Good news for sad, lonely South Korean blokes today

Weirdly this brings back memories of a camping trip to France. I remember sheltering in a shop doorway in Cherbourg waiting for a ferry home when one of the lads looked through the shop window and said ..... "What the feck is a poupée gonflable?"🤔🤭
 
Who was the poster working in South Korea on the old board?

He did a web-blog series (on the trail of the Lion King maybe?). He used to tour Korean league games on public transport and do write ups of his adventures with little titbits about life in Korea. I used to quite enjoy them.
 
Who was the poster working in South Korea on the old board?

He did a web-blog series (on the trail of the Lion King maybe?). He used to tour Korean league games on public transport and do write ups of his adventures with little titbits about life in Korea. I used to quite enjoy them.
I remember he made Dong Gook Lee sound like a world beater in the Asian Champions League or whatever it was 🤣
 
I remember he made Dong Gook Lee sound like a world beater in the Asian Champions League or whatever it was 🤣

He's still at it!

My blog is about going to the match. Usually football, but sometimes baseball, basketball, even ice-hockey if there’s nothing else going on. I first went to watch my football team, Middlesbrough, forty-odd years ago and they are still the only team whose result I care about. I travel about though and so don’t see the Boro very often these days.

I started this blog when I was living in Korea and I decided that I’d keep the link with Middlesbrough by following Jeonbuk Motors. The reason for that was that one of their strikers used to play for us. In January 2007 Middlesbrough made its long-awaited strategic move into the Asian replica kit market by signing Lee Dong Gook. He wasn’t a big success though and a year or so later he was gone. He had struggled to make much of an impact, scoring just two goals and, I suspect, selling even fewer shirts. But the Lion King, as we were told he is nicknamed in Korea, was the only tenuous footballing link to home that I could find and so it was him and his team Jeonbuk that I thought I’d make a point of watching. It gave me a name for the blog too.

Truth is though, I couldn’t really get worked up about whether they won or lost. It wasn’t like following your own team where a late goal can make or break your week. It was great watching the match, but I’d generally forgotten the score before the players had left the pitch. It was a shame really, as Jeonbuk had been pretty successful in the time I’d been out there and it would have made a pleasant change to support a team that had a chance of winning something.
 
Posted as Piggy Nicholl. Still posts on here now (and occasionally posts links to his blog) but I won't mention his new username. I'll let him reveal himself if he so wishes!
 
Posted as Piggy Nicholl. Still posts on here now (and occasionally posts links to his blog) but I won't mention his new username. I'll let him reveal himself if he so wishes!

Think he possibly did a few weeks back on a World Cup thread. Great poster Piggy
 
Posted as Piggy Nicholl. Still posts on here now (and occasionally posts links to his blog) but I won't mention his new username. I'll let him reveal himself if he so wishes!
Well as the link to the blog was posted above and you've said he posts links to his blog, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put the URL into the search bar...
 
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