[theo_luddite]

I'd just moved to Canada that Easter and missed all this fun.

Play-off games weren't really covered internationally back then. Nothing below the Prem (or was it Prima Donna League by then?) got a mention on t'other side o't'pond let alone a screening. I eventually worked out how to get "Radio Local" and other BBC broadcasts over t'interweb using Real Player/Real Audio (before the days of making you pay for it and after connecting via a screaming modem - remember those?) and listened to the next match. Problem was if Real dropped the feed, it could be a right pig to get it back up again. My introduction to 10:00 am football with bacon and eggs and a mug of rosy lea, not to mention extortionate Canadian phone data charges. Then darn the local that I'd already found to celebrate the win and watch a baseball game.

I did come up with a plan to get to Wemberlee - I'll recall it again (some of you have probably read it more than once) on the day of the appropriate post from Snoots.