I was not able to celebrate yesterday's victory too much. An early rise today as on the coach now to Campinha Grande, Treze v Santa Cruz in a 4th division game. Nice and local being only 80 miles away.
I was wondering if my WhatsApp was on the blink again Elfs. It goes wrong a lot. Some more travels pics on the way soon I assume?
ELFS' BRASILIAN TRAVELS 2025 #2 20th April 2025 Treze 0-1 Sport (4th Division) Pictures part 1 Ticket: approx £4 Attendance: Approx. 5,000 Badge / programme: unknown Beers: small in 330ml can £1
ELFS' BRASILIAN TRAVELS 2025 #2 20th April 2025 Treze 0-1 Sport (4th Division) Pictures part 2 Quite a spread out stadium, stands look a fair way back from the pitch. Multi-sport / Athletics? By the way... I always have fun downloading my phone pictures to the PC. Got around 400 this time, quite a few as I barely ever use the camera and I only downloaded about six weeks ago. I assume it dredged up lots of pics from last year, even though it is supposed to delete images after downloading them. Elfs, can you confirm the above match is the only set of pics you have sent me since ABC vs America back in March? Another thing the downloading has done is re-named all the images, so important information about when they were taken is likely lost. If you have sent me other travels sets between March and the end of April I will try to identify them
Hiya Guvnor, I have had trouble with a guy trying to download onto my desktop, not sure why. All strange. I hope you have not been losing too much of your time with your situation. Since the ABC game I have not sent anything to you.
I could not get hold of a badge, programmes do not exist in Brazil, pretty much at all. A big concrete bowl which is groundshared with Campinense, I do not think it is used for other events.
Off to Recife tomorrow for Santa Cruz v Sousa in a 4th Division game, have google imaged the ground and it is a belter. please log in to view this image
To answer @Ponders Revisited As you'll appreciate given the size of Brazil I cannot do so much as back home. I have done about ten since I have been out here which is not too bad, there is not a rail system out here(not surprisingly) so to do 400 miles here is a f****** hike! I'll add to this a bit later once I can put together where I have been, hold tight
Not quite as exciting but I went to Harrogate recently to make it 81/92. Might complete the set one day if I can really be arsed travelling to Barrow and Exeter.
I’ve done 76/92 watching Charlton . I doubt I’ll get to the 92 as it’s unlikely we will make the Premier League or League Two.
Barrow is a toilet and a f****** trek from London in a day. Exeter is a lovely part of the country and well worth a weekend away. Barnsley takes me back, right back for Watford in the early 80's?
When we went down in 2016 I was convinced we'd end up in the 4th. That would have meant me doing the 92 with us. A shame.
You've never truly hopped if you haven't visited Shepshed Dynamo in deepest Leicestershire. A cracking little club.
Well, QPR mainly but yes. Criminally underused for England considering the notorious lack of options around 1992 and the only QPR player in a Prem team of the year if you ever need a pub quiz question. Stayed in Exeter when I went to Plymouth. It’s certainly one of the nicer towns on my list of 11. Grimsby is planned.
Grimsby is as bleak as people say. A nasty wind blows into the stadium off the North Sea alongside. A really nice place for fish & chip shops though. We drew 1-1 on my one & only trip to Grimsby.
Grimsby is a decent jaunt: lovely chips, proper ground, decent folk and an excellent heritage museum. And they gave us Super Clive at a snip.
