Letter From...South Korea

As you well know we are always happy to hear from Killie fans the world over and it goes without saying that we like to share them with you lot. The first one out of the postbag (well, email inbox if you want to get technical) is from exile Donald Nairn…

“Hi guys, I'm a Killie fan working in Busa, South Korea. I watched the Killie v Dundee Utd game last night (okay, so we're a bit slow putting this in!) on a website with links to Falkirk, St. Mirren, Dunfermline, Dundee Utd and Motherwell. Will any of my £5 fee make its way to the Killie coffers? They have the fastest internet in the world here so I have bought an Internet Season Ticket from Killie World and I can listen that way, but Monday night football is a disaster for me as that's 5am local time! Does the team get compensation for the reduced attendance this is bound to cause?

I was home in December and went along to Pie Central, it was worth the 17,000 mile round trip to see the boys hump Dunfermline (I lived there for nine months one summer, as the old joke goes). At the St. Mirren game, it was claimed that some punter from Connecticut was the furthest travelled fan at the game. Unless any of Danny Invincibile's family flew the long way round, I believe that award belongs to me! Anyway, like Walter Smith, I've deserted the country to earn money, but hopefully I'll be welcomed back to KFC and will be able to time holidays with home games. Best of luck for the Year of the Pig (2007).

P.S. Premiership teams with a Korean player get full TV coverage here, so if we signed a player from the K-League I'd get to see more games and Killie would get tons of cash...happiness all-round if you ask me...but then JJ almost never does.”

Home From Home

We’ve been sent the following piccie by Christopher Cadman who’d brother is currently working in New Zealand…

Apparently Girvan Street and the Riccarton Hotel are just around the corner. It’s a small world (oh crap, we’re starting to sound like Pat feckin Roller).

The Viking Chronicles II

Scot (killieviking) James has been back in touch with the latest instalment of the Viking Chronicles…

“After a very drunken night out I turned on the computer box thingy and saw a post on the forum about our cracking cup win ten years ago. The nostalgia plus several strong beers were responsible for me deciding the semi final was on for me. Next morning after noticing the piece of paper by the computer "Book ticket hame for gemme" I got on the case, flights booked but no ticket. My hero of the moment turned out to be Catrine’s very own Killie supporting legend Sam Gillies or simply Big Sam to many. The man informed me that he was running a bus and that he would go to Kilmarnock and fix me a ticket next day, what a star.

Come match day, a couple of beers in our local and then we were on the bus, the only rules applied were no Buckfast and no nakedness. "Might have time for a quick beer" was mentioned on the bus, what a night this could be. Then the reality and stupidity of the organisers of Scottish football start to kick in, major traffic problems on the way to the ground ensure myself and 45 others on the bus miss all but 6 minutes of the first half. Hearing the first goal on the radio only a couple of miles from the ground was very frustrating to say the least, but none of us used bad language. When we eventually got in to that most excellent sporting facility that is Fir Park it was great to see so many Killie fans in good voice.

The fact that I missed the first goal in the previous round against Motherwell could be an omen or is it just fate? Our bus organiser has said that the bus for the final will be leaving on the Saturday night to get there on time. I prefer to be a bit late myself. I will be making the trip from snowy Stockholm for the final and another great final occasion for the world’s finest team that have squirrels on their jerseys.”

Mad as a box of frogs.

Cup Fever

You’ve probably all read about the Rolf Harris saga on the forums so we won’t drag it out any more (but check out www.fineday.co.uk). At the moment we are looking good to get the remixed Killie version of Fine Day released soon and there’s an excellent chance that Rolf and Steve Lima will be joining us at Hampden on March 18th…with the club inviting them as their guests…well done Michael Johnson for that.

Meanwhile back at the ranch everyone seems to be getting cup fever and generally losing it a bit…well if you’d received new lyrics to ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport’ from a well-know author (who shall remain nameless) you’d be a bit concerned about their mental stability as well…so we’re putting git down to cup fever. Nevertheless, we were highly amused and felt it necessary to share with our readers…