Posset red Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Slacker Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 I bet he thought this time next year he would be a millionaire! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Up there with Hi Ho Silver Lining..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron-Bcfc Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Unbelievably embarrassing. Genuinely saw a couple of 20 something City fans wearing them as well. Bet they can't wait until they're of old age and they can show their grandchildren the scarf they bought on the momentous day we lost 1-0 to West Ham in the FA Cup fourth round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Anyone old enough to remember "pirate" poigrams, for big cup games ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Heard them haggling after. Will buy a half and half scarf for finals or internationals only, and even then it goes straight in my bag as a souvenir as I've got my proper one on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 How do they work anyway? ... Have you gotta turn 'em around at halftime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!james Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Anyone who bought one should be automatically banned from every football stadium worldwide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 So shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK0wnag3 Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 They really piss me off. I walked past one of the sellers and he said "scarf for today's game mate?" I replied "Its only West Ham mate!" And, I shit thee not, a couple of West Ham fans behind me started laughing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Anyone who bought one should be automatically banned from every football stadium worldwide This. Horrendous things. Street sellers unfortunately the reason in them being seen more and more. Bet half of them don't even have traders licences The MK Dons/Wimbledon was perhaps the worst I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoke_Gifford_Red Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Any adult who buys one for any game other than an actual cup final needs to get their head checked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedYoshi Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Any adult who buys one for any game other than an actual cup final needs to get their head checked! What if I got one for the Chelsea v Steaua Bucharest game that I took my Steaua supporting Romanian mate to go see for his birthday, because Chelsea are the British team he follows? I mean, I do need to get my head checked, but for very different reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stortz Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Posted about these in the match thread. Those who bought them from those sketchy cockney touts are everything wrong with modern foootball imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Loved scarves when I was a young 'un in the East End, silk ones tied round my wrists and a woollen one round my neck! Happy days! But they were 100% City scarves, not 50% - what happens in someone's life to make them want to wear a scarf that is relevant for only 90 mins and features another club as well as BCFC???! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Hate them with a passion, quite satisfying to see so many people ignoring the sellers and donning a free scarf once in the ground. Infact I only saw to people wearing one, a boy aged around 6 and a separate man in his mid 40's. I don't care if the half/half scarfs had been free either, I'd never bring myself to wear one. Thank God the club didn't get that wrong and attempt this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Each of the 8 touts I saw, I tried to set fire to them. No sale here guv! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDPJ Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Members 7890 posts Posted Today, 06:08 PM Anyone old enough to remember "pirate" poigrams, for big cup games ? Members 7890 posts Posted Today, 06:08 PM Anyone old enough to remember "pirate" poigrams, for big cup games ? I remember pirate programs! Me & my dad got conned into buying 2 when City played Southampton in the cup in the 70's. Had to then shell out again for the genuine ones. Still got both versions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Why would anyone, City or WHAM, want to wear a half and half scarf? Now if we were in a Champions League game against Barca, Real or Bayern, that might be worth commemorating. But West Ham? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Why would anyone, City or WHAM, want to wear a half and half scarf? Now if we were in a Champions League game against Barca, Real or Bayern, that might be worth commemorating. But West Ham? No. No it wouldn't. There is no need, full stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedYoshi Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 No it wouldn't. There is no need, full stop. Not this, but this. "This", because: I don't understand why those who are so against it feel it would be acceptable if it was a cup final or against a "big team". a) If your argument involves the words "everything that is wrong about modern football", then deciding it's fine for a cup final or against a "big team" falls under that category. The very nature of labelling a team as a "big team" goes some way to falling under that category, but then basing a commercial product on it puts the final nail in the coffin. b) Suggesting that you don't want anything that is related to the other team around your neck because you only care what your team is doing should be a BIGGER reason at a cup final, or against a "big team". Those are the games you REALLY want your team to win, and you should be EXTRA passionate about. "Not this", however, because I think there can be a need. Well, not so much a "need", but a valid reason. Whether it's the one I gave above, or two parents who support different teams trying to introduce their offspring to football by taking them along to the relevant match (this would be even more fitting if it's parents of different nationalities), there could be an understandable reason. But picking and choosing which games it's acceptable to do it, while lambasting those who pick and choose in a slightly different way just doesn't make any sense to me. In fact, I can understand someone who buys them at every single game (be it for some sort of collection or whatever) better than someone who buys it when they play at Old Trafford but has a go at the person who buys one at Fleetwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezo Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 No it wouldn't. There is no need, full stop. I would like one that say Bristol City v Willem II (a club whose fans go out of there way to support us), that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 I like the bants yosh but..... There is no need. End of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedYoshi Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 I like the bants yosh but..... There is no need. End of. Not for you, clearly, and you're consistent with that, which is kinda my point. Would you begrudge Pezo getting one as suggested, though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Pezo can have a city-willem scarf. No probs with that. We're not playing them in a competitive match anytime soon. Good club links too and no prob with a friendly v Willem and fans sharing. Competitive 4th round fa cup match vs a team we've generally disliked in our history. Wrong wrong wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedYoshi Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 Ok, so there can be a valid reason. I'm with you on today's match, I would definitely not go near a City-West Ham scarf. And I agree there is no "universal" reason, shall we say, to ever get one. (ie it's a big game) But there can be personal ones, and I'm not gonna begrudge anyone that. (Plus, surely sole traders selling scarves that may take away from the "big business" of "modern football" is potentially better than lining the pockets of the "suits"...? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 25, 2015 Report Share Posted January 25, 2015 There is absolutely no need for these monstrosities today. Having threatened to do so, I now actually wish I HAD set those tout tuckers on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Bristol Born & Red Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Anyone recall the old ski hats from the 80's....they were kind of flat on the top...I had a yellow and black one, they also came in home colours and there was a fashion for split ones (Rangers etc)...your mullet got ruined though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Hate them with a passion, quite satisfying to see so many people ignoring the sellers and donning a free scarf once in the ground. Infact I only saw to people wearing one, a boy aged around 6 and a separate man in his mid 40's. I don't care if the half/half scarfs had been free either, I'd never bring myself to wear one. Thank God the club didn't get that wrong and attempt this. Unfortunately one shown a few minutes into MOTD as a lad was seen wearing one as the players came into ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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