Most tinpot thing I ever heard. (tinpot thread)

[mnb089mnb]

Slagging off the Burnham Ramblers assistant manager on social media is quiet tinpot in itself tbf.

 

[Roly]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/32090711

Jesus wept.

 

[Luke Imp]

About time you posted again, Roly. I thought you'd forgotten about us already!

 

[Roly]

I'm unashamedly fair weather with the Internet forums!

But how could I forget about you Luke?

 

[Luke Imp]

Probably very easily!

 

[Pliny Harris]

Grimsby Town wheeling out their #outofthisleague hashtag for the first time in 7/8 months.

 

[mnb089mnb]

This is superb. I love non-league.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/poole-town-manager-tom-killick--5427209

 

[silkyman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30725883

 

[shoddycollins]

This is superb. I love non-league.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/poole-town-manager-tom-killick--5427209

Good to see a non league manager with such lofty aspirations

 

[Murphy]

Good to see a non league manager with such lofty aspirations

Bet his side have a good conversion rate.

 

[Aberstone]

Bet his side have a good conversion rate.

Best of all, they haven't even hit their ceiling.

 

[shoddycollins]

Best of all, they haven't even hit their ceiling.

They're now looking to a TV station to negotiate a skylights package.

 

[Cardsfan]

http://www.barnetfc.com/news/article/get-ready-for-the-return-of-the-bee-army-2370834.aspx

As if the original premise wasn't bad enough, those who choose to go in the Singing Section get a free "Bee Army T-shirt". Dear me.

 

[shoddycollins]

http://www.barnetfc.com/news/article/get-ready-for-the-return-of-the-bee-army-2370834.aspx

As if the original premise wasn't bad enough, those who choose to go in the Singing Section get a free "Bee Army T-shirt". Dear me.

Stevenage had plans for a jumping section last year.

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

I'm off work with a bad back, having been through this entire thread its now much worse thank you from all the laughing ! Quite simply the best football thread I've looked at. Will be back later with plenty of tinpot bits and pieces including Burton Albion's famous or is that infamous 1987 FA Trophy Final ditty with the inspiring title of Albion Albion ! Once featured on the John Peel show and on Radio Derby and never to be heard ever again thankfully.
That Highland league song by the Can Cans is pure genius tinpot almost reaching the superstardom category, the drunk in the pub brilliant !

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

The promised dire Burton Albion FA Trophy song, well at least you will know how we got to Wembley, that is if you can bear to listen through ! Sadly there is another terrible posting of the band actually performing the song which is even worse !

 

[shoddycollins]

Ahh I meant to weigh in on the club songs discussion. That Basingstoke one is so bad it's good. 'Be it 4-5-1 or a 4-3-3 or 4-3-2-1 or whatever formation it be'. The Wealdstone one is actually good though, Aberdeen is hilarious and I don't even know what to make of the Halifax one.

I've never even heard of the Carlisle one the Murphy posted, though there are a few to pick one... pretty much one from every era of music. Looking Good deserves a special mention though as until recently we were playing it before each game.

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

That's just a bit better than Albion Albion but not a patch on Basingstoke, Wealdstone and the Yeovil entries !
A couple or three tinpot stories from our non league days at the old Eton Park ground, we had a similar one to the Basingstoke keeper, I was stood behind the goal during a Staffordshire senior cup game one night in the 70's, some one was baiting the away keeper, and as he had a good beard and tash a comment was made that "just because he looked like a little girls play thing he didn't have to play like one". The keeper must have noted who it was because when he put the ball down for his next goal kick he moved back to take his run but continued onto the terraces and lumped the culprit !
In another incident at a youth or reserve team game some one shot an air riffle through a gap in the fence and hit one of the away players in the leg !
I've seen some one run on the pitch in the old days with a pencil and sharpener for the ref because he hadn't booked any of the away teams players when they were kicking lumps out us and a South Liverpool player threaten a supporter who then went on the pitch and thumped him good and proper.
But more personal tinpot and tragic to me was during the early and mid 70's I ran the programme shop at the ground, this was very well stocked and my pride and joy and a collectors paradise. I turned up one Saturday to open up to find the shop had gone, an overnight storm and high winds had up rooted and blown the shop out of the ground ! Funny now but I was distraught at the time, programmes(many of them rare were blown for miles !

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

Oh and one more for now. During the 1974/75 season we drew Mexborough Town Athletic in the FA Trophy, we drew 3-3 in the 1st game, we got battered by Sheff Wed fans there but that's another story. The replay had to be arranged for the following Saturday due to Mexborough players not being able to get time off work mid week. I turned up early at Eton Park to open up my beloved programme shop but as I approached the gates a mini-bus turned up and the fans who got out were wearing green and white scarfs, well I knew Mexborough didn't play in green and white, after a quick chat I realised they were Yeovil fans and had travelled up from Somerset. Yeovil had been our original opponents that day but news of the rearranged fixture hadn't got to them ! Ah well they were programme collectors so spent plenty in the shop and then got hammered in the club prior to watching the game.

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

Another tinpot tale from the Terraceman.
My first ever game at Eton Park was the first ever FA Trophy game against St Helens Town. 0-0 in the 1969/70 season, with not long to go and the ball is dribbling along the goal line, all player manager Ian King has to do is tap it over the line, however he takes an almighty swing with his left peg, misses the ball, kicks the post and the ball is cleared. He breaks his toe and never plays for us again ! I nearly split my sides laughing and it was a big joke at school on Monday.
That was my introduction to Burton Albion, and I'm still here !

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

Burton Albion's mascot is supposed to be a drunk called Billy Brewer, living up to his name here I fear !
Thankfully his girlfriend Betty Brewer isn't in on the action here.

 

[Jemfy]

In researching my massive thread - you get the joys of the Hellenic League official website, and it's a two-fer as you also get their fixture scheduling

http://www.hellenicleague.co.uk/results/premier/premier_r.html - tried to put this in a frame but the automatic link thing kept breaking it!

As you may see from their table (I linked that page on purpose) the league leaders have finished their season, while second placed Flackwell Heath have 5 games left to play! That's just mentally bad, I mean I don't know of any other leagues who would schedule things like that until somebody complained *cough* UCL *cough*.

 

[Jemfy]

In researching my massive thread - you get the joys of the Hellenic League official website, and it's a two-fer as you also get their fixture scheduling

http://www.hellenicleague.co.uk/results/premier/premier_r.html - tried to put this in a frame but the automatic link thing kept breaking it!

As you may see from their table (I linked that page on purpose) the league leaders have finished their season, while second placed Flackwell Heath have 5 games left to play! That's just mentally bad, I mean I don't know of any other leagues who would schedule things like that until somebody complained *cough* UCL *cough*.

In fact I need to follow that up and post about how on their latest match reports, they talk about how the league leaders win 4-0 to "secure their runners up position" http://www.hellenicleague.co.uk/match_reports/april/0404.html

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

Seems like a local Sunday league !

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stadiongebod/6949709944/in/photostream/
The wonderful professional hub of Gresley FC(pronounced Greeslee) in South Derbyshire.

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stadiongebod/6949711724/in/photostream/
The club shop which also seems to double up as the toilets ! Seems like a good idea for "pit bonk" merchandise !

 

[shoddycollins]

Anyone remember the whole thing of mascots observing a minute's silence?

I give you Fleetwood

 

[Luke Imp]

McNulty looks like he's ready for a 'lads' photo.

 

[rudebwoyben]

Anyone remember the whole thing of mascots observing a minute's silence?

I give you Fleetwood
There's a whole thread on the WhenSaturdayComes forum ploughing this theme with many photos of team mascots in inappropriate settings!

 

[shoddycollins]

Yeah that's where I got this... but most of those are top flight clubs and the like... this one just looked especially tinpot.