I knew one Frankie couldnt have taken Dinosaur!bluedabber said:I was at the both west brom and palace away games, both great days still talked about now with lads I dont see to often. When the paddling pool appeared at wba the whole away end started singing 'paddling pool, paddling pool, paddling pool'. Also, I think the scrap was between T-REX and a Frankie the other Frankie then joined in, this set off a massive round of 'banana aggro'. If memory serves at the palace game didn't Little and Large run round with a replica fa cup at half time? I know I swapped scarves with a palace fan at Norwood station to wear in the pub for the fa cup final.BTH said:I work in an office full of plastics who wind me up no end. Not because they never go, but because they never go and yet seem to speak with such authority about a game they pretend to love although they never get their hands in their pockets to actually go to a match; it's all regurgitated crap they get off the telly.
One day last week I was telling one of the girls that when City fans get together they'll normally say "Did you go to... ?' or "Do you remember such a thing?" The rags, on the other hand, just compare the size of their respective tellys or wonder which pub they'll be watching the next match on. They wouldn't know where to start with a thread like this: "Er, I was in my living room watching this match once and, er..."
I was lucky enough to have been at most of the games mentioned in this thread. The Frankinstein fight at West Brom was hilarious and I seem to recall a paddling pool joining in as well. The Frankinsteins were owned by photographer Kevin Cummins and former MSV editor Steve Welsh respectively - the latter was wearing the old blue away shirt with the red and white sash. Steve comes on here so he'll correct me if I'm wrong.
The funniest thing I can recall off the top of my head was when City lost 1-0 at Notts County in the FA Cup in 1991 and tickets were at a premium. Three or four lads I know from Didsbury travelled without tickets in the hope that they'd be able to get them outside. They couldn't. Shortly after the kick-off I saw them all walking around the perimeter of the pitch towards our end, carrying a cardboard box each. They'd found them outside, walked through the main entrance with them, told the old duffer on the desk that they'd ran out of hot dogs in the away end and were waved through without any further ado. You'd never get away with a stunt like that these days!
This ^^^ is exactly what i love about fellow city fans.danburge82 said:Bolton away in 2004:
We'd actually won a game at Bolton and everyone was buzzing, it was right before Christmas n'all so we were all in a good mood! well that was until we walked up to the nearby train station and a big fat copper was waving all Bolton fans to the left and City fans to the right and the trains to Manchester went through Bolton and the fat policedude was only letting Bolton fans on the trains and had a gate locked in front of all blues stopping them getting on the platform!
I shouted summet like "OI FAT CONTROLLER WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE ALLOWED ON THE FUCKIN TRAIN? IT'S FREEZIN ERE!!" I think he was gonna kick us out of the queue but a load of fellow blues started singing the tune to Thomas the Tank Engine!!!!!
we finally got on the train, and we all sang the Thomas tune all the way home!
went 5th Ave that night n'all n pulled a fit bird! (those were the days!)
MCfcBOB said:The small boy and the big hot dog. To be continued.
gagiesotherhalf said:the kippax wall said:City fans berating a horrible little tranny/Benny Hill type deviant in the square just off the Reeperbaun (and him buzzing off it!). Looking at the faces of those Blackburn dicks when we took over their ground... etc etc.
Anyone remember 'George Best' from Hamburg 2002?
Fuckin hilarious! I've got a picture of him somewhere, will dig it out one time and get it posted (all my pics are in storage at the mo).
"Can you drink another Stella Georgie Best...."