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Post by Ghostface on Nov 16, 2008 18:54:43 GMT
15 years ago, i went to Old Trafford as an 11 year old boy, for the Coca Cola Cup replay, and was totally in awe of the stadium, the set up the everything. Yesterday, as a 26 year old man, i was left hating the wankers with even more of a passion than ever.
Where to start though? The coaches upon coaches of retards proudly displaying their city of origin next to The Shit badge. The only saving grace being that these respective citys other inhabitants can have a good saturday afternoon shopping without these window lickers knocking about. Seriously, i'd be embarrassed to open my mouth, supporting a team miles away from where i was born, and coming out with a southern accent. The real mancs in the crowd must cringe too.
Then there's the ground itself. For the self deluded biggest team in the world, it's stadium isn't a scratch upon others in Europe such as the Nou Camp, The Allianz arena etc...
The atmosphere inside was almost surreal! How could an away following, outnumbered 25 to 1, be heard, let alone outsing the wankers for 90 minutes?! You may somehow understand more, these bin dippers forsaking football, to sell their soul and go to see Franchise FC if the atmosphere equalled that of the Brit, but it was awful. I imagine a day for the typical shit fan who bothered to attend consisted of travelling up from down south, spending a fortune on merchandise, taking pictures of the greasey one, and clapping politely to a song on the tannoy at half time!
Then, to make matters worse, it's the 'fans' who after making no noise at all, decide to smugly tell us what the score was after every goal, then sitting back down again. I'd like to think that even though they didn't show it, that after every verse of 'We support our local team', that they cringed and squirmed a little inside.
Anyways, as for our following yesterday, we were magnificent, and despite the poor show on the pitch, i left the ground as proud as ever to be a Stoke fan. If these morons, want to follow 'football' this way, then i really pity them.
I imagine it's all down to low self esteem, and probably being bullied at school, therefore they can't make their own choices in life, and need at least one thing to feel as if they 'succeed' in.
As we sang yesterday, 'We've had more fun than you', and will do for ever more...
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Post by offthewall on Nov 16, 2008 19:32:02 GMT
Franchise FC - it's the future, be afraid, very afraid
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Post by slangking on Nov 16, 2008 19:39:13 GMT
I saw one of the scum in his Manure leisure jacket not long after the game had finished local to where I live in the West Midlands (I got the impression he didn't even know they had been playing never mind the result), it made me feel physically sick.
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Post by E1 Potter on Nov 16, 2008 20:10:14 GMT
I was lucky to get a ticket for the corporate hospitaility. We got to the ground about 11-30 and to our amazement, there were thousands of people walking about with carrier bags from the united 'megastore' and thousands of others taking photos of the ground - this is at 11.30!
we then ventured into the wetherspoon pub near the ground. the place was packed with people in United tops, speaking with all sorts of accents and languages. there was this one bloke, standing up on a table and leading the rest in song. He gave a bit of a story before starting each song. Some bollocks about it being the 16 year aniversary of Eric Cantona coming to united, before singing some cantona song. He seemed to have all his speaches worked out and all the muppets were hanging on his every work. We obviously got spotted and a lad guessed we were not home fans and made (in all fairness friendly) comments as we were leaving. he seemed to take delight in coming from Gillingham.
anway, on reflection, I am wondering whether this bloke in the pub leading the singing was actually employed by either the club or the pub! It was not dislike the Jack the Ripper tours you can go on in London, where some bloke takes tourists back in time to give you an idea how the East end used to be.
I reckon he is employed to tell a few tales of United history to what are effectively football tourists and make them feel part of the 'united experience'. all very strange.
anway, when we were in the hospitality suite we even had a match day magician! gary pallister was our host and I have to give them credit for putting on a good spread and as much booze as you could drink.
Managed to disguise being stoke fans for about 30 seconds when we finally got into the ground and got a warning straight away from a steward!
After all these rambled thought, my conclusion is that I feel sorry for the proper united supporters having to endure this pantomine every week. Even for 10 league titles and european cups i would not want stoke to turn into what i saw yesterday
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Post by apb1 on Nov 16, 2008 20:30:22 GMT
I think the bloke you mention doing the singing is called Pete Boyle - I used to know him years ago when I lived in Manchester (where he's from, amazingly enough).
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Post by db on Nov 16, 2008 20:31:03 GMT
I was sat in the big stand with the Man Ure fans. Behind me were about six Scanavavians. In front there were a group of Japs and to the right of me Cockneys. When Ronaldo went down looking for a foul for the umpteenth time, I stood up and shouted "get up you bloody tart".
No response from anyone.
When Ronaldo kicked out at Faye in the second half I again stood up and gave the ref a blast saying he should have sent the dirty sod off.
Again no response from anybody.
Then it dawned on me, there probably weren't many people around me who could understand proper English!
Another thing I noticed, there were loads of Man Ure fans who didn't even get out of their seats when they scored. What's all that about!
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Post by SneydGreenStokie on Nov 16, 2008 20:45:59 GMT
I was sat in the big stand with the Man Ure fans. Behind me were about six Scanavavians. In front there were a group of Japs and to the right of me Cockneys. When Ronaldo went down looking for a foul for the umpteenth time, I stood up and shouted "get up you bloody tart". No response from anyone. When Ronaldo kicked out at Faye in the second half I again stood up and gave the ref a blast saying he should have sent the dirty sod off. Again no response from anybody. Then it dawned on me, there probably weren't many people around me who could understand proper English! Another thing I noticed, there were loads of Man Ure fans who didn't even get out of their seats when they scored. What's all that about! Well if you mean in the stand above where the dugouts, there were 8 ouf us that didnt stand up due to us being stokies. SGS |
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Post by springs on Nov 16, 2008 23:26:00 GMT
Seriously, i'd be embarrassed to open my mouth, supporting a team miles away from where i was born ... I live in Manchester, never lived in Stoke, and am originally from Donnegal, Ireland ... I went to a Stoke game with a mate when my family first came over here in 1976, and have suported Stoke ever since. Does your quote extend to me too then? Sorry, it's just this argument really annoys me. |
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Post by ronvelig on Nov 16, 2008 23:50:11 GMT
Springs, I had no answer to your question, but then I noticed you actually went to a game.
It's beginning to annoy me these days that most of the lads I know who claim to "love football" support teams that they have never even seen. Two of my housemates regularly don't bother coming downstairs to watch when Liverpool or Everton are playing on TV. They ask me questions about what matches are actually like. It's worrying. But the lack of people under the age of 30 actually watching games at the ground is set to continue until clubs reconnect with the locality
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Post by birly on Nov 16, 2008 23:57:30 GMT
Springs...never really hunted for glory then!
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Post by stokeylad on Nov 17, 2008 0:01:16 GMT
Another thing I noticed, there were loads of Man Ure fans who didn't even get out of their seats when they scored. What's all that about! probably stoke fans as there was quite a few in the home end that i knew off and then about 100 or so more off this board |
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Post by mcf on Nov 17, 2008 8:28:11 GMT
Lets not kid ourselves. We suffer from glory hunting syndrome as much as anybody. Many of our local fans couldn't be bothered to turn up before the Premiership and this is reflected in our gates. Many of the local Manure fans hate the fact that they attract such false interest from the outside world but what can they do about it? Don't get me wrong, I despise them with all my heart, but I'd still rather have Port Vale lose than ManUre. I will still piss myself if they lose the title and will pray that the exit the Champions League as rapid as their fans leave for the exits with 10 minutes to go but I guess we all have parking problems  I have never seen so many coaches for a home support though....well, not since Anfield. |
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Post by Pedropotter on Nov 17, 2008 8:47:37 GMT
I called into the chinese when I got home for a 'pick me up chinky' and there was a lad in there in a shit top. I asked him if hed been to the game. he said 'what game?'.
Says it all really.
Stoke on Trent born and bred - City 'till I die!
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Post by monkhousestokie on Nov 17, 2008 11:29:15 GMT
I called into the chinese when I got home for a 'pick me up chinky' and there was a lad in there in a shit top. I asked him if hed been to the game. he said 'what game?'. Says it all really. Stoke on Trent born and bred - City 'till I die! Sums it all up Pedro! I don't hate United or their genuine (local) supporters, but that dick you met is beyond contempt. |
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Nov 17, 2008 11:36:04 GMT
I'm pretty sue the guy standing on the table isn't employed by the club.
I think he's just a pisshead who likes to sing. Fiar play to him- if we had a Stokie version he'd become a legend.
The name Pete Boyle does ring a bell as someone mentioned above.
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