Most remote place you,ve got a Saints result or commentary from

[thegaffer]

I was on a remote Carribean Island on 21 Nov 2005 just walking along the beach when I heard the unmistakable sound of a radio commentary. I saw an old local woman sat on the stump of a palm tree listening to a premier league match cant remember who it was.I sat with her and listened to the scores coming through in the blazing heat and was chuffed when the commentator mentioned we were 3-0 up at home to Leeds. I thought game over and went for a swim. When I came back to the old woman later to get the final score's expecting a win of 5 or 6 nil I couldn't believe we had lost 4-3. Gutted.

[JackFrost]

Fareham

[thegaffer]

you are obviously a well travelled person.

[Shroppie]

Probably an island 80 km off the coast of Madagascar, or China or Vietnam. But with the internet, it's no big deal is it?

[saint_stevo]

Back alley on southampton hanging out the back of a hooker named Marjorie

[Gorgiesaint]

In the shadow of Mount Huscaran in Peru - managed to get a connection on my phone to see we'd beaten Yeovil 2-0 last season.

 

Most disappointed coming back as I flew back through Miami, managed to see that we were 2-2 against Bristol Rovers as my flight back to London boarded. Thought it must have been at least 15 mins since the final whistle so was gutted when I got back to find out we'd lost.

[Saint Fan CaM]

Korea, USA, Tenerife.

[buctootim]

Back alley on southampton hanging out the back of a hooker named Marjorie

 

You remembered her name. You sir, are a gentleman.

[Eastcowzer]

I was on a remote Carribean Island on 21 Nov 2005 just walking along the beach when I heard the unmistakable sound of a radio commentary. I saw an old local woman sat on the stump of a palm tree listening to a premier league match cant remember who it was.I sat with her and listened to the scores coming through in the blazing heat and was chuffed when the commentator mentioned we were 3-0 up at home to Leeds. I thought game over and went for a swim. When I came back to the old woman later to get the final score's expecting a win of 5 or 6 nil I couldn't believe we had lost 4-3. Gutted.

 

Straits of Magellan, via short-wave radio on my trusty Pye Cambridge multi-band and the BBC World Service, - which, incidentally the powers that be are considering shutting down. Bloody Philistines are alive and well in Westminister.

[Professor]

Internet information makes this less interesting than it could be. I've logged in via my phone to pick up scores from some fairly remote spots but all depends on your connection and whether is a land-based network or satilite. Picking up commentaries is a different thing though and depends on access to a good bandwith.

 

If you just think about the radio broadcasts on Solent, I've been suprised at how far across the south, you can pick it up. Already this season, I've been able to listen on 96.1FM on a standard radio or a car radio, in East Sussex, north of Eastbourne and in Dorset, West of Dorchester. That must be something like 160 miles apart and up to 100 miles from Southampton. Quite a coverage for a 'local' station.

[Fitzhugh Fella]

Listening to the World Service on a flight deck of a 747

[MarkSFC]

Was grateful for t'internet when in Sydney for the Ashes in 2002/3 because we were able to get the FA Cup win over Spurs straight away early in the morning!!a good few days as England won the test too!!

[John B]

I followed the Saints in 1978 whilst travelling in Thailand Malaysia and Indonesia by reading local newspapers and going to British Council Offices

[Fitzhugh Fella]

I used to find the States the hardest place to get a result - I often rung the local press association or the sports desk of the local papers. In Anchorage, Alaska I was finally beaten.

[Winnersaint]

Not remote on a global scale, but certainly out in the sticks. 3rd April 1976. On Cader Idris whilst on a A level Geography field trip. Radio reception wasn't good so no-one knew what was going on at Stamford Bridge. When we did pick up a signal Man U v Derby was the commentary on Radio 2. I remember listening to the Grand National. Rag Trade was the winner and then as we got lower down the slopes we picked up the other semi on the radio again. In a break in the play Bryon Butler announced that Saints were still one up at Stamford Bridge. Cue mad celebrations at this news. A little later the commentary cut to Stamford Bridge for the pen. Cue even madder wetter celebrations. There are lot of stream and pools up there. Que Sera Sera - Whatever will be, will be - We're going to Wemberley doesn't often ring around Snowdonia

[doubleonothing]

Middle of the Atlantic or middle of the Pacific are probably the most remote for me. But again using satellite communications it's not that impressive these days as it once might have been.

 

Occaisionally if I am very bored on watch I might try picking up world service for the results. There was a Kenyan West Brom fan who would be on most weeks giving his views who was always quite entertaining. Not sure if he still turns up though.

[Kingsland Red]

Diani Beach, Mombasa on a dodgey internet connection on Boxing Day.

Flew in and saw the home game on New Year's Day - at a guess 2004.

[mancsaint]

1976 sat in my flat in Sydney listening to the Cup Final commentary on short wave, recording it on my reel to reel tape recorder with it's fading and coming back all the time. The goal is 913 feet into the reel.

 

Listening to a Saints commentary on the salt flats in Bolivia, again on BBC World Service shortwave, cant remember much about the game but it was -25 outside the tent. Amazing the batteries held out in that temperature.

 

Great result yesterday.

 

Mancsaiunt

[crouchi]

2002 in Shanghai, came back to Wu Song Lu at midnight, stuck the TV on to see Saints kicking off the second half against Newcastle in the pouring rain

[thegaffer]

2002 in Shanghai, came back to Wu Song Lu at midnight, stuck the TV on to see Saints kicking off the second half against Newcastle in the pouring rain

 

i was in Magaluf watching that game

[SparkySaint]

Found out that we had survived 07/08 while on a massive morphine trip. I had broken both legs in a car crash on the thursday prior to the game. I think I might have had ssn on but not really sure. If anyone else knows what its like to be on morphine then they'll know how it completely wipes out your memory. I didn't realise I had hit the van head on until the police came and spoken to me

Edited 26 September, 2010 by SparkySaint

[Liquidshokk]

I heard we had been saved last year whilst on a canal boat on the canal du midi in France... Almost relevant.

[the colonel]

the Moon

[Big John]

On the Moon

 

Keith?

[ecuk268]

Internet information makes this less interesting than it could be. I've logged in via my phone to pick up scores from some fairly remote spots but all depends on your connection and whether is a land-based network or satilite. Picking up commentaries is a different thing though and depends on access to a good bandwith.

 

If you just think about the radio broadcasts on Solent, I've been suprised at how far across the south, you can pick it up. Already this season, I've been able to listen on 96.1FM on a standard radio or a car radio, in East Sussex, north of Eastbourne and in Dorset, West of Dorchester. That must be something like 160 miles apart and up to 100 miles from Southampton. Quite a coverage for a 'local' station.

 

Got a good reception from Radio Solent sat in the car in Honfleur in Normandy.

 

You can usually get Solent right along the French coast up to Calais.

[Saint Charlie]

Got a good reception from Radio Solent sat in the car in Honfleur in Normandy.

 

You can usually get Solent right along the French coast up to Calais.

 

Yeah I heard Kevin Phillips debut equaliser vs Leicester on Solent in the car in a car park of a Cherbourg supermarket.

[Deppo]

I listened to yesterday's game whilst driving from Southsea to Port Solent in Portsmouth.

[Saint Lindford]

Finding out the score of THAT game against Manure at The Dell on board one of HM Submarines at periscope depth somewhere where we should not really have been.

[Baj]

Not exactly remote, but I remember listening to Saints v Charlton on a radio headset in hospital cuddling my new born son. That was special

[Pilchards]

Was on my honeymoon about 14 years ago in Cancun when I tried in vain to pick up the world service station on my portable radio.

In the complex I walked about a mile to find a good spot and BINGO......It was under the pool and to the side of the sea, by the minute the tide was coming in and at the final whistle the water had reached my knees.

Had no idea if we won though.

[saint63]

Got a good reception from Radio Solent sat in the car in Honfleur in Normandy.

 

You can usually get Solent right along the French coast up to Calais.

 

103.8 is strong in South Devon and sometimes can get 96.1. Once listened to Saints Forum om 96.1 while driving in mid Brittany.

[the colonel]

Keith?

 

nope....or was in from amongst the stars

[barney]

Heard pardew had been sacked whilst on the independance of the seas, another saints fan sat on the main stairwell shaking his head truely bizarre.

[ivangolac]

Around 1998 I watched AC Milan play Sampdoria in the San Siro. At halftime they showed highlights of Saints away at Liverpool on the big screens..... We won 3-1 ! (David Hurst double I think)

 

Never thought I'd be able to say ' I've seen Saints win in the San Siro '

 

But I have .

[Dr Who?]

Around 1998 I watched AC Milan play Sampdoria in the San Siro. At halftime they showed highlights of Saints away at Liverpool on the big screens..... We won 3-1 ! (David Hurst double I think)

 

Never thought I'd be able to say ' I've seen Saints win in the San Siro '

 

But I have .

 

It was 2-3, but still a cracking result and day!!

[nogus]

Try and listen to every match with my dodgy internet connection previously in Iraq, now Afghanistan.

[Arizona]

Watched the goal updates from our 6-0 at Molyneux (and a few others) on my laptop whilst living just outside Phoenix. That's about as far as I can think of distance wise. Listened to the commentary online from our 4-1 at home to Southend on the final day of that season whilst lying in bed as the game kicked off at 7am.

[PrestonSaint]

About eleven years ago I was building a school on a plantation in the middle of nowhere in Ecuador. We had no electricity or running water, but did find the world service on the radio just as they went to second half coverage of Saints versus Newcastle. A 4-1 win (I think) made it a great day.

[derry]

1989, Kuala Lumpur, Saints beat Liverpool 4-0 with youngsters brought in. 2002, Easter Island, Lima, Guayaquil (Saints live beating Liverpool. Riise own goal), Phomn Penh, Ayers Rock, Agra, Goa. Otherwise all over the world and whilst airborne on BBC world service on the a/c HF radio any Saturday etc that Saints were playing.

[Windmill Arm 2]

The Iraq desert.

[AndyNorthernSaints]

Terre Haute, Indiana yesterday.

[Dr Who?]

1989, Kuala Lumpur, Saints beat Liverpool 4-0 with youngsters brought in. 2002, Easter Island, Lima, Guayaquil (Saints live beating Liverpool. Riise own goal), Phomn Penh, Ayers Rock, Agra, Goa. Otherwise all over the world and whilst airborne on BBC world service on the a/c HF radio any Saturday etc that Saints were playing.

 

4-1

[explorer saint]

On a Missisipi steamboat hearing we had beaten Boro away 1-0 five minutes later the jazz band started playing 'oh when the saints'

[The Majestic Channon]

Hedemora, dalarna sweden.

[Jonnyboy]

watched us get relegated from prem on tv on Ko Phi Phi, Thailand

[Jeff Le Taxi]

watched us get relegated from prem on tv on Ko Phi Phi, Thailand

 

Isn't that where they filmed 'The Beach'? always wanted to go there! is it is lovely as it looks in the film?

[Jonnyboy]

Isn't that where they filmed 'The Beach'? always wanted to go there! is it is lovely as it looks in the film?

 

they filmed various bits all rouind Thailand but yes the main beach as there.

 

Yes it is lovely defo worth a visit, gets loads of tourists though, diving good too

[rallyboy]

I've always felt guilty about going to the Antarctic, there we were, high up in the league and going well, Jan 04.

 

When we got back to mainland Argentina ten days later I logged on in the one internet cafe and discovered we had lost at home to Newcastle (3-0?), the whole thing fell apart from that week and here we are fifty odd league places lower than we were then, all because I went to the Antarctic.

 

Then again it was my wife's fault we lost at Fratton because she switched the car radio on in Wiltshire.

 

Makes sense to me.

 

And the thieving baggage handlers had three Boca juniors shirts out of my luggage.

[SAR Boy Saint]

Late 80's listened to Saints beat Liverpool from the jungle in Belize, and listened many times in the Falkland Islands.

 

Most desolate place? Anglesey!

[syd_barrett_saint]

I watched us get beat at home by the skates in the cup last season on the internet, in a cabin overlooking a huge blue lake in the middle of the Andes mountains on the southern border of Argentina and Chile.

 

I was depressed for a moment, but then glanced to the other side of the cabin to find my lovely Ecuadorian girlfriend had just woken up and was beckoning me back to bed. Yes, I'm boasting. Unfortunately it's not so great now as we broke up recently and I'm (unsuccessfully) trying to get her back. Hence this slightly drunken forum posting... :-/

 

(Still, I might never have got with her in the first place if it wasn't for Saints. She's a football fan and "El Tin" Delgado meant we actually had a shared interest of sorts to talk about the first time I was trying to chat her up in a bar. Safe to say she thinks a lot more of him than I do, though!)

Edited 27 September, 2010 by syd_barrett_saint