the loudest fans in the world are............

[CTID Chris]

are they loud away from home? are they bollocks

Sorry, that is bollocks. I've only missed a couple of home league matches over the past few seasons, and the Stoke fans have been by far the loudest away fans I've heard.

 

[LongsightM13]

There is a particular brand of cretinous rag whose life is so tragically devoid of worth, meaning, self achievement or self-respect that he joins forums of clubs we are about to play and spouts their laughably bitter, cliched poison. Then the sheep follow suit.
We had the same on Blackpool's forum. Leicester, Reading, Notts County the same.
Wonder how genuine Clayhead fans on their forums feel about becoming a rag franchise by proxy.
Dislike us if you want, but at least do it for your own reasons.
Don't allow some woman-beating gobshite from the Home Counties in a Primark goggle coat pull your strings, like a puppet show in a special needs school.
Makes you look even more small time than the video of that racist pub band already has.

 

[rhinomcfc]

To be fair, I even seen a thread on this site suggesting that you are the best fans in England.

On both sites there is some real chuckle out loud comments.

I'm sure both sets of fans will sing their hearts out at the weekend which will make for a terrific atmosphere.

We will be singing both Abide with me and the National Anthem with gusto and win or lose Stoke fans will be remaining in the stadium for the presenations and to honour the players for their efforts to reach (and hopefully win) the final.

yeah im with you on the thread on here, but the thing is that this site is swarming with rags who just right comments to make us look daft so never take what you read on this to heart cos it aint blue talk pal

 

[Pigeonho]

It was once proven that Sunderland fans are the loudest.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Don't allow some woman-beating gobshite from the Home Counties in a Primark goggle coat pull your strings, like a puppet show in a special needs school.

High five!

 

[skadey]

Aris fans are the loudest i've ever heard.

 

[scowy68]

Wolves and baggies are better by far.

 

[craigsteel]

Since Stoke will have more fans at Wembley than there ground holds many wont know the songs ala Gillingham, unless the are also rugby fans!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

And they had the dirtiest footballer of all time.
A fellow called Dennis Smith.

I remember Dennis. Dirtier ones than Dennis. Maurice Setters for one, Tommy Smith for another, Billy Bremner was no angel, Norman Cunter, and Vinny Jones.

 

[Straightouttahampton]

And they had the dirtiest footballer of all time.
A fellow called Dennis Smith.

I remember Dennis. Dirtier ones than Dennis. Maurice Setters for one, Tommy Smith for another, Billy Bremner was no angel, Norman Cunter, and Vinny Jones.

Dear King Colin Bell and Dave Ewing's Back 'eader

Visiting Stokie here - forgive the intrusion.

My view is that comparisons between how loud fans are is a pointless one, altho harmless at the same time. But to the extent that comparisons can be made, I (and many of my friends) do not buy into the notion that SCFC's fans are any louder than anyone else's. The club has, however, made something of the "unwelcome guest at the premier league party" tag. Whether that's had any effect, who can tell. I wd say it possibly has. But its currency inevitably wanes.

Similarly, I do not think there is an officially recognised or sanctioned player hardness/dirtiness scale - but that doesn't mean it's not a good game to play.

However, I am surprised at the Denis Smith reference. Smith is remembered and revered at SCFC for being a one club servant - in the days when that was for obvious reasons much more common. He also scored close to 50 goals in about 500 appearances. He was definitely "hard", and broke unfeasible numbers of (his own) bones. He famously (it is said) turned up as a spectator at an FA Cup QF replay against your neighbours in 1972 (the last time we had anything like a sniff of the FA Cup, by the way), with a ricked back, which had rendered him virtually immobile. As he got out of the car at the old Victoria Ground, the "rick" righted itself - and we beat your neighbours 2-1, following an equalising goal from Smith. An aprocryphal tale, no doubt, but a good reflection of the player.

Whether Denis Smith wd make it into one of those dreary programmes around midnight somewhere beyond Channel 28 ("football's rogues gallery" - quite possibly voiced over by Mr Vincent Jones or Mr Ross Kemp), I have my doubts...

His managerial record was "chequered".

I was trying to think who your equivalent might be. Without trying to compare ability (because I suspect he might have played for England) might Mike Doyle be a possible? Doyle spent a season or two with us at the end of his career, of course.

Maurice Setters - a different proposition altogether.