The match was played in Antwerp, Belgium and 30, 000 Feijenoord fans travelled by bus to see their team play.

A total of 14, 000 Feyenoord fans travelled to Germany to support the team against Mönchengladbach.

In 1963, about 3000 fans boarded on two ships, among thousands of others by train or car and they travelled to Lisbon where Feyenoord faced Benfica in the European Cup.

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

And so, on October 1987, he travelled to Australia to meet the man boxing fans consider to be the greatest Australian world champion of all time: Jeff Fenech.

Over 40, 000 Owls fans travelled to Cardiff to watch Wednesday beat Hartlepool United 4 – 2 after extra time in the playoff final, and return to the Championship.

Thousands of fans travelled from around Australia to stand outside the cathedral.

Over 17, 000 Staggies fans travelled to the show-piece event on 15 May 2010.

This behaviour peaked in 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II, when approximately 1, 900 IFK fans travelled to Borås to see IFK play Elfsborg.

As the club gained success in European club tournaments in the 1980s and 1990s, and thousands of IFK fans travelled to Hamburg, Barcelona, Dundee, Milan, Manchester and Munich, the supporters gained influence on the club, for example by lending money to the almost bankrupt IFK Göteborg so the team could go to Valencia to play the quarter-final in the UEFA Cup in 1982, or by being the main force behind the move back to Gamla Ullevi in 1992.

An estimated 4, 300 NAC fans travelled to Newcastle to support their team.

The Americans travelled to Florida to face the Jacksonville Sharks, 27, 140 Jacksonville fans, and the Sharks ' new coach, Charlie Tate.

Some 800 Urawa fans had travelled to the game and were later compensated.

More than 7, 000 Barrow fans travelled to Boro's Riverside Stadium, at the time the highest away attendance at the ground in the 14 years it had been open.

More than 7, 000 Ross County fans travelled to Glasgow to watch the game.

Grand Final fever hit North Queensland in style as thousands of supporters travelled to Sydney for the big day and again the team travelled to the airport via the City to allow the legion of fans, especially school children, to cheer on the side.

The fight was held in Manchester and many of Hardy ’ s fans travelled from Sunderland to support him.

Over 20, 000 Hull FC fans travelled to Old Trafford, but again they lost out to the Saints, this time by 26 – 4.

Michael Schumacher, who was fighting for the world championship qualified fourth which was a big disappointment for the thousand of Italian fans who travelled to Monaco for the race.

The events in themselves attracted the attention of the television media, as fans of the film travelled several thousand miles to the event.

Around 6, 000 Clydebank fans travelled to Rugby Park for the final.

Over 500 fans travelled to Wembley Arena, where on 4 May 1997, Raiders clinched their first Play-off title with a 118-106 victory over Ware adding to the Division 1 and National Trophy Runners-up honours.

Western Conference champions Vancouver Whitecaps Residency travelled to Chapples Park for an all-Canadian national semi-final ; Alvaro Zendejas scored a 90th minute winner in front of 1, 546 fans to send Thunder Bay to the PDL Championship game for the first time.

In two matchups the New Jersey Nets faced the Toronto Raptors in London's O2 Arena in front of over 20, 000 fans.

Toronto was awarded an expansion team called the Blue Jays, but San Francisco baseball fans ' worries about losing their beloved Giants had not completely gone away just yet.

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

If a U. S .- based team ( located in either Boston, Chicago, Detroit or New York City ) was playing in Toronto on a particular Saturday night, thousands of fans in the U. S. city whose local team faced the Leafs would often listen to the CBC broadcast via skywave reception, with the game often drawing far more listeners during the HNIC broadcast period than any local station.

The Pacers traded forward Antonio Davis to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for first-round draft choice Jonathan Bender, which remains to this day a subject of controversy among Pacers fans.

For years afterward, Winfield's appearances in Toronto were greeted by fans standing and flapping their arms — until he became a fan favorite when he joined the Blue Jays in 1992.

Among examples cited was the infamous 1948 Grey Cup game in which two trains of Stampeder football fans descended on Toronto and launched an unprecedented series of celebrations before, during and after the game that included riding a horse into the lobby of the Royal York Hotel.

Toronto fans did not have wait long for the Gilmour acquisition to pay off, as the feisty forward produced exceptionally well for the remainder of the 1991 – 92 season.

With Toronto leading the series three games to two, many fans, including CBC's Don Cherry, were hoping for an all-Canadian final as the Montreal Canadiens had already advanced to the championship series.

Gilmour scored in the game and was given a standing ovation by the Toronto fans during the Gardens ' closing ceremonies.

The first Grey Cup game was held on December 4, 1909, between two Toronto clubs: the University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Parkdale Canoe Club 26 – 6 before 3, 800 fans.

Hoping to restore the league's credibility with fans, a new ownership group featuring Bruce McNall, hockey player Wayne Gretzky and actor John Candy purchased the Toronto Argonauts in 1991 and lured American college standout Rocket Ismail to Canada with a four-year, $ 26. 2 million contract which made him the highest paid player in football history at that time.

The team averaged over 35, 000 fans per game in its inaugural season, nearly double that of Toronto or Hamilton.

The Toronto Star echoed fears spoken by fans and media across the country when it asked if the 1996 championship, won by Toronto over Edmonton, would be the final Grey Cup.

That year's Grey Cup, held in Edmonton and won by Toronto, drew nearly 22, 000 more fans than the previous year.

Traditionally nicknamed Canada's " Grand National Drunk ", the Grey Cup party originated in the 1948 championship when hundreds of Calgary Stampeders fans descended on Toronto for their team's first appearance in the game.

Palmeiro famously wore earplugs to block out the loud boos of fans in Toronto during a subsequent game against the Blue Jays.

However, an off-field incident involving several fans of both the home side and the large traveling contingent of Toronto FC supporters overshadowed the match itself.

Both Toronto FC fans and officials in Columbus pointed fingers at each other.

Wings fans probably wish the team had missed the postseason, as the team was pummeled in a record breaking 13-2 loss to the eventual champion Toronto Rock.

Toronto defeated Calgary 36 – 21 before a crowd of 51, 985 fans.