football Archives - This Drinking Life A world of alcohol and fun Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:21:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 62332568 Winterthur, Swiss football away days 12 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/#respond Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:19:06 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=16183   Back in Switzerland for a week or two, I decided to take the opportunity to do another Swiss football groundhop for my blog. I managed to get a game in the city of Winterthur to see the local team play against FC Vaduz. I also planned to get a hike in the morning, climbing […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/feed/ 0 16183 Schaffhausen, Swiss football away days 11 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-schaffhausen/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-schaffhausen/#respond Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:46:41 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=15638 With Covid reeking havoc on my football schedule in the year 2021, I could only get to do one Swiss football groundhop for my blog. I managed to get a game in the scenic town of Schaffhausen to see the local team play against FC Aarau. Schaffhausen, a German speaking town of about 36,000 inhabitants, […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-schaffhausen/feed/ 0 15638 Short chat with long time Shels fan, Aidan https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shels-fan-aidan/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shels-fan-aidan/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2020 08:09:37 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=12571 Had the pleasure of having a short chat with long time Shels fan, Aidan Geraghty (@Aido1895)    So, my name is Aidan Geraghty and I have been a Shelbourne fan since 1999, first game I came to was the 9th of August 99 against Manchester United, Greg Costello scored and we won 1-0 and I have […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shels-fan-aidan/feed/ 0 12571 Shelbourne F.C, football away days https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shelbourne-fc/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shelbourne-fc/#respond Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:18:58 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=12147 STOP PRESS In between writing up my trip, Shelbourne got promoted to the Irish Premier Division for the 2020 season. Well done to Ian Morris, in his first stint as a manager, for getting the old club back to its rightful position amongst the top gods of Irish football. Credit is due to the fact […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/shelbourne-fc/feed/ 0 12147 Lucerne, Swiss football away days 10 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-luzern/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-luzern/#respond Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:26:43 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=11600 The beautiful city of Lucerne (German: Luzern, French: Lucerne), was to be the next destination on my Swiss football groundhop. The German speaking city, the gateway to central Switzerland as they say, is pretty much smack bang in the middle of the country, with a population just over 81,000 people. Lucerne is the capital of […]

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