The journey of yellow & red scarf

It is the break time but no game is there.

I got bored at home.

We gathered the signed jerseys according to the year and as signed or not, and from the most important to the least important.

Scarves as memoirs and GS scarves were distributed and folded neatly. 

All the game date books were tidied and distributed according to their dates.

The game tickets were distributed according to their being foreign or domestic.

Old newspapers were tidied and the newspaper articles of the important dates and events were folded.

The books about sports and GS were distributed according to their colors and sizes.

When there were nothing 3D more to do, I started with the pictures in PC. The d.mned (!) digital technology had erased many of my pictures; however, I put the remaining ones in order. I chose the ones with flags amongst thousands of photos. Although I wasn’t ready to share some ugly photos, I shared them anyway, thinking that no one should be hidden if the god knows them well.

Be my guest please…

December 5, 2006, Champions league, Liverpool game where Ümit Karan was about to write history, and Sabri played a football which is still talked about, the famous 3-2 score game. The second picture shows me in Liverpool scarf, but what can I do? I liked the colors… you could find any colors in Liverpool store although red is the color of the team itself. It is fascinating that those people have developed in football industry, especially when you consider that your designs of orange-purple is criticized.

This photo shows us before the Sion game at UEFA 1. Stage with the excuse of the football pitch being small. Again, we lost 3-2 and this time Servet wrote history (!)

This is from Lisbon, the distinctive city of Europe. We beat Benfica by 2-0 on December 7, 2008 with an excellent game.

This is from Benfica game. I like photos that are taken with a professional camera and are taken nearby the football pitch. Look at the beauty of the colors!... not at me, look at the colors!... ;-)) 

From our constant temple Ali Sami Yen. Do I have to explain what game it is? If details are necessary, UEFA – October 22, 2009 GS: 4 - Dinamo Bucharest: 1

As you may understand from the colors on me, we were wearing purple that season. :)

This is from the second leg on November 6, 2009. We beat them by a net score of 3-0. Don’t ask me about the cold we felt there.

Bordeux on February 18, 2009. The game ended 0-0, but a 1 point without having a goal in your goal-post is always valuable.

“What is blue man?” In my opinion it is the same: What is blue?..

Another European city as cold as ice: Hamburg. I would be wasted if the flowers did not heat me up ;)

Although we left the game on March 12, 2009 by an advantageous score like 1-1, we lost the game by 3-2 with the last-minute goals although we had been paying well with a score 2-0, and we said farewell to Europe in a melancholy. The above picture is from those happy days…

Galatasaray means love, Galatasaray means passion, but at the same time international football is another pleasure. In İstanbul on May 20, 2009, the UEFA final, we became a little proud of the game in which Lucescu won in Şükrü Saraçoğlu.

In 2005 the famous Liverpool-Milan game was played in Istanbul and I was there. However, the photos were deleted by the d.mned computer. :(

These crazy photos are from Israel, a country which I probably went for the first and last time, from the Maccabi Netanya game in UEFA. Although the game was in Tel Aviv, we went to Jerusalem and visited all the religious centers. The only place where you can make use of the Turkish Passport is most probably Al-Aqsa Mosque. They put only one condition, and guess what it was… I do not step on the scene without my scarf, man!...

Meanwhile, we won the game by 4-1, and in İstanbul 6-0, and we succeded in getting to the next stage…

I don’t know the reason why, but one of the most interesting away games among men is the Estonia game. We went to Talinn with the comfort of having beaten Estonia by 5-0, and on August 27, 2009 we had a score of 1-1 in Levadia game and hardly were able to get to the next stage.

As I recall our dear neighbor Greece. When I see Athens I want to ask how they left that country in such a terrible situation but however, politics is forbidden here. We met with Panathinaikos on September 17, 2009 at UEFA groups and beat 3-1. We won the game in İstanbul by 1-0 and proved that we were strong enough to beat this powerful team of Greece.

Atletico Madrid was a boring team in those times without Arda Turan. Therefore, we left the game by a score of 1-1 on February 19, 2010 at UEFA groups.  

Another interesting place is Lvib, Ukraine. However, this time Turkish men have right for this interest. 85% of the population of this country is formed by women and a visit to such a city can be highly regarded as public service, can’t it?

In Karpaty Lviv game on August 26, 2010, we lost our donkey, and then found it, and the lost it again! On August 19, we went to Lviv with a disadvantageous score of 2-2 in İstanbul. We kept the game as scoreless till the last minute and scored a goal at the last minute and became very happy. However, after one minute they had a goal scored against us and we lost the game and the stage, too. Like Prekazi says, “Round is the ball!” :(

Another international game; but this time, we have accompany. On May 9, 2012, our beloved Arda played with the Atletico Madrid colored uniform in UEFA final. We would not be pleased if we didn’t take our places in the stadium with our yellow-red scarves.

As we were all sure, Arda lifted the UEFA Cup in his early age, and made us very happy by giving us his jersey and medal. (I talked about sharing etc. but I was ugly in that photo; so, please make do with this one!)

We have always respected Galatasaray, so we have the right to hold the Cup sometimes… we got the Super Cup on August 12, 2012 in Erzurum and beat our ancient rival by 3-2, and this pleasure is a unique one! Moreover, the Cup was in my hands on plane!..

In this picture we are at Old Trafford. That year we met Manchester in Champions League on September 19, 2012; and although we played well, we lost that game by 1-0. We made history in the past in this same stadium. As you may remember we beat this English giant by 1-0 at our home.

The streets were colorful, and as it is common before every European game, our Galatasaray fans in Europe cheered madly.

This photo is from Braga game. Those who have read my thoughts about this game may remember my ideas. On December 5, 2012, our beloved Galatasaray performs another miracle and leaves its group by winning the last 3 games, although it got 1 point in its previous 3 games, and makes us happy again this year.

With best wishes for us to be happy and smile always and our beloved scarves to travel many more places…