@@FootyAdventures love yer lower league videos. Plenty over here in Fife. Glenrothes has 2 crackin teams with great facilities. Thornton Hibs. Or back to the famous San Starko!
You are correct Sam, uk train tickets are very expensive.😮 i feel Uk coach tickets are best price to travel.😅 i feel you should do this one more time next year in 2025! i would like you to go to Nairn county and nairn st ninian because they are north of Scotland, in step five and six of Scottish football. :)
In Slovakia there isn’t something like stable count of fans. Some matches get nearly sold out while other look like this. For example derby with Slovan is ussualy around 70% full capacity. National team of Slovakia plays sometimes there as well. Also next year, this stadium will be hosting u21 Euro.
Unfortunately in Slovakia people don't think football is worth the money, there is so much work to be done around the matchday experience, overal marketing strategy of the whole league, and obviously clubs need to do more themselves. To be fair to a few of them, you can see they are trying and you can see change. The other thing is that Slovak people are fans of success, it has been that way for years and years. So its really a mixture of mentality of the nation and the inability to create an interesting product.
You are super fantastic in travelling to Slovakia and have finally watched a footballing match over there,good friend Sam!!!I did get updated to Slovakian football before and am planning to be getting updated to the football on the whole,just like Polish football,good friend!!!LONG LIVE SLOVAKIAN FOOTBALL!!! 🇸🇰
Sam ..... you're a one man publicly machine for the Slovakia tourist board.......I note your flight was from Edinburgh (where I live) and by UK standards prices are modest. Don't know about the quality of the football but it's certainly preferable to forking out an arm and a leg on UK trains.
Independence of these central and eastern European nations has really hurt the football scene.. Some of these nations should merge the football leagues together to create more interest on the domestic scene Also at international level imagine if Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia was still a thing in the past 20 years they would've won tournaments for sure
As a Hajduk fan I agree, would love awaydays in Sarajevo, Mostar Ljubljana..but most of all to play the big 2 in Belgrade again. Never have the quality of players Hajduk Dinamo Zvezda Partizan in 80s but would improve so much - One day I hope !
What I would say is that in Slovakia Ice Hockey is buy far the most popular team sport Slovan Bratislava Ice Hockey team is much more popular than there football team. In Ice Hockey Slovakia have globle stars that is not really the case in football unfortunately so.
@@alanfox691 Even so.. if England produced a player as good as Lobotka or Hamsik they would be raving about them like they're balon d'Or contenders For a country your size pound for pound you produce great players. But for a nation of only 5 million it's hard to produce an entire team of world class players in the same generation Croatia did but it's rare you might not see a Croatian team that good maybe ever again
Going to Prague this weekend. By chance Sparta playing at home in a derby against Bohemians. 2 tickets £46 and that is only because it is a city derby otherwise it would be cheaper. Insane value.
I went there to watch Scotland get humped 3-0 by Slovakia in 2018. Great trip! Got 3 pints of Calgon from a pub that looked like a huge wooden shed for a total of €2.10! Crackin place
Good timing. Upload just as we've all laughed at Man City. Spent 6 hours of my life in Bratislava and didn't go to football. Good to see you back in Slovakia
@@FootyAdventuresaye fine. East Craigie v Largs in the Junior Cup yesterday and Kirkcaldy v Whitburn in the Alex Jack Cup final at Whitehill Welfare today
You came all this way and you didn't pop in to say hello - and looking at where you were shooting some of this you were SO close :) Lovely to see you coming over to this fair city, it has much to offer.
Thanks so much for taking us along on this journey. The places you visited looked amazing. Another country to add to add to my forever growing bucket list.
In Germany, we pay between 40 and 100 Euros for a train ticket from Stuttgart to Hamburg, which is almost the same distance as Glasgow-London. And we are complaining about our prizes...:-)
Was in Bratislava 2 weeks ago myself. Great city, as someone who loves football heritage myself I was happy I got to see the stadium. The Christmas markets were only being set up when I went but it looks great. The beers are nicely priced too and that Tesco you walked past was near my hostel. Was so so handy and I was surprised to see it too. A worthwhile trip Sam
Great video as always Sam, one of your fellow Scottish followers, funny enough not long acquired my first passport at the age of 33 and seeing this gets me hungry to visit places like this, keep up the good work mate 😁👍
Slovakia 🇸🇰 looks amazing and that stadium was insane. That's like Queens Park playing at Hampden! The pork and onion sarnie you had sounds fantastic. Great video Sam!
Great video! If youre interested in visiting Slovakia again you should check out Košice, its the second biggest city, it's got a beautiful old town with a gothic cathedral and also a football club in the first division with a brand new stadium.
Nice video mate, randomly went to that ground to see Slovakia take on the Czechs in the Nations League the day after NI played Austria around 6 years ago, great country!
you need to come at 1 march of 2025 to Bratislava to watch slovakian derby Slovan Bratislava vs Spartak Trnava,you will see better atmosphere trust me 😄
17:44 too bad their online store does not ship outside Slovakia, I've wanted a Spartak Trnava home shirt for years now (going back to their recent Adidas run)
Classic footy adventure video. Highlights many problems in the UK. Football in the UK is out-pricing many. The public transport over here is basically nonexistent.
Was there watching Scotland in a World Cup qualifier in October 2016. I reckon there were more Scotland fans in the stadium than the whole attendance at the game you watched! You picked an odd weekend to go though. Scottish Cup 3rd round and Scottish Junior Cup both on. Lots of interesting games that would have been far more interesting for you to cover than yet another vanilla Premier league game.
Its shocking that a top flight team doesnt have many fans in their home ground. I went to Zilina many years ago when they were still champions. Not a big city but there was a lot of following of the team.
9:12 she said: "you have to pay it, you did not tell me in advance (that you want a return ticket)", but I think if you were slovak, she would just cancel it on the terminal and do the return ticket, haha
Come to Ireland in 2025 February. 1st game of the season boh's v rover's, oldest rivalry in football in dublin. Boh's trying to get the Aviva stadium for the game, it should draw a lot of interest.
If you build it, they will come. It doesn’t always work, does it? A shame about the low turnout but it was still a great little trip. Oh, and I don’t think it is masticating that UA-cam censors 🤣
Next time you should visit Trnava during conference league qualification or during derby against slovan bratislava then you will see much better and louder atmosphere created by ultras spartak and ultras slovan
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Where else should I go this season?
Tirana. Very nice.
@@FootyAdventures love yer lower league videos. Plenty over here in Fife. Glenrothes has 2 crackin teams with great facilities. Thornton Hibs. Or back to the famous San Starko!
San Marino
You are correct Sam, uk train tickets are very expensive.😮
i feel Uk coach tickets are best price to travel.😅
i feel you should do this one more time next year in 2025!
i would like you to go to Nairn county and nairn st ninian because they are north of Scotland, in step five and six of Scottish football. :)
@FootyAdventures if you ever decide to come back to Slovakia, let me know. Im from there. Great video and work in general! Legend
Thanks for the visit! Was nice to have you in the stands ❤
Thanks!! Will need to come back for the big derby 🔥
i set you a challenge Sam visit every club in Liechtenstein in ONE day! Beautiful little country with lovely people
In Slovakia there isn’t something like stable count of fans. Some matches get nearly sold out while other look like this. For example derby with Slovan is ussualy around 70% full capacity. National team of Slovakia plays sometimes there as well. Also next year, this stadium will be hosting u21 Euro.
Unfortunately in Slovakia people don't think football is worth the money, there is so much work to be done around the matchday experience, overal marketing strategy of the whole league, and obviously clubs need to do more themselves. To be fair to a few of them, you can see they are trying and you can see change.
The other thing is that Slovak people are fans of success, it has been that way for years and years.
So its really a mixture of mentality of the nation and the inability to create an interesting product.
Glad you enjoyed your time in slovakia…you also might try Kosice in east side of the country..,lovely city, cheap flights…you would love it 😊
You are super fantastic in travelling to Slovakia and have finally watched a footballing match over there,good friend Sam!!!I did get updated to Slovakian football before and am planning to be getting updated to the football on the whole,just like Polish football,good friend!!!LONG LIVE SLOVAKIAN FOOTBALL!!! 🇸🇰
What a trip Sam , love this type of video
Thanks!! Appreciate you watching
Sam ..... you're a one man publicly machine for the Slovakia tourist board.......I note your flight was from Edinburgh (where I live) and by UK standards prices are modest. Don't know about the quality of the football but it's certainly preferable to forking out an arm and a leg on UK trains.
Thanks for the video mate! It was fun! ;) hope we see you over here for a bigger game 😊
Independence of these central and eastern European nations has really hurt the football scene.. Some of these nations should merge the football leagues together to create more interest on the domestic scene
Also at international level imagine if Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia was still a thing in the past 20 years they would've won tournaments for sure
As a Hajduk fan I agree, would love awaydays in Sarajevo, Mostar Ljubljana..but most of all to play the big 2 in Belgrade again. Never have the quality of players Hajduk Dinamo Zvezda Partizan in 80s but would improve so much - One day I hope !
What I would say
is that in Slovakia
Ice Hockey is buy far the most popular team sport
Slovan Bratislava Ice Hockey team is much more popular than there football team.
In Ice Hockey
Slovakia have globle stars that is not really the case in football unfortunately so.
@alanfox691 Skriniar, Lobotka, Hancko and some promising young players coming up as well.
@@alanfox691 Even so.. if England produced a player as good as Lobotka or Hamsik they would be raving about them like they're balon d'Or contenders
For a country your size pound for pound you produce great players. But for a nation of only 5 million it's hard to produce an entire team of world class players in the same generation
Croatia did but it's rare you might not see a Croatian team that good maybe ever again
Going to Prague this weekend. By chance Sparta playing at home in a derby against Bohemians. 2 tickets £46 and that is only because it is a city derby otherwise it would be cheaper. Insane value.
Mate go to Ostrava. You want to see Banik ostrava v Sparta Prague
I went there to watch Scotland get humped 3-0 by Slovakia in 2018. Great trip! Got 3 pints of Calgon from a pub that looked like a huge wooden shed for a total of €2.10! Crackin place
Haha class. Yeah you can't beat those prices!
Good timing. Upload just as we've all laughed at Man City. Spent 6 hours of my life in Bratislava and didn't go to football. Good to see you back in Slovakia
Cheers Ross, hope you're all good. Saw you on Norrie's twitter this weekend!!
@@FootyAdventuresaye fine. East Craigie v Largs in the Junior Cup yesterday and Kirkcaldy v Whitburn in the Alex Jack Cup final at Whitehill Welfare today
You came all this way and you didn't pop in to say hello - and looking at where you were shooting some of this you were SO close :) Lovely to see you coming over to this fair city, it has much to offer.
Definitely love these kind of videos that you make Sam. Would be great to see more like this 👍⚽️
Thanks so much for taking us along on this journey. The places you visited looked amazing. Another country to add to add to my forever growing bucket list.
Can't beat these weekends.
Great video Sam. Great couple of days away for a very reasonable price 👍
Paid £40 return for flights to Sarajevo last international weekend. Watched a Bosnian second tier game. Great weekend!
In Germany, we pay between 40 and 100 Euros for a train ticket from Stuttgart to Hamburg, which is almost the same distance as Glasgow-London. And we are complaining about our prizes...:-)
Was in Bratislava 2 weeks ago myself. Great city, as someone who loves football heritage myself I was happy I got to see the stadium. The Christmas markets were only being set up when I went but it looks great. The beers are nicely priced too and that Tesco you walked past was near my hostel. Was so so handy and I was surprised to see it too. A worthwhile trip Sam
Keep up the good work mate 👍
Thanks, I will try!
Great video as always Sam, one of your fellow Scottish followers, funny enough not long acquired my first passport at the age of 33 and seeing this gets me hungry to visit places like this, keep up the good work mate 😁👍
You're totally right, sausages from eastern Europe are the best 👍🏻
Hi bro, nice vlog, I am happy that you visited Trnava, not only Bratislava like all tourist,,,, Spartak Trnava 👍
Just found your channel - terrific frugal travel vid! Cheers
ONLY 200 k subs? This lad deserve more
It's brilliant just looking for cheap flights doesn't even have to be football related it's amazing what you can end up seeing.
one of your best vids. cracking
Cheers mate 💪🏼🤝🏼
I moved to Slovakia in 2016. I have a season ticket at Spartak for 6 seasons now. It's a wonderful club with great support. Great video!
Love these wee trips, I do them too when I can. I think in many places in Europe you can only purchase one way tickets .
Quality as always Sam , I do love when you do foreign videos ! Celtic not so much 😂
Haha fair enough. I’ll try do a few more further afield ✈️
@@FootyAdventures
The more the better.
Slovakia 🇸🇰 looks amazing and that stadium was insane. That's like Queens Park playing at Hampden!
The pork and onion sarnie you had sounds fantastic.
Great video Sam!
Great video! If youre interested in visiting Slovakia again you should check out Košice, its the second biggest city, it's got a beautiful old town with a gothic cathedral and also a football club in the first division with a brand new stadium.
lol love that he went all that way and then bounced midway through the second half to get up the road 🤣
Great to see you exploring another country and its football culture.
Trying doing that from Sydney...pfft. I love my country, but we're sooo far from bloody anywhere.
These style of videos rock!
Nice video mate, randomly went to that ground to see Slovakia take on the Czechs in the Nations League the day after NI played Austria around 6 years ago, great country!
Wow this an insane video 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!!
@@FootyAdventuresyour welcome
Class video! Much appreciated entertainment 👌
Great video, makes me want to visit Slovakia.
you need to come at 1 march of 2025 to Bratislava to watch slovakian derby Slovan Bratislava vs Spartak Trnava,you will see better atmosphere trust me 😄
Saw Spartak Trnava at McDiarmid Park back in 2014.
love your content mate keep it up
You're absolutely right, nothing against scottish football but this is the content i wanna see!
Stadium with the best views in Slovakia is in Poprad .
Just searched it looks amazing 🤩
17:44 too bad their online store does not ship outside Slovakia, I've wanted a Spartak Trnava home shirt for years now (going back to their recent Adidas run)
Beside the Loch Ness Scottish pub is The Dubliner Irish pub great place Bratislava
Even in Slovakia you can’t escape Scottish football, Sam. In the Spartak Trnava team was former Celtic player Filip Twardzik! 😂
Classic footy adventure video. Highlights many problems in the UK. Football in the UK is out-pricing many. The public transport over here is basically nonexistent.
I used to go & watch
Carlisle United a few times a season but with so many train strikes I stopped going.
I live in Hamilton
South Lanarkshire.
Slovak league is a great league, great Stadiums, players, clubs but NO fans and Its really sad..
I like the out of Scotland videos, but I'm missing the Aberdeens v hearts, or the forfars Vs stranraers
krasne video broo
Looking forward to getting my passport soon (friends moving away) but this makes me wanna travel more, been stuck here for 12 year 😂 need a good break
The lady at the train station said that you have to pay for it now you didn’t say you wanted a return ticket before.
Brilliant mate
Spartak reached the semi final of the European Cup in 1969, losing 3-2 on aggregate to Ajax.
Was there watching Scotland in a World Cup qualifier in October 2016. I reckon there were more Scotland fans in the stadium than the whole attendance at the game you watched! You picked an odd weekend to go though. Scottish Cup 3rd round and Scottish Junior Cup both on. Lots of interesting games that would have been far more interesting for you to cover than yet another vanilla Premier league game.
I remember that game. We dominated you guys like 3 - 0 and Scots had the ugliest jerseys ever. Cheers mate!
it's the second largest stadium in the Slovak top league, looks like they hold a lot of international matches there.
Probably one of the few that instantly thought you were talking about Hamilton Ontario and not Hamilton in Scotland
I stay in Hamilton Scotland
there is something close to 16 different places could that. Hamilton Scotland is the original one.
@alanfox691 yeah no doubt, Rule Britannia and all that
Its shocking that a top flight team doesnt have many fans in their home ground. I went to Zilina many years ago when they were still champions. Not a big city but there was a lot of following of the team.
trnave is also called littli roma
Where did you stay Pal?
I love Bratislava, so cheap.
I have been to Bratislava, I like seeing football stadia, but Bratislava stadiums were too far from the river boat.
Great city Slovokia.
When the season in Sweden starts, you have to come up here
Kinda looks like a smaller Old Trafford doesn‘t it?
DAC in south Slovakia 30mins from Bratislava would have a fuller stadium…
Fuck DAC
9:12 she said: "you have to pay it, you did not tell me in advance (that you want a return ticket)", but I think if you were slovak, she would just cancel it on the terminal and do the return ticket, haha
❤😊
Come to Ireland in 2025 February. 1st game of the season boh's v rover's, oldest rivalry in football in dublin. Boh's trying to get the Aviva stadium for the game, it should draw a lot of interest.
Much nicer country than the hellscape that UK has become
Did a day trip to trnava but managed a return from the lady but didn't go to the game 😎
You went to my favorita Slovakian team
How many beers???? 😮😂
If you build it, they will come. It doesn’t always work, does it? A shame about the low turnout but it was still a great little trip. Oh, and I don’t think it is masticating that UA-cam censors 🤣
Norway and Sweden
Once i flew from London Stansted to Kosice Slovakia for £3.50😅
Next time you should visit Trnava during conference league qualification or during derby against slovan bratislava then you will see much better and louder atmosphere created by ultras spartak and ultras slovan
footy adventures or Elton John?
Sam almost turned into Bald and Bankrupt going through Eastern Europe!
haha!!
Why no fans in Slovakia ?
Because Slovak football is weak and it's a lot of money for the locals.
most ppl are on Ice Hockey
@@Joozzua I thought this was the case
I don't think the locals can afford a ticket
train travel in the UK is an absolute disgrace
Ah but Sam the old conjoined Czechoslovakia gave the football world the Panenka
True. In Slavia’s stadium I believe?
theses country's put uk to shame
Jesus on the cross picture watching over the bed.......
bit clickbait with the title, there are many trains cheaper than thr one you looked for.
Still crazy expensive compared to anywhere in Europe
@@saraprva4172 Again, Slovakia also has the lowest salaries in Europe.
@StanTee183 Yes but France, Germany Spain lots of countries similar to Britain have rail tickets very much less than Britain