Now this has a happy ending but could well have been tragic.
Firstly mine and three mates had a superb time in Athens bar the result and I was dismayed to see all the news about the trouble and muggins etc although I can see very easily how it came about. We had three completly incident free days (well almost) and managed with no issues at all to get into the ground and watch the game then get home to the UK last night. All in all a good time BUT ...............
We were based on an Easy Cruise liner docked in the main harbour in Athens which all in all was ok, simple but fine. We arrived Tuesday evening and went out to enjoy a nice meal and a few bottles of wine (plus a few local shots of god knows what). Not wanting to ruin our match day we decided to return to the boat have a few beers and get a good nights kip !!! One thing led to another and we got a tad ****ed on the boat and enjoyed ourselves with the other supportes at the bar. At about 1am one of the lads decided he'd go for a piss and that was that until after about half an hour we realised he'd not returned. After checking the room and finding his bed empty we had a good search of the boat and came to the conclusion hed gone off with a lass whom had been with at the bar ....... fast forward to 2.30am
I was awoken by one of the LFC reps whom was on the boat to be told that I needed to go with him as my friend was now in a local hospital .....
To cut an already long story short Doug had somehow gone walkies off the boat and along the sea defence wall and fallen in on the sea side not the harbour side. He'd luckily been jolted out of his pissed state on hitting the water only to find he was confronted by a 35ft vertical sea wall and very rough waters. Somehow and we still dont know how after 35-45 mins of desperate screaming for help and vain attempts to climb an unclimable wall whilst fully clothed in very cold waters someone heard him and alerted the coastgaurd whom manged to get him out just in time. DOUG CANT SWIM VERY WELL I FOUND OUT LATER !!!!!
Anyway he was ok shaken but ok ..... he returned to the boat that morning battered bruised and a little shocked to say the least and we were soon ready to commence our champions league adventure .....
Ive posted this as a warning to everyone as we could have very very easily been coming home with a bodybag .... we lost yes but we all came home safe and yes we all learnt a valuble lesson .... you hear of these storys and think they could never happen to you, trust me than can and they do. If your getting pissed near water I implore you to stick together like glue.
Y.N.W.A.
Rob.
P.S In his embarrassment he tried to tell us hed been thrown in by Milan fans ......... we all pissed ourselves.
Firstly mine and three mates had a superb time in Athens bar the result and I was dismayed to see all the news about the trouble and muggins etc although I can see very easily how it came about. We had three completly incident free days (well almost) and managed with no issues at all to get into the ground and watch the game then get home to the UK last night. All in all a good time BUT ...............
We were based on an Easy Cruise liner docked in the main harbour in Athens which all in all was ok, simple but fine. We arrived Tuesday evening and went out to enjoy a nice meal and a few bottles of wine (plus a few local shots of god knows what). Not wanting to ruin our match day we decided to return to the boat have a few beers and get a good nights kip !!! One thing led to another and we got a tad ****ed on the boat and enjoyed ourselves with the other supportes at the bar. At about 1am one of the lads decided he'd go for a piss and that was that until after about half an hour we realised he'd not returned. After checking the room and finding his bed empty we had a good search of the boat and came to the conclusion hed gone off with a lass whom had been with at the bar ....... fast forward to 2.30am
I was awoken by one of the LFC reps whom was on the boat to be told that I needed to go with him as my friend was now in a local hospital .....
To cut an already long story short Doug had somehow gone walkies off the boat and along the sea defence wall and fallen in on the sea side not the harbour side. He'd luckily been jolted out of his pissed state on hitting the water only to find he was confronted by a 35ft vertical sea wall and very rough waters. Somehow and we still dont know how after 35-45 mins of desperate screaming for help and vain attempts to climb an unclimable wall whilst fully clothed in very cold waters someone heard him and alerted the coastgaurd whom manged to get him out just in time. DOUG CANT SWIM VERY WELL I FOUND OUT LATER !!!!!
Anyway he was ok shaken but ok ..... he returned to the boat that morning battered bruised and a little shocked to say the least and we were soon ready to commence our champions league adventure .....
Ive posted this as a warning to everyone as we could have very very easily been coming home with a bodybag .... we lost yes but we all came home safe and yes we all learnt a valuble lesson .... you hear of these storys and think they could never happen to you, trust me than can and they do. If your getting pissed near water I implore you to stick together like glue.
Y.N.W.A.
Rob.
P.S In his embarrassment he tried to tell us hed been thrown in by Milan fans ......... we all pissed ourselves.
You should call him Bob form now on:
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