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World Cup Tickets – Part 2
I actually spent exactly $3,419.08 on those 4 tickets to watch Brazil play the Socceroos, and have Zero regrets.
This is about 4.5 months from the World Cup now, I have the whole trip planned and booked and I have a Ticket to see 1 Socceroos match. The excitement is building and I am beginning to be a real pain in the arse at home. I have a countdown timer on my PC and EVERY night is spent doing some sort of research on the trip.
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May 11 2008 | My World Cup | No Comments »
World Cup Story Part 3 – World Cup Tickets part 1
Now Australia had made the World Cup Finals, we now had to plan our trip and get tickets. Without rehashing the FFA Travel Debacle, the system worked something like this.
- Download Application Form from FFA Travel website
- Fill in and save to hard drive.
- Type up e-mail and attach form. Save into drafts folder.
- Synchronise your PC clock with FFA clock.
- Make sure you are at home on December 21st, 2005. Sit at your pc with e-mail opened and at exactly 9am EDST select “Send”.
- Scream and shout because you did not turn spell check off.
- Cancel Spell check
- Go to work thinking you had to have a chance because you could have only been a few seconds late.
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May 08 2008 | My World Cup | No Comments »
In Part 1 of my story I told you how I was in Mt Isa when my World Cup dream started to materialise. Well, next week I return to Mt Isa for the same Expo I attended 4 years ago, (in fact every year since as well). You could say that I have fond memories of Mt Isa, but you would be wrong. I have many fond memories of leaving many of our outback towns in a plane, but leaving Mt Isa is the memory I hold dearest.
As the path to South Africa 2010 heats up I will have plenty to think about on the 2hr flight to Brisbane next Friday. 4 years ago it was all new to me, but this time I have my memories to draw from, and the Socceroos have a new path to follow through Asia.
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April 10 2008 | My World Cup | No Comments »
Before April 2004, I was an armchair follower of the Socceroos. Apart from watching the few live matches that I could when I lived in Sydney, I never really made any effort to travel and follow the Socceroos.
That was until i boarded a plane in Mt Isa and sat in my seat next to Frank Farina, then the Socceroos coach. My first words to Frank were, “What the F*** are you doing in Mt Isa?”. I chewed his ears off for the next 2 hours about the Socceroos and when i left the plane in Brisbane my parting words were “If you get the boys to the World Cup in Germany, I will take my family to Germany as well”. I hopped on a plane straight to Mackay and all I thought about was how was i going to get my family to Germany.
Over the next 2 days i hatched a plan and told Veronica when i eventually returned home. My idea was met with some scepticism, and many questions followed.
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March 31 2008 | My World Cup | 3 Comments »
