Return to Istanbul

[New York Red]

If, just if, we make it to our third successive Champions League final, what were the lessons learned from our last visit to Istanbul?

Where was the best area to stay?

The best way to get to the stadium?

How was it getting a flight back to the UK?
Where was the area to hang around drinking before and after the match?

[Murphman]

Sultan Ahmet

A little yellow taxi

Like Dunkirk

Taksim Square

[Hightown Phil]

It’s much better connected than it was. I went in 2015 and there’s an actual metro station now.

[Maldini]

Don't eat mystery meat cooked in the back of a van

[Molby]

If you forget to bring booze, there’s a little farmhouse on the other side of the valley from the stadium, about as far as the eye can see really, that will sell you Raki

[Jonesy]

Sultan Ahmet

A little yellow taxi

Like Dunkirk

Taksim Square

Kebabs

Effes

[Cobs]

the stage isn't about to collapse

[The Hitman]

the stage isn't about to collapse

Haha. Good times

[Jonesy]

the stage isn't about to collapse

 

Leeeeeeeeeeveeeeerpoooool Fans please leave the stage!! It's going collapse. Pleeeeaassseeeee Leeeeeeeveeeeerpoooooool fans get off the stage. 

 

Also that lad that climbed the floodlight in the car park to plant his flag at the top!! Feck that!! 

[Murphman]

Mini Pavarotti's, We all dream of a team of Gingerknobs,Stevie Boy having a ball (God love him), Vic doing the crossing land and oceans pilgrimage with Matty, Big Wayne stone cold sober and nobody noticing 'cos we were all pissed, meeting up with Houllier on the eve of the match, the locals at the side of the road high fiving us in the taxi's like we were an army of liberation,walking past the goats in the field by the stadium.

 

Boring as f*ck.

 

*Edit and the lovely Andy Mac, a nicer man I never met and sorely missed, telling us that at half time his 85 year old Mum had prayed to St Jude, the Patron Saint of lost causes. What a f*cking jaunt that was...

Edited February 17, 2020 by Murphman

[Bogman]

Don't eat mystery meat cooked in the back of a van

 

 

[smithdown]

Bodrum

10 hour overnight coach, breaking down at least three times in the middle of a desert, and then a boat across the Bosphorus at dawn

Piece of p*ss