I would like to share the below with you guys.
In this thread I will update you with the Tottenham Hotspurs IP trips and success during their 2 day stay in HK.
8/1 (16:00-16:30) -
Attended the Tottenham Hotspurs Signing Session Today. As I was one of the 1st 13 supporters in line I got given an Official Puma Tottenham Cap.
http://jasonw.fotopic.net/p59969863.html
Took a photo of the venue before the players arrived:
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After an hour wait the players finally arrived. There was a quick cermony to promote Puma products. I took some photos:
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The rule was "one autograph per person". But since I've spent over an hour standing in line waiting for the session to start I thought I might bend the rules a bit ;) I managed to get 2/4 players to sign on both my photo and the cap that I recieved earlier on :$
Aaron Lennon pulled a cheeky smile at me when the evil female staff grabbed my cap away and told me to move on as I already got one item signed. How dare you Aaron :huh:
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Anyways, here are the autographs I managed to obtain at the end:
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Yesterday was Day 2 of Spur's HK visit, here's a journal of how I did.
8/2 (2:15-3:15) -
Went to the hotel Spurs stayed in before the match. The hotel is fairly new and is not use to having football players staying during their visits. There was around 35 of us and we were blocked off from the coach of which hotel securities around us. However, there was only one security which explained the ineffectiveness..
None of the players signed for the fans in the "waiting area" the hotel setted up for us. However, for the few of us who were a little more "active" in dashing past the security we managed to pick up a few autos ;)
At first, I went behind the coach as I knew the players will not sign for the fans in the "waiting area" since they were carrying luggages. The first player I managed was Johnathan Obika. I got Obika to dedicate my photo too. Then Gomes came along, he was a nice guy! Afterwards the security sensed something was wrong as I, who was previously standing in the waiting area have gone "missing"
. Soon he found out I was behind the coach and told me to return to the waiting area. I stayed though and managed to get Robbie Keane (terrible signature though due to a crap marker [angry] ) and Harry Redknapp. Redknapp was nice too and signed for me dispite the security guard trying to pull me away. I missed Cudicini by a bit and I still am very dissapointed as he was one of my main targets [why]I went back to the waiting area. Soon Benoît Assou-Ekotto turned up, I dashed towards the coach this time stopped by the not-so-happy hotel manager. I asked Ekotto if he can sign my photo and the hotel manager said "No sorry". I was 0.5 meter away from Ekotto and I'm sure I would have gotten him if it weren't for the manager.. [angry]
I wasn't too unhappy as I did manage 4 autographs.
Here are the photos:Hotel -
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Coach -
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(Look closely and you will see Robbie)
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Autographs -
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8/2 (16:45) -
I got seats behind the tunnel in the stadium hoping for my autographs. The players came out for a short warm up session, none of them signed though. Here are the photos:
http://jasonw.fotopic.net/p60019761.html
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8/2 (19:00) -
Stayed behind after the match. A few players gave their match worn shirts out to female fans. None of them signed though.
Jason.