Wanderers fans complaining about season ticket prices will perhaps be envious of an ex-pat Super White whose ticket for all league and cup matches costs just over £80. Adam Florsheim explains what it's like to be a season ticket holder at Barcelona's "second" team - Espanyol. . .

After being born in Farnworth General in late 1971, my early months were spent in Astley Bridge.

All the family remember having a famous professional footballer living opposite from us, but nobody can remember his name, obviously wasn't that famous then!

If anyone can tell me which Bolton player lived in Ivy Bank Close in 1972 that would settle my curiousity?

At a young age I moved south to North London but never changed allegiance to my home team despite constant ridicule from the local Tottenham and Arsenal fans.

I rarely travelled to home games and my only chances to see the Whites in action was on their visits to the lesser loved London teams such as Leyton Orient and Brentford.

They generally lost in London and trying to get a mate to come with me to a game was a tough task, so all in all it was a lonely and depressing experience.

Now I never get to see the Wanderers live, unless it's on the tele. But I do see a lot of live football, I even have a season ticket. R.C.D Espanyol of Barcelona is my "new" team. Playing in blue and white, living in the constant shadow of an all-conquering bigger' team in the city and never sure whether their main objective is to avoid relegation or fight for a European place they could easily be mistaken for Man City.

In fact, I regularly notice a St George flag at the ground with M.C.F.C on it. Maybe, like me, the City fan chose to support the underdog in the area just to spite the arrogant F.C Barcelona, or maybe it was because they remind us too much of that other team in Manchester.

A season ticket for the Perikitos (the Budgies, even worse than the Trotters isn't it?!) costs a mere 120 euros (£80 more or less).

This includes all league and cup games and even Europe this season. Beat that for value for money! So the ground is always full and throbbing with atmosphere due to such prices? Not unless Real Madrid are the visitors.

The main problem is, and spot an obvious Bolton connection here, the club sold their small, atmospheric stadium in a posh part of the city and took up temporary residence in the enormous Olympic stadium.

Having aproximately 30,000 season ticket holders and playing in a stadium with a capacity for 56,000 is bad enough, but add the fact that generally only 20,000 fans can be bothered to turn up and travelling support is poor in Spain you have a bland theatre most weeks.

Perhaps the saddest sight at the ground is to see huge advertising hoardings being used to cover up vast swathes of empty seats.

For European and cup games the attendance regularly falls below 10,000 despite the club offering free or nearly free tickets to members in an effort to bring a friend or ten.

Our neighbours, F.C. Barcelona did something similar for a recent cup game. Their buy one get FOUR free offer still failed to motivate many more to pass through the turnstiles to see second rate opposition at the Nou Camp.

If Phil Gartside complained about 2,500 season tickets not turning up for a midweek game in Bolton, he no doubt would have been apopleptic about the close to 15,000 who stayed away at a recent game against Zaragozza!

Espanyol fans are a long suffering bunch, but I guess sometimes the lure of the surrounding beaches and beautiful mountains is a greater pull than 90 mins of cynical, yet technically skillful Spanish league one.

Do the Spanish people know much about Bolton Wanderers? Sadly no. Generally I have to say I come from near Manchester and then put up with the offensive question that follows: "Do you support Manchester?" No, I don't, and nor do I support United.

This interchange is usually followed by inane questions such as "which league are you in?" and "do you have any famous players?"

Ivan Campo's name usually produces a smirk of some description and most remember Anelka, both having passed through the ranks at Real Madrid, otherwise our present stars remain fairly anonymous to the paella eating population.

What would happen if Espanyol drew Bolton in the Uefa cup? Where would my allegiance lie? No competition. I'm a Bolton fan first and Espanyol second.

If you ever come to Barcelona for a holiday and want to take in a game, come to the Stadio Olympico, buy a ticket in goal north upper, and look out for a Bolton lad wearing a Wanderers bobble hat and Espanyol scarf wishing he was sitting at the Reebok with a pie.