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Soccer Fans Take Fishing Boat to Remote Match
Published 7/16/2008 by Tuffy at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... Not these twelve hearty and hale Manchester City soccer fans. They wanted to see a fairly meaningless tournament game being played in the remote isles of Faroe. However, they couldn’t scrape together the flight funds. Therefore, they drove hours to a port in Scotland, boarded a ferry to another set of distant islands 12 hours away, and rented a fishing trawler for the 26-hour final leg . We mean… jeez. If you can’t love your team more than these guys, why love at all? Are you even capable of the emotion? We doubt it. That blinding affection doesn’t leave them completely ...

Manchester United fans travel 26 hours by ...
Published 7/16/2008 by Rick Chandler at Deadspin
... Manchester United fans travel 26 hours by fishing trawler to see their beloved team in a playoff game. Wouldn't it be funny if they misread the schedule, and it was actually a home game? [The Sun] ...

Man City Fans Hire a Trawler to Get to Faroe Islands
Published 7/16/2008 by Laurie at The Offside
... to travel on the above-pictured trawler. And it’s not as if you can catch a trawler straight from Manchester to Torshavn, Faroe Islands. (Map of the trip can be found here .) First they had to drive eight hours to Aberdeen, Scotland. Then they caught a twelve-hour ferry ride to the Shetland Islands. And that was where they caught the trawler, for a 26-hour ride across “rough seas.” That spells “dedication.” Or maybe “unemployment.” The Three Sisters is kitted out for deepsea divers with 14 sleeping compartments, a kitchen, toilet and shower. The fans, aged between 25 and ...

fans vs. Fans
Published 7/17/2008 by Mike (noreply@blogger.com) at Yellow Chair Sports
... Not only did the Fans manage to arrange all this, but they also arranged for soccer magazine FourFourTwo to pay for their booze . Now, I don't want to question these Fans' wisdom, but of all the places where I would want to have a boatload of free beer at my disposal, the high seas is closer to the bottom of that list than the top. ...