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  1. Proper club! Back then a night out in Bristol was raw, special and superb - the kids had a riot and enjoyed every minute - we didn’t wake up every day and think “what can I be offended about today?!” - unlike today’s millennial snowflake darlings, we just got on with it - we went at it hard, on a tide of ska, punk, reggae and mod music - we didn’t care about anything, we just went for it - The Specials, The Beat, Madness, The Selecter, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Bob Marley, The Jam, The Who and The Kinks provided a spectacular backdrop to our teenage angst - we identified with everything they had to say because they realised who we were and they just ‘got’ us - we suddenly belonged and we enjoyed ourselves ... I miss those frenetic nights so bl**dy much - the 70s and the 80s shaped so many people on here - and those decades still make us who we are today ... great, special memories - cheers, and apologies for the rambling post ...
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  2. If people are getting tetchy about players hugging each other for a few seconds then they must be outraged that rugby is allowed to be played given scrums, mauls and rucks.
    4 points
  3. That is from sky's coverage
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  4. Think what we are seeing with football clubs at the moment is the new variant is making it a lot harder to isolate/contain the virus within squads, instead it is spreading around training grounds.
    4 points
  5. You would have thought it was more transmissable but, how come City have had more cases than Bristol? Training grounds about 400 metres apart. Twice as many rugby players playing a game that as you say involves more close contact. It's not necessarily the game, its behaviours away from it . The celebration on the pitch is a clear indication that they aren't taking the rules seriously all the time. Fair play to Harry Kane last night making a point of not allowing close celebrations in the team. Proper leadership clearly lacking at most clubs.
    3 points
  6. Didn't listen today but totally agree. I mean who wants to listen to Gareth Batty ffs?! Apart from @TomFobviously!
    3 points
  7. Having sport on tv is one of the few things that has given me hope during the lockdown. Everything should be done to allow elite football to carry on, but I don’t see any players spitting or clearing their noses because they are prima donnas. It’s what sportsmen do, and it must be very difficult to stop doing it while you’re in the middle of a game, whatever the rules. A strict testing regime has to be the answer. However the field of play surely has to be regarded differently from what goes on in wider society. Are you suggesting that players should never go within two metres of each other? That would be interesting...
    3 points
  8. the NBA have introduced 2 game bans & wage deductions for those games going to charity for any player caught breaching COVID rules, should introduce the same here imo
    3 points
  9. Exactly, hence why sports should have been suspended as it was back in March
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  10. Was in there one saturday night when a rousing chourus of bread of heaven rang out to be met by a volly of steins in the direction of the large welsh contingent a mass brawl ensued splling out on to the street after that it was onto vickys strip club fatastic times to be a teenager
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  11. There was Scamps too, next to Hofbrauhaus, Friday nights venue and there was Lourdes? on Fairfax street, by the time you got to the top of the stairs you were level with Union Street. A bouncer once pushed me down the steps, but I was so drunk, I rolled all the way down and landed on my feet and walked off to the next club.
    2 points
  12. I remember Fowlers Bikes up in Kingswood, in Moravian Road. Bought my AP50 from there! Pretty sure they then moved to Temple Meads.
    2 points
  13. The other night for the Sheff U v Newcastle game, at the end they showed Wilder shake hands with 3 or 4 of the Newcastle bench then he stood there rubbing his eyes and nose. That literally in a 10 second period was an example of how Covid is transmitted.
    2 points
  14. You’re absolutely right. Fortunately I don’t have to work from home, but football brings about a good degree of normality. It’s unfortunate then however that it becomes apparent that the anticipation is much more exciting than the actual product itself.
    2 points
  15. As Nuno said the other day, if football is stopped again, it is unlikely to ever come back, at least the way it was. It's one of the only things keeping me sane & not as miserable as i would be during this pandemic (first world problems). Sure, it could be looked at as being selfish, but when you are locked up with only 1 other person working from home since March, it's the only thing that gives me something to look forward to, otherwise it just feels like you are living to work (i know, thankfully i still have job). Think it's right that elite sports are being given the chance to continue & long may it continue (only my opinion of course, i understand why others would feel differently).
    2 points
  16. 2 points
  17. I agree that if its not safe then it's best that football gets stopped again for a while. I can only assume that the authorities are comfortable with the measures currently in place. I should imagine that very few of the outbreaks within clubs are the effect of match day action, amongst tested and negative players, but from other areas of "normal" life, hence the testing on such a regular basis. I also think they are acting swiftly and responsibly to cancel games when there are positive results, so it does set the sition apart from the general man on the street, imo.
    2 points
  18. The title speaks for itself. Every prem game this week has seen goal scorers being bombarded by team mates, players spitting and clearing their noses and subs on the bench not wearing masks. Do these prima donnas who clearly think they are above any rules need sorting out? Not helped by the likes of Guadiola (however his name is spelt!) defending them! Don't know about you but I'm absolutely fed up with the hypocrisy and double standards being displayed and nothing done about it. Fines are a joke and I think the only way to get the message home is either stop Football being played or dock the club points to concentrate the minds. Views????
    2 points
  19. What a place to play cricket! Stunning.
    2 points
  20. Once a week me and my mate both used to knock off school and have the same routine. Pint in a pub somewhere on the way, lunchtime session in Hofbrauhaus - biology field trip I guess you’d call it. Then we’d stroll up to City road and wander round City Road Motorcycles, looking at the Vincent Black Shadow and whatever else he had in. Then down City Road, where at the time it wasn’t unusual to see the wares on display from upstairs windows. Next stop Fowler’s to look at the bikes, wander back past the Black and White Cafe, where the Rasta’s sat out side in a fog of Ganga smoke would call us names many of which were unintelligible, one that sticks to mind was blood clot. Finally back to Bedminster and into Dons motorcycles to drool over the brand new Triumph Bonnevilles with their price tag of £999. Must have been easily pleased, as that was Thursday afternoons every week for my 5th year at school.......
    2 points
  21. Nice to see JL on a cricket ground again. Come on England ???????
    2 points
  22. Popped in once for a dry martine. She moistened up after I gave her a tickle.
    2 points
  23. What a pleasure it has been to have TMS back rather than the shouty, advert ridden bollocks that is Talksport`s coverage. You would never have known they were all doing it via zoom if they hadn`t told you. Absolutely superb coverage as we have come to expect.
    1 point
  24. She was the star turn most night noggers
    1 point
  25. Went to Vicky's a few times - most memorably to finish off my stag night pub crawl. Well, actually I don't remember that much about it! Always an unusual woman taking money at the door iirc, she must have been in her '70's with long hair dyed black - always wondered if it was Vicky herself?
    1 point
  26. This should be moved to the non football thread the way its going. Although I did score one night in Vickys.?
    1 point
  27. I get the general undertone of the op and whilst I agree in principle with some of it I don’t really understand how players on the same team who train together then play together whilst in the same bubble can avoid the close contact with each other. it’s like saying I should not hug my family and must sit 2meters from them on the sofa. Starts getting pretty difficult if you have 6 kids no? The spitting and nose clearing is protein buildup and very difficult to avoid during game situations. As far as not celebrating goals in the moment are concerned , I couldn’t not do that when I have been in some pretty scary sections of opposing supporters. The purest part of the game is your team scoring and that uncontrollable excitement is a feeling we all surely keep going back for. I will concede though, that if it really can’t continue in a safe enough way then football must take a break again until such time when it can resume.
    1 point
  28. I used to go to the Mandrake and once a friend of mine had his wedding reception there. (I know this sounds crazy). I got rather inebriated and forgot it was a Saturday afternoon. When I left I thought it was 2.00 am and expected it to be dark. Instead I emerged into brilliant sunshine and just couldn’t understand what had happened.
    1 point
  29. I think it's only right and fair that each team we are playing against are made to strictly adhere to the 2 metres social distancing. As with other instances, all these people are tested twice a week and there fore are the exception. I think being able to watch football is a welcome snippet of some form of reality for us all and as long as its being done safely, then there's not that an issue.
    1 point
  30. Some of the poorest batting you will ever see.
    1 point
  31. Really poor from Sri Lanka after winning the toss . Oh well
    1 point
  32. Always wanted to visit Sri Lanka - not made it yet tho.
    1 point
  33. Tis beautiful seem to remember a lot of England fans sat on the wall of that old fort on the side from past tests. 107-6
    1 point
  34. Not quite Denly at Hamilton but that is poor. might cost us a few runs I fear! Leach getting some good turn though
    1 point
  35. World class Stuart Broad . Wicket machine
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  37. Good cricket from England for that wicket
    1 point
  38. 3 overs in first 25 minutes :laugh: . What a beautiful old ground. Of work for next couple of months a lot of cricket to watch. Love it
    1 point
  39. That's the one from my previous posts. Bouncer would look through a porthole to let you in. Real old skool - looked like a set from The Sweeney!
    1 point
  40. Posted about the Globetrotters at the same time
    1 point
  41. Vickys was up Park Street way. I think you may be thinking of the Globe Trotters. Strippers and topless barmaids - had my 18th birthday in there...nuff said. Used to go there, then round the corner to the Hawthornes on a thursday or friday night for grab a granny (grannies to us were anything over 30). Happy days
    1 point
  42. Jesus - seems like most of us spent the early mid 80's getting pissed, watching strippers and getting stoned in Rasta clubs!
    1 point
  43. Was she moonlighting as a taxi driver then? ?
    1 point
  44. I have to say rog our lots ideal of a good night out was a few pints in cannons then over to the sedan chair topless barmaids in stockings and suspenders vickys strip joint and the mandrake to finish god job we were bolloxed before we got vickys ????
    1 point
  45. Indeed we are- makes it worse that we didn't full on close (and keep closed) the borders last year, possibly.
    1 point
  46. On a slightly more positive note it's good to see Ashton Gate playing its part in getting the vaccine out. ?
    1 point
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