Just listening to Steve Wright whilst driving and he read a request out for a 'mention' from a couple travelling to Southend to follow Rotherham United! Didn't catch their names, but good on 'em!
Got me thinking of the occurrences when RUFC pops up unexpectedly. One of my strangest was a few years ago whilst I was based in Canberra, Australia, and I used to run around Lake Burley Griffin most lunchtimes, sporting a RUFC top. On numerous occasions, a runner coming in the opposite direction would shout 'up the Millers'! Never had the chance or stamina to stop and ask him what his connection, if any, was!
In 1997 I stopped over in Singapore on my way to Australia. I did the usual tourist trip and visited the Raffles Hotel just to sample a Singapore Sling. I was sat in the bar and an Italian traveller noticed my football shirt. He even knew that we had won a trophy the year before at Wembley. He said that he had some family in South Yorkshire one of whom had an interest in the Millers.
In the summer of 1984 I got a summer job working at a Camp America style 'soccer' site in Vernon, New Jersey, which was an amazing experience for a 16 year old which I was at the time. Anyway, on my first day there a bus load of kids arrived. They were the trialists for the New York State Under 18's squad. One of the youths got off the bus with a seventies-style RUFC shirt on, with number 6 on the back (no names on shirts in those days). I asked about it, and he said that his father was from Rotherham, had emigrated twenty years before, but had returned to the UK and watched the Millers on the last day of the season in the late seventies (don't know which year) and had got John Green's shirt after he threw it into the crowd. The American lad was a Millers follower but had never seen us play.
