Most tinpot thing I ever heard. (tinpot thread)

[markwwfc1992]

The Pie and Pea Half time entertainment at Burnley is surely the must tinpot thing I've experienced at a football match, especially when this guy was presenting it

http://www.northstandchat.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=18594&d=1326710226&thumb=1

Great thread this.

 

[Kim Mitten]

http://m.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/11...romley_fans_cause_trouble_at_Ebbsfleet_clash/

They really were a bunch of c***.

I've noted for a while that this is where hooliganism is going, saw it first hand in Lincoln's last league season at Lincoln-Southend when a load of 'Southend' supporters started smashing up pubs in Lincoln, then had a massive battle with some 'Lincoln' fans. Turns out it was actually West Ham and Leeds. After some aggro at the game in the first half between the two bunches the actual Southend fans started having a go at the hooligan lot in the away end - a minor scuffle later a coach turned up at half time outside the away end and 50 blokes all got on not to be seen again.

I was also on a train, not going to football, when a heard 3 blokes discussing Horsham FC. I thought I'd talk to them as it's rare you meet a Horsham fan. Turned out they weren't - 1 was Chelsea the other 2 Millwall. In their words they were off for a 'ruck' at a Horsham game as they were banned from football grounds round the country. I said surely Horsham also counted, to which they said no one ever notices or cares at that level.

 

[Joe.]

I've noted for a while that this is where hooliganism is going, saw it first hand in Lincoln's last league season at Lincoln-Southend when a load of 'Southend' supporters started smashing up pubs in Lincoln, then had a massive battle with some 'Lincoln' fans. Turns out it was actually West Ham and Leeds. After some aggro at the game in the first half between the two bunches the actual Southend fans started having a go at the hooligan lot in the away end - a minor scuffle later a coach turned up at half time outside the away end and 50 blokes all got on not to be seen again.

I was also on a train, not going to football, when a heard 3 blokes discussing Horsham FC. I thought I'd talk to them as it's rare you meet a Horsham fan. Turned out they weren't - 1 was Chelsea the other 2 Millwall. In their words they were off for a 'ruck' at a Horsham game as they were banned from football grounds round the country. I said surely Horsham also counted, to which they said no one ever notices or cares at that level.

You're not wrong.

We're lucky (at the moment) as we don't have that sort of thing. We used to have a few Millwall boys come down looking for a ruck and once had some West Ham lads kicking off in the stands with Salisbury fans on last game of a season. Nothing nowadays though.

Bromley appear to have had this element for a while... but nothing has been done, unfortunately. I think now it will be though. It has to be.

 

[Southern Shayman]

Worcester player body slams a Stockport player today

Not sure it's quite tinpot but it seemed the best place on here for it

 

[rudebwoyben]

There should have been some comedy sound effects to that one!

 

[Harrier94]

That was brilliant

 

[shoddycollins]

hahaha best thing ever to happen in football

 

[Pliny Harris]

Hey, we'd all do it if we could, right?

Right?

 

[SomeMightShay]

The lads got a great career in front of him wearing a high vis vest at Forest Green when he hangs up his boots.

 

[Joe.]

That body slam is class. Fair play to the lad!

 

[GTFC1979]

If you think that body slam was a vicious assault then read this....... http://m.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/#!/...-fan-accused/story-26070811-detail/story.html

already on the 'Barnet Stewards' thread but thought it deserved a slot in this thread too!
Lock him up and throw away the key evil scum......

 

[les.gtfc]

There were 6 "paying" Telford fans at Blundell Park last night.

Apparently at half-time our stewards made them all a cup of tea!

 

[Aberstone]

There were 6 "paying" Telford fans at Blundell Park last night.

Apparently at half-time our stewards made them all a cup of tea!

Tinpot, but a lovely gesture nonetheless.

 

[Aberstone]

Well done to the Hemel supporter who uploaded this on the Nomads forum.

It's bad enough that the above has absolutely nothing to do with the club or the match but it's not even the Whitehawk chairman's original thoughts, he's copied and pasted them from a book called Diaminds: Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers.

 

[Greenacres]

There were 6 "paying" Telford fans at Blundell Park last night.

Apparently at half-time our stewards made them all a cup of tea!

That reminds me of the story from Italy, from a couple of years ago, when only one away fan turned up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529

It just shows how much effort we make in the UK to travel around and support our team. If it is too much of an effort for supporters of a top division Italian team to drive four hours to see their team play, goodness knows what they would make of journeys like Grimsby to Torquay or Dover to Gateshead, all to witness non-league football.

 

[Sparrow]

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/G...s-Conference/story-26077127-detail/story.html

 

[Gladders]

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/G...s-Conference/story-26077127-detail/story.html

Jealousy of our fans does not make it tinpot

 

[Vanni]

I say!!! Whitehawk's chairman is one smart guy indeed, he shouldn't be wasting his time writing the programme notes but publishing best sellers. Hold on.......copy and paste job you say Abers?

 

[Aberstone]

I say!!! Whitehawk's chairman is one smart guy indeed, he shouldn't be wasting his time writing the programme notes but publishing best sellers. Hold on.......copy and paste job you say Abers?

The irony isn't lost on me when Steve King is their manager. Successful thinker and Steve King... just let that sink in.

 

[Pliny Harris]

Those programme notes are a thing of beauty. I love how he's endorsing this self-help pseudo-dialectic stuff about taking on different ideas and thinking for yourself by copy 'n pasting the whole thing. Maybe he's really subversively mocking it?

 

[Kim Mitten]

That reminds me of the story from Italy, from a couple of years ago, when only one away fan turned up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529

It just shows how much effort we make in the UK to travel around and support our team. If it is too much of an effort for supporters of a top division Italian team to drive four hours to see their team play, goodness knows what they would make of journeys like Grimsby to Torquay or Dover to Gateshead, all to witness non-league football.

It's not really about effort, more about football culture. You have to remember the differences between early days English (and the other great away travellers, German) football and the likes of Italy, Spain and France. In England leagues were basically regionlised (Division 1 in the 1910's had what 1-2 teams south of Birmingham), and clubs tended to subsidise away trips for their fans, letting them ride trains for free with the players and coaches to near destinations. There is a story in a Southend history book I have about the club paying for 250 people to go to Bristol Rovers in the 1930's. It's meant that from early on there has been an 'away day' culture. Same for the Germans, a national division wasn't even setup until 1962, they had tens of pocketed regional competitions, meaning away fans would come in numbers. As cross country travel has become cheaper, away fans have just kept up the habit even though they've had to go from half hour journies to 4 hour + journies.

Take Spain, or Italy - their football booms started out with nationalised divisions, at a time when people could not afford to travel to other cities, even a couple of hours away, regularly. They would not have been able to get time off work, nobody subsidised travel. It's just not a 'thing' in these countries to travel even a couple of hours to watch a football match. It's just permeated through, as many things do in fan culture. I went to Inter-Empoli in the late 90's - Empoli is a 3 hour drive from Milan, they averaged about 12,000 home fans. I counted 11 at the San Siro that day.

 

[DarkSithLord]

http://www.alfretontownfc.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4153

A Telford "fan" joining an opponents forum with an extremely worrying standard of English

 

[Southern Shayman]

http://www.alfretontownfc.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4153

A Telford "fan" joining an opponents forum with an extremely worrying standard of English

This person is actually real?!?!

Teresa posted on our forum as well and we thought it was a wind up...

 

[Aberstone]

Should have put that on the You Laugh, You Lose thread on GC.

I lost at the capitalised "NOT TELFORD OR U WIL AV A LONG WARK LOLOL!!!"

 

[Pliny Harris]

Omg, afcteresa was hilarious on theshaymen.net. He/she posted quite a few like that and obviously went out of their way to spell all daft. Offered us some banter in the pub by the ground but when I went in there after the game I couldn't spot anyone illiterate, so I guess it's a windup.

 

[appletablepenny]

afcteresa turned up on the Altrincham forum last season, much the same content and style. For example:
http://www.altyfans.co.uk/index.php?topic=18451.0

 

[DarkSithLord]

Haha. Looks like this "guy" has previous then. Cant believe there are lowlifes who do this. Another one is that "Somerset" and "Willis" who post on the Alfreton and Braintree forums every time a game gets called off calling it a "disgrace".

 

[GTFC1979]

There are 2 mentally retarded Telford fans on http://www.nonleagueforum.co.uk/
Gandy and UBSS, both thick as fuck and have the personality of a grape!
Probably be one of them.

 

[Vanni]

Haha Teresa, She used to post on our forum too. Actually I think it's really a she and not a he, but can't remember what made me come to this conclusion.

 

[Vanni]

Haha. Looks like this "guy" has previous then. Cant believe there are lowlifes who do this. Another one is that "Somerset" and "Willis" who post on the Alfreton and Braintree forums every time a game gets called off calling it a "disgrace".

Sorry DSL but I don't think incorrect spelling makes people 'lowlife'. Teresa or whatever her name is, doesn't actually say anything rude or disrespectful, with the only problem being understanding her posts.

Take it easy on me Mr Moderator man