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kearney304 
Liam Brady 
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For Moscow in 2008, I flew to Riga and drove to Moscow with a lash of United fans. Some f**king laugh. Horrendous roads.
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bogball88
Liam Brady
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Posted: 24 Oct 2017 at 11:01am |
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Some drive that |
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kearney304
Liam Brady
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Posted: 24 Oct 2017 at 12:19pm |
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Unbelievable
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bogball88
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Posted: 24 Oct 2017 at 12:27pm |
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Cans? |
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SuperDave84
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It was the same for Kazakhstan, except it had to go to London. It was back inside a week. |
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kearney304
Liam Brady
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Haha not until I got there, I was trying to help the driver stay focused. We did it in one sitting like. Was insane. So I was up the front wired thinking we were going to die.
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larraga
Kevin Kilbane 
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Pussies. The distance from Riga to Moscow is approx. 550 miles. The previous two times that we've played in Copenhagen, we drove from Rosslare. Approx 350 miles from Fishguard to Dover & 550miles from Calais to Copenhagen.... 13 of us in a 3 seater Lite Ace. Some Craic.
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finbarrk
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Sounds like torture larraga.
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larraga
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This was before the advent of Ryanair. We all lived near Rosslare. Got over cheap, few cases of beer, great Craic. Went to all games like that including Stuttgart 88 like Jockser. So it wasn't torture finbarrk, it was enjoyable, we rarely won away, even to score a goal was a bonus. Great times, wouldn't give them up.
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kearney304
Liam Brady
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So was 1 fella sober the whole way or how did ye work it? Or was he supping on as well?
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larraga
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One guy didn't drink, all he wanted to do was ride.
On one occasion . we arrived in Hoek van Holland after an 8 hour overnight booze cruise from Harwich and there was no sign of our driver, so one of the lads who was drinking most of the night said he'd drive off and meet the designated driver at the Terminal. We were stopped at check point and police bagged him but miraculously he passed breath test. On the same sailing two brothers from North Wexford failed the test and were detained for 10 hours and fined £250.
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9fingers
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Was on the Hull to Rotterdam ferry a few years ago and same story, docked at 7 am and at the bottom of the ramp off the boat was a checkpoint. No idea how we got through it as we were up with a hen party till all hours the night before. Drove on to Kristianstad in Sweden that day, over 950km |
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Butch
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I'd say there will be some Irish who will drive to Russia next summer . The above trips from the 80s sounded some craic . No GPS , Mobile Phones , Emails , Forums , Joe.ie . Justs cans with the lads and the open roads
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kearney304
Liam Brady
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From here? I very much doubt it. Let's just say for arguments sake we are in Moscow. Like it was roughly about 17 hours for us with Border control (which was a complete f**king nightmare) from Riga. Imagine doing that before you even get to Riga or wherever. It's a lot of driving. You would be f**ked. And it's also going to be a shared effort or 1 solo designated driver which is hard to come by.
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9fingers
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€40 flights to Riga in June, 900km drive from there. Easy 
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the_walls
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Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 9:13am |
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You'd nearly want to go now if you're driving from Ireland to Russia
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Butch
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I'm not saying there will be an influx or convoy of Irish in campers but there will be a few headers who will take a month off and drive it
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kearney304
Liam Brady
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Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 9:25am |
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I'm telling you now, I will be looking at that option. Back in 08 I wasn't driving at all. We were horsing the roads. Shades chasing us in a LADA, remember them? We had to slow down to bribe them so they would piss off. I promised I would never go back, an awful country with horrendous poverty. But this is a World Cup and sure you just don't know if we will be back. 2002 is a far bit away now like. I hear St. Petersburg is nice. But Moscow is a sh*t hole, unless they have given the place a makeover since I've been there. I think lads who haven't been will genuinely be shocked, it was like I was in a time machine. Let's get over Denmark now first. I would never jinx it by booking now.
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