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Honest story. Two years ago in Barbados. There is a guy (Charlie) who runs a few "businesses" one of which is JetSki Hire. Every day he wears a different football shirt that he has been given over the years by wealthy(ish) punters. Two years ago he had a bit of a Liverpool fest. Talked to him about the Blades and it was a big blank.Even fucking Stoke was on his horizon. This year turned up with Blades gear (the twat was wearing a spammers shirt at the time) and it was immediate recognition of the badge with "that's that team that is Championship and got 100 points". Loves last years orange shorts with the badge even though it looks like a skirt on him. We are now properly known on Alleynes Beach Barbados.

I shall continue to dispense largesse amongst similar natives in the area.
 

About 18 years ago, thanks to the generosity of a relative, I had the good fortune to go to Rio de Janeiro with my wife. This was a lifetime ambition fulfilled and went to the Copa Cabana beach on the Sunday morning to watch the locals show off their skills. I was wearing my new (at the time) United shirt and was welcomed by several locals to join in their game. Quite a few of them recognised the shirt and the name of our club. I did join in their game for a few minutes but soon remembered that at 50 I was well passed my best. When they heard me try to speak to them they then laughed and said that I must have been Ronny Biggs the Great Train Robber that was "hiding" out there at the time.

Sometime later while we were there, we attended their cup final at the Old Maracana stadium. There were locals selling replica Brazilian national & club shirts that were on coat hangers fastened to a long pole, probably about 20 or so per pole. When the chap selling them saw my United shirt that I was wearing, he offered to swap his pole full of shirts for my one United shirt (that my son had bought me for my birthday). He seamed genuinely disappointed when I declined his offer, no doubt that he would have used the original shirt to make replicas.
 
Snowman said:
Honest story. Two years ago in Barbados. There is a guy (Charlie) who runs a few "businesses" one of which is JetSki Hire. Every day he wears a different football shirt that he has been given over the years by wealthy(ish) punters. Two years ago he had a bit of a Liverpool fest. Talked to him about the Blades and it was a big blank.Even fucking Stoke was on his horizon. This year turned up with Blades gear (the twat was wearing a spammers shirt at the time) and it was immediate recognition of the badge with "that's that team that is Championship and got 100 points". Loves last years orange shorts with the badge even though it looks like a skirt on him. We are now properly known on Alleynes Beach Barbados.

I shall continue to dispense largesse amongst similar natives in the area.
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I shall be frequenting Oistins on Friday 15th December and sampling the delightful seafood. I expect plenty of complimentary drinks when they see the Blades badge. :)
 
Got speaking to a local out in Lake Mead, Las Vegas, he asked where I was from, I said sheffield and the first thing he said was "aah, Sheffield United". Odd that was the first thing he said in reply but it made me happy never the less

Sadly no one has seemingly heard of United in Finland, equally as bad Finnish people dont actually like football either.... sad state of affairs.
 
Been working in Kuwait as a teacher for 6 years now. About 1,000 kids now know about united, and a fair few have watched the bouncekiller with me this week haha.

Like the comment above, the exposure of that one year in 2006/07 did a lot for us. Many people in the middle east recognise us. It's football mad out here, and it should have a world cup... But it should be held in the UAE instead.
 
Suomi_Blade said:
Got speaking to a local out in Lake Mead, Las Vegas, he asked where I was from, I said sheffield and the first thing he said was "aah, Sheffield United". Odd that was the first thing he said in reply but it made me happy never the less

Sadly no one has seemingly heard of United in Finland, equally as bad Finnish people dont actually like football either.... sad state of affairs.
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Last time I was there it was very dark. In more ways than one. At least Father Christmas was in colours.
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
As this is another blatant holiday boast thread, I'll join in and will ask at the 10 Islands in Caribbean I'm visiting over the Christmas period.
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Oh, I didn't realise it is a holiday boast thread. I will ask in Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns when I start my hols on Nov 8th! Oh,and I'll mention it also in Hong Kong on my stop off on the way back.:rolleyes:
 
I once drove through Eccles. As I pulled up at the lights and the local daft Charlie's started taking my alloys off (the cheeky little scamps), they asked what the United score was. I said we were winning 2-0 and that Duffy was on fire and running the show. They looked puzzled and twatted me.
 

Highbury_Blade said:
You absolute bastard.

I should give everyone a warning that the above video is extremely NSFW.
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WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
Highbury_Blade said:
I got stopped by a guy in the street in Bangkok in May who asked me where i'm from, I said the UK, and he shouts "Tottenham Hotspur!" I told him that i didn't watch the premier league, as my team were in the third tier, but had just won the league. He shouts "Sheffield United. 100Pts!".

I was amazed. He then asked for some money.
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You do realise that was Chansiri. His money-making scam never gets old.
 
In Galway 2 years ago having a smoke out side a bar with my blades shirt on when two young Irish guys came up & said they were blades, we had a brief we are blades sing song & I then introduced my mate from the dark side & they said as one Fuck Off Pig made my weekend.
 
Two years ago I had a discussion with the Asian guy who runs the sports store in Joburg airport. He either follows us or has a comprehensive knowledge of English football and a photographic memory, as his specific comment was 'I'm sure the Blades would have stayed up if Hulse hadn't broken his leg'.
 
My lad now has a Blades kit and we were at a football coaching session this week in the Swiss International School in Qatar, some bloke who worked in the school walked past us on the way in and said "is that a Sheff Utd shirt? Good lad".

I'm not sure whether he was a Blade or just surprised that he'd seen a kid without a Barca, Man Utd, Man City, Bayern or PSG kit on.
 
derekacorah said:
My lad now has a Blades kit and we were at a football coaching session this week in the Swiss International School in Qatar, some bloke who worked in the school walked past us on the way in and said "is that a Sheff Utd shirt? Good lad".

I'm not sure whether he was a Blade or just surprised that he'd seen a kid without a Barca, Man Utd, Man City, Bayern or PSG kit on.
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I saw a lad in Kuwait on a 5 a side pitch with one on... Went over and turns out he was at uni in Sheffield and adopted the blades as his team.
 

Blades shirt on in Doha airport. Security guy saw me and said ‘James Beattie yes’ whilst pointing at the badge.

And Mandurah in Australia.
 
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