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Post by cousindupree on Jun 18, 2009 10:24:21 GMT
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Post by torgaustokie on Jun 18, 2009 10:31:24 GMT
Still Hate the cheating BASTARDS always will
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Post by euan ouzami on Jun 18, 2009 11:04:30 GMT
one of the worst moments of my childhood.
...bastards
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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on Jun 18, 2009 11:29:15 GMT
"heavily disproportionate support for Stoke" wonder how many we took grown men probably cried that day we knew our chance had gone and felt cheated by referee Pat the bastard Partridge.  |
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Post by ihaveadream on Jun 18, 2009 12:13:24 GMT
Lets batter them in both games this season. Big John can then look down on proceedings with a smile on his face.
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Post by beagriestache on Jun 18, 2009 14:30:18 GMT
I hate the Arsenal more than Man U.
One - they were ridiculously lucky in both semi-finals. And undeservedly so.
Two - who finishes fifth in a division where the top two go up and gets promoted? Check it out, 1914-15. "How would you like to join us in the top flight, chaps? That's be spiffing, old boy"
Three - their shit fans don't deserve the quality of the side they've got. Walking out after 25 minutes of a Champions League semi-final, ffs, pathetic.
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Post by redstripe on Jun 18, 2009 15:15:05 GMT
Hated them then still hate them to this day!
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Post by Northy on Jun 18, 2009 16:08:43 GMT
link doesn't work for.
I still detest the arse, got our revenge in that 1-0 at Higbury, first game of the season in the early 80's, and the 2-1 win with Chambo.
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Post by march4 on Jun 18, 2009 17:15:09 GMT
I've never sung at a football match since.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jun 18, 2009 19:29:54 GMT
I hate the fookers always have. The 2 semi final defeats were just unbearable and even now I conner dwell to long thinking about them.
Now I onner a man of violence but one incident brings a warm glow to my heart. After we had stuffed them 5-0 at home in 1970-71 before the semis defeat I was walking, with me dad, down Wheeldon Rd back to me grans house in Shelton. A goup of arsenic fans were clustered outside a newsagents and obviously up to no good. Any road the shop owner suddenly appears with his pet alsation who proceeds to grab one of the arsenic fans by his bollocks and wunner let go. The rest of the cockney knobs scarpered leaving this other bloke in the tender caress of this alsation. The police arrived just as a few Stokies were about to give the dog a helping hand and arrested the twat. It was fookin hilarious.
Even now I love it when asenic lose and like many other old Stokies, hate them more than any other premier club.
Another good story surrounds the after-math of the 1971 defeat. Stoke had to play arsenic away the week before they were playing the FA cup final. Apparently, before the game, Denis Smith spoke to some Stokies in a pub in Stoke and said that Storey would not be playing at Wembley. True to his word Storey was injured in that game, which unfortuately they won 1-0, and didn't play at wembley. I was hoping Smithy would have mentioned it in his book but he didn't. Perhaps afraid of charges of bringing the game into disrepute or summat.
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Post by adele198 on Jun 18, 2009 20:20:59 GMT
My dad hates Arsenal with a vengence as he has never forgiven them for the early seventies.. last season he wanted our relegation rivals to win them and we fell out over it
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Post by AlliG on Jun 18, 2009 20:28:31 GMT
Can't even bring myself to open the link.  A couple of years ago I transferred the 2 semi-finals from video to DVD for my parents. Checked the length of the video from the box, set the time on an alarm, set the equipment running and left the room until the tape had finished. I can still remember the thousands of stunned looking fans trudging in eerie silence from the ground back to the cars and buses. Every now and then on the way home someone would start speaking and it would just tail away into silence again. Nowadays with a 10 day gap to the replay, we would have played a game in between to get the disappointment out of the system, but with only 4 days to the replay then, even the players didn't seem to have any fight left at Villa Park. None of our 4 relegations since then have left me feeling as stunned, numb and empty as that day. How much does it still hurt? Well, reading the above back, very much indeed.  |
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Post by cousindupree on Jun 19, 2009 7:50:07 GMT
It provides a bit of solace to know I am not alone in my grief. The report sums it up really, we played all the football and it was Stoke at their best....the late pen inflicted a numbness that I haven't experienced since, I had to be dragged away from the 'scene of the crime'..not accepting what had happened. It would have been the potters first visit to wembley and we all knew at that moment it wasn't to be. The replay may as well not have taken place...the fans nor the players could raise their spirits......
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