[Catfish]

I know some of you think the idea of this thread is sad, but I like knowing whom I am posting with.

So please tell us about yourself and how you became interested in PSG.

Mods,
Please sticky this thread.
Thanks.

[Nanbawan]

Answers : Paris European Odissey when I was a teenager, Bernard Lama, George Weah and other great players, drama, being in the minority, spending one year in Paris thus witnessing PSG play at PdP.

I'm not anti-OM at all though.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Nanbawan

Answers : Paris European Odissey when I was a teenager, Bernard Lama, George Weah and other great players, drama, being in the minority, spending one year in Paris thus witnessing PSG play at PdP.

I'm not anti-OM at all though.

Great to have you on this forum, Nanbawan. Post often.

[Marsiglia29]

Grace à Paul Le Guen et David Ginola

My Idol Bernard Lama et Paul Le Guen

[Nanbawan]

Thanks a lot. But I'll try to put more quality and less quantity because I think I'm spending too much time on BS.

Or, I break my leg and stay here the whole day

[Nanbawan]

Originally Posted by Marsiglia29

Grace à Paul Le Guen et David Ginola

My Idol Bernard Lama et Paul Le Guen

Lama and Papin...The non connaisseurs in the world missed some kind of players, didn't they ?

If only we had been in USA 94

[Papa Bouba Diop]

^So many regrets, living in Canada, the family and I we're planning on driving down south for some France games. Merci Ginola.

[gaijin]

The way I came to support PSG, is as about as painful and disturbing as the performances that PSG come up with.

I come from the North-East of England (Middlesbrough to be exact.)

When I was in Secondary School (High-school) my French teacher was a massive PSG fan, he used always tell me about the team and I get really interested in the club. Now you've got to remember, these were in my pre-Internet days, so I hardly knew alot about the team other than the stuff he used to tell me and the programmes and magazines we would use in class.

Then there was the World Cup, so as a consequence I got to go to France and watch football, albeit, International football. So it was in 1998/99, that I first came to watch PSG - mainly on the satetlite channels. Then at the end of May, I got hooked into the world-wide web and then I started to browse stuff like crazy on French football and PSG.

I sat my exams, and then failed some more. Thought ********i it, its not working - I'm depressed bored, lonely - Can't stand it here. So went I appllied for some volunteer work, helping kids with social/mental problems etc (which I had alot of - so I know best)

By a bizarre twist of fate, I got a placement working and studying in Paris for a local college in the North. I choose PSG, and now by the cosmic gates of energy and fate - it was choosing me.

I went to my first game in 2001 - *I think - might have been 2002, can't remember.....*

I was hooked ever since, and have even been to follow them away from home. Thanks to the internet, European TV any where in the world you can see Ligue 1 - I became a fan.

I still work the occasional job in Paris (If I can get a good contract), and would like to work somewhere abroad in Russia or the far-east (Mainly because I want to see Loko play )

Now, I'm just bobbing along the bread-line trying to earn a crust (not that I harbour dreams of being a millionaire playboy) Kinda still work on an ad-hoc basis doing mainly charity / volunteer stuff.

I'm now mulling over a career change and I'm stumped because I don't know what I want to do. Might take a computer course in graphical design, to see whats its like (after all I need a steady paid job )

My favourite all-time PSG player = Rai was amazing, loved him.

Best match ever seen at the PdP = Last years win at home to Marseille. It was the most beautiful springs day. We beat them 2-1 and when we walked out the stadium, it was late-afternoon, early evening - it was just a truly beautiful day.

High as a PSG fan = Going to a cup-final in 2004, and seeing them lift silverware for the first time.

Low as a PSG fan = Ugh, about every-single away game this year. Chelsea was just sickening as was Lens when we went 2-0 to go to 2-2 in the last 5 minutes.

Right thats my life as a PSG fan........

Oh yeah, I like pretty all-types of music, films and food. I'm easy to please. I'll listen/watch/eat anything. But I guess given my avatar, you can take a stab at what film takes my fancy this week.

[Nanbawan]

Originally Posted by ganu

Oh yeah, I like pretty all-types of music, films and food. I'm easy to please. I'll listen/watch/eat anything. But I guess given my avatar, you can take a stab at what film takes my fancy this week.

Hello Donnie...

BTW, Why Lokomotiv ?

[gaijin]

Originally Posted by Nanbawan

Hello Donnie...

BTW, Why Lokomotiv ?

lol. That's even more puzzling....

Well it all kicked with a match I watched on some god for saken newtwork whilst flicking around on my satelite dish. It ws Loko playing Rotor Volgograd (?) It was a crappy ground, cold and very dull and not very entertaining - but somehow I liked it and started to follow them. Even more so when I read their story.

It was a few years later that they reached the semi finals of the Cup Winners Cup and played Lazio at the Luzhniki. So as a result they got exposure here the west, and I began an armachair fan.

Then, I think it was a year later, Loko played Leeds in our old crappy Cherikovzo ground. So, my I went as an away fan to that game (but secretly followed Loko instead) They got turned over by the famous O'Leary side at the time and they went on to play Galatasaray in the semis.

It was then that they bulldozed the ground, moved to Ramonskoye (about 60km outside of Moscow) and above all win their first ever title. Prior to Semin who took over in 1986 - we had won jack s***t, and strolled about in the second division as the poorer cousins of the other big Moscow teams. This was also a main reason for me following them (as I felt sorry for them.)

I've followed them ever since, but due to their location and the travel costs - I've seen them play live about 3 times in as many years.

Many people though condemn me as a glory hunter - yet they had hardly nothing at all when I first saw them play - and played in a crappy s***t-hole of a stadium. Even now, our fan base is still poor. Though the amount of young student types like myself are taking a keen interest.