Pretty good parcels service run by British Rail back in the day. Sold out to the private sector, was it, City Link? anyway, it went to shit.
25 November 2022
Cream cheese and chives
Saw Red Star Belgrade against Man U in the Super Cup 1991(?) . Best team I have ever seen. United won 1 v 0 but looked embarrassed at the end. Because of what was going on in Yugoslavia at the time, it was a one leg thing and I remember the Red Star fans were fighting amongst themselves before the game. GMP were completely nonplussed. Quite often then league games against the likes of Wimbledon would be full but I recall Old Trafford was less than half full for this game. It’s on YouTube somewhere.
25 November 2022
BOBBY SVARC
Baby Squad gave them a proper kicking at Filbert Street but paid for it in Vienna, it was scary, to say the least.
25 November 2022
transit full of keith
I’m not really from a football-mad family & the only two matches my dad took me to were out-of-season friendlies at Vicarage Road, including one against Red Star Belgrade, in the early 1980s. The stadium was about a quarter full, I’ve got no memory of the game, and it never really gave me the bug tbh). CC&C, your 1991 story reminds me that my dad used to work for the agency which did the ads for Yugotours, and he witnessed a mass staff punch-up in their London offices at about the same time.
25 November 2022
The Bullet of Escobar
There’s Red Star Paris which was set up in 1897 by none other than Jules Rimet. Known for its feverishly left-wing supporters.
BOBBY SVARC
Pretty good parcels service run by British Rail back in the day. Sold out to the private sector, was it, City Link? anyway, it went to shit.
25 November 2022
Cream cheese and chives
Saw Red Star Belgrade against Man U
in the Super Cup 1991(?) . Best team I have ever seen. United won 1 v 0 but looked embarrassed at the end.
Because of what was going on in Yugoslavia at the time, it was a one leg thing and I remember the Red Star fans were fighting amongst themselves before the game. GMP were completely nonplussed.
Quite often then league games against the likes of Wimbledon would be full but I recall Old Trafford was less than half full for this game. It’s on YouTube somewhere.
25 November 2022
BOBBY SVARC
Baby Squad gave them a proper kicking at Filbert Street but paid for it in Vienna, it was scary, to say the least.
25 November 2022
transit full of keith
I’m not really from a football-mad family & the only two matches my dad took me to were out-of-season friendlies at Vicarage Road, including one against Red Star Belgrade, in the early 1980s. The stadium was about a quarter full, I’ve got no memory of the game, and it never really gave me the bug tbh). CC&C, your 1991 story reminds me that my dad used to work for the agency which did the ads for Yugotours, and he witnessed a mass staff punch-up in their London offices at about the same time.
25 November 2022
The Bullet of Escobar
There’s Red Star Paris which was set up in 1897 by none other than Jules Rimet. Known for its feverishly left-wing supporters.
21 August 2023