brentford, or the Manchester line for games like Bury, where you got your train tickets for about 75% cost price if you saved Persil vouchers! Lost count pof the amount of times they got totally wrecked by a few nutters, which eventually led to them being disbanded of course.

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I saw them play somewhere near Malmo in Sweden one preseason.
I remember seeing Livvo and Gallimore and a few others having a few in the main square in Malmo

Happy memories of both trips. Trelleborg was the playing field with the marquees and jazz band. i seemed to remember a lad getting very piissed  who ended up sitting on the Town bench in his kit. Ystaad was the othe game down there, lovely old Town centre where i discovered pear cider for the first time.
I think the Herfolge (with the tiger taxi) was the year after.Tiny village with a tupidly big ground for the size of the place.They'd unexpectedly won the Danish League and hosted Rangers the year before. We also played FC copenhagen, and had  avery pleasant evening intheir fans favourite Copenhagen bar

Ystaad was a beautiful place. My wife and I had bed and breakfast with a lovely couple there for a week. It's where Wallander is filmed although I've never seen the ground on it.

Got taken around the ground by some proud committee men when I turned up early, and then spent the rest of the day drinking great beer outside their wee club whilst all the other Town fans were sat down, dry, near the halfway line!

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I well remember a "soccer special" - those were the days - going to Scunny and somebody pulling the chord about a mile outside the town. Police came and weren't very happy at all, especially when  the train emptied and everyone went across the fields to get into Scunny. Think that was probably 1972-3.

The football specials were a great day out, as did the old early bird trains to London when we played the likes of Brentford, or the Manchester line for games like Bury, where you got your train tickets for about 75% cost price if you saved Persil vouchers! Lost count pof the amount of times they got totally wrecked by a few nutters, which eventually led to them being disbanded of course.

I went on three special trains, one to Bolton, one to Hull City one Tuesday night and one to Wolves.

When the Hull train pulled into the station at Boothferry park hundreds climbed over a small fence and got in for nothing, on the way back the feds kept the train outside Thorne so when we got back to Grimsby it was after closing time.

The Wolves train broke down and we got their well after kick off.

I remember the wolves train breaking down and missing the kick-off we might have been a goal down when I got in can't remember for sure, only remember thousands of town fans and we had a crap view, happy days 😀

Ibiza town was a top weekend good turnout from town fans, only thing I can remember from  the game was the naked town fan swinging from the cross bar 😂

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Ibiza town was a top weekend good turnout from town fans, only thing I can remember from  the game was the naked town fan swinging from the cross bar 😂

The island's got a couple of Spanish fifth tier clubs, San Rafel and UD Ibiza as well as the team we played then, Sant Antoni de Portmany and a couple of other clubs further down in standard but with half decent stadiums. There's around a dozen leagues at fifth tier in Spain that are regionalised, so below fourth tier English football, but would make for a livelier pre-season tour than Devon..