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Barcelona away in 2002 – How it was, when it wasAs the week began, I wouldn’t have thought a Madness concert and watching Man City beat the Mackems would be the highlight. That’s because I was booked onto a Tess Mann chartered flight out of Newcastle International on Monday 9 December 2002, bound for Barcelona, where the plan was to watch the toon play in the Nou Camp the following evening.
Monday afternoon was spent on the ‘hop on, hop off’. Being familiar with the city, I thought attractions like Parque Guell and Montjuic would provide some respite from the Irish bar just off La Rambla where we eventually joined the action early evening. Next morning, after a decent breakfast and as we prepared to leave the hotel, I wondered whether my watch was playing up, because it looked like the middle of the night. As we emerged onto Carrer de Ferran, the narrow street had been turned into a raging torrent, the sky was black and it was raining cats and dogs. Oddly, the day before had been chilly, but with clear blue skies, and there had been no sense of what was to come.
The coach crawled through the congested streets and at some point messages began pinging on Nokia phones from back home, informing everyone that the game was definitely off. We got no closer to the Nou Camp than the sight of the floodlit sky about a mile away and eventually, the coach did an about turn and headed off in the direction of the Airport.
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