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SirColinOfMansfield

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17 minutes ago, Eazy said:

I 8 you shit ed *****. Would one of you like scummy lot like to meet one on one tonight?

 

Why bother coming all the way south of the river when there is probably someone who is a perfect match for you in Lockleaze if you really want a scummy one on one meeting tonight? - Try here:- http://www.grindr.com/

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NOTBLUE

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1 minute ago, Esmond Million's Bung said:

Back on subject really nice of the gas to build a much needed car park for the 30k students at UWE, that's community spirit indeed.

 

How many caravans can they fit on this new car park.

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glynriley

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2 minutes ago, Jack Dawe said:

Do Stoke fans go through this with little Port Vale? Do any other Championship clubs have L2 types seeking attention?

He's obviously got all excited by the news that the gAss are hoping to start work on a car park, at the UWE, hopefully, in October.

Don't know about you, but that kind of news would have me all of a tizz if I was a gAsshole.....

 

By the way, is this their club history book......????

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2 minutes ago, yatesuperreds said:

surprised a gas head can use a keyboard

Bear in mind he hasn't got a qwerty key board,he's got a spready key board,it's extra wide as to accommodate all those fingers.

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Jack Dawe

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7 minutes ago, glynriley said:

He's obviously got all excited by the news that the gAss are hoping to start work on a car park, at the UWE, hopefully, in October.

Don't know about you, but that kind of news would have me all of a tizz if I was a gAsshole.....

 

By the way, is this their club history book......????

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They like a book, the few. I don't think they've let a promotion go by yet without producing a bloody book about it

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38 minutes ago, Eazy said:

In my 20s. Question is, are you brave enough to just meet one on one?

 

UTG

No probs dick head! All 6ft 1 and 17 stone of pure rage would love to meet you. I'd bring a wheelchair to get home in though!

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NOTBLUE

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28 minutes ago, ZiderEyed said:

Did he just un-ironically come on a forum and offer a scrap behind the bins :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

I thought it was more of a kiss and cuddle behind the bike sheds.

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I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

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7 minutes ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

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Port Said Red

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20 minutes ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

Who knows or cares really? All I know is that throughout that time it was always the City nutters that had the reputation, I still meet people today who look at my strangely when I say I am a City supporter and recant tales that don't exactly make me proud!

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Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan

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24 minutes ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

Take a guess...

Bear in mind they aren't known for being truthful about anything.

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slartibartfast

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17 minutes ago, NOTBLUE said:
26 minutes ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

I take it ,it was filed under "Junior Fiction" !

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pongo88

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1 hour ago, Esmond Million's Bung said:

Back on subject really nice of the gas to build a much needed car park for the 30k students at UWE, that's community spirit indeed.

 

It's not a very big car park 

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Bristol Rob

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38 minutes ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

How long did it take to colour in?

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Jack Dawe

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31 minutes ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

Who was dopey/deranged/daring (you choose) enough to go to Millwall in the mid 80s and "have a pop" resulting in years of back and forth trouble - City or Rovers? 

 

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43 minutes ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

He must be talking about all those softies from Knowle West and Hartcliffe I suppose.

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GrahamC

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1 hour ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

Usual gas mythology rules apply.

Between the author (Chris Brown) and their chaplain who bangs on all the time about previously being in the National Front and a reformed hooligan, I reckon they could write about ten series of Jackanory without pausing for breath...

As a fifty something who grew up a Red in an alleged Rovers area as a kid and is old enough to remember when football hooliganism was at its height, this allegation is just laughable.

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Natchfever

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1 hour ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

Chris Brown did embellish the merits of his little lot in that book and tried to explain away why they shat themselves on a regular basis from around 1977 onwards.to the extent that they simply could not come into the city centre any longer However it is a fact that in 1973/74 they had a mob of older larger men in their twenties and on a one to one basis they were a handful.

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slartibartfast

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30 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Usual gas mythology rules apply.

Between the author (Chris Brown) and their chaplain who bangs on all the time about previously being in the National Front and a reformed hooligan, I reckon they could write about ten series of Jackanory without pausing for breath...

 

Yes, on very thin ice, don't think he'll get to heaven !

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37 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Usual gas mythology rules apply.

Between the author (Chris Brown) and their chaplain who bangs on all the time about previously being in the National Front and a reformed hooligan, I reckon they could write about ten series of Jackanory without pausing for breath...

As a fifty something who grew up a Red in an alleged Rovers area as a kid and is old enough to remember when football hooliganism was at its height, this allegation is just laughable.

 

16 minutes ago, Loon plage said:

Chris Brown did embellish the merits of his little lot in that book and tried to explain away why they shat themselves on a regular basis from around 1977 onwards.to the extent that they simply could not come into the city centre any longer However it is a fact that in 1973/74 they had a mob of older larger men in their twenties and on a one to one basis they were a handful.

Absolutely nothing to do with me, thanks. ;)

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Guest Whooooossshhhh

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3 hours ago, Eazy said:

I 8 you shit ed *****. Would one of you like scummy lot like to meet one on one tonight?

What train is everybody getting??!!!  

 

She was fun whilst she was a forum member.  Missing her already  :10_1_108:

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3 hours ago, Eazy said:

I 8 you shit ed *****. Would one of you like scummy lot like to meet one on one tonight?

For imagination and effort, umm, out of 10, that will to be 0.

Comedy value, that has to be 10

 

He wants to meet us all at 1:35 no doubt

 

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redcityman

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3 hours ago, Eazy said:

I 8 you shit ed *****. Would one of you like scummy lot like to meet one on one tonight?

I've never paid for sex in my life, not going to start now sunshine, I'd stick with the methadone if I was you, those drugs clearly only addle your brain cell.

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As to SGR stadium plans, does anyone know of any other stadium having the car park built first?

Are they looking for naming rights from NCP?

Or is this the new funding plan i.e. car parking fees?

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Jack Dawe

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1 hour ago, Loon plage said:

Chris Brown did embellish the merits of his little lot in that book and tried to explain away why they shat themselves on a regular basis from around 1977 onwards.to the extent that they simply could not come into the city centre any longer However it is a fact that in 1973/74 they had a mob of older larger men in their twenties and on a one to one basis they were a handful.

Our memories are unreliable though, notoriously so, how we remember things is invariably little to do with the reality of events. Did Chris Brown keep a diary? Did he get home from a hard day's "aggro" on the Tote and Stapleton Road and an evening down the Bamboo Club, sit down and then make careful notes of the day's events? Even at that distance, about five hours, his memory would've been highly selective and inaccurate ; sitting down to write after 25 years or more would involve a considerable amount of imagination. Most of what he's written will be how he wants to remember those days, rather than accurately portraying events. We all sit with a perfect view and watch Marlon Pack in midfield but you don't get one opinion on how he's played. We see things as we are (in his case, gas) not as they are, as someone once noted. All the time I watch replays of goals or moments in matches and it is never quite as I remembered it in my mind, always a little different.

Not disputing your recollection of their "larger men" and them having a mob back then, but the book, like all these books, is a work of fiction and imagination, put together from tiny fragments of memory and with a strong desire to maintain some pride and reputation. Even in their 50s, there's still a lot of the little boy in the playground in blokes when it comes to football. As we see on this thread all the time!

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Another point to make about memory is - just to raise the tone here, briefly - that each time we recall an event we reconstruct it, every time. It changes. We are adding to it, or "forgetting" things. Painful memories, those that are damaging to self esteem (when the Tote took a hiding say), are surpressed. Memory is selective, adaptive, flexible. That's if I remember my neuroscience studies correctly  ;)

That's why I love looking at old league tables (and attendance records): if we didn't have them, we'd have Rovers insisting they have been the better team all these years and better home crowds, even more than they already do! 

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44 minutes ago, Jack Dawe said:

Our memories are unreliable though, notoriously so, how we remember things is invariably little to do with the reality of events. Did Chris Brown keep a diary? Did he get home from a hard day's "aggro" on the Tote and Stapleton Road and an evening down the Bamboo Club, sit down and then make careful notes of the day's events? Even at that distance, about five hours, his memory would've been highly selective and inaccurate ; sitting down to write after 25 years or more would involve a considerable amount of imagination. Most of what he's written will be how he wants to remember those days, rather than accurately portraying events. We all sit with a perfect view and watch Marlon Pack in midfield but you don't get one opinion on how he's played. We see things as we are (in his case, gas) not as they are, as someone once noted. All the time I watch replays of goals or moments in matches and it is never quite as I remembered it in my mind, always a little different.

Not disputing your recollection of their "larger men" and them having a mob back then, but the book, like all these books, is a work of fiction and imagination, put together from tiny fragments of memory and with a strong desire to maintain some pride and reputation. Even in their 50s, there's still a lot of the little boy in the playground in blokes when it comes to football. As we see on this thread all the time!

Yes, who's going to write (or indeed read) about ....we got belted again, we ran AGAIN !

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5 hours ago, Big Phil said:

I recently read a book called 'Bovver' written by a Bristol Rovers fan who followed them through the 70's & 80's in which he alluded to the notion that although City had a slightly larger fanbase Rovers had the far tougher element within Bristol and all the 'softies' supported City. Is there any truth in this or is the author being biased?

He's hardly going to write a book about Rovers and say they were softies!

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4 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Usual gas mythology rules apply.

Between the author (Chris Brown) and their chaplain who bangs on all the time about previously being in the National Front and a reformed hooligan, I reckon they could write about ten series of Jackanory without pausing for breath...

As a fifty something who grew up a Red in an alleged Rovers area as a kid and is old enough to remember when football hooliganism was at its height, this allegation is just laughable.

Was there and done it, brought up in Rovers area, been on more terraces that a few including the dreaded Tote end (What a Laugh) done the walk up Stapleton Road when we marched from Old Market, don't know where they were that day  

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2 hours ago, Jack Dawe said:

Our memories are unreliable though, notoriously so, how we remember things is invariably little to do with the reality of events. Did Chris Brown keep a diary? Did he get home from a hard day's "aggro" on the Tote and Stapleton Road and an evening down the Bamboo Club, sit down and then make careful notes of the day's events? Even at that distance, about five hours, his memory would've been highly selective and inaccurate ; sitting down to write after 25 years or more would involve a considerable amount of imagination. Most of what he's written will be how he wants to remember those days, rather than accurately portraying events. We all sit with a perfect view and watch Marlon Pack in midfield but you don't get one opinion on how he's played. We see things as we are (in his case, gas) not as they are, as someone once noted. All the time I watch replays of goals or moments in matches and it is never quite as I remembered it in my mind, always a little different.

Not disputing your recollection of their "larger men" and them having a mob back then, but the book, like all these books, is a work of fiction and imagination, put together from tiny fragments of memory and with a strong desire to maintain some pride and reputation. Even in their 50s, there's still a lot of the little boy in the playground in blokes when it comes to football. As we see on this thread all the time!

@Jack Firstly Chris Brown DID keep a diary and I know that for a fact. The book IS therefore based upon real events but like Henry V said pre Agincourt participants will embellish those facts. I would say therefore that we are looking at five hours rather than 25 years. Indeed I also know for a fact that he researched "incidents" with former foes on our side of the fence to ensure he got the "who hit whom when" correct.I don't know if you have read the book Jack but despite bunging up the Rovers on occasion it is undoubtedly one of the best of it's type offering a snapshot of life for a teenage lad throughout the 70's in terms of agro (of course) clothes music non football hellraising and relationships.

Regarding earlier comments about their chaplain I have met Dave J in his current "form" and you will be hard pressed to find a better person and certainly someone who became very close to our man Divvy in his latter days .

As for the large men I could name them for you and people of a certain age will know exactly who I am talking about - and they were certainly large if you were a 16/17 year old in different colours !

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5 minutes ago, Loon plage said:

@Jack Firstly Chris Brown DID keep a diary and I know that for a fact.

What did it say about slapping Rhi-Rhi about??

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38 minutes ago, Loon plage said:

@Jack Firstly Chris Brown DID keep a diary and I know that for a fact. The book IS therefore based upon real events but like Henry V said pre Agincourt participants will embellish those facts. I would say therefore that we are looking at five hours rather than 25 years. Indeed I also know for a fact that he researched "incidents" with former foes on our side of the fence to ensure he got the "who hit whom when" correct.I don't know if you have read the book Jack but despite bunging up the Rovers on occasion it is undoubtedly one of the best of it's type offering a snapshot of life for a teenage lad throughout the 70's in terms of agro (of course) clothes music non football hellraising and relationships.

Regarding earlier comments about their chaplain I have met Dave J in his current "form" and you will be hard pressed to find a better person and certainly someone who became very close to our man Divvy in his latter days .

As for the large men I could name them for you and people of a certain age will know exactly who I am talking about - and they were certainly large if you were a 16/17 year old in different colours !

Based on real events maybe Loon but neuroscience tells us our recall of those events, the details, the nuances, is unreliable and not to be taken as fact! I'm with neuroscience on this, not the Tote End  :thumbsup:

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1 hour ago, Loon plage said:

@Jack Firstly Chris Brown DID keep a diary and I know that for a fact. The book IS therefore based upon real events but like Henry V said pre Agincourt participants will embellish those facts. I would say therefore that we are looking at five hours rather than 25 years. Indeed I also know for a fact that he researched "incidents" with former foes on our side of the fence to ensure he got the "who hit whom when" correct.I don't know if you have read the book Jack but despite bunging up the Rovers on occasion it is undoubtedly one of the best of it's type offering a snapshot of life for a teenage lad throughout the 70's in terms of agro (of course) clothes music non football hellraising and relationships.

Regarding earlier comments about their chaplain I have met Dave J in his current "form" and you will be hard pressed to find a better person and certainly someone who became very close to our man Divvy in his latter days .

As for the large men I could name them for you and people of a certain age will know exactly who I am talking about - and they were certainly large if you were a 16/17 year old in different colours !

I have know the Chaplin since the 1980s, back then City had one of the most violent element in the country, Rovers had a half decent mob but the  gas wasn't in our leauge , ask the chaplin and he will tell you the same. 

The gas had a small nasty element who drove around North and East Bristol looking for young City fans wearing colours to attack.

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28 minutes ago, bs3 said:

I have know the Chaplin since the 1980s, back then City had one of the most violent element in the country, Rovers had a half decent mob but the  gas wasn't in our leauge , ask the chaplin and he will tell you the same. 

The gas had a small nasty element who drove around North and East Bristol looking for young City fans wearing colours to attack.

Absolutely right bs3. The book in question was about the 1970s which was very different certainly until 77.

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10 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

And the rest.

Like when ?

They most definitely were very competitive during our promotion season and despite what anyone might say only about 30 of them came into the East End that season and it took the OB to get them out.

People like to debunk that but of course of lot of them weren't anywhere near it.

So far as I was concerned it was pretty much 50-50 through the early to mid 70's and i'm talking about everywhere of course not just the matches.From 76/77 onwards they have been second fiddle to this day.

 

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51 minutes ago, Loon plage said:

Like when ?

They most definitely were very competitive during our promotion season and despite what anyone might say only about 30 of them came into the East End that season and it took the OB to get them out.

People like to debunk that but of course of lot of them weren't anywhere near it.

So far as I was concerned it was pretty much 50-50 through the early to mid 70's and i'm talking about everywhere of course not just the matches.From 76/77 onwards they have been second fiddle to this day.

 

Sorry, I mis-read your post, I thought you were on about hoolies in general ending in 77 .

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Tomorrow Cambridge Utd play at the Mem.

In tonight's preview on BBC Radio Cambs the presenter asked "What is the Memorial Stadium like"? The sports reporter replied....................

 

"It's an unusual stadium. The main stand looks like a cricket pavilion and the other stands look like they were air lifted in from other grounds around the country. The game is expected to be a sell out though with ten thousand there".

 

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