Jukesays wrote:Got onto the coach around 6.am with 2 x cooler Bags Full of Tinnies & 2 x 2litre bottles of Jukesy's Special Mix! (Twosevenzero & 21-12 drank most of it!) and the other 9 in my group all had 10-20 cans apiece!
The tickets said no alcohol allowed and the coach driver said the same!
We got to Shevington roundabout and the drivers changed and the new one said "Go on then, have a couple but make sure no-one sees You!"
Nothing but fields to the left & right for 250 miles so we got the Drink out!
No-one on the coach apart from our "Party of 10!" had brought any so they all started to try & buy some off us! We let them have a couple each on the proviso we got double back on the way home! They all agreed and they duly obliged!
As the liquid started to flow I took a bit of stick as the only person on the coach who was certain we would win! No amount of discussion (despite the Drink) would convince them otherwise!
UNTIL!
We got to some services around 9am and the place was absolutley packed with Stains fans! Out of the 40 or so coaches only 5 or 6 were Wigan as most of the Wigan coaches didn't want to stop and have the Stains Fans Gloating at them!
All you could see were Stains fans laughing and Joking and regailed in Fancy Dress!
As I got back to the coach I stood on the steps of the coach and welcomed all our Supporters back on with words something like this :-
At the Top of My voice!
"Take a Look at em, their here for a Party Not a Rugby Game! They think they've won it already!
Let's get stuck into these Scouse Barsteward3 and make em work for it, they don't like Working for anything!"
We sat back in our seats and I can remember As if it were yesterday a Guy who I had given a can to about 3 or 4 rows in front of me turned and said "Your Right, were going to win aren't we!"
I stood up and said "Too Fing right we are!" and the whole coach erupted!
We got to Edinburgh at 10.30ish and went to a pub near were the coach was parked, about a mile from the ground but the door was locked!
I knocked on the door a couple of times and the landlord answered and said we aren't opening till 1pm!
I told him to open up early and we would make it worthwhile with a quick £20 back hander, he said wait there, came back 2 mins later and said he had persuaded one of his staff to come in early in 10 mins time and he would accomodate us!
At 12pm there must have been 300 in and there was touch rugby in the Beer Garden!
The landlord opened up a Private Bar for a select few, Gave me the £20 back and bought us 2 x rounds of Free drinks he had made that much money!
As for the game! 80 mins (You could actually say 120 mins as 1/2 hour before the game I had never felt as Wound up plus half time!) of pure Tension!
I remember looking at the clock and seeing 7 mins to go, there were about 3 sets and I looked again and the clock hadn't gone down, in fact i'm sure it went Backwards!
If you look after both Dallas & Lams tried on the BBC coverage there's a raving lunatic jumping up and down with a contorted face screaming at the cameras! (If you can lip read It's worth having a look at what I was screaming!)
As the Hooter went I have never felt a release of tension like it!
I was so drained I couldn't stand and sat with my head in my hand for 5 mins!
We got back to the Coach and set off and with our Drink Flowing freely Including the Jukesy Special Mix!
The Karaoke started However There was a Young Lad on the Coach who was making an Ar5e of himself by swearing constantly and kept taking the Mic off people as they were singing (We nicknamed him Pie & Peas as that's all he could sing!)
I asked the coach driver to pull over and asked the Young un to get off with Me!
Plan A
I told him a few things and said if he got back on and sat down & shut up we wouldn't throw him off and he agreed!
At which point I put into action PlanB
I asked him did he want a quick whisky to show there were no hard feelings! After 4 or 5 "Large Ones" we didn't here from again until we Threw him off, still asleep
,at Hindley on the Way Home!
We stopped at 2 x services on the way Home and you can guess what! Not a Sintelliner to be seen!
When we got back I went to my Brother in laws 21st and stayed up drinking till about 5am!
Got up the day after about 9 and watched the game still drunk about 3 times!
"Best day of my life"! Bar None!
That story is even better in the flesh, even though I'm a saints fan! Nice to see you were always the calm, World cup watching fella that I know now!
