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[Albion] Women , your kids and Nerds
- Thread starter Pretty pink fairy
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boik
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Could I dare to suggest that is because you're speaking to a limited cross-section of the fan base. Sounds like you want to close the borders to being an Albion support. Keep anyone who isn't up for a fight out.
I keep forgetting, is this the parody account or the real one?
father_and_son
Well-known member
At nearly the wrong side of 50, I grew up standing on terraces watching matches, first with my father and brother and by the time I reached my early teens, my mates from school.
By the time I was in my late teens and all through my twenties, football had turned into a f*cked up mess. I worked in a pub in Sheffield (where I lived for about 5 years at the beginning of the 90s). It was well known as a Blades pub. Almost their primary watering hole in the city centre. Every weekend, the knuckleheads trashed THEIR OWN pub. Win, lose or draw, they'd turn up and smash up the pub. Occasionally we'd have a window put in by a passing Owl or away fan but usually it would be the BBC.
Skip forward 10 years and I'm a dad who's son wants to go to matches. Thankfully, Mr Barber and his boss have created an environment where this is a place largely devoid of the sort of scum I had to deal with weekend after weekend.
5 seasons in the SWC and we moved to the North, specifically because he wants to make a noise, stand and demonstrate a passionate support of his club. Thanks to Mr Barber, I was able to take a young boy to a safe environment while still developing the sort of passionate support that takes us to Birmingham on a damp saturday to watch a pre-season friendly, that makes him go with his mates to Crawley on a friday night, taking his shoes off because he hates Palace, while watching what amounts to a youth team match.
And, we were there on friday night, leading the chanting as usual.
TLDR; Thanks Mr Barber for creating somewhere I can come with my son, enjoy the game, share a passion but more specifically, enjoy time with a teenager who would otherwise just be in his room, ignoring me, like most kids his age.
OP: Don't like, don't go. Oh, wait, you don't. Don't go, stfu about it.
By the time I was in my late teens and all through my twenties, football had turned into a f*cked up mess. I worked in a pub in Sheffield (where I lived for about 5 years at the beginning of the 90s). It was well known as a Blades pub. Almost their primary watering hole in the city centre. Every weekend, the knuckleheads trashed THEIR OWN pub. Win, lose or draw, they'd turn up and smash up the pub. Occasionally we'd have a window put in by a passing Owl or away fan but usually it would be the BBC.
Skip forward 10 years and I'm a dad who's son wants to go to matches. Thankfully, Mr Barber and his boss have created an environment where this is a place largely devoid of the sort of scum I had to deal with weekend after weekend.
5 seasons in the SWC and we moved to the North, specifically because he wants to make a noise, stand and demonstrate a passionate support of his club. Thanks to Mr Barber, I was able to take a young boy to a safe environment while still developing the sort of passionate support that takes us to Birmingham on a damp saturday to watch a pre-season friendly, that makes him go with his mates to Crawley on a friday night, taking his shoes off because he hates Palace, while watching what amounts to a youth team match.
And, we were there on friday night, leading the chanting as usual.
TLDR; Thanks Mr Barber for creating somewhere I can come with my son, enjoy the game, share a passion but more specifically, enjoy time with a teenager who would otherwise just be in his room, ignoring me, like most kids his age.
OP: Don't like, don't go. Oh, wait, you don't. Don't go, stfu about it.
Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
I did make this observation to a mate at the game
he said it was because it was a friendly
therefore parents could/afford to take their kids along
I thought the North gave it good go at creating an atomsphere TBF
he said it was because it was a friendly
therefore parents could/afford to take their kids along
I thought the North gave it good go at creating an atomsphere TBF
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
- 6,411
'Heard from a reliable source...'
wtf
wtf
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
The bot has a virus.
Pretty pink fairy
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- Jan 30, 2008
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some fans are being alienated , unemployed, people on low wages and 20 somethings, all not needed in Barbers constructive disection of the clubs support
regards
DR
Return of the Rev
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Games gonesome fans are being alienated , unemployed, people on low wages and 20 somethings, all not needed in Barbers constructive disection of the clubs support
regards
DR
- May 8, 2018
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Games gone
I was told the games dead son when on the knowledge a number of times, sigh
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some fans are being alienated , unemployed, people on low wages and 20 somethings, all not needed in Barbers constructive disection of the clubs support
regards
DR
And pathetic, old, nazi supporting, racist, anti semitic, homophobes on benefits
I bet Barber isn't targeting them at all, it's just so unfair. Maybe you should write to Points of View
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Das,
You're better than this mate. "Once you're in a hole, stop digging!"
You're better than this mate. "Once you're in a hole, stop digging!"
Jim Van Winkle
Well-known member
Football, Rugby, some business seminars and a concert or two?
What do you want?
Tokyohands
Well-known member
How is he driving certain customers away? If they're that partisan and hardcore how would they be driven away easily
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
- 17,109
He got rid of you....... so there's something.
I wonder if he could work his magic on here
Regards
BF
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
- 17,109
Spot on. It is not the removal of more sinister elements that is ruining football.
Klaas
I've changed this
- Nov 1, 2017
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He really isn't.
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Christ, haven't we done this enough to death by now
Go to more away games Fairy and you'll soon come across plenty of the p-ed up knobheads and behvaiour that you miss from the old Goldstone days.
Yes, the crowd is different nowadays with plenty of JCLs and fair weather fans who will soon drift away when/if we go down.
It wouldn't bother me AT ALL if we got relegated in terms of the football (and I would like to pay less to watch it) if the club could remain financially sound if it did. In fact, if I could choose Premier League vs Championship with cheaper tickets, less crowd and easier to sit with friends then I would. But you only have to look at Bolton to see modern football isn't like that. Modern football is only sustainable if you stay in the Premier League, that's the deal with the devil now, like it or not.
Go to more away games Fairy and you'll soon come across plenty of the p-ed up knobheads and behvaiour that you miss from the old Goldstone days.
Yes, the crowd is different nowadays with plenty of JCLs and fair weather fans who will soon drift away when/if we go down.
It wouldn't bother me AT ALL if we got relegated in terms of the football (and I would like to pay less to watch it) if the club could remain financially sound if it did. In fact, if I could choose Premier League vs Championship with cheaper tickets, less crowd and easier to sit with friends then I would. But you only have to look at Bolton to see modern football isn't like that. Modern football is only sustainable if you stay in the Premier League, that's the deal with the devil now, like it or not.
Christ, haven't we done this enough to death by now
Go to more away games Fairy and you'll soon come across plenty of the p-ed up knobheads and behvaiour that you miss from the old Goldstone days.
Yes, the crowd is different nowadays with plenty of JCLs and fair weather fans who will soon drift away when/if we go down.
It wouldn't bother me AT ALL if we got relegated in terms of the football (and I would like to pay less to watch it) if the club could remain financially sound if it did. In fact, if I could choose Premier League vs Championship with cheaper tickets, less crowd and easier to sit with friends then I would. But you only have to look at Bolton to see modern football isn't like that. Modern football is only sustainable if you stay in the Premier League, that's the deal with the devil now, like it or not.
Not sure you'd get that. ST prices would freeze, but not go down, and you'd be paying up to £45 for an away ticket to places like Leeds, free from the PL £30 away ticket cap.