Romanian soccer is great - unless you are an opposing UK fan in full British football kit. Find out why today!

Romanian soccer’s a major national pastime. We have three major football clubs in Bucharest alone, FC Steaua Bucureşti, Real and Dinamo.

There is always a lot of excitement when Romania plays other football teams - as they seem to win quite frequently. As you are well aware, being seen as a tourist in Bucharest is equivalent to just emptying all your pockets on some dusty street corner and walking away - removing the fun of robbing you n a hundred different ways' from directly stealing your wallet on a crowded bus, to massively overcharging you for your water, flowers or taxis.

So it always comes as rather a surprise to discover tourists, dressed in their UK football club colours wandering around Bucharest. It makes life easier for the rest of us, as obviously if your given the choice of a complete idiot, wandering around drunk on cheap Romanian beer, or a slightly lanky almost Romanian dressed looking foreigner, for one day in y life I am free from suspicion. The poor chap will wander home; convinced Bucharest is even more like the Wild, Wild West than he previously thought.

I am now, as it happens, related through marriage to one of the sexiest Romanian sports reporters you will ever see - sadly she mainly writes for newspapers -a complete waste of such beauty if you ask me! However she is a FC Steaua Bucureşti fan - whose colours are blue and red.

Her entirely new bathroom is kitted out in the exact same shade of blue and red so I hope she remains a life long fan! The only thing missing is a toilet seat. This intrigued me, as I must admit sitting n the toilet, reading my love poem book, would not be quite the same experience without a seat. Apparently this is because she has yet to source the exact shade of blue or red she needs and a cheap white or wooden one just would not be the same.

I am pleased they are in the European championships. I was surprised to see that the Romanian soccer team did not make it to the world cup - seeing they seem to play so well in Europe. They are constantly on with my father-in-law intermittently watching between his amazingly loud snores.

The only time to keep away from the stadiums is entering or turning out time as between all the fans and police, transport goes at a crawl, the trams are full and even on foot it is difficult to pass easily. However it does give you plenty to talk about and it does appear to take up a considerable amount of time on the Metro (Underground) advertising TV programs - between terrible American 'You've been framed or Just for Gags shows' - a show not really improved by having no soundtrack.

Which Romanian soccer team do you support and why? I would love to know what attracts you to the Romanian game and which of the three football teams in Bucharest really are the best.

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