Silliest fans of the year

[Duncer]

Nothing against Athletico Bilbao at all but.............

"Some 400 Athletic Bilbao fans missed out on seeing their team in last week's Europa League final after accidentally flying to the wrong country.

The fans of the Basque team had clubbed together to charter a jet specially for the match to ensure that they could not be undone by airline schedules, industrial action or any other unforeseen cancellation.

There was only one tiny flaw in their plan: instead of chartered a flight to the Romanian capital of Bucharest, they chartered one to Budapest, in neighbouring Hungary.

They only discovered their mistake when they landed in the wrong country, but the plucky fans immediately set about trying to make the 400-mile dash to the Arena Nationala in Bucharest by car, train or bus... though on realising that their return flight was booked for just a few hours after the final whistle, they reluctantly had to accept that they would have to watch on TV.

Still, maybe they were better off not making it after all: Bilbao were well-beaten 3-0 by Atletico Madrid on the night.

And they can further console themselves with the knowledge that their mistake is a common one: even the official UEFA stadium announcer at the match opened proceedings by booming out a cheery "Good evening, Budapest!" over the PA system before the match kicked off".

[Arksided]

That has just put a BIG smile on my face. in fact I'm actually pmsl

[sunny-dave]

Sounds like a Ryanair flight ...

[Mick-Talbot]

Brilliant lol

[mrs_overall]

You couldn't make that up. Brilliant!

[FredPuli43]

Such stupidity. I won't tell you which ABer turned up at Stamford Bridge, for the Chelsea v Blackburn game on Saturday. He was half an hour early for the kick off. To be frank, he was one day and half an hour early, because the match was on Sunday. Any connection with someone who has a Hungarian sheep-dog in his name is coincidental.

[zebo]

I seem to recall the story of someone putting Stamford Bridge into a sat-nav and being correctly directed to Yorkshire, common sense not kicking in to ask Why am I driving North on the M1!

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Heard a girl on the radio not long ago admit to driving to Yorkshire to go to a concert at Leeds Castle and couldn't understand why no-one in Leeds knew where the castle was. Best of all she had driven from the south of England.

[piggynose]

lucky i´m not a a.bilbao fan, cuz i could´ve sworn the match was played in budapest.

lol