MancWanderer Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Was up in Burnley and Clitheroe today and got talking to a couple of Burnley fans who were venting their spleens about the fact that Saturday's match is a bubble match with all the controls associated with it. The fact that they've got to get designated coaches, can't get a match ticket without boarding said coaches, etc, etc Got me thinking. If it's such an intense rivalry that it needs the police and the clubs to put these measures in place, are we missing out on summat like that? Not the "bubble" shit but the fact that we haven't got a local rival that creates such an atmosphere/hatred/etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieb Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Just wait til Bury next year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I suppose there's pros and cons. Can't help finding anybody who gets apoplectic with rage about another football team a bit pathetic if I'm honest. I quite like our way in that rivalries seem to come and go depending on where we in the leagues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little whitt Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Was up in Burnley and Clitheroe today and got talking to a couple of Burnley fans who were venting their spleens about the fact that Saturday's match is a bubble match with all the controls associated with it. The fact that they've got to get designated coaches, can't get a match ticket without boarding said coaches, etc, etc Got me thinking. If it's such an intense rivalry that it needs the police and the clubs to put these measures in place, are we missing out on summat like that? Not the "bubble" shit but the fact that we haven't got a local rival that creates such an atmosphere/hatred/etc bet its only them two backward clubs that do it now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan.m Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I've just been reading something about Bristol City and their match at Cardiff. Apparently they have 30 mins before the match where they have to exchange a voucher for their match ticket at a Service station on a motorway somewhere near Cardiff! It sounds so unbelievable I have read it incorrectly so somebody correct me if I'm wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOWTUN BAKED Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Burnley / Blackburn Brizzle / Cardiff Wrexham / Chester Hull / Huddersfield Leeds / Millwall Leeds / Cardiff To name a few http://www.fsf.org.uk/blog/view/bristol-city-cardiff-city-bubble-match-2015-faircop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjack Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Hull v Huddersfield? That's a new one on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtySanchez Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Hull v Huddersfield? That's a new one on me.It does kick off between the two but think the bubble game was a one off organised by west Yorkshire police So hull fans went on a protest round Huddersfield without going to the game which needed more policing than the match would have done Or summat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I reckon the way things were heading with Wigan we would have probably had one of these for that fixture. It's been spoke about on here loads but I really do wish we had a genuine rival. Wigan was getting there but I wasnt bought up to hate Wigan so it was all a bit of an afterthought really. They started to get on my nerves more than anything. Whatever the traditionalists say on here,in the modern era united never have or never will be a rival. Honestly wouldnt mind Wigan coming up. It was the only exciting league fixture of last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted October 23, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 23, 2015 Whatever the traditionalists say on here,in the modern era united never have or never will be a rival. dont talk bollocks you live so far away, you dont get it tell the walkden lot united arent a rival folk on here go on about preston...who? wigan and blackburn mean nowt to me my side of town the rivalry is bury and united where i'm living, its blackburn i think despite being a small club, we cover quite a big area so we've a number of rivals rather than one we can focus on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjack Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Less of the small club. Outside of the big city clubs we're Lancashire's biggest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 dont talk bollocks you live so far away, you dont get it tell the walkden lot united arent a rival folk on here go on about preston...who? wigan and blackburn mean nowt to me my side of town the rivalry is bury and united where i'm living, its blackburn i think despite being a small club, we cover quite a big area so we've a number of rivals rather than one we can focus on I do get it. Rivalry IMO is two way. If they were that big of a rival we wouldn't have struggled to sell our allocation there for the last 4/5 times we played there. The topic of this thread is about bubble matches and the rivalry that goes with it. If you think our rivalry with united is anywhere near that you've been overdoing that shite Aldi lager you drink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalcolmW Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Less of the small club. Outside of the big city clubs we're Lancashire's biggest. At the foundation of the League, North Lancs had PNE, Rovers, Burnley and Accy, South Lancs had BWFC and Everton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted October 23, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 23, 2015 ,in the modern era united never have or never will be a rival. thats what you said and its bollocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjack Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 And only Everton are bigger out of that lot, Malcolm. I agree gonzo that a full blooded rivalry needs to be a mutual thing - and we've not had that with United since the late 50s. The reason we struggled to sell out at OT in the last few years of the Prem tho was to do with folk not wanting to stump up 40 quid plus to see us get dicked on. And tomorrow Ewood will only be two thirds full for the biggest game of the year for both clubs...not because the passion has gone but because it costs an arm and a leg, it's on telly and if you're a Burnley fan you have to come on a club coach, you've no choice. Fuck that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 thats what you said and its bollocks Haha it's not though is it? For reasons I and you have just explained. Some folk on here hate Preston. Are they a genuine rival worthy of a mention in a thread about bubble matches and rivalry that goes with it? Are they fuck. Just like united aren't. We don't come close to being on their radar therefore not a two way rivalry. I'm not massively fond of Barcelona. Maybe our next fixture with them will be a bubble match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underpants Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Proper rivalry is two way. Doesn't bother me that we don't have a real rivalry. It suites me when it moves around a bit. Stockport, Bury, Wolves, Trannys, Preston even Port Vale. In their time it was two way and proper juicy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Blackburn for me, however it is an era thing. In the 1970's the two biggest mobs after the mancs was us and Blackburn, lots of rivalry there. Some of Blackburns old boys would testify to that, but nowadays, I don't think there is anything like that now, perhaps I am wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Olympiacos v Panathinaikos is a good Bubble match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no balls Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Malcolm post alert: There's a bus company round the hyndburn/Burnley way called bubble travel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted October 23, 2015 Site Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2015 The Ameobi signing doesn't seem to have created a feeling of friendly bonhomie on here tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Carlos Posted October 23, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 23, 2015 Fleetwood v Blackpool will be a bubble game, the fuckers will all be on the shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boby Brno Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 This one way rivalry thing with United is put about by reds to trivialise us in the same way many Bolton fans do with Wigan and Bury. Most of the genuine reds that live on our border or even within Bolton, see it as a genuine rivalry. The plastic Mancs from London, Dublin, Bangkok or even Blackpool might not see it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Just wait til Bury next year... We only laugh at Bury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 In terms of clashes and smacks received in the wonderful world of rivalry watching the whites, Blackpool was a bastard for me being a straggler on countless occasions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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