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

[Black Sea Saint]

I was on Easter Island the day we got relegated from the premier league. It was agonising as I was receiving texts from my girlfriend with the score updates, but the delay was terrible, I didn't know we'd been relegated until about an hour after the game had ended.

[Wildgoose]

Uganda, before we could get internet there and it was even hard to phone home.......got the results the day after in the national newspaper.

[Convict Colony]

Doesn't really count but I have just come back from India, Nepal and Tibet and I was spending $20 sgd a minute at Everest Base Camp (Tibetan Side) following the updates of the management saga via this forum.

[buctootim]

Not especially remote, but I was in Bangkok in 1983. No internet, mobiles or even direct international dialling then. To make a call home I had to go to the post office, book an appointment, hang around for hours and come back later that day. Shown to a little wooden phone cubicle and got 10 minutes talking to my sister at some huge cost. Spent nearly the whole call hearing about how Saints were doing.

[Kingsland Codger]

Not so much remote but to give an idea of how communications have changed in the last 30 years -

 

In the 70s I was living in the sticks in Japan. Unsurprisingly, the results weren't published in any of the Japanese language newspapers but there were included in the Monday edition of an English language paper - which I used to receive on the Tuesday evening. About a 3 day delay.

 

By contrast, fast forward to a few years ago when we played Brentford in the FA Cup and Kevin Phillips 'scored' in the last few moments only for the referee to disallow the goal. Within seconds I received a text from my son who was watching the game in a beach bar in Thailand telling me the TV replay showed KP to be well onside.

[Phil the Saint]

Kabale in Uganda - 4 of us all wearing Saints shirts in a small hotel watched Saints beat Man Utd 1-0 with a Kevin Davies goal at the Dell in the Hoddle era. All the locals were supporting Man Utd and hadn't heard of Saints. The next morning our fame (and drunken good natured singing) from the night before had spread and we were stopped in the streets by people congratulating us on the result.

[Gemmel]

Quebec, **** hole of the world can't begin to explain how cold it was..... and we lost to Birmingham.

 

Not very remote, but when we got relegated from the Prem, i was sat in Mcdonalds at Schipol airport. By a freak of fate, I was sat on the same table, in the same airport when we were offically relagated from the Championship......... Not quite sure what that means, except to stay away from Holland, if we are ever in a relegation battle.

[explorer saint]

Was in the Arctid Circle on the way to the north pole ( im not a bragger honest), when we got into our third and final checkpoint before our final 5 day push, I had a few copies of emails waiting for me one from my mate who had copied and pasted the match report from our 1-0 win over Leeds at St Marys, which meant our play off chances were still alive. This may qualify me for the most northern and coldest match report, it was about - 30!

[del boy]

Mongolia - where I also saw a billboard poster for Liebherr trucks

[eelpie]

Swartzburg Mountains, South Africa. My son texted me the JPT Final scores last March. He had my tickets, lucky b****r cos my fair lady wasn't keen on me canceling our holiday. It was because I wasn't watching that we won. The sacrifices we have to make!

[ericofarabia]

Not so much remote but to give an idea of how communications have changed in the last 30 years -

 

In the 70s I was living in the sticks in Japan. Unsurprisingly, the results weren't published in any of the Japanese language newspapers but there were included in the Monday edition of an English language paper - which I used to receive on the Tuesday evening. About a 3 day delay.

 

By contrast, fast forward to a few years ago when we played Brentford in the FA Cup and Kevin Phillips 'scored' in the last few moments only for the referee to disallow the goal. Within seconds I received a text from my son who was watching the game in a beach bar in Thailand telling me the TV replay showed KP to be well onside.

 

Exactly .... back in the 80's before the innernet and mobile phones, I used to struggle to listen to paddy feeney reading out the scores on BBC World Service with the help of dangling bits of aerial and old coat haners over curtain rails etc to try and get some sort of reception.. This often failed or was inconclusive as the reception was so bad I virtually had to guess the score from the tone it was read out!! So often it was Sunday if I was lucky or even Monday ... and don't get me started on mid week matches!!

 

2 of the more memorable episodes were the 6-3 mauling of Man U which was the commentary match ... i could tell loads of goals had gone in, but absolutely no idea who had scored or what the score was until the next day!! Another time I was out down the pub and The English coverage of whatever prem game they were showing on ESPN finished and at the final whistle, and they went over to the arabic studio. One particular evening we had been playing Arsenal away, so I knew that when they showed the final scores our game would be on the top line, and i can recognise arabic numbers and was amazed to see that we had won 3-1 ... cue a bloody good night out on the back of it. However the next days paper showed we'd lost 3-1 and it was only then I remembered arabic writing reads from right to left so squiggle squiggle 1 V squiggle squiggle 3 was actually a home win ...DOH!!

[Redondo Saint]

Sheraton Bandung, Indonesia

 

Listened to commentary via laptop and drinking Bintang, while there on business.

[jonesyboyo]

Tried and failed to find a way to watch on TV the 2003 cup final while in La Paz, Bolivia - travelling in South America, asked around loads of cafe bars and the like but with little luck, even went up to the British Embassy and asked there. I ended up sat in an internet cafe pressing f*cking refresh for 90 minutes

 

Seen us on the telly a couple times while living out in California, usually at godforsaken hours

[Junction 9]

A cottage in the Lake district.

[St Michael]

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!!

 

I was there for all five days of that Test too. Happy, happy days. One of my favourite Test matches ever (despite the miserable series overall) and joint top of my favourite sporting events attended with the FA Cup final later that year.

 

During that tour I was on the dance floor of Home nightclub in Sydney when my goalflash text came through telling me we'd equalised in the last minute away at Leeds. Got a text from my mate, who was at the game, asking me who'd scored as it was at the other end of the ground and couldn't tell. I was able to tell him, from the other side of the world, that it was Fabrice Fernandes. The magic of modern technology.

[SaintDonkey]

Not Saints, but for the England Germany match last summer I was in a hikers hut in Iceland, some 50 miles from the nearest tarmac road, having the radio commentary sporadically translated from Icelandic to English and German by the hut warden for the gathered hikers.

[maltasaints]

Man Utd game 6-3 back in 96, middle of the Libyan desert in an oil rig camp, BBC five live before they decided to be complete ******s and ban anybody outside the UK hearing them.

[Saint Johnno]

In a bar in Crete. Saints v Manu. Beattie scored in last minute to win 1-0. No time for Manu to score. Brilliant. We were only 3 Saints fans in the place! About year 2000.

[NY Saint]

Heron Island, barrier reef - Saints 1-0 Spurs, Leeds 1-0 Saints and Saints 4-2 Chelsea. On an island with no internet access for a week. Cost me $15 in Mobile WAP charges on my crappy phone but well worth it to see the Chelsea result. Fantastic stuff!!