Internazioswally Airdrie I.F.C

Internazioswally are Airdrie’s very own Internet Fans Football team who regularly play games in the IFA League against similarly minded teams, more often than not in the morning before the ‘big teams’ meet in the afternoon. The IFA (Internet football Association) has been on the go for around 5 years now, and has grown from the initial concept into an organisation encompassing fans’ teams from over 80 teams in the UK (18 in Scotland). The league is split into Regions, but also tallies up into one big huge league, although the emphasis of the whole thing is really just to have fun and for opposition fans to meet each other and build bridges - even with Motherwell ;-)

The ‘Swally team formed after a challenge from the Ayr team (Kaisayr) on the Airdrie message board, and the main Internet faces at the time - Rab from the Stomp and Club site, Dougy and Baz from Johnny Martins Willy, and a few other regular posters met up in the Scarborough Social Club a few weeks later and the team was formed. What undoubtedly helped was the fact that we actually won the game 6-2, found a carry out friendly minibus driver, and generally had a riot of a day out.

So that’s a brief history of the team and where things are up to now. Its important to point out that the team isn’t a closed shop, and that if you are an Airdrie fan and on the web then you are more than welcome to drop us a mail and we can try and get you a game in upcoming fixtures, while at the same time trying to avoid the situation of 40 guys turning up for a game. One other important feature of the team and one which probably highlights the wonders of the internet is that despite being an Airdrie team, very few of the players actually stay in the town, with players coming from Armadale, Livingston, Kirkintilloch and Glasgow. Christ there’s even a few in Coatbridge.

So that’s the Swally team then. Beer, Singing, and playing football with an Airdrie strip on.

What more could you ask for ?