Daft Donald

[Sky Blue]

A lot of the 'characters' like Donald were actually people with severe drink and/or mental health issues. If people have seen The General in recent years they would understand this. Going back a few years there was a blond girl called Debbie who would go toe to toe with any opposition but I heard she comitted suicide in her forties.

Very sad people who need help really.

I know or knew all three people you mention personally and to an extent you are right, Donald dosnt have a drink problem but he might have very slight mental health issues aggrevated by his ''celebrity'' ie he acted to the gallery.
The General as far as i know is a chronic alchoholic and tried to get over it by moving to Sheffield and cutting down on City and drinking, unfortunately it did not work and he is now a chronic case, last time i seen him was away at Boro and he didnt recognise me or any of my mates who have known him for 40 years, he was painful to look at.
Kippax Debbie was puzzling, a stunning looking angelic blond girl who attached herself onto our wild little mob in her teens, at first we thought she was an undercover police woman but was far too young.
To me it was obvious she was a boy trapped in a stunning girls body and resented it, all the stories about her fighting and ability to take on grown men are true, i saw her deck men often almost as though she had a point to prove.
As she got older she became more stunning and was attracting a lot of attention off a lot of blues including my best mate at the time, she went out for drinks and that regular with him but come Saturdays that was all forgotten and it was back to ''Kippax Debbie''
My take on her eventual suicide was that she could not handle turning into a woman, i think the thought terrified her and she tried to kill herself twice before eventually jumping off a motorway bridge and dying.
She was not in her 40s she was in her early to mid 20s we could never find out her true age.
I still miss her and think of her often

Sad story BU. I remember Deb well, especially when she was hunting reds in the Kippax on derby day. Like you say, good looking girl too.

 

[scotty123]

A lot of the 'characters' like Donald were actually people with severe drink and/or mental health issues. If people have seen The General in recent years they would understand this. Going back a few years there was a blond girl called Debbie who would go toe to toe with any opposition but I heard she comitted suicide in her forties.

Very sad people who need help really.

I know or knew all three people you mention personally and to an extent you are right, Donald dosnt have a drink problem but he might have very slight mental health issues aggrevated by his ''celebrity'' ie he acted to the gallery.
The General as far as i know is a chronic alchoholic and tried to get over it by moving to Sheffield and cutting down on City and drinking, unfortunately it did not work and he is now a chronic case, last time i seen him was away at Boro and he didnt recognise me or any of my mates who have known him for 40 years, he was painful to look at.
Kippax Debbie was puzzling, a stunning looking angelic blond girl who attached herself onto our wild little mob in her teens, at first we thought she was an undercover police woman but was far too young.
To me it was obvious she was a boy trapped in a stunning girls body and resented it, all the stories about her fighting and ability to take on grown men are true, i saw her deck men often almost as though she had a point to prove.
As she got older she became more stunning and was attracting a lot of attention off a lot of blues including my best mate at the time, she went out for drinks and that regular with him but come Saturdays that was all forgotten and it was back to ''Kippax Debbie''
My take on her eventual suicide was that she could not handle turning into a woman, i think the thought terrified her and she tried to kill herself twice before eventually jumping off a motorway bridge and dying.
She was not in her 40s she was in her early to mid 20s we could never find out her true age.
I still miss her and think of her often

Sad story BU. I remember Deb well, especially when she was hunting reds in the Kippax on derby day. Like you say, good looking girl too.

She loved Derby days as did her brother Tony he came out for them especially, seen Debs walk the whole length of warwick rd at the swamp early 80s with a silk City scalf tied around her head like a bandana and no amount of abuse or being spat on stopped her, copper threatened to arrest her if she didnt take it off ''get fucked'' she said, earned her a caution LOL

 

[cymru_mcfc]

I studied football hooliganism for my dissertation last year. One book I read was "Among the Thugs" by Bill Buford, who followed the rags fans undercover. He mentions a "daft donald" but I'm sure he's mentioned as a rag not a blue, is this wrong?

 

[scotty123]

I studied football hooliganism for my dissertation last year. One book I read was "Among the Thugs" by Bill Buford, who followed the rags fans undercover. He mentions a "daft donald" but I'm sure he's mentioned as a rag not a blue, is this wrong?

Daft Donald is a Blue 100%

 

[Dunraven]

I studied football hooliganism for my dissertation last year. One book I read was "Among the Thugs" by Bill Buford, who followed the rags fans undercover. He mentions a "daft donald" but I'm sure he's mentioned as a rag not a blue, is this wrong?

That book was a load of cobblers. The first chapter is called a station outside Cardiff where he reckons a train full of red dippers went past him. There isn't a station outside Cardiff Central that would have had scousers on it except Newport fifteen minutes to the east and Bridgend twenty minutes to the west. United fans jibbing planes bah!

 

[BringBackSwales]

met him in dussledorf square '88 euro championships.
he was spraying pigeons with cs gas !!!

FPMSL!!!

 

[scotty123]

met him in dussledorf square '88 euro championships.
he was spraying pigeons with cs gas !!!

FPMSL!!!

Wonder he wasnt trying to cadge 10p off them!

 

[shootmeifipost10k]

Playing Leicester away I think it was 1986/87ish I was having a drink before the game in a quiet little pub,keeping myself out of the way before meeting some mates later to go into the ground.
The last thing I expected hearing was a manc accent shouting city city, I looked up to see Donald in all his glory. He was told he had better leave and he wouldn't be served.
Not 2 mins later he walked back in strolled over to the bar and tried is luck again wearing a cunning disguise which was a cardboard box over his head. Half the pub laughed but sadly Donald got turfed out.

 

[Hotrocks]

I studied football hooliganism for my dissertation last year. One book I read was "Among the Thugs" by Bill Buford, who followed the rags fans undercover. He mentions a "daft donald" but I'm sure he's mentioned as a rag not a blue, is this wrong?

Daft Donald is a Blue 100%

As well as his short spell as a Chelsea fan!!!

 

[The Flash]

Playing Leicester away I think it was 1986/87ish I was having a drink before the game in a quiet little pub,keeping myself out of the way before meeting some mates later to go into the ground.
The last thing I expected hearing was a manc accent shouting city city, I looked up to see Donald in all his glory. He was told he had better leave and he wouldn't be served.
Not 2 mins later he walked back in strolled over to the bar and tried is luck again wearing a cunning disguise which was a cardboard box over his head. Half the pub laughed but sadly Donald got turfed out.

Brilliant. I just lol'd in a half empty office, so it echoed and those colleagues still here all turned to look. I managed to tone it down to a muttley-like laugh but there's no getting away from the fact I'm not doing my job, whilst others are. Bastard!