Liverpool bus damaged on journey back from Etihad Stadium today

[Coatigan]

Can't be mithered looking back what are we arguing about now?

Everything. And nothing.

 

[Stephen230]

Thanks. A lot of the time we were treated worse than criminals at games. Provoked, pushed, corralled, spoken to like crap and roughed up. That was by the police before any trouble happened lol.

When I left school and was looking for work in the early 80s, the career adviser at school would strongly recommend that you don’t mention you’re a football fan at all on application forms or interviews if you were lucky.

There was an assumption from polite society that anybody into football was a hooligan and public support for any mistreatment of fans was zero.

Mind you, I think I preferred that state of affairs to the nauseating site of politicians and media personalities pretending to be big football fans these days.

 

[paulchapo]

When I left school and was looking for work in the early 80s, the career adviser at school would strongly recommend that you don’t mention you’re a football fan at all on application forms or interviews if you were lucky.

There was an assumption from polite society that anybody into football was a hooligan and public support for any mistreatment of fans was zero.

Mind you, I think I preferred that state of affairs to the nauseating site of politicians and media personalities pretending to be big football fans these days.

Oh yes that's how it was back then and not even just football fans. I grew up in Wythenshawe and such was it's reputation many firms just threw job applications with a Wythenshawe address on it straight into the bin.

I was on leave at my parents one day and saw the local kids dismantling what was obviously a stolen car dumped there. I phoned the police to let them know so the poor sod could get their car back. As soon as I gave the address her while attitude changed.
"How do you know it's stolen, did you steal it?" Said in a voice laced with contempt and sarcasm. She got both barrels.

Grim times indeed looking back.

 

[inchy14]

It's not illegal to boo a national anthem. We don't live in North Korea

Definitely a liverpool fan…..

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Any photos of the bus in circulation, and has @domalino answered my question yet?…

 

[freshie]

It makes Liverpool fans look bad but it doesn't make ours look bad?

Fair enough, it's a matter of opinion.
Personally, I don't care when Liverpool fans attack our bus etc., as it shows them up for being moronic scumbags. However, I cringe when City fans do it, as it's embarrassing for the club and our fans. But that's just my opinion, of course.

Quit with the virtue signalling. It’s so nauseating

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I stayed on after the game and in the South stand we carried on singing the Johnny Stones song and he was waving his arm along in time to the chant.

Yeah was a nice moment for both him & us in the gods.

 

[Stephen230]

Oh yes that's how it was back then and not even just football fans. I grew up in Wythenshawe and such was it's reputation many firms just threw job applications with a Wythenshawe address on it straight into the bin.

I was on leave at my parents one day and saw the local kids dismantling what was obviously a stolen car dumped there. I phoned the police to let them know so the poor sod could get their car back. As soon as I gave the address her while attitude changed.
"How do you know it's stolen, did you steal it?" Said in a voice laced with contempt and sarcasm. She got both barrels.

Grim times indeed looking back.

If you were from Wythenshawe and had a ‘foreign’ looking name, you might as well have cut out the middle man and chucked the application in the bin yourself.

 

[Ghandi's Flip Flops]

Oh yes that's how it was back then and not even just football fans. I grew up in Wythenshawe and such was it's reputation many firms just threw job applications with a Wythenshawe address on it straight into the bin.

There was a similar urban rumour knocking about years ago about why Newton Heath had its postcode changed from M10.
That and also people not being able to get car insurance with that postcode

 

[paulchapo]

If you were from Wythenshawe and had a ‘foreign’ looking name, you might as well have cut out the middle man and chucked the application in the bin yourself.

I remember another time my mates parents house had been robbed and he was in when the police came to investigate. After chatting to him for a bit the copper realised they weren't lowlife and said he couldn't understand why decent people like them lived there. Obviously my mate said they couldn't afford to move. He then went on to name about four neighbours who were all known criminals, adding, "You're surrounded by them here mate."

 

[BringBackSwales]

Out of interest have the dippers been charged with 7 of their players surrounding the ref trying to get Rodri sent off or have the premier league decided it wasn’t their fault?

 

[paulchapo]

There was a similar urban rumour knocking about years ago about why Newton Heath had its postcode changed from M10.
That and also people not being able to get car insurance with that postcode

Oh yes I'd forgotten insurance etcetera. Everything came with a Wythenshawe premium added.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Yeah was a nice moment for both him & us in the gods.

Ok tongue in cheek time again.

You are also going on the trying to upset EB list! ;-)




Unless, when it happens again, you shout this chant/song is from EB!!

 

[Eccles Blue]

Out of interest have the dippers been charged with 7 of their players surrounding the ref trying to get Rodri sent off or have the premier league decided it wasn’t their fault?

Don’t be daft. Nobody else noticed that, it didn’t happen. ;-)

 

[Ghandi's Flip Flops]

I remember another time my mates parents house had been robbed and he was in when the police came to investigate. After chatting to him for a bit the copper realised they weren't lowlife and said he couldn't understand why decent people like them lived there. Obviously my mate said they couldn't afford to move. He then went on to name about four neighbours who were all known criminals, adding, "You're surrounded by them here mate."

Seen the exact opposite effect of that.
Dated a girl who felt safe as houses where she lived because 2 of the local thugs lived on her street, and most people were unsure exactly which houses they lived in, so avoided it

 

[paulchapo]

Seen the exact opposite effect of that.
Dated a girl who felt safe as houses where she lived because 2 of the local thugs lived on her street, and most people were unsure exactly which houses they lived in, so avoided it

There is/was that aspect but normally they just left theirs alone if they knew who lived there.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Oh yes that's how it was back then and not even just football fans. I grew up in Wythenshawe and such was it's reputation many firms just threw job applications with a Wythenshawe address on it straight into the bin.

I remember loads of us having to travel out to places like Wilmslow Job Centre, Didsbury, many of those types of places because companies wouldn’t advertise their jobs (even though they were in Wythenshawe) in the actual Wythenshawe JC, fuckin scandalous!

 

[Centurions]

Don’t be daft. Nobody else noticed that, it didn’t happen. ;-)

I don't think anyone has noticed anyone doing that since the ref booked Dias(?) have they? So much for demanding respect for the refs.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Save me searching, which song are Chelsea alleged to have been singing? Same as us?

 

[BillCarlisle]

There was a similar urban rumour knocking about years ago about why Newton Heath had its postcode changed from M10.
That and also people not being able to get car insurance with that postcode

I would expect that was true. About 25 years ago our postcode area up here was enlarged. We live in a respectable village out in the sticks but the postcode number changed to the same as a rather 'rough' estate 5 miles away. That year our House Insurance premium almost doubled. When I rang the insurance company they confirmed that it was due to the postcode area. When I told them what had happened they reduced the premium considerably, but for quite a few years afterward I had to go through the same process at renewal time.