Med/MadHatter

Used to love going to the Weserstadion 2001 through to 2005 when I lived and worked in Bremen, walking from Paddys Pit in the town, up beside the river, great atmosphere, loved the huge pile of empty beer bottles outside the stadium when you were entering! Abusing Bayern players who stayed in the hotel I lived in, and the shock on Owen Hargreaves face when he heard a few English voices giving him dogs abuse when he got close to where we were in the stadium :laugh:, good times. I'm afraid Bremen as a club need a complete structural overhaul now, much like City, hope they return to the top flight soon but I fear the worst for them tbh

15 hours ago, Red DNA said:

Don’t forget Youngers Tartan... a truly hideous Scottish ‘beer’.

I suspect they may still have a few barrels (slightly out of date) of the stuff behind the bar at the Theatre of Tents?

Had a couple cans of Tartan in Castle Park before going to see my first match at Ashton Gate, foul stuff (the beer), but the big black Tartan ashtrays in the pubs were a thing of beauty!

17 hours ago, reddoh said:

Anchor Hotel former Tram termius

The plough (only pub to Ask me my age (I lied))

Horseshoe smallest of the 3

don't remember any of them being Gas or City 

I used to go to The Horseshoe when I was Shield House doing first year Engineering for my apprenticeship 

1 hour ago, daored said:

Looks like July , expect PPV to be expensive 

Probably 39.99, didn't Eddie say it wouldn't be 40 quid?

2 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

The best I ever saw. I was gutted when he beat Alan Minter, he actually battered him, many years ago but he proved to be at a different level.

R.I.P Champ.

Minter was my hero up to that point, I wish I had never met him later in life though, ruined my perception

Marvin Hagler, the man who inspired me to start boxing as a feisty young boy, the man I wanted to beat to be World Champion, the man who was denied a proper ring celebration when he beat Minter to a pulp to win the Championship by the idiotic London crowd, the man who served up the most brutal fight with Tommy Hearns in Middleweight history. Rest in Peace Sir, my hero, my inspiration, the best, thankyou for everything x

On 13/01/2021 at 11:03, PHILINFRANCE said:

I'm going off at a complete tangent here, but does anybody remember the old Hofbrauhaus in Bristol back in the 1970s?

The rumour was that, rather than being imported in barrels from Germany, their beer was made by adding sparkling water to a powder/starter to make the 'infamous' beer.

Is there any truth to this or is it simply one of many apocryphallies from my youth? 

I remember that place, but I was always already drunk before I entered there, so have absolutely no idea if the beer any good or not :laugh:

3 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

Their next game is against a Wigan side who haven't won in 11 games, picking up 1 draw in that time and losing the other 10.

No pressure....! 

Oh God! PLEASE let Wigan win this one

4 hours ago, Super said:

Absolute disgrace of a decision. Boxing is dead.

Ritson? Absolutely, haven't seen many worse judges in my 50 years of watching boxing

On 10/10/2020 at 05:11, Ska Junkie said:

sorry to anyone who has suffered from a stroke, you have my best wishes and sympathy but this is meant in humour.

As a person who has had 2 strokes, I see nothing wrong with this, just humour. In fact this is how my wife knows that I've been drinking too much because my right eyelid and cheek droop,  I don't notice it though :laugh:, no hiding the fact I'm getting bladdered from her now :laugh:

Rochdale are doing their level best to beat them to the bottom of the table but Garnerball is winning out atm thankfully

16 hours ago, Matthew me said:

Before my time, but my parents and grandparents often told me how they watched city one week and the gas the next. Apparently lots of people did it. 

Joking aside, were my family unique or was that more common place when football was the equivalent of £2 a ticket?

I can't imagine any circumstance in modern football where that would happen. 

Perhaps the tribal rivalry wasn't as intense back then?

Same for me, my Dad used to do the same in the 50s and 60s, but luckily for me my Mums Dad steered me towards City :laugh:

4 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

 

And socially distanced, it's just like the real thing!

2 hours ago, Baba Yaga said:

They actually beat non-league Bromley in last seasons FA Cup, needed a replay but they did it. 

Yes Bromley Heath have improved, they're coming for the Gas 

Garnerball, like Moneyball except they remove the talent and the winning of games. Long may it live.

3 hours ago, TomF said:

Anyone watching tonight.. guessing nobody actually paying

I'm hoping it will be somewhere my IPTV,  lunchtime kick off over here in Canada, got my sandwiches and beer at the ready!

1 hour ago, BCFC11 said:

Their training ground looks stunning.....  

 

Looks more like the set of a new Hostel movie

9 minutes ago, Seneca the Younger said:

Can't believe they think anything will change, compeition wise.

They may get a basic training ground, and even less likely may get a basic 'stadium'.

Both would be League One standard, at the very best. Brand 'new' facilities, and they're not even as good as half the teams in your division.

There won't be a single player that improves due to it, or a single fan that will pick them over us.

Nothing will change, other than them having more expenses and a bigger hole in their pockets.

I just want them to fail without the chance for them to blame whatever circumstances,  just to fail on their own merits so to speak

I know I'm in the minority,  but I would like to see the Gas get their new training facilities, new ground so that their "fan base" cannot give any more excuses for not turning up for their games, not getting promotion to the Championship and then their inevitable slide into the bottom league again despite having everything in place for them to do so.

Bump, want Gerrard off of the front page!

Way better performance, but when your attacks on goal are just crosses into the box it makes it so easy for the opposition to deal with, where is the guile to pass the ball to feet and open up the opposing team? Ah well, another season wasted

But LJ said that he can see us going on a run...........!!

Just now, collier said:

What's baker made of if NM is made of paper??

Rice paper

4 hours ago, Leveller said:

Eddie Howe may be on the brink of a move. Perhaps out of our reach, if it happens, but the geography might work in our favour for once.

Lee to Burnley, Dyche to Bournemouth,  Howe to us, right that's sorted, I'm off for a beer

14 hours ago, mozo said:

Hi mate, the only book I've read about the old bear-knuckle days was Tom Spring - Bareknuckle Champion of All England who was a Hereford fighter and a pupil of Thomas Cribb.

It's worth a read if you want to learn about fighting in those days. Cribb is the big name in terms of Bristolian champions, but I don't know if he has a biography.

You should be able to find books about the history of bare knuckle fighting in general. Looks like Bare Fists is on Amazon.

But more detail on Bristol fighters, I'm not sure. Let us know what you find out though.

Tom Cribb as you say born in Wick, John Gully as I mentioned before, and a few more notables are Henry "Hen/ the game chicken" Pearce, friend of Gully, James/ Jem Belcher, grandson of Jack Slack who defeated Jack Broughton, a man who moved to Bristol from Cirencester aged 12 to work in the docks and learned to box there.  Tom Belcher, Jems brother, who won a fair few of his fights but was a great trainer of boxers . All except Tom became English champions, Bristol had quite a good standing in Georgian pugilist history