You’ll be a hero…..
I was on one of my backpacking trips; travelling through an Eastern European country which shall remain nameless when a group of locals invited me to watch a football match. Now I like my football and this was an opportunity I couldn’t refuse so I went along not really knowing what to expect. The atmosphere in the stadium was amazing; not like the soulless, let’s all be quiet for the Sky TV punters atmosphere you get back in England. Flares, flags, fences, riot police and Ultras everywhere.

It turned out that the guys I was with were part of a local Ultras group and as the match progressed they were teaching me songs, giving me a flag and then one gave me a dare. “Climb the fence with the flag; you’ll be a hero” and then the line that decided it “the girls will love it.” Why I felt the need to impress girls like some lovestuck teenager I don’t know (I was in my late 20’s) but off I went only to be hauled off the fence so fast I didn’t know what’d hit me.

The police were less than impressed; plus it turns out I was in the country illegally due to a slight technicality.

Dare to impress – it got me deported.
(Rev O'Lucian will unfortunatly age on, Fri 2 Nov 2007, 11:31, Reply)