Mr Mosquito

Football and disorder are in an Englishman's DNA, it's part of English culture and heritage. This excerpt is from a Wikipedia article on the history of Medieval football............. Football's roots in England has been found in Medieval football, which was played annually on Shrovetide. It is suggested that this game was derived from those played in Brittany and Normandy, and could have been brought to England in the Norman Conquest. These games were violent and largely ruleless. As a result, they were often banned. England is the origin of nearly all first accounts of features of football: In 1280 comes the first account of a kicking ball game. This happened at Ulgham, near Ashington in Northumberland, in which a player was killed as a result of running against an opposing player's dagger. This confirms that by the 13th century kicking ball games were being played in England. In 1314, comes the earliest reference to a game called football when Nicholas de Farndone, Lord Mayor of the City of London issued a decree on behalf of King Edward II banning football. It was written in the French used by the English upper classes at the time. A translation reads: "[f]orasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large foot balls [rageries de grosses pelotes de pee] in the fields of the public from which many evils might arise which God forbid: we command and forbid on behalf of the king, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in the future." In 1409 King Henry IV of England gives us the first documented use of the English word "football" when he issued a proclamation forbidding the levying of money for "foteball". .....this article indicates that the ruling classes have frowned upon football and the associated disorder for the past 700 or so years. The ruling classes control the Police so it's no surprise to me the resources that the Police command when chasing down football supporters for the most minor misdemeanors. A dawn raid is hardly commensurate for a football supporter involved in minor disturbances.

Indeed, we live in a completely different country now to how things were 20 to 30 years ago. There are now more cameras in and around Ashton Gate than on a fleet of Japanese tourist buses in London. Police can sift through the pictures at their leisure with maximum financial backing from the Oxbridge educated Con-Dem muppet political administration that see football supporters as lowlife oik scum.

I know you wont let us down bucksred, shake the Northern/Southern - or whatever they are - Watford bastards up with the Bristol West Country roar.

A superb write up. Like others have mentioned, Bristol lad Cole Skuse is coming good and Williams seems to be improving with each game that passes. We're now on the cusp of a return to top flight football.

Years ago, I used to own an Austin Allegro - 'all aggro' - a whole 4 days without a niggly problem was a minor miracle for that car. The only other 'British' car I've ever owned was a mid 1970's Hillman Hunter 1500cc and that was a superbly reliable car. You can't beat German and Japanese made cars on performance, price and reliability these days. Thus, the nations that were trounced during WWII now make the best cars !!!

What's brought this on MaloneFM?! Perhaps you should also blame Oliver Cromwell, John Lilburne and Co for the rights you now enjoy with regard to freedom of speech and expression in today's England. Ordinary Englishmen/women are actually represented by a House of Commons that is, more or less, free from tyrannical toff/snob royalist interference - thank Cromwell and Co for that as well. Or would you rather be on your knees to some royalist snob/toff landlord with you having to ask permission to write on this forum for instance? I also drive a German car and watch a Japanese TV because they're reliable - and that's due to freedom of choice and is a benefit of the free market economy. Free trade and freedom to buy what you want was another concept endorsed by Oliver Cromwell and Co.

hannah_BCFC, sorry to hear you've been bullied. I'll fill you in with some detail as you're off school, just to make this topic related - fighting bullies - voices from the past: Cromwell and his contemporaries in the English Parliamentarian Republican army stood and fought the tyrant Scottish King Charles I who would have the ears cut off and noses slit of any Englishman that would dare oppose him and his snob ridden regime. King Charles did have head severed from body at the scaffold in Whitehall London 1649 as punishment for bullying our ancestors. George Orwell fought the bullying attitudes of many tyrannical regimes of his day with his typewriter. Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil war and served in the English home guard during WWII Orwell's books Animal Farm and 1984 were written to serve as a warning to future generations of Englishmen not to be subjugated and bullied by the state. In today's England we see many attacks on our hard won liberties e.g. with BCFC fans arrested at Walsall for queueing to enter the football ground after drinking a pint of cider.

George Orwell and Oliver Cromwell are two of the most interesting characters from recent and past English history. Many contemporaries of George Orwell even wrote that he would have felt more happy in Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army of 1645 with its spirit of political and spiritual freedom and radicalism rather than living in early 20th Century England with its blind obedience to its Royalist state institutions and oppressive and haughty Empire. But where does this leave us as BCFC supporters? In poxy olde Div 3 with just a glimmer of hope of promotion this season My mind thus wanders from BCFC's current lowly league status plight and onto the great aims and visions of Cromwell and Orwell

I consider myself to be the harbinger of the spirits of Cromwell and George Orwell on this forum. Take heed O corrupt West Midland's Gestapo Police and your corrupt Crown Prosecution Service supporters - you are now the ones being watched

This forum needs more heroes like you bucksred I'm not sure that my anti-Danny Wilson and anti-West Midland's Royalist Gestapo Police comments have been missed by this forum's moderators. Long live freedom of speech and expression

I'd like some keyboard warriors from other clubs to try boarding the yellow submariner forum No attempt has yet been made to board the sub so far, perhaps we need to surface Click on the URL below to board the BCFC yellow submarine........

....well the facts speak for themselves - since Aaron Brown was injured we've struggled to win games. I'll be glad when Aaron Brown's back even if, as you say, he doesn't play for 60 minutes in any game. It was his contribution over those 30 minute spells that often turned games well in our favour

....I haven't had a motorbike for years but am considering getting one again to beat the traffic. Perhaps BCFC could encourage more people to ride motorbikes and pushbikes to Ashton Gate by giving a discount on admission. This would certainly help alleviate car parking and congestion problems on match days Up the City

The worst bike to be on when p*ssed and when the road was wet was the 750cc Suzuki 2 stroke. I think it was known as 'the kettle' the power band cut in at around 2000rpm and the back wheel would not grip due to the sheer torque - lethal. Most of the lads that drank in the Granary were, and still are, staunch City. Those were good times. I see very few bikes in Bristol these days compared to 20 odd years ago

Drinking heavily and driving is not recommended especially remembering that Adge Cutler died when he lost control of his sports car 30 years ago. I seem to remember someone saying he was well cidered that fatefull evening. A very sad loss for BCFC and the West Country.

Seems to me that he may of committed suicide. Just twice the drink limit, or the equivalent of 3-4 pints of beer in the average build of person, aint enough to consciously make you want to drive at 120mph in fog. I might be wrong but something does not seem quite right about this car 'accident'.

No one deserves to die for being twice the legal drink drive limit. The crowd I used to hang around with, almost 20 years ago, used to often be probably 4 times over the drink limit and ride high power motorbikes and we're all still around to tell the tale!!!!! Them were the days of ye olde Granary Up the City

At the end of the day our defence has improved immensely this season but loads of chances are going begging up front with no one able to convert a better percentage of them. Don't know what went wrong exactly last night against Wycombe as I wasn't there to see it. Aagainst Sheffield Wednesday Lita and Goodfellow should of been brought on to menace their defence so 3 points lost up there and 2 last night. We just can't afford to drop any more points.

Another type of workhorse is a 'mule' or 'donkey' etc. We don't need too many mules/donkeys upfront we need thoroughbred strikers up front to bang home all the chances that Peacock and Miller can't convert. Up the City