City Rocker

And that's why I don't like football. 

Here's one I remember from the school playground when I was about 8.

We had joy we had fun, we had Rovers on the run

But the joy did not last, 'cos the bastards ran too fast

From Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun (and based on an original composition by Jacques Brel).

Well deserved, congratulations Zak!

3 hours ago, The Happy Farmer said:

I have a season ticket in the south stand for next season i may miss a few games I hope that’s ok with everyone

So do I and I'll certainly be missing a number of games, just as I did last season, for reasons that are no one's goddamned business, least of all the football club. Although if they want to send Scotty round to check I'm OK, that's fine! 

We've got a Headstart for Happiness... 

I absolutely adore this song, it takes me right back to the Ship and Castle days. We used to stand in the Enclosure and [some of us] dressed rather stylishly, and Terry Cooper was building that legendary team that would bring the City out of the wilderness...

55 minutes ago, redkev said:

Wasn’t the strippers the Bolton game , I could be wrong 

 

The 'big reveal' definitely happened during the penalty shootout at the Mansfield game. 

29 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

He sold tickets

He swept the floor, he drove the minibus, he bought the fish and chips on the way home. 

Legend. 

I've lived a stone's throw from the Tinpottery for over 25 years and the Gloucester Road is a brilliant place to be. 

Only one of my neighbours (that I know of) is Rovers, and he doesn't go to games. The various City fans I've known around the area over the years generally did go to the Gate.

And therein lies the main difference. There are more of us, and we actually tend to go and watch our team play. The city is ours. 

5 minutes ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

No, definitely a different bloke.

His name was known when he was on here, can't remember it now.

 

Brian....? He was definitely a Sun journalist I IIRC. 

He wrote the Incider along with Tom and Edson. 

2 hours ago, Robbored said:

Yep - it was Kustard not Kurton. Close tho!

@Robbored Kustard still loves the City and goes to several games a season. Wisely gave up the forum a long time ago, as there are far more important things to spend your life doing... 

... aren't there?? 

3 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

I go back to Rivals, @Olé's excellent Netcentre, Adabilladaturfup, Ziderheads, Rivals, especially Two View, and I think the earliest was a CityRovers board on a BT address.

Oh and if course the great day when Ian someone proudly launched the official Rovers forum and it was absolutely inundated with people having a laugh because he failed to put any controls in place, "Dennis Bergkamp" was a prominent first day poster.

He became totally wound up by what had happened to his forum and posted "You stupid, stupid people".

Hilarious

 

This is a great forum but this, and the internet generally, had more joyful silliness back in the 90s, and I don't remember any trolls, WUMs, or relentlessly negative posters.

Though that could be just because there were fewer of us so you sort of knew everyone.

I remember all of those, plus the excellent CybeReds. An even earlier forerunner of Two View was the imaginatively titled Second Division Message Board, which was one of many forums hosted on a site called InsideTheWeb. 

There was also a "Football Fans' Punk Rock Message Board" hosted by a Gillingham lad going by the name of London Calling. I was on there along with @harry may (known at the time as Red Alert) and probably where I invented my user name from the song Clash City Rockers. 

October 25th 2003, but I first started on an early version of OTIB around the time of Benny Lennartsson, so 1998/99. You didn't even have to sign in, just entered a user name every time.

Some may remember my friend Kustard, who was a prolific poster at that time but retired early as the forum was taking over her life! Still goes to City games though. 

My favourite away day, and still the only time (so far) I've been moved to tears at a football match. 

3 hours ago, Bobby girl said:

Grew up living in Winterbourne in 70s and finding a City fan was a rarity, it was all gas. We even had Rovers boss Bert Tanns daughter as our teacher, Rovers players came to the school regularly. For me it was always City after my dad took me to a game.

46 minutes ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

That’s interesting.

By the mid/late 1970s, both The Globe and The Wheatsheaf were staunchly City.

I think this proves that we all have different perceptions based on who we know. I grew up in Patchway in the 1970s and 80s, where it's commonly reckoned to be a solid Rovers area - yet I knew plenty of City fans in Patchway even back then. Promotion to the top flight in 75/76 probably made a difference. 

26 minutes ago, Robbored said:

The only time I watch women’s football is when the England ladies are on TV.

I have never ever watched a women’s match ‘live’. However due the exposure our ladies get on the OS and local bulletins their results are kinda forced onto me.

I honestly couldn’t name one player from the women’s team.

So....on reflection, do you think maybe this is perhaps not the best thread for you to be sharing your wisdom and insight with us? 

Get in Gooners! 

43 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

If only we could go one louder! 

7 minutes ago, Marvin said:

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/2024-25-season-ticket-faqs/

Go to the Moving Seats Q&A and there is a link there.

Wouldn't accept either my debit or credit card when I tried to move two seats (£2.50 charge)

Thanks but that link just takes me to a page summary of my tickets and history, no options to move seats 

So it's gone 10 and I want to move seats, but can't see anything on the website enabling me to to do so. 

A I missing something, can anyone share the link please? 

1 hour ago, myol'man said:

Surely she's pissed 3/4 of her voters off with this monstrosity? 

Oh dear Thangham, what were you thinking?!

My MP for the past nine years and really popular locally. I certainly voted for her. 

Bad show by her party research staff though, have they not realised that ~98% of her constituents, even those of us who live in spitting distance of the Tinpottery, are anything but supporters of that shower? More City than gas in this neighbourhood. 

Such trivia wouldn't sway my vote in a general election, but what a lack of judgement from a senior politician.

Anyway, as it happens, due to the boundary changes I believe Thangham has been moved to contest the new Bristol Central constituency at the next election, where there's a good chance she will lose out to the Green candidate. Unless the huge Sag vote can save her

3 hours ago, Club Bruges fan said:

Dear Bristol City Fans,

We are 4 Belgians (in our late thirties) visiting your lovely city the last weekend of april.

As we are massive football fans, we bought tickets for the Rotherham United Game (Dolman Stand seats). 

As our passion for beer even exceeds our passion for football, we're looking for a Bristol City legend(s) to show us the Bristol City FC pub life before, during and (god willing) after the game.

Beers, snacks and tales of heroic football games are on us + an invite to do the same in Bruges for the next Club Bruges game.

Please let us know by replying on this post, or contacting me on whatsapp +32498760835.

Thanks for considering our request.

Bart, Bruno, Thomas & Frederic

 

Hey Bart, Bruno, Thomas & Frederic

Hope you have a great day out at our beloved football club and in our brilliant city. Many of us in Bristol are keen on the idea of frictionless trade and travel with our European neighbours. Perhaps we could get together with Belgium and a few others and form a kind of 'European union' or a 'common market', if you will, and we'd all be better off wouldn't we?

What you reckon babs? 

A brilliant away day. I didn't know Preston fans sang 'Flint Said No' to Swindon. Bless them! 

Biscuit Men 2 Basket Cases 0

16 hours ago, frenchred said:

our club is a shambles behind the scenes as well!

Hussain AlSaeed: "Hold my pint..." 

5 minutes ago, Basshead64 said:

I saw those 2 young girls  in handcuffs  behind their  backs after the  game

What had they done? We were over on the right and couldn't really see what was going on. The way the police and stewards were mobbing up you'd have thought there was a riot, but it really was all quite mild.