City Rocker

5 hours ago, Curr Avon said:

God?

3 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

No he signed later on from Leeds Utd.

Part exchange for Carl Shutt wasn't it?

On 11/01/2022 at 16:59, TomF said:

 

 

Also been 21 years since we lost George.

 

My favourite ever piece of live music footage. Prince's solo is just insane. Apparently it was unrehearsed and the rest of them had no idea what he was going to do. Dhani Harrison was loving it! Priceless.

2 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

I can see myself in this photo, I have a copy in my photo album.
The OB wanted to arrest our entire coach as we arrived, there was an 'incident' in the Pub we stopped at. I managed to convince him it was our only way back and that he should let us in the game. Some got the train back, but we risked it and went back to the coach. With the carnage inside the ground, they had forgotten about us so we were fine. I do remember getting threatened with arrest for swearing, which would have been gutting seeing what was going on all around. 

I'm the one in the Nike jacket 

I was stood at the top of the terrace behind you, watching it all going off. The image that has stayed in my memory ever since is pretty vivid... a massive chunk of concrete slung over from our terrace and landed on the head of a copper. Just broke over his head. So shocking. I hope he was OK. 

Good times though  

4 hours ago, ralphindevon said:

I never tire of reading about games like Reading away, it feels like being part of history, all be it a tainted one.

I actually lived in a hamlet on Exmoor that didn’t even have a pub. Now here I was involved in an event so big and mental it made the back page headlines of the nationals  and we’re still talking about it 38 years later.

I can’t be the only one who would find this kind of thing completely unacceptable now and be ashamed to be associated with it……….but at the time it was one hell of a buzz and weirdly helped you deal with unsavoury incidents as life went on.

After all, if you were at Reading, Millwall, Corinthien Casuals, Swindon etc a flare up in a pub, club or whatever would feel like a quiet night compared. 

 

I know what you mean Ralph. I have literally never had a fight with anyone in my life, but I was always there or thereabouts, in the thick of it at Reading, Dulwich Hamlet, Millwall, Hereford, Cardiff, Aldershot, Torquay, Rovers, Swindon, Walsall, and right there in the Enclosure when West Ham came and had a go. 

Over the years a few of my mates got involved and at times a couple of them got arrested. But not me, I'm a lover, not a fighter...

16 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

Fun fact, they were offered a site in that area relatively recently.  I believe another sporting organisation are now going to develop it instead

Oh, details please? Don't worry it won't go any further, we're quite discreet. 

1 minute ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Culturally tone deaf as well. Fayed was an Egyptian, whereas ayatollahs are Shi-ite priests, mainly from Iran. 

Of course, Cardiff fans are just shites, without the hyphen...

 

 

Hence the once-popular ditty "You used to be blue, but now you're red, and you look like c nts when you tap your head!"

6 minutes ago, KegCity said:

He’s moaned about the fan base since he left.  Weird one really as everyone wished him well and I never saw any negative comments about him until he came out with some.

Neither of them play for us anymore. Really don’t understand the issue with trying to create a more toxic/hostile atmosphere even if the grounds half empty. I doubt either player is bothered and they’re hardly club legends.

Give them a tough afternoon all match and clap at the end. God knows why so many are desperate to protect them.

I hadn't heard this, what did he say then?

10 hours ago, !james said:

Yeah I assume he was given a 'break' after some of his unbelievable comments in the politics threads. 

Ooh! What did he say?!

I've never been to the politics forum and never will, because well, you know, 'tis a place for sad hateful cu nts innit 

4 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

What was that pub at the Victoria Street end of Baldwin Street?

Wasn’t that called The Bristol Bridge?

Yeah that was the Bristol Bridge Inn. Just across the road from...well, Bristol Bridge, as it turns out. 

A big building backing onto St Nicholas Market, now a sushi bar last time I looked.

1 hour ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Private Dicks: The Bristol punks reformed thanks to people power - BBC News

Fabulous band the Private Dicks, I still have the Avon Calling LP, which I bought up at Revolver Records on the Triangle in 1980, after I heard revered Uncle Johnny Peel play it on his Radio 1 show.

On the back of Peely playing them, I and my mates went to a Private Dicks gig at the Bristol Bridge Inn, all in our tartan bondage trousers and ripped T-shirts. That was a proper sweaty night and helped to make sure we all bought guitars and got our own bands going as soon as we could. Around that same time we went to see The Clash, The Jam, The Undertones and The Buzzcocks and my world has never been the same since.
 

1 hour ago, One Team said:

 

I'm not crying, you're crying.

6 hours ago, Maesknoll Red said:

I’m sure Dr’s are being discouraged from dishing out antibiotics like smarties on request, due to the concern they are losing their effectiveness.

"the concern they are losing their effectiveness." This isn't some theory, it's a fact, bacteria are rapidly learning how to fight back against antibiotics, meaning that many diseases we thought had been eradicated will probably return to the world in the next few years.

If, due to over-prescription, antibiotics cease to fight bacterial infections, we will lose modern medicine as we know it in the coming years. 

1 hour ago, Kid in the Riot said:

sometimes you just know a virus isn't going to shift without antibiotics 

Antibiotics cannot treat viruses, they can only treat bacterial infections. 

2 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Alternatively Horfield/Gloucester Road is great and close to the centre as well.  

In the old days we used to remove the hateful bigots from the event, not cancel the event!

22 minutes ago, Red Shadow said:

It really does defy belief that those running the club at the time thought he of all people would be a good fit for Bristol City. Clueless.

Sadly it was Steve Lansdown I believe, together with John Laycock, who out-voted chairman Scott Davidson to bring in Pulis.

Davidson I think favoured either Peter Taylor or a certain ex-City stalwart David Moyes. We'll never know what might have been.

I think it worth mentioning that,  whilst I renewed my season ticket in the summer, I haven't yet been to a single City game this season. Reason being I fear infecting seriously ill elderly relatives.

So to be clear, I haven't attended a single football match since March 2020. Anyone else spunking away £350+ this year, or is it just me? 

3 hours ago, spudski said:

Tell me if I've misunderstood this...but this is bollox. We built at the beginning of covid temporary covid hospitals throughout the country.

They all got dismantled and never used, as we were told there wasn't enough drs and nurses ' specialised' to deal with covid.

During the height of covid this year, my father was in Southmead with Brain cancer. The hospital and wards were empty when I visited. Empty... literally.

So it's not beds that are a problem...it's staff. 

Surely we should be building more hospitals and educating staff, and paying them a decent wage. That should be the foremost action, especially as it's been two bloody years now and not expected to stop.

Two friggin years...that we've just accepted to live with and not change.

No, what we clearly should be doing is forming some kind of union with our fellow European nations, enabling free movement so that we have a chance of recruiting enough skilled and qualified staff to the NHS. And while we're at it, maybe we could have a go at frictionless trade?!

On 30/11/2021 at 17:34, phantom said:

EVERY 90 minutes in the UK a life is lost to suicide.

It doesn't discriminate, touching the lives of people in every corner of society - from the homeless and unemployed to builders and doctors, reality stars and footballers.

It's the biggest killer of people under the age of 35, more deadly than cancer and car crashes.

And men are three times more likely to take their own life than women.

Yet it's rarely spoken of, a taboo that threatens to continue its deadly rampage unless we all stop and take notice, now.

If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support 

CALM, www.thecalmzone.net, 0800 585 858

Heads Together,  www.headstogether.org.ukMind, 

www.mind.org.uk, 0300 123 3393

Papyrus, www.papyrus-uk.org, 0800 068 41 41

Samaritans, www.samaritans.org, 116 123

Movember, www.uk.movember.com

Anxiety UK www.anxietyuk.org.uk, 03444 775 774

Monday-Friday 9.30am-10pm, Saturday/Sunday 10am-8pm

Also don't forget you can talk it out at the weekly Talk Club meetings for City fans at Ashton Gate. The mens mental fitness movement.

Talk Club

3 hours ago, Maltshoveller said:

Cant that work both ways?

Something may not be racist even if some think it is 

A great example of this would be when Danny Baker tweeted his playful dig at Harry and Megan, an image of a baby monkey, with the caption "Royal Baby Leaves Hospital". He was absolutely crucified for this and condemned incorrectly as a "racist".

As it turns out, Danny is as "woke" as the rest of us, thankfully. Good lad.

I was an avid Shoot reader - or 'SHOOT! incorporating GOAL!' as it became some time in the late 70s, I think.

Kevin Keegan and Gordon Hill both wrote regular columns and I remember being thrilled when they talked about their games against us. "Bristol City are too good to go down", Kev assured us, and he was dead right too, as the events away to Coventry a few weeks later were to prove. Happy days.

1 hour ago, exAtyeoMax said:

And he was supposed to be a bit of a troublemaker!

Well quite!

On 17/11/2021 at 19:21, exAtyeoMax said:

I did copy her makeup and hair. #spellbound

My favs were Echo & The Bunnymen. Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant were my perfect guys…I've got Will's biography but haven't read it yet.

A band I was in shared the same manager as the Bunnymen, we opened for them in Liverpool once and Mac told me off for swearing in front of his kids backstage.
Now that's a rock'n'roll story for ya!

13 minutes ago, Shelton’s Love Gravy said:

They are gone.

Why would you even say such a thing with twenty minutes to go? You have been to football, and understand how it goes, right?

Yep, I had the radio commentary on and when Cov's third went in I rolled my eyes and turned my attention back to the T20 cricket on Sky.

After 45 years watching the City this is probably the least engaged I have ever felt.

7 minutes ago, Marcus Aurelius said:

I could not disagree less. They’ve missed 3 relative sitters, we are awful.

Excellent, then it seems we are all agreed!