During their history the club played numerous friendly matches against European clubs on a regular basis, with a total of 92 matches at home and abroad. A tour of the Soviet Union in 1965 included a match against FC Desna Chernihiv at their Yuri Gagarin Stadium, which they lost 10–1. One match against Stade Portelois drew a crowd of 3,000 to Griffin Park. A club trip to Czechoslovakia in 1968 unexpectedly coincided with the sudden Soviet invasion of the country following the Prague Spring, and the team were forced to make a 300 mile dash in their coach for the border with Austria, in order to avoid becoming trapped in the country.