The Humble Realist Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 So don't know if its just me but I think there has been a rise in number of posts discussing 'firms' and hooliganism /fighting....now personally I find the actual holliganism part alien but the bantering on here seems pretty childish ! Comments like 'the rovers lot will run scared like always '...surely on the rovers forum they just say ' the city lot will run scared ' ...my point is to me it seems rather childish and stupid but can anyone offer an explanation as to why anyone posts about it or gets involved in it ...are all the posters about 12? Maybe I'm just as guilty for posting another topic on it and no I'm not 12 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P'head Red Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Maybe I'm just as guilty for posting another topic on it and no I'm not 12 ! you said it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Maybe I'm just as guilty for posting another topic on it and no I'm not 12 ! Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS15_RED Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 As Harry Redknapp would say, triffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LECW Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Guess your younger than 12 then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 ....if you'd ever witnessed the way Coach One crush Wurthers Originals with bare hands before snorting them through Sherbet Fountain licorice straws you wouldnt need to ask that question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norwegian Red Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Sorry. Yes, I am 12. 12 and two thirds, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leveller Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well I thought it was a fair question if nobody else did. I'm 58 and have watched football all my life, but never involved in the "behind the goal" singing & fighting scene, which feels very alien. Seems to me there are micro communities in each crowd and very different lives are brought close together. Reading about these on the forum is all part of the interest, even if the celebration of hatred gets a bit tiresome at times. Bourgeois and happy to confess it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tall King Blox Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well I thought it was a fair question if nobody else did. I'm 58 and have watched football all my life, but never involved in the "behind the goal" singing & fighting scene, which feels very alien. Seems to me there are micro communities in each crowd and very different lives are brought close together. Reading about these on the forum is all part of the interest, even if the celebration of hatred gets a bit tiresome at times. Bourgeois and happy to confess it! I am on a totally different planet to you but understand your comment, sadly i am the same age but obviously was brung up in a different mind set....loved to have a row wheras you probs were sat in a skull having a row....funny old world....take care you punt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norwegian Red Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well I thought it was a fair question if nobody else did. I'm 58 and have watched football all my life, but never involved in the "behind the goal" singing & fighting scene, which feels very alien. Seems to me there are micro communities in each crowd and very different lives are brought close together. Reading about these on the forum is all part of the interest, even if the celebration of hatred gets a bit tiresome at times. Bourgeois and happy to confess it! Get on the coach to Colchester mate, but leave your Waitrose bag and your broadsheet, and your lovely manners, behind. Let go a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Humble Realist Posted March 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I enjoy the rivalry don't get me wrong but just don't get the 'hate' mainly because I don't see it as real hate...I 'hate rovers' but do I hate my mate who I work with who is also a rovers fan...obv not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Well I thought it was a fair question if nobody else did. I'm 58 and have watched football all my life, but never involved in the "behind the goal" singing & fighting scene, which feels very alien. Seems to me there are micro communities in each crowd and very different lives are brought close together. Reading about these on the forum is all part of the interest, even if the celebration of hatred gets a bit tiresome at times. Bourgeois and happy to confess it!This is a sensible post! The majority of supporters don't actually get involved in fights these days. It just that a lot like to talk about it. Anything more than handbags at 12 paces and they'd run a mile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Who actually cares ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norwegian Red Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 This is a sensible post! The majority of supporters don't actually get involved in fights these days. It just that a lot like to talk about it. Anything more than handbags at 12 paces and they'd run a mile. Too right. Rovers was handbags at 3 paces and not for the faint-hearted. But remember, we are the over-50s, the "Legends," the top, top old "boys," no-one will be running a mile, mate. Motto: "We Never Run (A Mile. Only as far as we can)" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm always hard.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm always hard....Stop looking at the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i hate you butler Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Too right. Rovers was handbags at 3 paces and not for the faint-hearted. But remember, we are the over-50s, the "Legends," the top, top old "boys," no-one will be running a mile, mate. Motto: "We Never Run (A Mile. Only as far as we can)" is it me or do you sound a bit of a cock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenBall Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm always hard.... Probably wouldn't share that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norwegian Red Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 is it me or do you sound a bit of a cock? It's you, mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Never understood the scene/crowd who go to football games with fighting being the primary goal, with the football taking a secondary priority. Reeks of sad old stuck in the past alcos and barely out of school chavs who have nothing better to do with their time. The whole 'this chap supports a different football team to me and therefore it would be good to punch him in the face' thing just never caught on with me for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Using the words of Harry hill, "there's only one way to find out....FIGHT!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyderiup Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm always hard.... One Viagra at the time, they aren't M&M's dammit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Never understood the scene/crowd who go to football games with fighting being the primary goal, with the football taking a secondary priority. Reeks of sad old stuck in the past alcos and barely out of school chavs who have nothing better to do with their time. The whole 'this chap supports a different football team to me and therefore it would be good to punch him in the face' thing just never caught on with me for some reason. Agree with this. Walking out from the Peterborough game I had a couple youth shout "****" in my face (had my city shirt on). Just laughed back at him, anyone who wants to fight over a football match needs a bit more focus in their life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwwtk Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm fairly certain that random violence towards strangers who happen to support a different football team to yourself is a perfectly valid way of showing your support for Bristol City. Imagine, without these hordes to defend our honour then the East End may have been 'taken', just the way our reputation was greatly enhanced by the way we could 'take' other clubs pieces of terracing where we weren't supposed to stand. We people that find this sort of thing alien, nay abhorrent, really should take a long, hard look at ourselves and recognise that the only reason we have a club to support is through the courage of, and daring deeds being carried out by, the few for us, the many. When Ashton Gate is rebuilt, then there should be a memorial wall somewhere bearing the names of 'Big Rog', 'Frank the Knife', 'Black Tony' (to prove we're not racist) and many others that ensured our mighty club can carry themselves with pride, knowing that there are people out there prepared to bleed for the club, regardless of what the overpaid pansies on the pitch might be doing. In fact, may I go so far as suggesting a statue being erected in their honour? It would be a far more fitting image than John Atyeo. After all, the top lads never go away, Atyeo was merely a player and retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Nah. Far better, let's erect a statue to those who leave the Dulmoan 10 minutes before the end. Alternatively, how about a prawn sandwich as a mark of respect for those supporters who are part of the 'sit down, shut up' brigade that have done so much to ruin the atmosphere and make it passionless, sterile match day experience nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davros Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Agree with this. Walking out from the Peterborough game I had a couple youth shout "****" in my face (had my city shirt on). Just laughed back at him, anyone who wants to fight over a football match needs a bit more focus in their life I think I may have :laugh:'ed at the very same youths one kid was skinny and blonde, I just ignored them. There were a few more kids hanging about near one of the underpasses on the way to the train station. You can read it 2 ways either petulant children or something more sinister, either way its a little bit sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTFiGO!?! Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 Akin to self-indulging, ego-centric obesity. Worked in a nursing capacity and drank with people who have both described an addictive buzz from it. Appreciate it's highly anti-social but its a psychological/emotional background to it. Appreciate we all need to take responsibility for our actions and cot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTFiGO!?! Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 Shit device sorry. Basic point, adrenaline hormone very relavent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 My Dad's bigger than your Dad ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Cyril Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 Nowadays some mobs aren't just involved with football related activities. The GHS are very, very active players away from Football. Are they fighting in supermarkets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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