radcliffe white Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 euro 96 on box from Monday 9 days till bundesliga starts fill your boots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc505 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 11 minutes ago, radcliffewhite1 said: euro 96 on box from Monday 9 days till bundesliga starts fill your boots I'll not be sitting through some of those knockout games in Euro 96, some stinkers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deane koontz Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 32 minutes ago, Marc505 said: Got opening game of K-League on BBC app, crowd songs being played on the loudspeakers! It's already showing that it'll be impossible to enforce the no talking or shouting on the pitch rule. It sounds worse than flatdick tennis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 On 08/05/2020 at 11:13, Marc505 said: Got opening game of K-League on BBC app, crowd songs being played on the loudspeakers! Tranmere like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc505 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 45 minutes ago, Traf said: Tranmere like this. Are they guilty of the same? Fucken tramps. I do not like that continuous crowd droning sound that's on the concourse during home games either actually, though I know its probably to encourage people to go to their seats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Egg Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 I think Traf may be referring to Wembley in 91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Anyone else gone completely off football? Apart from the day out and seeing folk at the match, I can’t say I’m missing the game in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieb Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 3 minutes ago, gonzo said: Anyone else gone completely off football? Apart from the day out and seeing folk at the match, I can’t say I’m missing the game in general. I won't be rushing back watching VAR fuck prem games over on TV. Will watch England in euro 96 reruns and hold out for our first game on Ifollow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomski Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 24 minutes ago, gonzo said: Anyone else gone completely off football? Apart from the day out and seeing folk at the match, I can’t say I’m missing the game in general. #metoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lofthouse Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 40 minutes ago, gonzo said: Anyone else gone completely off football? Apart from the day out and seeing folk at the match, I can’t say I’m missing the game in general. I’m in. Enjoying the break to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol_BWFC Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 It’s the football deviants that make the following Bolton what it is (worthwhile). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burndens Bogs Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Missing the craic, not missing the “football” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted May 9, 2020 Moderators Share Posted May 9, 2020 2 hours ago, gonzo said: Anyone else gone completely off football? Apart from the day out and seeing folk at the match, I can’t say I’m missing the game in general. I probably wouldn't have got a season ticket last season had I discovered Battlenips a year ago Can't see how I go back to the match now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyrotten Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 I'm managing but the thing I miss is anticipating the weekend, and looking forward to what's coming up next week, next month etc. Just existing. Nothing to discuss that gets juices flowing. Everything flat, no anger, no joy, no dismay, no excitement. Great for the heart rate, it must be like this for none football fans all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 I read a lot of my old Rothmans on the bog in the morning looking at past line ups and results and still puzzled to this day how we got beat at Mansfield 4-0 in 91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieb Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 1 hour ago, ZicoKelly said: I probably wouldn't have got a season ticket last season had I discovered Battlenips a year ago Can't see how I go back to the match now Half time battle nips on the pitch. First up.... Ruth. 105, 112 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunnerFan Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Burndens Bogs said: Missing the craic, not missing the “football” This Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BOWTUN BAKED Posted May 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 10, 2020 I'm not missing football, it's been years since I was a football fan, I'm a BWFC fan. I don't watch sky, I don't watch MOTD, I rarely have, unless we're involved. I am missing the match. I am missing BWFC. The craic is great, the journey, meeting up with mates, travelling the length & breadth of the country, full day sessions, taking over towns, so on & so on & so on ... But the match ... the match, the live match is something else. The emotions, the songs, the banter, the passion, the anger, the fear, the adulation, the euphoria, the pride ... Even when losing ... & nothing, but nothing, beats the euphoric thrill when the ball hits the back of the net ... the primal raw release of all those emotions in a split second is an experience that only your fellow fans will ever really know. It's a legal high, an adrelaline rush like no other, only increased by the importance of that game in that scenario. A last minute winner against a local rival or hated team, the beating of a higher profile team against all odds, an unlikely victory against adversity. That's what I miss, no matter how your week has gone, at work, at home or whatever ... You can switch off for a few hours, or for a day ... & let go for a bit, be yourself & enjoy yourself amongst your own, amongst your family, amongst your friends. Nothing beats it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Egg Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 ^ Spot on pal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted May 10, 2020 Site Supporter Share Posted May 10, 2020 3 hours ago, BOWTUN BAKED said: But the match ... the match, the live match is something else. The emotions, the songs, the banter, the passion, the anger, the fear, the adulation, the euphoria, the pride . But even the songs are a poor imitation compared with late 70s to mid 90s. As a group, our ability to chant a short line of song repetitively are second to none. Our ability to get a song going On the terraces is pretty poor really. We manage a few old school songs in the pubs before hand but this rarely transfers to the game itself. The change from Burnden to Reebok stopped such songs being ‘handed down’ on the terraces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Beautifuly put B.B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radcliffe white Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Well said baked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Take Hunt Off Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 In all ways the game has changed .The pals I went with either dont go any more or worse are no longer with us .Buried my best mate last week he stopped going a while ago due to a combination of poor health & financial problems.He was a Wanderer through & through though at one time he went to every single game Partick Thistle away in the Anglo Scottish cup springs to mind.He once got off the train at Derby ( London bound) to get twenty embassy for Terry Wharton the silly sod almost missed getting back on. The craic we used to have dissolved over a period of time .The seventies were mad & exciting .Loads of bevying trouble around every corner it was chaos.Of course we were younger then. I stopped going to most aways in the eighties due to marriage & kids plus finances .My mate who was single carried on .He chalked up twice the aways compared to me.Although the eighties were pretty grim we still preserved the comeraderi & could still muster a good following on the day. The Rioch era topped the lot football & atmosphere wise for me even though I was now in my forties the buzz was electric .The move to the Reebock sort of signaled the end of all the mayhem of the past although we were more successful there was definately something missing The European tours were fantastic & obviously had novelty value & will live in the memory but not in the same way as the promotion winning team that chalked up one hundred goals under Colin Todd. Sometimes I ask myself why do I still go?Few mates still attend .Is it pure loyalty ?being a lapsed Catholic might be relevant a substitute for going to church every week ? Thing is I cannot imagine not going & the rougher times get the more unlikely it is that I will quit .Enjoyment from the game is minimal at the moment but there's always the hope. Hope is was keeps us going .This time next year Rodders we'll be promoted .Once in never out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc505 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 I find it a difficult sport to like now definitely, obviously impossible to know for sure but I dont think I'd get so obsessed with it as I did, if I was a kid now. Like many others its more about the days out, seeing mates and seeing bits of the country you never would otherwise. I used to stay up till 4am watching C5 highlights from MLS, Brazil, Japan leagues ffs, not now. I cant claim that football doesn't mean anything to me anymore though, I dont think I've ever felt as invested as I did in L1 promotion season, that's including everything from Rioch onwards. WC2018 had me hoping and dreaming like a kid, some of the Champions League games you watch as a neutral have been truly epic. Its easy to be down about football, but when its good there's still nothing better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radcliffe white Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 When you think of singing on packed trains/tubes all huddled on platforms with beers from the offy going to be a long time before that happens again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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