lush Posted 27 June 2005 Share Posted 27 June 2005 Last week i was in amsterdam and decided to take a trip on their underground system to strandvliet station, about 10 miles from amsterdam, where ajax play in the amsterdam arena. Obviously theres no game on, but i still wanted to get in. having walked round it with no luck, we decided to walk into their car park for some shade, which has 2 floors on ground level below the pitch (YES BELOW THE PITCH). to our amazement the car park attendant told us it was ok to view the pitch, and showed us the door leading to it. COOL. When we got there, we were amazed that such a huge club would allow us to do this, but hey, we wernt complaining. We entered the main executive stand and took a few pictures of the red, yellow and orange seats plus the roof. I THEN walked accross the covered pitch to the opposite stand whilst my friend took a picture of me, i couldnt believe my luck. there i was walking accross one of the most famous pitches in european history, on a barmy sunny day and completly left to my own devices, all the time looking towards both ends imagining a full stadium atmosphere. the pitch didnt seem that big actually. On entering and leaving the seating areas, i couldnt help but notice about 15 people going the other way. so anyway, we entered the reception area and noticed a leaflet, it says: tour admission 8.50....well we left with imediate effect!!! In 1988 i walked from wembley tunnel right down the middle of the pitch to where aldridge missed that fa cup final penalty against wimbledon, pretended to score it myself and then walked up those famous 39 steps and pretended to lift the trophy to the adoring one person who was too scared to join me, me mate. Anyone else had experiences of entering stadiums when they perhaps should have not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartonFox Posted 27 June 2005 Share Posted 27 June 2005 The old Braga stadium in Portugal which is a protected Facist Stadium and nothing more than a concrete uncovered bowl. Waltzed in at 7am a full 14 hours prior to kick-off and hung my Scotland flag ahead of the game. I then went on the lash only for it to lash it down and I watched us get beat 2-0 (Rab Douglas saved a Figo penalty) and I got wetter than you ever though possible. That includes Fratton Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lush Posted 27 June 2005 Author Share Posted 27 June 2005 Oh yes, fratton park jan 1st 1990. also oldhams uncovered away end, shiver. So rab can save a penalty, hmm good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shum Posted 27 June 2005 Share Posted 27 June 2005 Err, New Years day 2001 after a night at the MOS at the Millenium Dome, me and the mates got the tube to Wembley at about 8.30am and walked down Wembley way... the pitch was removed and the seats were removed and the knocking down of the stadium was about to commence in the coming weeks. Anways, we get to the metal gates at the stadium and there loads of signs saying please do not enter, Danger etc. We get over the first gates and then are more or less at the turnstiles and then we heard loads of security dogs barking like inside the stadium so we leg it All good fun though, shame we never actually got in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Shagger Posted 27 June 2005 Share Posted 27 June 2005 I tresspassed into the Leicester Tigers stadium and was swinging on the try posts (I got pictures too) but the groundsman chased us out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stulcfc Posted 27 June 2005 Share Posted 27 June 2005 Last week i was in amsterdam and decided to take a trip on their underground system to strandvliet station, about 10 miles from amsterdam, where ajax play in the amsterdam arena.Obviously theres no game on, but i still wanted to get in. having walked round it with no luck, we decided to walk into their car park for some shade, which has 2 floors on ground level below the pitch (YES BELOW THE PITCH). to our amazement the car park attendant told us it was ok to view the pitch, and showed us the door leading to it. COOL. When we got there, we were amazed that such a huge club would allow us to do this, but hey, we wernt complaining. We entered the main executive stand and took a few pictures of the red, yellow and orange seats plus the roof. I THEN walked accross the covered pitch to the opposite stand whilst my friend took a picture of me, i couldnt believe my luck. there i was walking accross one of the most famous pitches in european history, on a barmy sunny day and completly left to my own devices, all the time looking towards both ends imagining a full stadium atmosphere. the pitch didnt seem that big actually. On entering and leaving the seating areas, i couldnt help but notice about 15 people going the other way. so anyway, we entered the reception area and noticed a leaflet, it says: tour admission 8.50....well we left with imediate effect!!! In 1988 i walked from wembley tunnel right down the middle of the pitch to where aldridge missed that fa cup final penalty against wimbledon, pretended to score it myself and then walked up those famous 39 steps and pretended to lift the trophy to the adoring one person who was too scared to join me, me mate. Anyone else had experiences of entering stadiums when they perhaps should have not? 128567[/snapback] you said you was allowd but the title reads Been in a stadium when you shouldnt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lush Posted 27 June 2005 Author Share Posted 27 June 2005 We get over the first gates and then are more or less at the turnstiles and then we heard loads of security dogs barking like inside the stadium so we leg it 128603[/snapback] That sounds a bit like some of my nightmares... stulcfc we were not officially allowed in. the dutch are very relaxed people, which is why we got in for free. they just expected us and everyone else to pay, but we didnt realise they have 1 hr tours. the car parking attendant must`ve assumed we would pay too... have to say, amsterdam is very dear. we paid £3.50 for a pint outside the ground and about £3 for a pint in the city. a small bottle of pop is 2 euros. and if you get the train, PAY in advance. a 3 euro ride cost us triple with the ticket collector, although we didnt have enough and she charged us less...very comfortable trains there, and there double deckers too. feel like a tour guide now, but if you have a day with nothing to do, hire a bike 7 euros for the day, there great and you can cycle freely all round the canals. bikes have preference to padestrians is the view i got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 28 June 2005 Share Posted 28 June 2005 I tresspassed into the Leicester Tigers stadium and was swinging on the try posts (I got pictures too) but the groundsman chased us out. 128613[/snapback] Years ago, as a teenager, I dimly remember playing for the now defunct Midland League outfit Loughborough United against either Grimsby Town Reserves or S####horpe United Reserves (we played em both in rapid succession and I can never remember which was first) but, after too long in the bath, wandered out for a final look at the first League ground I'd ever played on. Eventually went to rejoin my team-mates but they'd gone, everyone else had gone and the ground had been locked. Had to climb out and was lucky to find our team coach still in the car park. Remember the game only because one of our scorers that day was a guy called Bill Garner who eventually moved into League football and was transferred to Chelsea, as I recall, for £100,000 (a lot of dough in those days of the 1960's). There was another Chelsea connection at the time too because a close friend and local administrator, Tony Green of Quorn, trumped us all by getting a job as Chelsea's secretary. We used to chase girls together (when I could still run and the girls didn't want to run quite as fast as they do now to get away). . Quorn had a further claim to fame at the time because referee Jeff Sewell (oustanding in local football circles) started making a name for himself as a top line Football League official together with his friend Gil Napthine from neighbouring Sileby. I used to park my car - a white Consul Convertible - outside Jeff's house and one day he rang during a thunderstorm to let me no I'd left the hood down and the car "seemed to be filling up nicely"!!!. Fun days indeed... The car was purchased for me by my boss at the Loughborough Echo. I'd mentioned I had my eye on a motor and he asked "Is it that Consul outside the Hurst Hotel? "How did you know," I asked and he said "Cos if I was your age that's the one I'd have wanted. It was £160 and he loaned me the money on trust with the word "pay me back when you can." Super boss, super company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lush Posted 28 June 2005 Author Share Posted 28 June 2005 Great story thracian, but have you entered a stadium when you shouldn`t have? somebody must have stories of filbert street or filbert way? Hey, i doubt men have to chase women as much as before, some of them chase us men, and its only the fittest that dont end up will 10 kids ball n chain pipe n slippers, that get away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny Posted 28 June 2005 Share Posted 28 June 2005 Me and my dad did the walkers and filbert street in the same night which was cool. We went to a Q&A with micky and had a few beers and were the last ones left after micky had gone. We went to the toilet then decided to wander down a corrider which eventually led onto the concourse we then had a good wander round the ground (which looks qulaity at night-time). Also had a chat in the dug out and messed about on the pitch before deicding to go home. We walked past filbert street and decided to have a look inside, all v dangerous. Had myself a brick from the carling stand and the 'NO EATING OR DRINKING' sign from the door of the club shop. Tried to get a brick from the old kop but couldnt get round there. Also had a run around the tigers ground while pissed after a corporate do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teeno Posted 28 June 2005 Share Posted 28 June 2005 I don't have any stories myself but I had a supply teacher (city fan) at school ages ok who to told me that he had a 'do' at the shitty ground and after having a few too many to drink wandered onto the pitch and went for a leak. He tried to lay a brick but he didn't need one at the time so the center circle at the Shitty ground was graced with his urine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Shagger Posted 28 June 2005 Share Posted 28 June 2005 That's me n my mates in the Tigers stadium. That was one fun day (im in the middle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Random Burglar Posted 29 June 2005 Share Posted 29 June 2005 I tresspassed into the Leicester Tigers stadium and was swinging on the try posts (I got pictures too) but the groundsman chased us out. 128613[/snapback] could have been shrek haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lush Posted 29 June 2005 Author Share Posted 29 June 2005 I tresspassed into the Leicester Tigers stadium and was swinging on the try posts (I got pictures too) but the groundsman chased us out. 128613[/snapback] Wheres the pictures of the groundsman chasing you out? que benny hill music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Shagger Posted 29 June 2005 Share Posted 29 June 2005 I tresspassed into the Leicester Tigers stadium and was swinging on the try posts (I got pictures too) but the groundsman chased us out. 128613[/snapback] Wheres the pictures of the groundsman chasing you out? que benny hill music 129483[/snapback] It was too quick we all just jumped over gate 10 had no time to take pics. He was bald that's all i remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lush Posted 29 June 2005 Author Share Posted 29 June 2005 It was too quick we all just jumped over gate 10 had no time to take pics. He was bald that's all i remember. 129543[/snapback] Must`ve been quite a `hairy` moment then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 4 July 2005 Share Posted 4 July 2005 I was at Anfield a few years back, when no tickets were given to City. We were in the Kop, and Matt Elliott scored in the first minute!! I didn't move a muscle, which was quite surprising! My dad used to get into Filbo when he was a lad, by going down the passage running parallel to Burnmoor Street at the back of the houses, and climbing over the wall into the Pop Side. He watched us win the League Cup against Stoke doing that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted 4 July 2005 Share Posted 4 July 2005 I have been on the old trafford pitch when I wasn't ment to. we were on a school trip and part of this trip was a guided tour around old trafford. so there we were sitting in the dug out area some manc bloke telling us facts and figures. One of the things he said was that its an £800 fine to tresspass on the pitch. being the lil shit I was back then, I asked how long I got for my 800 quid . anyways my mate dared me to run onto the picth to see if they actually would fine me for doing it. so peer pressure and all that I took a lil jog on and straight back off again with otu anyone official noticing (well saying anything) collecting a few blades of grass on the way. I didn't get fined either . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macca4lcfc Posted 9 July 2005 Share Posted 9 July 2005 me and andy (croydz) went into filvert street when it was shut down. Andy got scared when he heard a dog so we had to leave!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted 10 July 2005 Share Posted 10 July 2005 me and a few of my mates visited sporting lisbons ground back in 1996 , we walked around the pitch freely so we got a ball out and started playin footy in the goalmouth , we played for about 10 minutes before armed portugese police came running on and escorted us off ! we had to walk off the pith with our hands up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted 10 July 2005 Share Posted 10 July 2005 One of the things he said was that its an £800 fine to tresspass on the pitch. being the lil shit I was back then, I asked how long I got for my 800 quid. 131633[/snapback] quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Arrow Posted 10 July 2005 Share Posted 10 July 2005 I took a walk round walkers stadium and touch the top corner of the goal. I said This is here the goal will be....There was a goal there! We didnt score it lmao Also tigers but its not hard to go in. We I travel far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lush Posted 13 July 2005 Author Share Posted 13 July 2005 me and a few of my mates visited sporting lisbons ground back in 1996 , we walked around the pitch freely so we got a ball out and started playin footy in the goalmouth , we played for about 10 minutes before armed portugese police came running on and escorted us off ! we had to walk off the pith with our hands up 135589[/snapback] Excellent story, love it. I take it you did hand them their ball back Luckily for me the dutch are so laid back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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