It's been an FC tradition since our formation for the club to organise a friendly in the close season against fellow fan owned teams in Europe. We've been to Switzerland and Germany a few times and once quite bizarrely played in South Korea where 23,000 turned up expecting to see Manchester United, not a collection of non-league workhorses. There was also a game in Detroit where fans were worried about leaving the hotel at night for their safety. Next weekend sees us off to Austria to play SV Austria Salzburg a team formed in protest at the takeover by Red Bull of the original Salzburg who changed the club's name and traditional kit colour. We had them over for a fixture last year and their fans were, to put it mildly, a lively lot.
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The game kicks off at 6pm, our train gets in from Vienna early morning. The ability and capacity to hammer it all day are long gone, I'd be on a mortuary slab by 10pm. I'll probably never get to go Salzburg again and it seems the best way of seeing the place is to go on a ' Sound of Music' tour.
A chance to sing along to some of the classics like 'How do you solve a problem like Di Maria' couldn't be resisted. Anyway, good luck to all the non-league team lads on here
and look forward to updates throughout the season
