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One should never take for granted the option of supporting your chosen footy team and going to watch them on match days.. rain snow or blow through good times and bad, yes its always better whilst winning and competing at the toppa which ever league your club is in.
I followed Scunny home and away for years pre 2000 before left UK shores .. i can honestly say after 22 years away there are very few things i miss in Blighty..but going to watch the Iron is most definately one of them along with family , friends and proper fish n chips from a proper chippy (Scunny had plenty back then) , 7 hour time difference is a pain and thank the lord for tinternet so i can keep up to speed and watch “live” on line when available…i get my Scunny shirts sent over every year via a mate but IMO none of this compares to being at the ground and all that goes into a day at the footy , pre match pint , shitty pie n bovril at half time and the banter with the lads.only my opinion ans each to their own thats what makes the world go around.
Yes Ironfromafar I have supported them since 1951 when they joined League 3N, and also used to go to the reserve teams home matches when the 1st team were away, it used to have a set of letters on a billboard for half time scores, a guy used to hang numers on it. I used to get the Ubeique bus (excuse spelling) from Ashby, go to the game after a couple of bread buns from a shop near Britannia corner, and bus home after the game, games were enjoyable then with teams having five forwards, I also used to sit up and watch computer updates till 03-00 hrs in the morning in places like Borneo, Java, Egypt, West Papua etc, there were no i-follower those days and I even used to plan my home leave soas to see as many games as possible, but gave my season ticket up at the start of this season after being fed up watching a team under Cox, it must also have driven many Iron fans from attending GP.
I would think that the total cost was about 2d bus, 3d footy and a penny for 2 hot bread buns, a bit different nowadays, but just a bit of good news for you pal, you are certainly not missing much wherevewr you are, even saying that I never miss an i-follower game when ever they show them.
