Flying Dutchmen drop in for football match

Ron Fiege, 57, Bram Neuteboom, 54, and Willem van Ekelenburg, 55, said that they loved English football so much that when they saw the club on the BBC series Football Diaries they wanted to visit.

Willem said: "We like all kinds of sport but particularly British sport and English football. It is so much more exciting than what we have in Holland.

"We prefer watching English players so we watch lower leagues. As soon as a club gets money they bring in foreign players. We like the pure English game which is disappearing - especially in the premiership.

"We really like the English supporters, they really know their football. In Holland a person only knows about their own team but over here people know about all the teams."

The men left Holland in the early hours of the morning to travel to Weymouth to watch the Terras play Bishop's Stortford on Saturday.

Willem said: "We were really lucky, we made it to Weymouth by 11am. We took a walk along the seafront - it is a really beautiful town.

"We came to visit Yeovil last year and really loved the area here. So when we saw the TV programme we thought it would be great to come back again and see this club."

Ron, a civil servant, said that his football enthusiasm began after he watched his first England match. He said: "I went with my father to see England play at Wembley stadium.

"It was 1966 and England won the World Cup. It was such an impressive game. We would do this sort of thing more often but for our work and our families.

"Almost every club we go to, we get a great welcome from the people. I think the Dutch and the English just get on really well together."

The men have planned a full sporting week ahead of them, including a trip to watch motor racing at the Goodwood Revival, cricket at Brighton and a trip to Lords cricket ground in London.

Together the men have visited more than 100 league and non-league grounds across Britain and have visited 65 sports grounds.