Jesus they have to live in it. I think its more to do with the fact that the south of Italy is not that rich, did you not study leaving cert Geography.Quote:
Originally Posted by rambler14
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Jesus they have to live in it. I think its more to do with the fact that the south of Italy is not that rich, did you not study leaving cert Geography.Quote:
Originally Posted by rambler14
Superb trip, really top. For me the locals and the effort they made for us made it for me. Top notch could not do enough for you. Never seen any messing of any sort at all. As for Bari would go back again even if they're was no match as i just thought the locals were so nice. They clearly love their city and are rightly very proud of it and were excellent ambassadors for it.
Well that was some ride for the 17 hours that we were in Bari .
Easy train journey down from Rome and got in at 12 noon then headed down to the old town . Now from what I could make of it they had two squares , one in the middle of the old town and the other near the sea front . We were in the one in the middle beers at 1.50 ( the bill said 2 each when we came to pay ) but great fun . I must say in all of my life I have never seen a Shot of Vodka as big as the wife was severd I would say it was between 125mm and 175 mm no ice just 3 quarters full . Poor kid had to buy 3 cokes to one glass of vodka and after 3 of them she was twisted .
Again a bit like Italia 90 where the Italians wanted to swap everything that you were wore . Never managed to to meet anyone form here which was a suprise thou . I would say the hardest part was waiting for the 5.30am train back to Rome after the game . Now if any of you were in the waiting room we clocked 4 very shady dudes who were waiting to make threr move , the police must have known them as they were they were took outside and we never saw them again .
But all in all a very good trip and ended up eating some fantastic grub in Rome and cheap also which was a great surprise .:):ball::)
The only downside of the couple of days was that lunatic with the bari ultras on the tues night that came up to one of the Irish lads outside one of the pubs in the square and pressed a knife against him. Totally unprovoked and no reason for it as far as i could see, but a scary moment nonetheless. Once the lunatic realised that none of the irish fans were there for a fight he backed off.Quote:
Originally Posted by marty
And as for Alitalia, dont get me started, never ever flying with that shower of amateurs again. Changed our flights without telling us, dublin contact phone number doesnt exist and then were over two hours late with our flight home so missed our connecting flight from london and thats only the very start of it.
I went back down to the square at 4am on wednesday night, found my mate tommy talking to the ultra's capo, and his mate, while we were talking some young Irish supporter, fell over, totally drunk, and two dodgy looking Bari young lads were circling the lad on the ground (had a bit too many) and the Ultra's spotted this, ran over and told the other 2 Bari youngsters to **** off, which they did.Quote:
Originally Posted by elroy
All credit to the Ultra's they enjoyed our company, and we enjoyed theirs, got a bit out of hand on the Tuesday night, with the Bari chanting, and the flares, but all good fun in the end.
I'd heard of a guy getting lured down a lane-way with the promise of beer for a euro, but as soon as he saw 10 people at the end of the lane, he ****ed off.
Always, always stay together in foreign places.
Wait, maybe they were going to break out in dance. Like West Side Story. Cant believe they still perpetuate crime. Was Tony Soprano there? Or Jimmy from Goodfellas?Quote:
Originally Posted by RedBobby
Speaking of Goodfellas there was a fella going around the place saying "Go fcuk your mother!" over and over again.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
Hey did anybody happen to record the stuff that was on Sky Sports News or RTE that was shown from the square in Bari on the day of the match as that would be good to see? The bus journey to and from the stadium was brilliant. It was a quality trip with a great result even though we were a bit disappointed after the match that we didnt win the game in the end up. Typical Irish, eh? :)
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Originally Posted by elroy
That head Ultras bloke was a fcukin asrehole but the only I met during the week.
My mate is in this pic and its a priceless pic of him. I live it. Fair play soccerc.Quote:
Originally Posted by soccerc
Yep got caught for 221 STG when I missed the aer lingus flight in Heathrow because of the un announced re schedule.
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Originally Posted by elroy
Ah balls, apologies for that. I was in a daze from the travelling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maribor
If its any consolation, I also ignored soccerc appartently :o
Definitely up there with the best trips ever.We were in Temple Bar on saturday paying €6.60 for a bucket of **** and on Sunday we were getting Perioni Superiore 6.6% for €3 with the ordionary Peroni for €1 and some people complain about getting ripped off.
Locals were the best ever and all mad into football with no hassle whatsover.Best story was 3 of us got waylaid at 4.30am on Monday Morning and a baker gave 3 of us a lift back to our hotels in his van which 2 of us were in the dark lying flat because of the trays in it.
We raised over €2,000 euro in the charity game but nothing could repay the kindness of Marco,his staff & customers.I will go back to Bari thats one thing for sure.
What were you drinking in Temple Bar for ha ha !!Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
Myself and my buddy ended up missing the first half hour cos our other mate disappeared drunk with all the tickets. They wouldn't take money at the gate for love nor money but eventually opened the gate to a bunch of gypsy kids waiting outside. We ran in with them and took our place amongst the locals finding a spot at the front of the upper tier. We weren't waring green thankfully but some of the kids heard us talking and spread the word that we were Irish. We got a couple of flare banger things thrown in our direction. We were a fair distance from the Irish supporters and didn't hear much noise from them. The Italian fans I thought were superb and didn't stop for 90mins. The Irish support came into it's own maybe about 10mins before our goal but before that we thought that they were very quite, probably just drowned out by the Italian fans around us and the distance we were away from them as well as the running track around the pitch.
always hard for about 3,500 Irish to be heard over the much larger home support but i have watched the match since and can clearly hear us throughout the game. was one of the better away Irish supports I have been in for yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by BarelyLegal
Have you ever looked around Cobh?Quote:
Originally Posted by rambler14
Only thing that really annoyed me on the night was the Ole Ole with twenty minutes to go. We're losing, and the Oles start? WTF?
Great atmosphere though. Started off slow, but built up as the game went on. Shame we couldn't have won it, but I'd have taken a draw at the outset.
I'm sure you're right. Must watch it again myself, especially the first half hr!!! we didn't even know the Italians were down to 10 men so we thought it was a mighty result altogether.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
I think the old town was lovely and I would certainly go back to that part of Bari again but it's the run down outskirts of the town that i'm on about.
As for the support. I thought it was fantastic, it's hard to out-sing 50,000 Italians but by christ we tried! If only Croke Park was like that!