Champions League

On Tuesday of last week, I headed North up the country to Grimsby where I had to do a customer visit with one of our RAM's, and then headed back North West to spend a couple of nights just outside Glasgow with another of our RAM's - SK. I actually stayed in a little village called Strathaven, pronounced "Straven". It was absolutely freezing all the way up the motorway until I crossed into Scotland where the sun finally came out.

I stayed in the Best Western Strathaven hotel and it was pretty good, albeit a bit of a rabbits warren in terms of corridors! On the Tuesday, SK and I went into town and had an Indian at a little place called Taal which apparently used to be a recording studio!

The following day we did some work in the hotel and we were going to go to the pub to watch the Celtic v Barcelona game when SK rang to say he had some tickets, albeit in the Barcelona end. Well, free tickets to a Champions League game, gift horse, mouth and all that...needless to say we headed off to pick up the tickets across town.

It was all a little clandestine I must say though, we had to pick the tickets up at a hotel, then make our way back across town to Celtic Park, then attempt to act Spanish to the guys on the turnstiles! Anyway, we eventually got in and headed into the Barcelona supporters...

It was quite weird really, not knowing how to react when Celtic/Barcelona scored...anyway, it was a good game although I think Celtic gave the game away really.

We also had a celebrity sitting in the seats in front of us - Robert Carlyle, obviously a secret Barcelona fan...final score, Cetic 2 Barcelona 3...