Rags on the tram: irony of all ironies...

[dannybcity]

I went to London on the day of a rag home game. Was waiting at Euston for a while, and decided to pass the time by counting people in rag shirts on the way to the game. That was fun. Think I got about 60. One of them made a remark about my home shirt, simply told him to enjoy his day trip and showed him my seasoncard.

Liverpool are just as bad for this, the day after Spurs I was coming home as the train from Liverpool arrived. The Liverpool fans outnumbered the Arsenal fans by about 20:1.

 

[bluevengence]

are you looking forward to coming to Glasgow on thursday,yer holiness ;)[/quote]


Only if you've got that bottle of Buckfast you promised him?

And a couple of choir boys

 

[LCBblue]

Some bloke near the ground was selling half and half scarves at the derby last season. Was half red, half blue with a 'Man United' on one side, and 'Man City' on the other.

Disgraceful, I'd never even think of buying one.

 

[Dr Mick]

One of my favourite hobbies when I find myself in town on days that the Rags are at home is sending the tourist twats to all obscure areas of the city centre and beyond in the opposite direction of the swamp.
My favourite was sending six Hugos and Harveys from the Home Counties, each clutching a Rag megastore carrier bag, off towards Ardwick Green in search of Piccadilly Station — which they were already stood outside.
They asked me 'is this Piccadilly' and I said 'No lads this is Oxford Road, you need to go about a mile that way', pointing them down towards the Apollo. And off they went, the stupid twats

I had a mate once who used to work in the ticket office at British Rail. Whenever a rag asked for a ticket to Piccadilly he used to try and sell them a ticket to London and charge them 76 quid or whatever the cost was making out "oh sorry mate I thought you meant Piccadilly in London"

He'd do whatever he could to piss about in the hope they missed the train. He wasn't even a massive City fan - he just hated rags.

Eventually he got sacked.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

One of my favourite hobbies when I find myself in town on days that the Rags are at home is sending the tourist twats to all obscure areas of the city centre and beyond in the opposite direction of the swamp.
My favourite was sending six Hugos and Harveys from the Home Counties, each clutching a Rag megastore carrier bag, off towards Ardwick Green in search of Piccadilly Station — which they were already stood outside.
They asked me 'is this Piccadilly' and I said 'No lads this is Oxford Road, you need to go about a mile that way', pointing them down towards the Apollo. And off they went, the stupid twats

Got two of them to take the tram to Bury a few years back.<br /><br />-- Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:47 pm --<br /><br />

Some bloke near the ground was selling half and half scarves at the derby last season. Was half red, half blue with a 'Man United' on one side, and 'Man City' on the other.

Disgraceful, I'd never even think of buying one.

You'd think he was mad, but I bet he flogged a load to their tourists. I was in Tenerife once and a guy on one of the markets was selling rag shirts with City badges on them! LOL...

 

[adamgregory]

One of my favourite hobbies when I find myself in town on days that the Rags are at home is sending the tourist twats to all obscure areas of the city centre and beyond in the opposite direction of the swamp.
My favourite was sending six Hugos and Harveys from the Home Counties, each clutching a Rag megastore carrier bag, off towards Ardwick Green in search of Piccadilly Station — which they were already stood outside.
They asked me 'is this Piccadilly' and I said 'No lads this is Oxford Road, you need to go about a mile that way', pointing them down towards the Apollo. And off they went, the stupid twats

Well I was asked a few years ago where abouts in Manchester Old Trafford was and best way to get there, my advice was met to Salford Quays, this yank then shouted fuck you man, fuck you, its in Manchester why else would they be called Manchester United? My mate then told him to walk straight up Oldham Street towards Fallowfield, said I was only a jealous City fan the septic tanks had their laugh and proceeded to walk towards the Royal Mail office, wankers.

 

[CheethamHillBlue]

Can you remember that far back Dave? :-)

No way i'd have sex with my ex. Saw her in the street after about 20 years. She used to look like Kelly Brook. Now it's more like Mel Brook.

Lucky you. My ex is the size of Beechers Brook these days.

 

[davymcfc]

I'll never forget being on the metro on a rag matchday. We were just coming up to GMEX when this young Cockney red asked "Dad, wheres Old Trafford". His Dad pointed to GMEX and proudly announced "there it is".

lmao

 

[Chillidog77]

Some cracking stories there lads. A few years ago I was on Barton Dock Road
waiting for my lift home after work. 3(+1) rags from `Boro (1 had a `Boro shirt on, other 3 rag shirts, Hats, Scarves etc (1 even had rag shorts on!) pulled up to ask directions to the swamp, just had to direct them to Maine Rd. Even told them they would be made welcome in the Claremont & the Beehive. I`d loved to have seen their faces as they walked into 1 of the Pubs mentioned.

 

[jate7]

On a similar theme, I was in my local Weatherspoons last night when a ragshirted tosspot came in. Not an unusual occurrence really in itself I suppose but bizzarley it was around 8.15pm and there is no live footy on TV in this boozer.

Funnier still was he was still there when I left an hour or so later - a truly big fan then, NOT!!!