HANDS up all you Manchester United fans who are making the four-hour drive up to Kuala Lumpur this weekend.
In case you weren't aware, the Red Devils will be playing a Malaysia XI at the Bukit Jalil Stadium this Saturday, part of their four-match pre-season tour of Asia.
At least 100 Singaporean fans, including several colleagues, will cross the Causeway just to catch a glimpse of their beloved team live in action.
Why do they bother? After all, sports should be competitive. It should be a contest about winning and losing where in 90 minutes of football you have sweated not just effort, but ambition as well.
Only when athletes are pushed to their maximum do they reveal their greatness and demand our admiration.
A friendly match seems to be the anti-thesis of this notion.
The cynic will say such tours are commercially driven events. They are here to build up their fitness and avoid any injuries.
There is little, if any, incentive for the United players to play at anywhere near their maximum abilities.
The intensity, the level of play, will be nowhere close to what audiences in Asia flip across television channels to see.
As chief executive David Gill mentions on the club's official website: "Our fans in Asia generate money for the club – there are no two ways about it."
But maybe such things don't always matter. A fan does not need convincing of his hero's achievements. He does not need reminders of Wayne Rooney's impetuous brilliance or to see Dimitar Berbatov caress the ball like a lover to feel giddy with affection.
For those fans who will converge in Kuala Lumpur, it is not about goals or freekicks or stepovers (although without that Portuguese such sights were less likely anyway).
To that 10-year-old Malaysian boy who sees Park Ji Sung in a red jersey running down the flanks this Saturday, it is a reminder that "Hey, my dream is possible. It can be done."
To that fan who bumps into Rio Ferdinand and co shopping along the streets in Bukit Bintang and takes a picture with them and shares a short word, it is a reminder that these players are not so different from him, that heroes on television screens can exist in the same settings as us.
As guests in a foreign land, United will probably be generous with the ball and look to share it with their Malaysian host. Entertainment, not performance, will be all that is asked of them.
They know their mere appearance in Asia is enough to generate fanatical support from the fans.
But they are Premier League champions and such talent cannot be contained, even on a humid night in Malaysia's capital.
Fans who have paid anywhere from RM58 to RM308 know this. That is also why they will come.
For that one instance of magic – a feint by Ryan Giggs, a cheeky dribble by Nani, an outrageous pass by Rooney and a deceptively simple finish by Michael Owen.
I asked a colleague of mine if she would do the same – venture up north if her beloved Blackburn Rovers came to the region.
She smiled.
"Of course, I wouldn't even have to think about it. If I didn't go, there'll be no one in the stadium to watch them!"
Sports fans are like that. The journey does not matter, they somehow find a way. Even if it’s just for a friendly.