How many hours
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How many hours
Have you wasted /enjoyed watching football over the years.. Quite frightening when you try to work it out..Mine runs into years (I'm an old git)
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Re: How many hours
con --if yours runs into years, then so must mine because I don't just watch the Clarets, as you know. Most weeks I spend at least four and a half hours watching live games these days. I too am an old git!!conyoviejo wrote:Have you wasted /enjoyed watching football over the years.. Quite frightening when you try to work it out..Mine runs into years (I'm an old git)
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Re: How many hours
Convert it into miles travelled and it is equally frightening.60 years and counting I've been going to Turf Moor from Rossendale. Missed some through my studies in London for 3 years but I still must have been to 1500 or more home games at approx. a 22 mile round trip. That comes to at least twice round the world. And then there's the away games!
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Silky --interesting thought!Silkyskills1 wrote:Convert it into miles travelled and it is equally frightening.60 years and counting I've been going to Turf Moor from Rossendale. Missed some through my studies in London for 3 years but I still must have been to 1500 or more home games at approx. a 22 mile round trip. That comes to at least twice round the world. And then there's the away games!
I moved away from Oswaldtwistle in 1966 when I joined the RAF and since that time I have never lived closer than 100 miles from the Turf, including 8 years spent in Germany when I used to travel back quite a lot to watch matches.
In the 1970s I used to drive up from Weston-super-Mare to Bomarsund, Northumberland and pick up Billy Ingham's parents and take them to home and away games, take them home and then return to the west country --often covering well over 1000 miles in a weekend.
I had never thought about it until you mentioned it above ----the mind boggles!
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You are indeed a true supporter Ashington, many of us may only attend half a dozen matches a year but somehow the Clarets get into your blood. Up when we do well, miserable and irritable when they do otherwise. I couldn't sleep last night at the injustice of, let's face it, a good away draw but at 0-2 up in the 81st minute I hoped for much more. It's not easy being a claret but we have no choice I am afraid.
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Re: How many hours
Amazing... You are indeed a superfan of the highest calibre Ashy..Ashingtonclaret46 wrote:Silky --interesting thought!
I moved away from Oswaldtwistle in 1966 when I joined the RAF and since that time I have never lived closer than 100 miles from the Turf, including 8 years spent in Germany when I used to travel back quite a lot to watch matches.
In the 1970s I used to drive up from Weston-super-Mare to Bomarsund, Northumberland and pick up Billy Ingham's parents and take them to home and away games, take them home and then return to the west country --often covering well over 1000 miles in a weekend.
I had never thought about it until you mentioned it above ----the mind boggles!
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Wow, puts my 22 mile round trips in the shade. Mind you, I have walked to the match on two occasions.conyoviejo wrote:Amazing... You are indeed a superfan of the highest calibre Ashy..
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As I said, I have never really thought about it, I just enjoy going to the matches and for the last 30 years it has been a 300 mile round trip.
We are all fans and that is all that matters, I was thinking of not renewing my ST for next season because of VAR, however, my missus has persuaded me that I should ---I think that she just likes to get me out of her hair for the day!!
We are all fans and that is all that matters, I was thinking of not renewing my ST for next season because of VAR, however, my missus has persuaded me that I should ---I think that she just likes to get me out of her hair for the day!!
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Re: How many hours
You owe it to the missus Ashington, she knew what she was marrying .... or did she?
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Re: How many hours
The more frightening thing until last season was how much id spent per away premier league win in our previous 3 seasons
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Re: How many hours
You all sound like you're all trying to outdo the other for a role in the Burnley version of the old comedy classic skit, "The Four Yorkshiremen". Does any of you actually live in a cardboard box? If so, you win.