Stoke fans at Picadilly / Trouble {merged}

[BTH]

Crew of about 50/60 descended on The Ape in dribs and drabs, with a few cockneys amongst them. Despite them being conspicuous by their donning of their Sunday best (obviously putting on a bit of a show), us half dozen made our excuses and left them to their bottles of Beck's - and in a Holt's house. Sacrilege!

 

[LongsightM13]

It's Staffs Police we should worry about tomorrow, not a few Burberry apes. They have an appalling reputation for their behaviour towards away fans

 

[Sultana of Brunei]

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[mcfcliam]

It's Staffs Police we should worry about tomorrow, not a few Burberry apes. They have an appalling reputation for their behaviour towards away fans

They are a disgrace, they have rules of their own.

Them, GMP and Cleveland are the worst.

 

[disco dawson]

Had to do a bit of surfing to understand why Stoke fans are so.. annoyed? This seems to explain their angst.

A city in Staffordshire, England. Stoke is famous across the world for it's pottery industry. Many fine brands such as Wedgewood and Spode originate from Stoke.
However, the pottery industry is currently dying a sorry and painful death, due to Mexican sweatshops being a far cheaper source of plates and cups than England, with all it's health and safety laws and 'minimum wage' bollocks.
This has resulted in Stoke, formerly a haven for academic under-achievers due to the thousands of manual jobs in pot-banks, becoming a ghost town populated by recently redundant, now-unemployable, skilless (unless you see 'Fettling and Sponging' as a skill) troglodytes wandering about having fights with each other and/or students from the two local universities.

'Stoke-on-Trent' is also Mockney rhyming slang for 'Bent'. If you ever visit the place, you will see what a splendid aptronym-cum-epithet this is.

 

[Shafter]

Had to do a bit of surfing to understand why Stoke fans are so.. annoyed? This seems to explain their angst.

A city in Staffordshire, England. Stoke is famous across the world for it's pottery industry. Many fine brands such as Wedgewood and Spode originate from Stoke.
However, the pottery industry is currently dying a sorry and painful death, due to Mexican sweatshops being a far cheaper source of plates and cups than England, with all it's health and safety laws and 'minimum wage' bollocks.
This has resulted in Stoke, formerly a haven for academic under-achievers due to the thousands of manual jobs in pot-banks, becoming a ghost town populated by recently redundant, now-unemployable, skilless (unless you see 'Fettling and Sponging' as a skill) troglodytes wandering about having fights with each other and/or students from the two local universities.

'Stoke-on-Trent' is also Mockney rhyming slang for 'Bent'. If you ever visit the place, you will see what a splendid aptronym-cum-epithet this is.

What a fine description you have just made of my home town Dawson lad......absolutely spot on, i applaude you for being so accurate!!! Although i must correct you on one thing....."skilless"??? I beg your pardon sunny-jim but there is plenty of skill in being able to play the banjo with six fingers!!!

Anyway, back to the point of the thread......i was at the game and thouroughly enjoyed my day out. Few beers in Sale, tram into town, more beers, game, tram back to sale, more beers then home (i wasnt driving by the way).....and no sign of trouble at all!!! Good enough for me