Reflecting back on Saturday, went with 2 relatives and one of my sons friends. My nephew's last match was the 2019 Play Off Final, he came up from Bath, Somerset for the weekend, lets face it a bit of Hollywood and the Magic kingdom's streaming service of course creates excitement and razzmatazz. My son and his nephew made a day of it took Uber boat from BPS to Greenwich and we all meet at Trafalgar pub for lunch.
Drove parked 5 mins from the ground in 2hr parking bay, they went in for beers and sat in the car till 2.30 and took my seat in East Stand.
I thought Wrexham fans were great, loud and passionate and up for it, the welsh dragons were roaring. I too heard a lot of scandinavian voices on the concourse behind East Stand and a Norwegian fan was sat close to us. I think it's brilliant that they choose to come to the Valley, of course for majority it's a one-off visit, its football tourism. If you love football, coming to see Charlton is the authentic / real deal and the club should market the hell out of it, more Scandy fans the better.My son did the same with two of his mates, took ferry to Santander & went on a driving holiday through Spain and France saw Atletico Bilbao and in Paris PSG. It's just a shame that rest of season will be back to average crowds, hard to sell to relatives and frends Mansfield or Wycombe? The next time we get a full Valley will be 'IF" we get into the Play-Off semi's.
I’m sure the attendance was due to the lack of games on I was sat next to 2 young Ajax fans who were in London working they knew nothing of the Hollywood connection but enjoyed their day ! Without doubt there were lots of foreign visitors which can only be a good thing surely
I came across a group of Danish people. They were looking forward to the game
Hope you offered them a towel afterwards. Or offered to wipe them down with a half n half scarf.
The Scandi fans is a tradition going back at least 40 years. They have plenty of disposal income, and booze is still considered reasonably priced, especially by the Norwegians. And that's why they've been running live coverage of English footie for as long as rights have been sold overseas. The studio nearly always has well known British ex-players as studio guests. Language barrier? Nah, they just switch to English without missing a beat, don't even bother with sub-titles. They are terrifyingly knowledgeable too. My Swedish mate is an exception to that, but his son embraced the game 100%, became a very good player and decided at about 7 years old Man U was his team. At 16 he won Norwegian TV's Junior Mastermind with Man U as his special subject.
Reflecting back on Saturday, went with 2 relatives and one of my sons friends. My nephew's last match was the 2019 Play Off Final, he came up from Bath, Somerset for the weekend, lets face it a bit of Hollywood and the Magic kingdom's streaming service of course creates excitement and razzmatazz. My son and his nephew made a day of it took Uber boat from BPS to Greenwich and we all meet at Trafalgar pub for lunch.
Drove parked 5 mins from the ground in 2hr parking bay, they went in for beers and sat in the car till 2.30 and took my seat in East Stand.
I thought Wrexham fans were great, loud and passionate and up for it, the welsh dragons were roaring. I too heard a lot of scandinavian voices on the concourse behind East Stand and a Norwegian fan was sat close to us. I think it's brilliant that they choose to come to the Valley, of course for majority it's a one-off visit, its football tourism. If you love football, coming to see Charlton is the authentic / real deal and the club should market the hell out of it, more Scandy fans the better.My son did the same with two of his mates, took ferry to Santander & went on a driving holiday through Spain and France saw Atletico Bilbao and in Paris PSG. It's just a shame that rest of season will be back to average crowds, hard to sell to relatives and frends Mansfield or Wycombe? The next time we get a full Valley will be 'IF" we get into the Play-Off semi's.
A pint every 12 seconds!! 🤔. Any chance we could hire their staff to do the bars in the Covered End Upper? Or at least send the Gather & Gather gang down for a few lessons!!
A pint every 12 seconds!! 🤔. Any chance we could hire their staff to do the bars in the Covered End Upper? Or at least send the Gather & Gather gang down for a few lessons!!
Read the post, they only lasted 15 minutes…lightweights
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I'll give that a try.
May you continue to have great success 👏