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Okay a quick confession. I'm a St Johnstone fan - someone has to be.

Coming from Fife though I didn't get to see them that often but they were playing away to Raith Rovers who are the nearest club to me. My dad said, "I know someone at the club, he can get us tickets for the executive box"

If you've ever been to Raith's ground you'll know that Starks Park Executive Box is an oxymoron. But a game's a game and it would be good to see the Saints play so I agree to go along and I decide to bring my girlfriend along too to watch her first game of football.

On that particular Saturday it was pissing it down relentlessly and after 20 minutes of walking I was as wet as it's possible to get. By the time we get to the ground we're both soaked and cold and just generally miserable. I find my dad and think right, if we can just get indoors and get a drink everything will be right with the world again.

"So where's the posh entrance then?"

"I don't know, I think it's round here."

"No, that's just the normal entrance for home supporters."

"Are you sur..."

"Yes I've been here plenty of times before."

"Well let's just get inside and we'll ask where to go."

Groan. So the three of us get in and the only official looking people are selling programmes and pies so we just head to a seat and sit down. In the cold. And wet. With Raith Rovers fans all around us. Bollocks.

So to hurry the story along I'll simply say that my team won 4-1. I was so cold I was shivering, I had to bite my tongue everytime a goal was scored and I knew that my girlfriend was going to murder me when we got home for putting her through all this.

Full-time, thank christ for that we can go home. And then it happened, the best and most apt heckle I've ever heard and it cheered me up completely. Just as we were filing out one of the Raith Rovers fans shouted out to his beaten team in a very broad Fife accent, "You're fucking shite Rovers!"

Yes, they truly were.
( djtrialprice, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 18:05, Reply)