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VASCO

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  1. I have encountered this entry and exit fiasco once before - with Partick Pete at the 2006 African Nations Cup final in Cairo. We left the hotel at 13:00 for an 18:00 kick-off. The game went to extra-time and penalties. As if that was not bad enough we had to remain inside the stadium until Hosni Mubarak's helicopter had departed, more than an hour later. It was almost 11 hours after we had left the hotel before we had out first post-match beer!
  2. Sheremetyevo is also a saddle. Disembark and get the airport express shuttle train into Belorusskay. From there you can use the metro.
  3. Davy, Albania bus now paid (6 x £13), although reference is still Israel bus. JB
  4. Davy, Like others just back from Israel, but now on way to Uist. I'd like to book 6 seats. JB
  5. Davy, New e-mail address just registered, in case you've sent something to my work address. Now retired, and electronic mail address is vasco@beerjambo.co.uk Cheers, JB
  6. The broadcasting thing goes further. I switch on Reporting Scotland and a good number of reporters are now English, the weather person is a FIG and invariably half of those interviewed on the particular topic are FIGs.
  7. One of the beauties about having been in Russia for just over a month is that I have missed all this crap with BBC/ITV. I've also been lucky in getting tickets for the other half of the knock-out draw to that which England are still in. Also, I've not heard one English voice in all that time. Wonderful! Nor have I watched any of England's matches. However, with these bastards getting to the last 4, I'm seriously thinking of coming home after the semis. I don't think that I could stomach being in Moscow for the day of the final, as was my original intention, if they were there. On the other hand, if Croatia pump them, they'll be in the third place play-off, for which I've got a ticket. I've always been intensely anti-England, but since the 2014 and 2016 referenda, the seething in me at the mention of the words England or English, has reached ridiculous levels. Despite wearing a Scotland top on the tram on the way back from Friday's game a Brazilian asked me if I was English. My response was not particularly pleasant, with some of the most colourful language that even I have produced being literally spat back at him.
  8. £100 a night? I'm here for 40 nights. No way would I pay that. The unfortunate thing from my point if view is that most of the time I'm paying for an unused bed. In fact, in last night's hotel, the two single beds were about from Johnstone to Paisley apart, and you could have got two double beds in between. On the other hand my single room in Samara was just that. Bed, wardrobe, fridge, lavvy and shower, but it did have 130 channels on the telly.
  9. Well, I fairly picked another shitey game for my first knock out match! Seriously, it was about time I got a decent game, but the Argentinian fans are irritating bastards. Just settling down to watch the action and some cunt stands up and waves his arms hysterically in all directions and every ither bastard joins in. My glutius maximus is in bad shape after all the ups and downs. No wonder I'm fading away to a mountain. I'm no lover of Pogba, far from it, as I think he is a lazy, selfish, won't play for the team kind of guy, but I thought today that he was superb, breaking up attacks, setting up attacks and basically saying to the Argentine players "you ain't gonna bully me".
  10. Accommodation was, like flight prices, weird, but understandable. Having got my initial tickets for the group stages last November, the accommodation I booked st that point was cheap. £18 a night in Pervomayskaya in Moscow and £225 for 14 nights in Samara. My jaunt to Saransk cost me £95 in the Mercure. I've paid £71 for last night's kip in Kazan which would have been £25 six months ago. When I get back to Samara tomorrow, again booked early, it's £40 per night. My later trip to Kazan next week is £45 per night (changed booking last week) and St P is costing me about £30 a night. Having officially retired today after 32 years at the Uni, I decided to change my booking for the last two nights in Moscow. I lost what I had paid, but, by the time, you take away the now not necessary taxi costs and add my upgraded hotel at Belorussky station costs, I'm about a fiver down. Just watched an Italian spiv sell tickets to three Colombians for the game here in Kazan for $500 a whip. After he left they were telling me that they drove from Samara, but are flying to Moscow for their game against the Southern Brits. They told me they paid $400 one way. They got really jealous when I showed them my Kazan to Sheremetyevo to Samara ticket, booked in January. Cost? £95!!
  11. Sitting in Roknroli pub on Kybysheva Strèet. Because there's a game on today It's being served in plastic tumblers - 160 barneys a go (£2). I've paid as little as £1.20 and as much as £4. There's a famous brewery, Zhigulevsky, here which has a couple of bars attached. Heaving with Colombians, as is the town. Beer is good. A Colombian I met in Saransk said there upwards of 50,000 Colombians in Russia for the World Cup.
  12. I'm going to my sixth group game tonight in Samara, where I've been based for the past fortnight after the opening game. Jumped over to Saransk last week for Japan v Colombia. 24 hours on a train there and back. My first two knockout games are France v Argentina in Kazan on Saturday then Brazil v Mexico back here in Samara on Monday. To be honest, most of the football has been shite. I'm also going to the Kazan quarter-final, third place play-off and, assuming the ticket has arrived at my hotel the St Petersburg semi-final.
  13. Shows how old I am! 1966 and 1970 are vivid memories, and having been at 13 games in 1974, one in 1982 and three in 1990, I'm currently in Russia and will be going to my fourth game later today. Denmark v Australia in Samara, which is absolutely beautiful. It used to be called Kybyshev, and, had the Germans captured Moscow, it would have become the capital of USSR. After today, I've still got another three games in Samara, two in Kazan and probably two in Saint Petersburg. Russia is a smashing and fascinating place. Spent 24 of the past 48 hours on trains from Samara to Saransk and back, just to watch Colombia lose to Japan. 9 hours there, yet 15 hours back??
  14. having retired yesterday, I was out for a meal last night, so I've just watched the documentary. I cried my fucking eyes out! We were easily the best team in the world in the previous 15 months. Missed penalty agsinst Peru and a ridiculous draw with Iran. The second group stage would have been a doddle. Perhaps it is a bit of nostalgia (and a good few pints), but I really believed. Anyway off at 06:05 to PutinLand for a 40 day feast of football.
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