City Rocker

'kin right we will. BS7 around the Gloucester Road is a great place to live most of the time, but having dozens of ill-mannered, badly-dressed simpletons descend on your local hostelries every other Saturday doesn't really go down so well. None of them can afford to live here.

Now that would have been a hell of a gig to be at! Sadly I wasn't, but did see BB open for the Clash at the Colston Hall, must have been 83 or 84?

I was there, aged 17, we bunked in over the side of the East End turnstile blocks. My teenage garage punk band had just worked up a version of Jumping Jack Flash, and we figured this was a show we needed to show our faces at. Thanks for sharing the picture, superb memories. In fact, even better memory, I've just recalled I met this gorgeous bird from Bedminster that evening over by the park ?

Quite right, Soccer AM was a big part of the 90s Zeitgeist - the vibrant red white and blue of Britpop, Blair, TFI Friday, Trainspotting, Euro 96, Loaded, lads and ladettes, etc. Some of these have aged better than others - you decide which! By the way, the terms 'soccer' and 'football' were both commonly used and fairly interchangeable when I was a child in the 70s, so I've never understood why people have a problem with soccer.

Pompey fans singing 'There's only one team in Bristol!', bless em ? Towler and Morrell both starting for Portsmouth. No Marlon Pack though, who is out injured.

Singing, singing City are the champions Singing, singing City are the best!

Ironically, as it turns out, it would seem The Post is written by an infinite number of monkeys.

You used to be blue, and then you were red And you look like c nts when you tap your head! I think pretty much everyone would (or at least, should) agree with that, once we all cool down from the irrational hatred.

Correct, the myth that 'most football fans in Manchester support City' is just that, it's never been true, as all Mancunians are well aware!

That's what I meant, the turf is removed, new top soil and re-seeded each summer, as soon as the concerts have taken place.

I think it's re-laid every summer.

We did used to sing that tune back in the 80s with the line ending 'Bristol City', then later with 'Dziekanowski' on the end. Could be due a comeback?

Nope......not a clue

Flowery tw ats, anyone?

Been living very near the Tinpottery for many years, and over that time we've had a number of neighbours who were City season ticket holders. Meanwhile, one guy just up the road, a lifelong gashead from Filton, goes to the occasional Rovers home game. Oh and another near neighbour does attend semi regularly, though he's an exiled Palace fan, content to just take in a local game while watching proper football on Sky. As far as I personally am concerned after 20-odd years living near the 'vibrant Gloucester Road', BS7 is and always has been red as fu@k

Where is @BS4 on Tour...? On tour? Or maybe just stuck in BS4?

Delightful. Stay classy saggies.

Seems an oddly angry response from BRFC to what, you'd assume, was a factual statement from MK. So unlike the Rovers to get all stressed and paranoid and punchy and about everything.

I recall reading that one of the club's staff had googled WAQ on day 1 and declared that he had 'more money than God', or somesuch fantasy. Which was instantly accepted as true by the Few, despite absolutely no evidence to back up the claim, and it quickly became obvious to the rest of us that the hapless chap had mistaken client assets under management for personal wealth. Yet oddly, the local media and the Rovers fans continued to believe and perpetuate the myth for months, in spite of the obvious truth. Which was quite funny.

Well like I said, I believe he was well treated by club and fans; as far as I could make out, his problem was his own inability to accept losing his place to a far better player. By the time Flapper had moved on to pastures inferior over at the Tinpottery, Adriano Basso (for it was he) had long established himself firmly as 'Bristol's number one', with Chris Weale as the revered 'Bristol's number two'. Even after the histrionics, Phillips benefited from a generous testimonial, culminating in a well-attended game down at Clevedon.

Yep, first I've heard of it as well.

As I remember it, 'Flapper' Phillips was very well treated by club and fans alike, up until the point when he lost his place as first-choice keeper to an infinitely more talented (not to mentioned dignified and classy) professional, at which point he threw his toys out of the pram like a petulant child. On an entirely unconnected note, if he was indeed attacked by someone at a gym then that is an utter disgrace and very sad to hear.

Abandoned at half time wasn't it?

CIDER!!

So do you reckon Noel and Liam will ever reconcile their differences and get the band back together?