redkev

3 hours ago, Super said:

Wow gulp

22 minutes ago, pride of the west said:

Is that mbude celebrating with him at the end?

Who

Is she injured yet

6 hours ago, Flamin Groovy said:

You forgot to mention the  2am omelette in the Mayflower Kev!

Yep done that many a time. , then stumbled up over park street

44 minutes ago, Red Homer said:

Surprised Jason Fowler didn't play for Twyford, his uncle was a first elevener at the time Jason would have been playing.

Twyford use to play opposite side of the road to shirehampton cc didn’t they ,

I use to go up and watch shire ( fair few years back ) lovely setting on a nice Sunday summers afternoon and nice clubhouse for some reason I use to miss the last couple of hours

11 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I was rather bloated on steins….and I’m a rubbish drinker / lightweight

Me to now Dave , can drink a few sat in the sun in the garden or sat enjoying the sun abroad but drinking in a pub probably 4 at the best now , then I’m looking to see if they serve Tea, also I’ve turned into an afternoon early evening drinker 3 or 4 o clock done by 7 or 8 , it use be so different stumbling up park street at 2 or 3 in the morning with about 9 or 10 pints on board god where did them days go .

On 29/05/2024 at 09:09, Davefevs said:

Yep, gotta know where to go.

I still have the memory of being very pissed and spilling my Pernod and black onto some blokes white jeans in a club.  Time to make a sharp exit….with some of my mates inside as it all kicked off!

 

Pernod & black , that’s a drink for a man of a certain age / era

On 24/05/2024 at 08:09, Kid in the Riot said:

20 years since my first tournament in Portugal 2004. 

Doing Eng v Denmark in Frankfurt. Flying to Paris then a lovely train journey through the Alsace to Frankfurt Hbf arriving late afternoon on the Wednesday. 

The good news for City fans is that Frankfurt is Germanys cider city, so lots of cider taverns south of the river, which is where I'll be heading!

Surely there’s a train strike or overtime ban going on which will mess your plans up

On 24/05/2024 at 08:17, Zookeeper WSM said:

Flying to Amsterdam for a night then train to Essen for the first game. I'm then spending a few days going down the Rhine between the first 2 games (Koblenz, Bacharach etc), then train down to Frankfurt for the 2nd game. Then train out to Berlin for a couple of days before flying back to Bristol. Will go back out for the final if we get there.

Lucky it’s not British rail , your plans would be fxxked

15 hours ago, fisherrich said:

Brum was definitely the biggest turnout away I saw. Thing about City is that there were groups from all over this area - Taunton, Bath, Portishead, Barton Hill, Knowle West, etc to name a few who when all together could cause mayhem. I know most of the “happy clappers” on here will disagree but away with Bristol City was great fun in the 80s and 90s.

@redkev I was at Swindon away when the terracing got ripped up. 4th Div days if I remember right? Nasty atmosphere that day. Just knew it was going to be lively.

Just would not get away with it nowadays.

Yes that was it fish , horrid atmosphere from early doors right until we got back to Bristol , I think that game and Brum away were the worst I have seen City fans in all my years , mind you Reading Elm Park was quite a day aswell 

What’s important here is I would imagine he could have moved to a fair few other clubs but hopefully he can see something happening here and that’s help influence his decision and not just ££££££

Also remember a time at Peterborough where a few young lads ( shirters I believe ) got a bit of a kicking , the next year Peterborough didn’t know what hit them , city fans all over the town centre , I’m sure a Peterborough lad actually come up to a group of city fans and just basically said fair play we’re not competing with your lot 

2 hours ago, fisherrich said:

City had a proper mob back in those days. Way above Swindon’s league. 

I can go back further , this time away to Swindon , the time the terracing got ripped up city fans in the roof and in a nightclub that had a lunch time disco city fans were basically doing what they wanted , I remember walking up some stairs as a gaming machine came in the opposite direction , not much interaction with Swindon fans that day think they pretty much stayed out of the way 

I personally hope he does well ( obviously not at city’s expense) brilliant player and listening to his punditry talks well and sense and a winners mentality, sadly missing in players these days quite happy to accept defeat and pick up the wedge , 

4 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said:

I reckon Swindon were kept in our place for ninety minutes when Gordon Owen missed the pen, they were surrounded and on the pitch and outside 

Think the police thought the longer they kept them in the ground even though they initially came out then done a quick u turn back in the ground city fans would slowly disperse , if I remember correctly there were still hundreds of city fans there gone 6 o clock 

2 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

Strange day , looked like an organised picnic on GS park, until they tried to bring Swindon out and everyone was up and back towards the ground.

Threatening violence towards a Police officer ? 

Not really surprised surely .

Deserves the ban for being a tit. Not sure if he was trying to impress his mates , but with all the cameras around you aren't going to get away with much. 

Remember the Swindon game really well , I was on the little hill in the park outside the open end where the away fans come out , i remember about 50 Swindon making a bolt for it got about as far as the rising sun then thought fxxk this and headed straight back towards the ground , made I laugh they got a kicking both ways . Not that I’m condoning it

46 minutes ago, maxjak said:

Is parking the Tram..........a bit like parking the bus?...............Asking for a friend.

Apparently we will have one of those tram things here soon I read in the Evening post in 1982 was 18 then 60 now still fxxking waiting 

1 hour ago, soultrader said:

West Cork

 

Can confirm I have never seen any Gas here.

 

 

Have you ever seen anyone there , out in the sticks 

On 26/05/2024 at 13:20, BigTone said:

He's Mr Indestructible.  He had a stroke a few weeks back but is easier to understand since than he was before !!  How does that work ?

Fair play to the old bugger , cherish him why you have him Tone , lost mine 38 years ago he was 42 dropped down dead in front of me fit as a fiddle then hit with a massive brain haemorrhage died instantly ( blessing in disguise that he went straight away ) no way can I think of anything worse than pushing about in a wheelchair he would of hated it he was as hard as nails proper old school ,proper grafter put food on the table whilst mother done the housework and looked after the kids , he would really struggle in todays pc world I think ( might have adapted but don’t think so ) miss him more now than I ever did 

2 hours ago, MarcusX said:

I think it's naive at best to suggest we don't have any hooligan following anymore but would agree it's not what it was and certainly not on a level of what some countries still have.

What we do have is a lot of idiots. I went to Marseille in 2016 and although what happened on the waterfront that Saturday morning wasn't the fault of anyone down there - there was certainly a lot of England fans in the fan park the Friday night causing mischeif, winding up home fans and a lot of vandalism of cars upon leaving the fan park.

 

Agree marcus lots of idiots but like I said if there not in Germany being idiots they will be in a town centre near you or me or Benidorm etc etc being idiots but alongside them will be just normal people singing and drinking and that will attract the hardcore European hooligans who will wipe the floor with the young British drunks 

13 hours ago, Bar BS3 said:

A long time ago, of course, but I've only done 1 England tournament (Portugal 2004) & it was amazing! Just not had the time or foresight to plan going again since, bit will consider it when my son I'd a little older & maybe take him for the experience - 

Anyway - my story regarding tickets was that we bought some England tickets off of one of the then sales sites (can't remember which) paid about double face value, which we were perfectly happy with & they turned out to be from a City fan, locally.

Bought them, went, loved it - England v Croatia (as a side note, we also picked up other England tickets in the Taxi queue from some Dutch lads)

Anyway, about 15 years later, having seen me posting on here - I got a message from this City fan, saying he'd always regretted "over charging" a fellow City fan for the tickets & insisted on meeting up at Ashton Gate to refund me the money!

I agreed, just to meet up for a beer - what an amazing, genuine gesture!

Anyway - envious of those going to Germany - I reckon it will be a fantastic host nation & the whole tournament experience is like nothing else.

Hope all that are going enjoy it & see some level of England success!

Really hoping it’s a good tournament, the only thing that slightly concerns me for England fans is the rise in hooliganism in Europe as we know we basically don’t have an England hooligan following just lads on a jolly , and as we know England fans will be out there loud & proud outside bars drinking & singing think this will attract rival supporters to attack the England fans , thinking it’s England hooligans of the past but really it will just be loud drunk lads on a jolly that could easily be in any town centre on a Friday Saturday night or a stag do in Benidorm as some of these foreign ultras ( god  I hate that word ) are pretty organised up for it lads , hope I’m wrong 

8 hours ago, sticks 1969 said:

2004 was a great tournament and i genuinely felt it was worth the traveling to see Rooney on fire and England playing well. 1992 was a 8 team tournament so I was home after about 8 days du to crap football. 2000 other then beating Germany was not the best and I remember all England fans being allowed to travel back free on Euro star just to get us out of the country. 2012 in Ukraine was a brilliant time and a fantastic country and saddened to see places where we stayed absolutely destroyed. 2016/2020 nothing to really write about other then beating wales in the last couple of minutes in lens ,roll on Germany 

Totally agree about Rooney sticks , he was unplayable at times around that time , I use to be able to get tickets through work for Man Utd home games around that time and for a few years after ( don’t worry not a closet Utd fan but around that time they were at there pomp ) and the chance to see some of those players live and take my 2 young lads , now not so young and staunch city fans now one goes home every game and a lot of away games too , was a chance I didn’t want to miss , watching Rooney live in that Utd side was as good as it gets he gets a fair bit of stick but by god he wasn’t half decent , sometimes don’t think he gets the accolades he deserves

7 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

Just looked it up November 73. So 73/74 season

My first game as a 9 year old taken to the gate by my Man Utd supporting dad who also preferred the gas to city ( mainly just to piss me off ) dad worked every weekend so couldn’t take me after that so went with a friends dad loved it , but actually went to Eastville for my first venture to football ( without adults in tow ) got train from shirehampton with lads from our school got to Stapleton road then walked to eastville the whole area / ground was a shithole reaffirmed what I already knew deep down I was a red , never looked back , 

Just now, BigTone said:

No, I'm talking circa 1962 or 63 from memory. Whittle would have been a good bit later I think.

1973 if I remember correctly 

Saints the better side in what I thought was a nothing special game tbh

4 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Play 'I predict a riot' now eh!

There might well be outside now if the saints fans give it large outside