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StuartL wrote:Just something that I have been wondering at Herd.
you said that the press couldn't believe that someone was coming all the way over from America to watch the game (supporting us and hoping for a win)
How on earth would they know without someone telling them ??
I didn't tell my local Suffolk press that I was attending the match and got no publicity at all.
The club told them after I rang up the travel club and got a ticket .
I had the evening standard daily mail and LWT ring me up in the US,there were some articles apparently but I never saw them .
On the back of the LWT Interview I rang up Virgin and told them I would wear a Virgin shirt if they paid my airfare which they declined so I shelled out about 450 quid to get home via BA ,when I got home my old man gave me 20 quid to buy a drink ,told him to keep it and put it arsenal to win 2-0 @ 16-1 ,I then gave him 50 for Arsenal to win the league @ 8-1 which he did . Next Day went to pick up the winnings and the Manager who knew my old man but not me came up to the counter wearing a gold spurs cockerel round his neck ,when I gave him the ticket he started laughing and opened a bottle of shampoo which the three of us shared ,class work from a Spurs fan !
Went back on the Sunday after an all day Saturday in the Pubs around the ground and the Thornhill !
All in all a great trip !
I actually watched the game in Moscow. I had been asked by the KGB to fly in with Bill Clinton, then only a rising star in the American political firmament, but a man with inside knowledge of what would be a stupendous game of football at Anfield, this due to his wife once knowing a girl that had a cousin who lived in Islington and had seen Tony Adams drive by the stadium one day. Well, what a lark in Moscow! After we won, Bill flew me and a couple of KGB operatives back to Liverpool where we larged it up all night with the Arsenal team! I then had to fly Bill home as he was proper pissed and wanted to fight Niall Quinn because Quinn’s auntie had named her second child after George Bush Snr.
What I love about this pic is the total lack of concern that Green Shirt Mush (as he is affectionately known) shows despite tear gas and riot Police all going mental around him !
