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The Boy Wonder said:
Going to Norway in 2 weeks,I wouldn't normally take a Blades shirt, but might do on the off chance I bump into Nilsen or Flo!
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It is a long time since I have been to Norway, spent 6 weeks there once. Loved the place and the people.
I keep telling my missus I will take her on holiday there, I would like another visit.

I did watch one footie game, Stavanger vs Rosenborg. Got hammered in a club after the game, came out of the club about 4am and it was still light.
 
I don't have a Blades football shirt. I do have a couple of Blades tee-shirts, or did have, I should say. I threw one of them out, in fact, I think my wife made dusters out of it. It was one I bought on the day of the play-off final at the Cardiff millenium stadium,. It said on it, "The Blades are bouncing back". And we didn't. We got totally spanked by Wolves. I think I wore that same tee-shirt to another Wembley play-off final, and we got spanked again. So it was dusters after that. The other one I've got is just a plain red tee-shirt with the Blades badge on the top left. I don't mind that. It's subtle. Not subtle enough to get me into the New Barrack Tavern before a derby game at Hillsborough, as I found out a few years ago, ("can't come in 'ere wearing red!") but otherwise, subtle.

I don't feel a need to advertise my choice of football club by wearing the replica shirt on my holidays. In fact, I think it's rather a naff thing to do tbh, but obviously some folks really like to do that and fair play to them, if that's what does it for you. Usually, if I turn up at a place on holiday, and see loads of football fans wearing replica shirts, I feel I must have come to the wrong place. It's not really my scene that.

Some years ago I booked the cheapest holiday I could find on Ceefax. It was one of those where you knew the country you were going to, but not much else. It was something like 2 weeks in Turkey for £180, "destination advised upon arrival". We ended up in a place called Olu Deniz. A beautiful natural lagoon actually, but the hotel was a sorry affair. A single-storey white-washed building at the top of a very steep hill, miles out of the centre of the resort.

We unpacked our cases and took a look around at the room, with its two single beds with wafer-thin mattresses. We put on some swimwear and "non-football related" tee-shirt and shorts and went down to chill by the pool. When we got there it was like being back in England. There were several pasty-white guys around the pool in an assortment of Newcastle, Liverpool, Spurs and Man United shirts. I don't recall any Blades shirts, but that wouldn't have necessarily improved things for me.

They'd got a transistor radio blaring out loud and were smoking and playing cards. I was gripped by the grim horror of having to spend two weeks in this place, listening to their radio at full blast, inhaling their smoke, listening to them arguing about football, watching them get pissed out of their heads, or trying to get a decent night's sleep on them wafer-thin mattresses. The next day I hired a car - we took a few things with us - and were off - exploring elsewhere. We'd paid obviously to stay in that hotel, but it was so dirt cheap it didn't really matter whether we stayed there or not, so we chose, "or not". We had a nice holiday, saw lots of different places, stayed in some classy hotels, had great food, and didn't have to make conversation about football.

I go on holiday to see places and have a bit of quiet luxury. I'm proud of my football team but I don't assume that it's of any interest to others at all which club I support, and I've really no interest in discussing football when I'm on holiday. If I did though, I think I'd wear something really obvious like a replica football shirt, or maybe a tee-shirt which says, "Ask me about Sheffield United?".
 
brownie said:
I’m in Zante, and proudly wearing last seasons hope shirt. Not seen any fellow Blades to report back on, but I’ve seen a fat family from Middlesbrough who can’t even shift without wearing a piece of Middlesbrough merchandise.
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There's a Pig family that always go to Albufeira roughly the same time as us, putting their towels out whilst it is still dark usually. The fact that the Dad's towel once went missing, only to be found floating in the pool, had almost nothing to do with my not getting back to sleep and going for a walk around the pool.
 
I shall certainly be taking my 1978 era (white with single black stripe & some red bits) retro "Sabella" away shirt to Rhodes in July, along with my 10 year old red Eng-er-land shirt to wear for the World Cup semi final & final which, I have absolutely no doubt we shall reach based on nothing but blind optimism and quality patriotic rabble rousing journalism from the UK's finest red tops.
 
DaveBassettsgoneonholiday said:
I shall certainly be taking my 1978 era (white with single black stripe & some red bits) retro "Sabella" away shirt to Rhodes in July, along with my 10 year old red Eng-er-land shirt to wear for the World Cup semi final & final which, I have absolutely no doubt we shall reach based on nothing but blind optimism and quality patriotic rabble rousing journalism from the UK's finest red tops.
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Got some Engerland car flags you can have cheap, they may or may not burst into flames ;)
 
There is a lot of snobbery on this thread.

Anyway, I don't tend to wear replica shirts unless I am playing football (not done that for years), but this year my brother (owl) who does wear replica shirts is coming with us. I do not want people to see him in his Wednesday shirt and therefor by association assume I am also a Wednesday fan, so I am off to buy one of them Adidas Polo's with the Blades badge on and I might push the boat out and buy some shorts as well. I already have the black beach towel (albeit a bit faded now).
 
Danny_Boy said:
There is a lot of snobbery on this thread.

Anyway, I don't tend to wear replica shirts unless I am playing football (not done that for years), but this year my brother (owl) who does wear replica shirts is coming with us. I do not want people to see him in his Wednesday shirt and therefor by association assume I am also a Wednesday fan, so I am off to buy one of them Adidas Polo's with the Blades badge on and I might push the boat out and buy some shorts as well. I already have the black beach towel (albeit a bit faded now).
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Your Bro is an Owl? And you haven't disowned him? :)
 

The Crab said:
Your Bro is an Owl? And you haven't disowned him? :)
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Haha to be fair he is one of the (few) decent ones, down to earth doesn't make stupid predictions and we can actually talk about football for the most part without arguing. The only time he was completely wrong was when he was spouting about signing Jordan Rhodes but he got plenty of stick about that.
 
A few years ago Bert was at the airport in Cuba waiting for the flight home. There was a big gobbed English youth telling his mates that the first thing he was going to do when he got home was have a McDonald's. Back at Manchester Bert heard him again, "Food was shit in Cuba, lager was nowt like Carling" etc. Just as Bert was thinking what a complete knobhead Bert spotted the logo on the dickhead's shorts and it all became clear...... SWFC.
 
Cerberus Blade said:
I don't have a Blades football shirt. I do have a couple of Blades tee-shirts, or did have, I should say. I threw one of them out, in fact, I think my wife made dusters out of it. It was one I bought on the day of the play-off final at the Cardiff millenium stadium,. It said on it, "The Blades are bouncing back". And we didn't. We got totally spanked by Wolves. I think I wore that same tee-shirt to another Wembley play-off final, and we got spanked again. So it was dusters after that. The other one I've got is just a plain red tee-shirt with the Blades badge on the top left. I don't mind that. It's subtle. Not subtle enough to get me into the New Barrack Tavern before a derby game at Hillsborough, as I found out a few years ago, ("can't come in 'ere wearing red!") but otherwise, subtle.

I don't feel a need to advertise my choice of football club by wearing the replica shirt on my holidays. In fact, I think it's rather a naff thing to do tbh, but obviously some folks really like to do that and fair play to them, if that's what does it for you. Usually, if I turn up at a place on holiday, and see loads of football fans wearing replica shirts, I feel I must have come to the wrong place. It's not really my scene that.

Some years ago I booked the cheapest holiday I could find on Ceefax. It was one of those where you knew the country you were going to, but not much else. It was something like 2 weeks in Turkey for £180, "destination advised upon arrival". We ended up in a place called Olu Deniz. A beautiful natural lagoon actually, but the hotel was a sorry affair. A single-storey white-washed building at the top of a very steep hill, miles out of the centre of the resort.

We unpacked our cases and took a look around at the room, with its two single beds with wafer-thin mattresses. We put on some swimwear and "non-football related" tee-shirt and shorts and went down to chill by the pool. When we got there it was like being back in England. There were several pasty-white guys around the pool in an assortment of Newcastle, Liverpool, Spurs and Man United shirts. I don't recall any Blades shirts, but that wouldn't have necessarily improved things for me.

They'd got a transistor radio blaring out loud and were smoking and playing cards. I was gripped by the grim horror of having to spend two weeks in this place, listening to their radio at full blast, inhaling their smoke, listening to them arguing about football, watching them get pissed out of their heads, or trying to get a decent night's sleep on them wafer-thin mattresses. The next day I hired a car - we took a few things with us - and were off - exploring elsewhere. We'd paid obviously to stay in that hotel, but it was so dirt cheap it didn't really matter whether we stayed there or not, so we chose, "or not". We had a nice holiday, saw lots of different places, stayed in some classy hotels, had great food, and didn't have to make conversation about football.

I go on holiday to see places and have a bit of quiet luxury. I'm proud of my football team but I don't assume that it's of any interest to others at all which club I support, and I've really no interest in discussing football when I'm on holiday. If I did though, I think I'd wear something really obvious like a replica football shirt, or maybe a tee-shirt which says, "Ask me about Sheffield United?".
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Spends more on a Chinese than on a holiday...

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Bashar Al Asaba said:
Coronation Street/Big Brother on large screen projectors in bars.

Speaking loudly and slowly to waiters and hotel receptionists.

Getting dangerously pissed from 10am "cos we're on holiday".

Always some twat from Manchester or Leeds sucking up to the reps.

Urgh.
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347. Reps.
 
Bert said:
A few years ago Bert was at the airport in Cuba waiting for the flight home. There was a big gobbed English youth telling his mates that the first thing he was going to do when he got home was have a McDonald's. Back at Manchester Bert heard him again, "Food was shit in Cuba, lager was nowt like Carling" etc. Just as Bert was thinking what a complete knobhead Bert spotted the logo on the dickhead's shorts and it all became clear...... SWFC.
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To be fair, the lager probably was nothing like Carling, I'm guessing it would have been far better. But Carling set the bar that low, warm Donkey piss would be better.
 
I was on holiday in Majorca a few years ago ( I know, what am I like?).

I went up to a beach bar and on the other side of it was Steve Claridge, which is bad enough, but to compound matters he was wearing a SWFC shirt. Not a T shirt , the actual shirt, match worn probably.

I hollered across to him ' Oi , I thought you were a Pompey fan?' at which he stood away from the bar to reveal he was wearing Pompey shorts and said ' I am a man of many guises'.

I was saving that one for when I'm on Parkinson but I do love a holiday story me.
 
The Crab said:
There's a Pig family that always go to Albufeira roughly the same time as us, putting their towels out whilst it is still dark usually. The fact that the Dad's towel once went missing, only to be found floating in the pool, had almost nothing to do with my not getting back to sleep and going for a walk around the pool.
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Same piggy cunt at the breakfast buffet as well. Four sausages left, so instead of taking just a couple and going back when they brought some more out (bit of buffet etiquette I feel) he took the fucking lot.
 
I sometimes where a Blades shirt while cycling to work here in Leicester. Once, the driver of an oncoming car shouted out of his window at the absolute top of his voice, as he passed me "UNITED!! UNITED!!". Frightened the life out of me :)

Occasionally, I will filter past a stationary car with a Blades sticker in the back window. I always feel compelled to tap on the window, give a thumbs-up and shout NA NA NA NA he's a Blade.
 
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The Crab said:
Fair point well made.

My beers of choice, Algarve is Sagres or Superbock, Kissimmee is Sam Adams.

Don't drink Carling here, fucked if I'm going to fly thousands of miles to drink it.
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Wouldn't drink Carling if I was in Burton or wherever its brewed! I'd literally rather have Becks Blue - and that's likely to be stronger!

When I head to Scotland later this summer I will get the Blades top out but then there's the look I'm English situation anyone want to have a pop at me?!
 
HighfieldBlade said:
I sometimes where a Blades shirt while cycling to work here in Leicester. Once, the driver of an oncoming car shouted out of his window at the absolute top of his voice, as he passed me "UNITED!! UNITED!!". Frightened the life out of me :)

Occasionally, I will filter past a stationary car with a Blades sticker in the back window. I always feel compelled to tap on the window, give a thumbs-up and shout NA NA NA NA he's a Blade.
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Soz
 

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