Unpleasant experience in Colin Bell Level 3 today

[silvaboots]

fuck me my mouth would make a whore blush at times but if there are random kids about.. my lips are sealed. its just not cool.

Colin bell, queen Elizabeth, queen letifa, shaun goater.. dont care whos stand it is, geneal poster, moderator, season ticket holder or new blue. keep it clean around the kids.

people on here need to have a word.

City island
I understand your reply if kids where directly around me I would not start swearing like a drunken sailor but sometimes needs must with some people,but this does not make them hooligans or scum
I don't take my kids inside these areas ,and as the op says he could not get tickets elsewhere,I understand this but most match going folk see the,Going to the game the same as the past and will shout and swear as need be.
This will never change.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

fuck me my mouth would make a whore blush at times but if there are random kids about.. my lips are sealed. its just not cool.

Colin bell, queen Elizabeth, queen letifa, shaun goater.. dont care whos stand it is, geneal poster, moderator, season ticket holder or new blue. keep it clean around the kids.

people on here need to have a word.

City island
I understand your reply if kids where directly around me I would not start swearing like a drunken sailor but sometimes needs must with some people,but this does not make them hooligans or scum
I don't take my kids inside these areas ,and as the op says he could not get tickets elsewhere,I understand this but most match going folk see the,Going to the game the same as the past and will shout and swear as need be.
This will never change.

He was on Level 3 of the CB stand, people are acting as if he took his kid to Millwall away in 1984 or something.

 

[gxblue]

Both my kids been going to the match from an early age, what they hear at the match stays at the match ,never once heard either of them say any swear word one is 18 the other is 8. We now sit in the family stand people still swear just ignore it .

 

[Ja Salford Blue]

Was the OP at Maine Road the day we played Coventry when Robbie Keane ran riot and Richard Edghill was made scapegoat?

That's the only time I've ever seen my old fella want to kill a blue!

Bang out of order a few blues that day!

Edghill was never the same after that!


School of hard knocks was Main Road!

 

[Sigh]

I've got me rights. I've got me rights. I've got me rights, on both shoulders, in plain view, right next to me inverted snobbery and pit-head sized chips. I'm working class me. Like fuck you are.

Class-less working more like.

 

[Balti]

in the Colin bell as well

tut tut

 

[gmckennasell]

So you have never swore in the heat of the moment in front of women and children ? If you havent , then you have amazing resources of restraint .The "new" clientele that frequent the etihad are definitely not working class , a lot of are day trippers , waiting patiently to be entertained , (perhaps they have got bored with going to the ballet or theatre) . Working class supporters are being priced out of the premier league , i dont want my club to become as soulless as the swamp and the emirates , but it is ,because success will inevitably bring the glory hunters , and the 50,000 who were at York away , will just have to accept this as the price to pay for our attempt at global football domination.

I swear. I swear more than I'd like and I've swore numerous times in front of young relatives.

There's a big difference between a bit of swearing and some kids dad asking you to stop swearing as it's making his child uncomfortable.

I've never been to a 'ball', I don't enjoy the theatre, ballet or anything else like that. I was raised in a very working class household where if you wanted to make kids cry by mouthing off you'd get a smack for being a dick.

At no point is this about new fans either. I think it's safe to assume both parties are long time fans.



I've been going to matches all my life and at no point have I judged how hardcore I am on how many kids I made cry that day like a good working class boy should.

My post referred to our "new " followers , who sit quietly playing with their mobile phones and i-pads , waiting to be entertained , my post was a generalisation , not a personal reference or attack on your working class status.

 

[bemused observer]

I had a similar experience with my lad at one of his first games. He was 6 or 7 and it was when we lost 3-0 at home to Forest in the 3rd round of the cup (in those days we didn't come back). We were awful and there was a bloke in front of us who couldn't contain his anger. It wasn't so much the language, we were ok with that, it was more the intensity and anger that my lad hadn't witnessed before. I had a word, the bloke apologised, then did it again, then left in disgust 10 minutes before the end.

Anyway, he's hardly missed a home game since then, so I don't think it's done him any lasting harm. And we have a guy who sits next to us every week who could compete in the world swearing championships, but is also one of the most knowledgeable people about football I've ever met.

So all I would say is, wherever you sit, you will hear stuff you don't like, but most blues are reasonable people so stick with it, and the rewards outweigh the downsides (at least in the last 5 years)

 

[mammutly]

It pisses me off when people get precious about swearing. If you don't like it, don't come.

City market cup games as a family day out and last season, I shit you not, people in front of me in the CB stand came with a fucking picnic. The mother covered her child's ears when I swore and they left at half time.

Football is a crowd participation sport and if you want to sit quietly and watch, stay at home.

 

[TCIB]

If your out of the family stand you have to accept this can and does happen.
As it happens i just accepted adults swore at footy when i was younger but never copied them.

I can understand the desire to protect a child from whatever the parent deems inappropriate but it is what it is.
In this case the inevitability of life being thrust in a son/daughters faces at the cost of a parents sensibilities being offended.
The op is not the first and i doubt the last.

Hopefully his kid shrugs it of and learns the dynamics of emotions and sport soon.
Education as in all cases is the key. Then he can learn to ignore us stupid adults and enjoy his childhood :)