Friday 16th June 2004 - Those squad members that were staying in the Aintree Hotel in Headingley set off around 3pm to travel up to Leeds from Rotherham and sort out accommodation. Jebu, Kim, Steve, Adis and Duds were the first to arrive at the Aintree hotel and after a quick scout of all the rooms with the land lady we assigned rooms for each person based on prior discussions on the forum. Here's a picture of an IM flag in the room!
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Numpty Alert - It wasn't long after that Denti, Chris, John and Dan arrived to the Hotel having already gone to Boddington Hall to register us into the tournament. They settled into their rooms while Steve took Adis and Duds to their hotel (as we had to book one room in another hotel). One slight problem, Burns had forgot all details about the hotel and where we expected it to be just next door it couldn't be found anywhere! After a few phone calls and Duds, Adis and Steve walking the streets of Headingley the hotel was eventually found about half a mile away! It was only 9 houses down but what we weren't expecting was the houses to be absolutely massive and a huge corner in between!
TGR - We all gathered in the living room of the hotel while people trickled in. Aggie and Dave had soon arrived. Dazza, Angela and the Elliot's were due in later and were to meet us in the pub. In the living room our first phrase of the tournament was coined, after discussing the way myself and Kim played tricks with Gaz and then Denti regarding groping someone joked about it being a regular thing at my university! Quite calmly I pronounced that "Yes it was, we were called Team Gang Rape", which went on to be coined "TGR". It wasn't long after that people were discussing TGR with the big dog in the hotel and sneaking into rooms for a little light TGR at night! The banter had started!
Subway Sandwich - Getting a little hungry the majority of the hotel dwellers ventured out of the hotel and into Headingley, destination subway sandwich. We all grabbed foot long sandwiches which was very tasty. Some beggar tried to get left over food off us but we all shunned him. Later in the evening Jammer would be less polite and told a group of beggars to "shut it and go get a job"!
IFA Cup Final - So we all ventured down to Boddington Hall where we would meet Skip and Jonny to watch the IFA cup final. It was a decent game with Millwall racing into a 2-0 league but to bottle it and draw 2-2 against Ayr. It went to penalties where both sides took 13 pens, with very few of them being scored. Millwall had 3 chances to win on penalties but missed them all, finally Ayr took their chance and won the tournament. It was rather amusing at one point where Millwall players miscalculated the penalties (as there was so many) and when their keeper saved on they thought they had won and went mental, only for the ref to inform them they needed to score. They missed and felt like a bunch of numpty's. Congratulations to Ayr who picked up the Scottish Title and the IFA cup but from watching the match we had nothing to fear and felt we had the squad to beat either of the two sides.
Onto the Night out - Click here for part 2