From strength to strength

go our tours. But this one was really special. As they all have been, mind.
We returned to Tallinn to take on our good friends from JK Jalgpallihaigla; and then ventured over to Finland for the day, two dats later, to have a run out against the fans from HJK Helsinki.

Old aquaintances met, and fresh friendships forged. What more can you want in life?
If the matches against the likes of Kingstonian, Bromley, Welling & co. are our 'bread and butter' staple diet of Supporters' Team football them weekends away like this one is when we feast out on a food hamper from Harrods.

If you're expecting a blow by blow account of the two matches we played then look away now. The following posts aren't really about the football, though the games will feature. For the two encounters were only the glue that bonded the time away together. It's not just about the football. But the cameraderie, the meeting of friends, and making new ones. Spreading the word of our small, albeit historic, Football Club, who we support, and without whom we would not be playing together at all.

And being humbled by welcomes on foreign shores, that almost embarrass us by the warmth shown to us as strangers, but which will not be forgotten for a long, long time, and the glow of contentment from meeting such great people in both countries will warm the old cockles as we struggle in the mud of Belair Park come the wintry mornings of December & January!

So read on, as I take you through our summer tour of 2008!