Will We Be Going To Baku?

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20-11-20, 19:06
RichardM

Will We Be Going To Baku?

https://www.theguardian.com/football...mselves-cannot

Barney Ronay thinks we shouldn't be.
20-11-20, 19:09
Taunton Blue Genie

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Can't see it happening.
20-11-20, 20:24
RichardM

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

Can't see it happening.

For the reasons in the article or because Covid-19 will still be going on?
20-11-20, 20:39
Taunton Blue Genie

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Originally Posted by RichardM

For the reasons in the article or because Covid-19 will still be going on?

The competition's experimental format is the worst option possible if fans are to attend games all around Europe (and indeed beyond the Caucasus) and the country's internal conflict threatens security to boot. Not a great combination.
20-11-20, 20:43
Chris Pontprennau Blues

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Mustn't happen too dodgy for everyone
20-11-20, 21:33
life on mars

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I'm sure most fans will put aside its political and humanity worries in the quest for a few beers , good old boys trip and a footy game .
20-11-20, 23:58
MacAdder

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Nope, not me personally no way hose A.
There will be die hards who will if it does go ahead but shirley common sense will prevail.

All games in the UK including the CCS. Simples. :shrug:
21-11-20, 07:40
UNDERHILL1927

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Originally Posted by MacAdder

Nope, not me personally no way hose A.
There will be *die hards* who will if it does go ahead but shirley common sense will prevail.

All games in the UK including the CCS. Simples. :shrug:

Never has the term "die hards" been more appropriate. You'd have to be stupid to travel.
21-11-20, 08:36
Bobby Dandruff

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Originally Posted by UNDERHILL1927

Never has the term "die hards" been more appropriate. You'd have to be stupid to travel.

That is a bit harsh. Just because you wouldn’t go doesn’t make people who are more adventurous ’stupid’.

🤷*♂️
21-11-20, 10:53
Swiss Peter

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Originally Posted by RichardM

https://www.theguardian.com/football...mselves-cannot

Barney Ronay thinks we shouldn't be.

Baku, and then potentially Qatar. No thanks to either. Please wake me up when it's time to go to Germany!
21-11-20, 11:23
life on mars

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If there any bus trips with wrap around hotel stays feel free to share .
21-11-20, 11:54
Madassa

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And the Turkey fixture could prove to be heated given they border Azerbaijan and backed them militarily to help win the conflict.
21-11-20, 11:59
BLUETIT

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Originally Posted by Madassa

And the Turkey fixture could prove to be heated given they border Azerbaijan and backed them militarily to help win the conflict.

Turkey doesn't border Azerbaijan, it borders Armenia
21-11-20, 12:15
Madassa

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

Turkey doesn't border Azerbaijan, it borders Armenia

I take your point and don't really disagree but technically speaking there is an Azeri enclave in Armenia which does have a very small border with Turkey. Whatever the geographic technicalities they are close by and firm allies and so I assume the locals will firmly back the Turks against us.
21-11-20, 12:21
life on mars

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

Turkey doesn't border Azerbaijan, it borders Armenia

Covert operation join the Azerbaijan Army cross border, hide uniforms in bushes ( real ones ) and repeat on return , simples .
21-11-20, 12:24
UNDERHILL1927

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Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff

That is a bit harsh. Just because you wouldn’t go doesn’t make people who are more adventurous ’stupid’.

🤷*♂️

Turn of phrase, should have said, "I think they'd be stupid to travel for the sake of a football match", they can do what they like.
21-11-20, 12:48
Taunton Blue Genie

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Originally Posted by Madassa

And the Turkey fixture could prove to be heated given they border Azerbaijan and backed them militarily to help win the conflict.

That's Christmas for you.
21-11-20, 13:02
xsnaggle

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Originally Posted by Madassa

I take your point and don't really disagree but technically speaking there is an Azeri enclave in Armenia which does have a very small border with Turkey. Whatever the geographic technicalities they are close by and firm allies and so I assume the locals will firmly back the Turks against us.

Most football lovers in Azerbaijan are somewhat like our plastics, they support either Galataseay or Fenerbrache. When they play each other in the league you can't move in the centre of Baku for flag wielding fans. But I doubt that would translate to the national team at all. I never saw it.
21-11-20, 13:05
Hilts

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Its going to be without fans so just play the whole thing in one country.
21-11-20, 13:08
cyril evans awaydays

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There is martial law in Baku at the moment with a 9pm curfew. That said an international agreement has been agreed with Armenia, co-signed by Russia as peacekeepers in the troubled region. With Covid it isn't a place I would venture to now.

That said I was there for the qualifying game this time last year and Baku is a pretty relaxed place on the surface at least and an enjoyable place to visit.

Come June, all things being equal, you are probably at greater risk of something untoward happening to you in Rome generally, and at the match specifically than if you venture to Azerbaijan.
21-11-20, 13:14
RichardM

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I've been looking forward to my trip to Baku and then Rome. The fighting has been in Nagorno-Karabakh, the other side of the country from Baku, so I was hoping that it will be safe to travel and that we will all have Covid-19 vaccinations by then.
21-11-20, 14:53
Sloop_Jon_Bee

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Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays

There is martial law in Baku at the moment with a 9pm curfew. That said an international agreement has been agreed with Armenia, co-signed by Russia as peacekeepers in the troubled region. With Covid it isn't a place I would venture to now.

That said I was there for the qualifying game this time last year and Baku is a pretty relaxed place on the surface at least and an enjoyable place to visit.

Come June, all things being equal, you are probably at greater risk of something untoward happening to you in Rome generally, and at the match specifically than if you venture to Azerbaijan.

:thumbup:
21-11-20, 15:25
xsnaggle

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Originally Posted by RichardM

I've been looking forward to my trip to Baku and then Rome. The fighting has been in Nagorno-Karabakh, the other side of the country from Baku, so I was hoping that it will be safe to travel and that we will all have Covid-19 vaccinations by then.

More to thepoint, the ex-pat bars will be open again by then. :biggrin:
21-11-20, 15:30
BLUETIT

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Originally Posted by xsnaggle

More to thepoint, the ex-pat bars will be open again by then. :biggrin:

Ready to rip you off !!!!

Stick to local bars, much cheaper
21-11-20, 16:08
xsnaggle

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

Ready to rip you off !!!!

Stick to local bars, much cheaper

The ex pat bars are the only bars and they don't rip you off. The locals generally don't go to pubs except to play pool.
My buddy owns one and he has never ripped anyone off. Go to the London Bar or The Office.
21-11-20, 16:17
BLUETIT

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Originally Posted by xsnaggle

The ex pat bars are the only bars and they don't rip you off. The locals generally don't go to pubs except to play pool.
My buddy owns one and he has never ripped anyone off. Go to the London Bar or The Office.

It always amazes me, people travel to a foreign country and the first thing they do, is head for an Irish/Ingurlish bar !!!!!

It’s comical :hehe:
21-11-20, 16:22
Feedback

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we're hardly allowed out of the house
21-11-20, 16:33
xsnaggle

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

It always amazes me, people travel to a foreign country and the first thing they do, is head for an Irish/Ingurlish bar !!!!!

It’s comical :hehe:

In Baku all the bars in the centre cater for expats, brit US German what ever. If they relied on local custom they'd be closed in a week. When you live and work there you just naturally gravitate to where people you know go.
But thats only for the beer, for everything else it is far better using the local shops tailors cafes restaurants etc. Lovely people for the most part. I used a tailor when I'm there. He has a little place under the stair well in an appartment block about 5 doors from the London pub.. He'd do any alterations or repairs you wanted in less than 24 hours and was so cheap it was unreal. Great guy.
21-11-20, 16:44
BLUETIT

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Originally Posted by xsnaggle

In Baku all the bars in the centre cater for expats, brit US German what ever. If they relied on local custom they'd be closed in a week. When you live and work there you just naturally gravitate to where people you know go.
But thats only for the beer, for everything else it is far better using the local shops tailors cafes restaurants etc. Lovely people for the most part. I used a tailor when I'm there. He has a little place under the stair well in an appartment block about 5 doors from the London pub.. He'd do any alterations or repairs you wanted in less than 24 hours and was so cheap it was unreal. Great guy.

I’ve been there
21-11-20, 18:53
xsnaggle

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

I’ve been there

Where? to the London pub? It may have moved lol.
21-11-20, 19:20
Taunton Blue Genie

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I was the main suspect in a robbery in Baku a few days before Wales played away to Georgia a few years ago. I was innocent, of course - and I was eventually cleared after the Police discovered from some locals that the victim (a German-speaking Palestinian) had been rolled by some Russians after he met them in a bar. He didn't spill the beans himself as he was a Muslim and didn't want it to be known, particularly by his family, that he was frequenting bars and drinking alcohol. I had merely stayed in the same B&B overnight.
A few days later I gave myself a challenge to hitch into Armenia (where there are few cars on the road) from Georgia and without Armenian currency, which was fun.
And the Meetup hostess in Georgia, a poor, elderly lady with whom I did not share a common language, could see me in bed from her kitchen sink.
It was an interesting trip all round.
21-11-20, 19:35
StraightOuttaCanton

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Originally Posted by MacAdder

Nope, not me personally no way hose A.
There will be die hards who will if it does go ahead but shirley common sense will prevail.

All games in the UK including the CCS. Simples. :shrug:

Garden or Fire?
21-11-20, 19:44
Allez Allez Allez

Re: Will We Be Going To Baku?

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Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff

That is a bit harsh. Just because you wouldn’t go doesn’t make people who are more adventurous ’stupid’.

🤷*♂️

I have been to places on the "red" list produced by the Foreign Office. I'd happily do it again. I won't go to America because that IS dangerous and I speak from experience of two trips that ended sooner than I hoped.

I won't go to Azerbaijan because it is oppressive. I know ex-pats who worked there, more or less blood money but can't knock people for trying to make a quick buck in a place where most are oppressed.
21-11-20, 23:55
MacAdder

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

I was the main suspect in a robbery in Baku a few days before Wales played away to Georgia a few years ago. I was innocent, of course - and I was eventually cleared after the Police discovered from some locals that the victim (a German-speaking Palestinian) had been rolled by some Russians after he met them in a bar. He didn't spill the beans himself as he was a Muslim and didn't want it to be known, particularly by his family, that he was frequenting bars and drinking alcohol. I had merely stayed in the same B&B overnight.
A few days later I gave myself a challenge to hitch into Armenia (where there are few cars on the road) from Georgia and without Armenian currency, which was fun.
And the Meetup hostess in Georgia, a poor, elderly lady with whom I did not share a common language, could see me in bed from her kitchen sink.
It was an interesting trip all round.

The answer to your pleas for your emoji if it was up to me would be "no way hose A", but after an adventure such as this ^^ I say "Mike, grant the cider drinking genie his one wish!"

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