Flounder

It will be on the credit card and on the last possible date, just in time supply chain!

Fantastic win! Did the Wrexham fans resort to trying to assault the Dover goal keeper to get that win?

They were out in force last night on the Old Market bus stop having got the train back to Temple Meads from their Newport embarrassment. Got stuck standing on a bus with 5ft2 bald headed, 50 ish bloke. His opening gambit was a school playground grunt of “City or Rovers” which should have been a warning. That said we were having a relatively friendly chat about football, but I noticed he was slowly edging to bus nutter stage. Apparently he was a good friend of Wael and having spoken to him at Newport the the Fruit Market is still on for a 25000 all seater stadium. This was backed up by the firm belief that Lansdown wanted to sell all his shares and we were getting 20 points deducted next season. Yes, they are coming to get us! He got increasingly agitated as I should have been embarrassed about City going bankrupt in ‘82 and when I commented that companies go bust every day and it was 40 years ago and I didn’t really care he launched into a hale of abuse. After the tirade of effing s’head this, effing s’head that, that had most of the lower deck staring at him he then started looking round the bus asking the terrified passengers for supporting statements, all of which turned away probably fearing for their lives. Thank god I he got off the bus In Eastville. As the bus pulled away I waved and smiled and in the dimly lit dusk I saw his contorted features and a series complex finger gestures! 
What surprised me about this encounter was just how obsessed and bitter he was about us. As a quite friendly and personable chap I’ll chat to any supporter about football and would have been interested to here his take on his teams season, but he seem totally obsessed with City to the detriment of his support of his own club. I can’t really imagine what a sad and twisted existence he lives if that’s the level of communication he has with the bulk of people he meets on a day to day basis. I honestly felt quite sorry for him.

Funny that when our Gas chums had their relegation horse punching pitch invasion, it was supposedly caused by the away end was being packed with City fans. It’s very odd in this day and age of camera phones and social media not one photo exists.

We must have got really lucky to photograph that one Gas Head out of 2000 Cardiff fans. 

Met a fellow red outside The Cottage who owned the god of all shirts. The Purple and Green Dry Blackthorn. Fortunately I had my Red “Spider-Man” one present so we did a reunion selfie.

On 28/12/2021 at 10:01, Red Army 75 said:

Loved these two kits growing up

Interesting, mine has a black Butka badge. 

Probably best if anyone knows of a venue that you DM me

Is there still a London BCFC supporters group and do the meet in a pub that will be showing WBA v City today?

Oh the joy of my own personal “gift” seeing the disappointment of my Gas “mates” as the reality that Barton’s jobs is safe for a few more weeks after today’s results. I’m really quite conflicted. They loose and get relegated, they win and they keep Joey . Oh the gift  

3 hours ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

they've appointed Garner I see

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50892824

Bit of a gamble - out of work since this. (Very apt answer phone message though)

14 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

They even obsess at tea time  !

 

What you need is a nice can of Fanta (TM) to go with that.

8 hours ago, wood_red said:

Here we go - "all the trouble was cos of them Teds in every single stand and tent, they must have had half of the crowd"......

Absolute strokers

In this day and age of CCTV,  mobile phone cameras and the internet can anyone provide just one image of a City fan in the away end at the Mem when they got relegated? (I’ve asked everyone of the Blue Few I’ve met since and they have nothing!)

You’d imagine it would be all over Facebook, Twitter, Forums and the Evening Post.

You would have thought the Police would have been very keen on finding out just who incited a riot at that match.

For me this lie is the proof of their absolute delusion and it’s frankly embarrassing that they still wheel it out as an excuse for their horse punching antics.

Like any good group of deranged conspiracy theorists they now believe that the lie has been endorsed by the club itself having made the Oxford match all ticket.

Hundreds of City fans want to be in the away end to cheer on Taylor! Belters! 

Paranoid or what?

36 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

Owned by your grandfather! That’s ruined my day as it makes me realise how old I am. I take consolation from the slogan I saw on a tee shirt - “I may be old but at least I saw all the best bands”

He bought it from new and drove it until he died. Never went on the Motorway. He always pulled away in Second gear as there was no Syncromesh between first and second. The car was in show room condition until the end. My highlight as a child was indicators that flipped out from the door pillar.

15 hours ago, pongo88 said:

Do you own an anorak?

This is my first car. Do you know what it is?

Anorak alert it’s an Austin Somerset A40. As owned by my Grandfather.

Staggering amount of stuttering B.S. when Twentyman questioned Wally about the new stadium.

Wally must have thought the interview was going so well until that point. The answers would have snappped the needle off of Jeremy Kyles lie detector.

If you ask a Billionaire how he’s going to pay for something surely there is an easier answer than its a secret?

2 hours ago, A Darkwood Red said:

Now known as the Eastville club. 

Used to be called the True Blue Club

12 minutes ago, 22A said:

Ain't tis more their style?

Yep, couple of tits only covered by barely adequate fabric structures. That just about sums the Gas up.

Taken with a telephoto lens so that the effect of lens foreshortening makes the fully floodlit Ashton Gate seem huge in the background. Technically speaking that is a fantastic Gift.

9 hours ago, Ska Junkie said:

I live in Barrs court BR. Even here, the majority of the gas we see and hear are up around their 50's now apart from small groups. Pretty much all the young 'uns are reds even if their parents are gas. Chatting to a few gas tonight about this, and they're gutted but they don't blame the youngsters. Back in the day, we rarely saw a red shirt on this side of town, now they're everywhere.

The old gas think this will revert to type IF they get a stadium but they are also very realistic that they can't afford one and are losing a whole generation to us. IMHO, that will take some recovering from their side, all good for us though. Lose a generation, you generally lose the next one as well. Whether it's them being so bad or us having the facilities / higher level of football / potential, the younger generation are definitely changing sides and it's great to see. 

And what with the gas hive, The Lamb in Banjo under threat.... it’s almost like someone has called South Glos pest control.

More like badly sellotaping their colours to the mast.

Harrison scored one for Preston just to rub it in.

Hopefully a small, short term bounce off the bottom.

Happy Christmas from Everyone at BRFC. The Christmas gift that won’t stop giving

Another shot of the banner. Good work whoever you are