Boaters can be football fans to!

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My Dad has been tutting at me all weekend. On Thursday I was offered a place with my friend to go on their 48ft motor cruiser from Brighton to Port Solent. I knew that the weather forcast was fantastic and how much fun it would be but, the FA cup final, my team. So I chose not to go. I've supported Liverpool for as long as I can remember, who knows when next I'll get a chance to see them in the FA Cup final again. Consequently Liverpool won and it was worth it. Dad still says I need my head read, he doesnt care much for football. Are there any other footie fans and boaters out there that know where I'm coming from?

 

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No Nm *NM*

 

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Footie? on a boating page? Reminds me of the time in the 70s when I organised a Comedian for a Coastguard Dinner. He tried to tell golfing jokes and wondered why he just got bemused looks. I mean a 'hole in one' means one boghole on a boat.

 

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Don't you mean 'Boaters can be football fans toO !'

 

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Suzanne you missed a fantastic weekend. You can always tape a footie match or listen to it on the radio. You can never re-live a great weekend on the boat.

PB xxx

 

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You\'re s@!@ and you know you are ...

...excuse the title, but praps you saw that, after the match and presentation to those lucky lucky basketball er footballers, they played "go west" on the loudspeakers. Of course, we all joined in with the unofficial words, as per title.

 

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Yes. In early and late season I have often been faced with the dilema of - go to the boat or go to the match. However, seeing as my team is Nottingham Forest the boat tends to win 99 times out of 100!
Football has provided some very good excuses for extended trips abroad in the boat, such as the European Championships in Holland and Belgium, next time in Portugal looks promising.
To remind me of football when on the boat it is called "Sir Brian" after Mr Clough, who surely should have been knighted, if only masterminding Forests defeat of Liverpool in the European cup all those years ago. (sorry, but with the current team all we have is memories).

 

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Your Dad is right you need help, it's easy for me - I hate football.

If there where more boating football fans then at least some weekends there would be less boats.

RM.

 

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Glad to see you support a proper team as well
RobG

 

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But they\'re not all innocent

Police in Cardiff were today searching for a gang of 15 men, believed to be from the Liverpool area, after a valuable piece of antique silverware was stolen from the Millennium Stadium.

The silver was smuggled out of the stadium in full view of almost 70,000 people following an unprovoked attack on a party of elderly visitors from London. The mugging took place late on Saturday afternoon as the pensioners from North London were enjoying a stroll in the spring sunshine. A spokesman for South Wales police said: 'This was a particularly nasty and cowardly assault. The attackers lulled the elderly gentlemen into a false sense of security by standing around doing absolutely nothing for almost an hour.
Then, just as the visitors were about to get back onto their coach and return to the capital with their silverware, the vicious young thugs struck.'

Police are particularly interested in talking to one member of the gang, who is described as 'young, dwarfish, with an annoying girlish smile; a real
'Oliver Twist type'. He is believed to be Welsh but adopts a Liverpool accent and claims to be English.

The gang, which includes several political refugees and immigrants from the European mainland, is led by a
French-speaking 'Fagin' figure. The police spokesman added: 'This man has no scruples whatsoever. We believe he steals most of his ideas from a near
neighbour in Manchester, a man he much admires. We have interviewed this man, and although he is a former owner of the silverware and also guilty of a similar crime himself in Barcelona adopting similar methods some two years ago, he is above reproach.'

There were fears tonight that the gang had embarked on a crime spree in Europe themselves. The police spokesman added: 'We have alerted Interpol and are watching all ports but we fear they may have already left the country.

They were overheard by some witnesses talking about heading for Germany on Wednesday. 'We can only hope they won't be back in Wales for a long time to
come'.
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But they\'re not all innocent

Police in Cardiff were today searching for a gang of 15 men, believed to be from the Liverpool area, after a valuable piece of antique silverware was stolen from the Millennium Stadium.

The silver was smuggled out of the stadium in full view of almost 70,000 people following an unprovoked attack on a party of elderly visitors from London. The mugging took place late on Saturday afternoon as the pensioners from North London were enjoying a stroll in the spring sunshine. A spokesman for South Wales police said: 'This was a particularly nasty and cowardly assault. The attackers lulled the elderly gentlemen into a false sense of security by standing around doing absolutely nothing for almost an hour.
Then, just as the visitors were about to get back onto their coach and return to the capital with their silverware, the vicious young thugs struck.'

Police are particularly interested in talking to one member of the gang, who is described as 'young, dwarfish, with an annoying girlish smile; a real
'Oliver Twist type'. He is believed to be Welsh but adopts a Liverpool accent and claims to be English.

The gang, which includes several political refugees and immigrants from the European mainland, is led by a
French-speaking 'Fagin' figure. The police spokesman added: 'This man has no scruples whatsoever. We believe he steals most of his ideas from a near
neighbour in Manchester, a man he much admires. We have interviewed this man, and although he is a former owner of the silverware and also guilty of a similar crime himself in Barcelona adopting similar methods some two years ago, he is above reproach.'

There were fears tonight that the gang had embarked on a crime spree in Europe themselves. The police spokesman added: 'We have alerted Interpol and are watching all ports but we fear they may have already left the country.

They were overheard by some witnesses talking about heading for Germany on Wednesday. 'We can only hope they won't be back in Wales for a long time to
come'.
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Re: excellent stuff (nm) *NM*