Trans world sport.

[Longy]

I have no idea how much interest this will get but hey poker players tend to like sport!

I think it is fair to say my biggest passion life is sport, mainly watching due to being distinctly mediocre at pretty much every sport. Played football and cricket for school/ local clubs but never was going to make it to any kind of competitive level.

It is probably easier to name the sports I don't like and even then I am prepared to go to an event for the "experience", nba basketball springs to mind.

This combined with my love for travelling I have been fortunate to attend and go to a lot of sport around the world.

To give you an idea of what this diary may contain of the top of my head the sporting events I have attended in the last few years include.

Football in uk, Australia and USA
Cricket - Domestic and test include the whole England tour to New Zealand in 2013.
Rugby union - super 15 game in Australia.
Rugby league- Super league, NRL and World Cup.
Aussie rules football.
Ice hockey - NHL
Basketball - NBA and college.
Baseball- Major league in the us.
American football- NFL (in uk and us), college.
Boxing- Carl froch fights.
Horse racing
Darts - Premier league
The dogs
Cycling - tour of Britain


I think the direction I am going to take with this diary is to do a post whenever I attend a sporting event of interest.

So my first sporting event for the diary was yesterday. I am bit pressed for time so will just leave a photo as a tease

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I think this fits neatly with the thread title! Where was I?

[theprawnidentity]

first

Would also add that as a sports fan, I am looking forward to this!!!!

[TightEnd]

great stuff


are you at the Hong Kong sevens football? or the Toulon U21 championships?

(wild guesses)

[millidonk]

third

Would also add that as a sports fan, I am looking forward to this!!!!

[Tonji]

I'm hoping to get out to the Giro next weekend for

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the Zonclan.

The crowds for the Tour in Britain will be massive. I'll likely to be on Jenkins Road in Sheffield, not quite matching the scenery of the Alps!

[celtic]

I won't answer where you were, because I saw it on fb. Looking forward to the thread though.

[titaniumbean]

late night trans world sports was fking incred. this diary best be half as good!

[Longy]

So I was at this

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Still confused? It was an Icelandic premier league game between two Reykjavik clubs, fram and breidablik.

Got to be honest when I decided to go to iceland, sport wasn't really a top priority! When in doubt, assume the country loves football. In fact Icelanders are the 2nd biggest attenders of football matches anywhere in the world per % of population http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/04/02/revealed-the-most-dedicated-football-nations-the-faroes-iceland-cyprus-scotland-and-england-020403/.

My research revealed that this game was the easiest to get to from Central Reykjavik, and that frams home ground according to Wikipedia was the national stadium. To be honest after that there was little else to be found about the fixture.

I bowled up the game about 15 mins before ko, to a deserted national stadium hmmmm. After a walk around there appeared to be some activity at what would be a ground suited to a 7th tier English team next door. Yep this was where the game was.

One entrance to the ground with a couple of young girls with credit card machine in their hands, everyone pays for everything by credit card here! After a typical awkward conversation that I specialise in, 1500 iceland krona to get in which is about £8.

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View from the stand you can see the arch of the national stadium in the background!

I chose a nice concrete slab in the sun for the 1st half and retired when the sun went in to the wooden park benches further back for the 2nd.

The standard was fitting for the ground I doubt any the players would be able to play in the conference in the uk. I don't think I saw the next eidur gudjohnson, though I thought the fram goalie was pretty useful.

The locals were pretty into it though, chants and plenty of exasperation at players/ officials etc. I would guess there were about a 1000 there, and a a very mixed crowd plenty of women and kids wearing various big European football team shirts.

The game finished 1 each both goals in the last 15 minutes, with the away team deservedly equalising with the most blatant penalty ever which then led to a 22 man squabble where handbags were definitely out.

[mulhuzz]

In on page 1 of epic diary.

[Longy]

I'm hoping to get out to the Giro next weekend for

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the Zonclan.

The crowds for the Tour in Britain will be massive. I'll likely to be on Jenkins Road in Sheffield, not quite matching the scenery of the Alps!

I intend to be in Sheffield for the tour, in fact a couple of mates are going to Belgium for the stages later that week. Unfortunately I can't go as the Trent bridge test match is on that week.

Would be awesome to attend a big mountain stage on the giro or the tour, mini report in the cycling thread? Definitely a bucket lister for me.

Thanks for the interest people should have something else to post over the weekend but not from iceland!

[Waz1892]

Picture of tickets nice, ground photos very good. No Icelandic girl pics ........if only carlsberg did Icelandic football!

Subscribed tho!

[BorntoBubble]

first

Would also add that as a sports fan, I am looking forward to this!!!!

glad you said sports fan and not sports player.

looking forward to hearing your exploits

[Longy]

late night trans world sports was fking incred. this diary best be half as good!

Ha I can't possibly promise that, love trans world sport obviously. The in depth interviews with the French boule champion followed by some husky pulling race from Alaska is hard to match. Showing my age but i always remember it being on in the morning in channel 4, if you were lucky there would be some kabbadi on afterwards.

Picture of tickets nice, ground photos very good. No Icelandic girl pics ........if only carlsberg did Icelandic football!

Subscribed tho!

This is a sport diary unfortunately the ladies might be a bit thin on the ground! Though I can confirm icelandic girls are stunning and have a fell in love about 20 times in the last 2 days, not sure the feeling is mutual.

[vegaslover]

late night trans world sports was fking incred. this diary best be half as good!

Ha I can't possibly promise that, love trans world sport obviously. The in depth interviews with the French boule champion followed by some husky pulling race from Alaska is hard to match. Showing my age but i always remember it being on in the morning in channel 4, if you were lucky there would be some kabbadi on afterwards.

Showing my age too but still remember them shows on channel 4,
No MMA on the list Mark?

[Longy]

late night trans world sports was fking incred. this diary best be half as good!

Ha I can't possibly promise that, love trans world sport obviously. The in depth interviews with the French boule champion followed by some husky pulling race from Alaska is hard to match. Showing my age but i always remember it being on in the morning in channel 4, if you were lucky there would be some kabbadi on afterwards.

Showing my age too but still remember them shows on channel 4,
No MMA on the list Mark?

Got to be honest the whole mma has kind of passed me by. Have seen the odd fight when hanging about in a sportsbook or a bar in the us, didn't mind it but not really into it. Would I go to a UFC event most definitely but wouldn't pay a fortune to do so.