The most unexpected place that you ran into another Bear or Rangers stuff?

Not a Rangers top but my mate was touring Australia about twenty years ago and stopped at a small run down town just south of Alice Springs in the middle of the outback and saw an Aboriginal guy wearing a Morton top. He asked where he got it and the guy just said "Dunno mate" and smiled and walked away.
 
Not an unusual place by any means but me and my mate with the 2 wuman had been in the Ibrox bar in Tenerife for the game and left half canned, bounced into a restaurant and the Spanish waiter serving us asked our team after hearing our accents and we told him (no colours on) he hitched his trouser leg up to reveal our crest tattooed on the side of his calf. Needless to say an Ayrton Senna tip for the lad.
 
Supermarket in Kållered near Gothenburg, Swedish guy was wearing a district bar polo shirt , had a quick chat said he loved going over for games and that was his favourite bar.
My Sons would be off the beaten track in Cambodia and the bar he was in had the WiFi password, Rangers 1872.
 
I saw an old Asian guy with the classic 90s training jacket on circa 2011 in Sydney. Asked him where he got it but the guy had not a word of English.

Other random story was in hvar, Island in Croatia (2016) and a drunk bear was singing some songs late at night by himself. Went and spoke to him and he he kept telling me he was Andy Halliday. He was not Andy Halliday but still had a good sing song for a few minutes
 
My example is not as exotic as some of the above but does add an element of peril and danger.

I had just moved to Copenhagen and I was suffering from terrible toothache. Having been directed to a local dentist by a medical helpline, I turned up with a face full of pain and in a shite mood.

Lying on my back and not ready for a social experience, I was confronted by an octogenarian, drill-wielding old fella with all the signs of late stage Parkinsons.

"Scottish?"
"Yes"
"You like football?"
"Erm, yes" (this was when Gravesen was with them)
"A Rangers fan, I hope"
"Oh yes"
"Good. Right answer."

Turns out he was a friend of the Laudrup family. Knew their father or grandfather or someone.
 
This might not be that unexpected given the day but it was pretty surreal. On the way to Manchester in 08 there was a traffic jam on the M6. Looked outside the window and there was about 10 rangers fans marching up the carriageway playing flutes B-D
 
Maybe off topic but.....

On a tour of North America years ago I stopped off at a 1 horse town/old Indian reservation called Osoyous in British Columbia, a few local work guys walked into this cafe , 1 native was wearing the MacEwans lager Rangers top , I pointed at his top & gave him the thumbs up ,clearly oblivious & in a North American droll he asked if I could get him some of the beer sent over ?
 
Lying on the beach in Cape Verde. Shades on and people watching/listening as you do. Spent almost 30 mins trying to work out the foreign accent of 2 slightly older couples near us.

One of the lads sat up and I noticed a rangers crest tattoo so I initiated conv in slow English.

Turns out they were from Peterhead
 
The simshill one said:
Not an unusual place by any means but me and my mate with the 2 wuman had been in the Ibrox bar in Tenerife for the game and left half canned, bounced into a restaurant and the Spanish waiter serving us asked our team after hearing our accents and we told him (no colours on) he hitched his trouser leg up to reveal our crest tattooed on the side of his calf. Needless to say an Ayrton Senna tip for the lad.
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I wonder if he had a tramp one on the other leg, probably made a small fortune from pissed Scotsmen and plastic paddies :))
 
The simshill one said:
Not an unusual place by any means but me and my mate with the 2 wuman had been in the Ibrox bar in Tenerife for the game and left half canned, bounced into a restaurant and the Spanish waiter serving us asked our team after hearing our accents and we told him (no colours on) he hitched his trouser leg up to reveal our crest tattooed on the side of his calf. Needless to say an Ayrton Senna tip for the lad.
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He probably had a shamrock on the other leg! :))
 
We got a young American soldier providing armed escort for our taxi from the perimeter of Kuwait air base into the main part in '03. He heard my accent and asked where in Scotland I was from.

It turned out his Mum was from Maryhill and he'd just come back from his first ever visit to relatives in Glasgow and had finally managed to see Rangers in the flesh while he was over.
 
I was in a family changing room at the local swimming baths and dressed in my swimming costume..son in arms.. opened the door to Ally McCoist standing face on ready to knock the door to ask when cubicle would be ready to use for his sons..
 
2009 in Cairns QLD. We went on a trip to the Great Barrier Reef, another guy on the trip came up to me and said he'd seen us the day before walking down the street and liked my son's top. He was originally from Rutherglen, but had moved to Perth WA years ago.
 
Roda, this tiny wee resort in the North of Corfu. It’s close to Sidari. Toilets in a bar called the Drunken Sailor, had a big RFC and red hand of ulster drawn on it. Was surprising as it wasn’t a very well know little place..made me smile though :)
 
We lived down in Newcastle in the 80's/90's just before satellite TV came out. If we couldn't make the it to the match we would watch on TV. The local station Tyne Tees wouldn't show Scottish football. So we would drive up the M74 to get in range of STV plug a wee TV into a generator and my Dad and i would watch in the match in the motor. There was a chap on the window and a fellow bear asked if it was the Rangers game we watching. He joined us for the rest of the match. He had noticed us came off the motorway and came back round. Turns out he and my Dad knew each other from years ago working together in the steel works !
 
I don't think meeting a Rangers fan abroad is unusual, but the most unexpected one for me was when I was a boy and when in Cyprus.

To shorten the story, my dad brought us to the airport a day early by mistake, we got an over-night stay in a nearby hotel. There was a pool table in the pub downstairs, I thought it was initially a foreign guy who was playing on it, then I managed to lock onto the accent, he was from Aberdeen. After talking with him it turns out he was a Rangers supporter, so that was unexpected.

We played pool with him for a good while after finding out, but I still struggled to understand what the hell he was saying most of the time :D
 
Was in Belgrade in 2011 for Red star v Partizan and saw a local guy wearing Rangers Adidas jacket from the 90's
 
I lived and played football in Portland, Oregon over 10 years ago (football scholarship) and my whole time there I never met one Scottish or even a British person so talking about Rangers was always a little alien to most of the yanks.

Coming towards the end of my time there I was playing a home match and there was someone standing at the side of the pitch watching wearing a Rangers top. I couldn't believe my eyes but because I was playing I couldn't go over and talk to the guy.

Not the coolest story but remember it being very surreal at the time.
 
Old Mexican guy in Cancun, sitting half snoozing on a hammock, and I walked past with my Rangers polo shirt. He puts his hand out to stop me, and said "ah, Rangers, is good team" Haha
Also squad of blitzed boys on the Las Vegas strip. Game had kicked off in the middle of the night over there. This was late morning. They'd obviously been on the strip all night. We'd won 4-2. Me,my missus and them done the bouncy on the strip. Brilliant.
 
Cape Town. South Africa v England Test Match 2004/5. Got chatting/drunkenly singing to a guy wearing a “Cock Tavern Loyal” Polo shirt.
 
Sancus said:
Didn’t expect to see one on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares!

Santa Le Brea restaurant in Hollywood and the American server has a grey Rangers casual top on. 6:17 in the link.



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I think he would have worn that because he knew Ramsay's background.

Remember watching that episode, was hilarious, Ramsay turned the wee quiet vegan manager into a miniature hitler and he goes out and buys the waiter woman's perfume because he's sweating too much
 
Bumped into bears in various places over the years. Some that I remember:-

Whilst working in DSME shipyard, Geoje, South Korea in 2004.
Watching Klitschko v Haye in a bar in Vegas 2011
Walking through a shopping centre in Pune, India last January.
Whilst sitting In a bar in Houston in 2012.
 
Dcalm said:
I was in Maryhill once and met another Rangers fan, was thinking I was the only 1 in Maryhill that day.
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Maryhill is full of bears, you can spot the scabies a mile off, I take that as a personal insult,as do hundreds of other bears, hope you are at the wind up, askcrawford*****, not funny Declan.
 
Not the most unusual of places but a fellow bear walked past me in the upper deck of Yankee stadium wearing the 92/94 home top had to shout "We are the people" at him B-D
 
interlock said:
On a hill climb as part of a sailing trip to the Whitsundays Islands of the great barrier reef. Circa 2002, we both had a top on.
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Could’ve been me, met lots of bears touring Oz. I always wore Gers shorts or Gers T-shirts
 
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Bakubear said:
In terms of most remote I must be in with a chance.....
Moskalvo port on the northern tip of Sakhalin where I met two lifting guys from Sparrows both having been of good stock, It did shock the company man and my translator when we after 2 mins of meeting when straight into latest updates from home, this was around 2010.

A Rangers scarf has been shown here in the capitol who thanks to an ex Baku Bear and poster on here have a RSC however this was a 14 hour train ride then 5 hour car journey north.
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I spent 2+ years on Sakhalin 2003 to 2005, there were at least 3 other ST holders amongst the SEIC team at that time, one was big Gary Rough, a well known & very well respected Bear from Inverness. I believe Gary left us not long after. Personally I never had to endure the Train beyond Tumanovo.
Some place in those days. :cool:
 
Susie Sue said:
I was in a family changing room at the local swimming baths and dressed in my swimming costume..son in arms.. opened the door to Ally McCoist standing face on ready to knock the door to ask when cubicle would be ready to use for his sons..
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I also met Alex McLeish in the Epcot Centre in Florida( Mo Johnson, Tommy Burns and George McCluskey were also there) and met Craig Moore and Ronald de Boer by the pool on holiday in Spain.
 
Was in a restaurant in kos. The waiter after hearing my accent asks me if I’m from scotland. I replied yes.he went away and brought over another 2 waiters and one of them asks what team i support? when i say Rangers they start telling me the owner of rangers had been in a couple of nights ago.
I wasnt too impressed as it was Charles green at the time.
 
NorthAntrim said:
Barman in the Marriott niagra falls, wiped our bar tab and had champagne sent to our room. He was from Hamilton.

Loch Ness bar Bratislava waiter set us down a bottle of vodka courtesy of the bar. His dad was from Inverness.

Lake Louise Banff area bumped into a man from Greenock. Met in a bar that evening in Banff and the DJ was from Edinburgh (big Rangers man) what a night it was. Only just qualified from the Europa groups.
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Was the bar called aurora by any chance? Banff is a great place.
 
Queen St West , Toronto, late 2006. Freezing cold day, was over for a long weekend, had a Rangers wooly hat on, guy coming the other way had a long Rangers jacket on, we exchanged a nod.

I watched a European game with the Big Apple Bears, which was the Hapoel game in 2007 an earlier poster referred to! That was unexpected, to walk into a bar in NYC and it be like a pub in Glasgow B-)
 
Singapore, a few years ago enjoying a drink in the 5 star hotel lounge while wearing Rangers polo shirt - got into conversation with another bear
 
wilso10 said:
I lived and played football in Portland, Oregon over 10 years ago (football scholarship) and my whole time there I never met one Scottish or even a British person so talking about Rangers was always a little alien to most of the yanks.

Coming towards the end of my time there I was playing a home match and there was someone standing at the side of the pitch watching wearing a Rangers top. I couldn't believe my eyes but because I was playing I couldn't go over and talk to the guy.

Not the coolest story but remember it being very surreal at the time.
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You from my home town ?
 
Son of William said:
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I spent 2+ years on Sakhalin 2003 to 2005, there were at least 3 other ST holders amongst the SEIC team at that time, one was big Gary Rough, a well known & very well respected Bear from Inverness. I believe Gary left us not long after. Personally I never had to endure the Train beyond Tumanovo.
Some place in those days. :cool:
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There was/is quite a few Sakhalin posters on here.

One is a total penis.
 
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