Civilisation yet to hit Bristol?

[Rich Suvner]

come and join us
come and join us
if you think you're hard enough


don't deny it
don't deny it
you have sucked on brighton rock
you have sucked on brighton rock

 

[balloonboy]

Having lived in Somerset for most of the past 15 years, let me tell you it's a VERY acceptable alternative to Sussex. OK, I do my best to make sure my kids don't acquire the local accent, but it's probably not fair to draw too many conclusions from one visit to Bristol. The city may not be as progressive as Brighton or London in it's attitude to the gay community, but that would be the same for most of the rest of the UK (indeed, the world). Hopefully that will change in the near future, but Bristol can certainly not be called uncivilised.

 

[Gully]

That works to the tune of build a bonfire if you only sing the last line once!

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Ooops. Well, silly me.

Cardiff to Plymouth - hardly what you could call a stone's throw, is it?

Note to all Brighton fans: If, fingers crossed, you DO make it to the play-off final this year, then whatever you do, DON'T travel to Cardiff in a vehicle being driven by the Large One. You may end up watching the game on TV in a pub in Devon......

 

[bhaexpress]

Hey, we'll all be coming in sheep transporters just to inflame the loacls' passion.

 

[Wozza]

"f*** off, you're not our type. f*** off Bristol, you're not our type"

Or (probably not)...

"We're queer, we're there, we're every-f***ing-where, Brighton boys, Brighton boys..."

 

[oapdodge]

Why not just get Wilko to wave back to them.That will stop all those hurtful taunts.One look at Wilko with finish it.

 

[Gully]

The thing that made me laugh on Saturday was when Bristol City struck up with their Rougier chant and we just drowned them out with ours. I glanced across at their supporters and they all looked totally confused, like they really hadn't got a clue, in fact some of them looked angry that we were doing it, match drawn on the pitch, one nil to the Albion off it...

 

[Hunting 784561]

Hey, we'll all be coming in sheep transporters just to inflame the loacls' passion.

Maybe 15 of us at a time squeezed into a squadron of Smart cars singing 'Pink Army' all the way down the M4 would be more appropriate

 

[lincs seagull]

This Chant problem is at ever ground all clubs bait the oppersition all the time we do it

Posh Pykies
welsh sides sheep shaggers
lincoln inbreeds
ipswich inbreed farmers
palace *******, **** fill your suggetions in.
any team past cambridge northern tossers

the list goes on the only way is to ignore it and give as good as we get

Why not get a list of chants we can hurl at away teams

 

[Yorkie]

It's not the chants Lincs, as TLO was saying.

The chants are part of football (although I don't join in with the inbreds, sheep or Welsh chants)

What TLO was saying, and so was I, was that this was being done outside the ground.

I was on my own being taunted by several lads. I ignored it but felt very uncomfortable.

 

[lincs seagull]

It is hard to ignore so fair play.

The local police where expecting trouble as they had drafted a lot of extras in.

I think that the City minority were looking for a fight the local pub that was recommeded had away supporters not welcome.

So i think the word was going round

Its sad how the success of the team can bring out the wankers in a club

So all i can say from saturday is bloody well done all of us from not getting involved with these tossers and having a peaceful game. It shows that we are a much better set of supports than they are.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

It's not the chants Lincs, as TLO was saying. The chants are part of football (although I don't join in with the inbreds, sheep or Welsh chants)

Spoilsport!

Whenever we go a goal ahead, our lot sing: "1-0 to the sheepshaggers! 1-0 to the sheepshaggers!" and so on. And we also have sheep noises played over the tannoy before kick off. And a large picture of a sheep in a Cardiff City shirt above the desk in our club's reception area. And various other pictures of sheep dotted all around Ninian Park.

If opposition fans don't continue with the usual 'sheepshagger' taunts, then all that effort will have been wasted!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Quite right, LB.

I went to support Newport County at Crawley last night. Where were the sheepshagging chants? Nowhere.

Not a lot of noise from the hundred or so Newport supporters, either - but we didn't get the lead until the 93rd minute.

It was nice to see the trophy that the Albion won in 1910 paraded, though.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

It was nice to see the trophy that the Albion won in 1910 paraded, though.

If you're very lucky, you might just get to see the trophy Cardiff won last season paraded in a few weeks time!

 

[Gully]

I understand the point that TLO is making but there is a fine line between singing a song on the terrace and verbally abusing an individual in the street. Both are forms of abuse the first is generally accepted, we know that the opposition fans will sing songs about us being a load of southern poofters or whatever and we will sing songs about them buggering sheep, driving tractors or living in northern slums it is seen as a form of entertainment. The form that TLO described is a type of assault albeit of a verbal form, it was directed at an idividual and was intended to either get some form of response whether verbal or physical, the former probably leading to the latter.

 

[mona]

Bring back the good old days of the 70s when there was less abuse. And more fights for those who were up for it.

I'd rather watch the football than sing about Welshmen and sheep and people with non-estuary southern accents being inbred. Am I boring?