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Post by k4gas on Jul 10, 2021 17:53:55 GMT
In the video interview he sounds like a hostage who has been told what to say. Regardless, seems like a great piece of business
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Post by k4gas on Feb 15, 2020 18:04:04 GMT
Liverpool. Moved north as a young man, everything cheaper. Get to more away than home games these days.
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Post by k4gas on Feb 11, 2020 14:15:57 GMT
I'm in Liverpool, just about 5 miles from the ground as the crow flies. Mainly dry, but very strong winds. Man killed in local woods this morning by falling tree, sea overtopping promenade defences at New Brighton, just up the road from Prenton Park. Bitterly cold. It's not going to be a pretty game tonight. Little chance of our new style of play working. I'm going, but not hopeful we'll get anything out of the game. Still, Up the Gas!
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Post by k4gas on Oct 21, 2017 12:56:11 GMT
Here in the clubhouse bar. Nearly all gas, there must be some Dale in, but we've taken over their bar. Still very quiet. UTG!
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Post by k4gas on Jul 6, 2017 15:43:14 GMT
Isn't that the smith that got sacked from Leicester for his part in a racist sex orgy in Thailand? Yes, there's a very explicit video out there - definitely NSFW
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Post by k4gas on May 1, 2017 0:12:05 GMT
Now this season is over I have started planning for next season. Who will be dropping down from the Championship? Already down are Rotherham and Wigan and I have been to their grounds recently watching the Rovers. Still to be decided are Birmingham and Forest again I have been there. The one I'm keen on and keeping my fingers crossed is Blackburn Rovers. They sit in the last relegation spot and they seem favourite for the drop. I also have not been there so come on Brentford keep me happy. In anticipation of the above I looked up Blackburn and they have a mighty fine history, so sad to see them in the mire. 5 times FA Cup winner etcOne very interesting statistic is their highest gate was 62225 spectators. Strange as the population of the City is only 100000 i.e. 60% of the population So come on Wael when you announce the new Stadium you had better build in expansion plans as 60% of Bristol's 450000 population is 270000 Blackburn were founder members of the FA, and have won the FA Cup 6 times, including 3 consecutive years in the 1880's. I don't think there's another English team with their proud history. I lived there in the early 1980's, when they were in the old Division 2, and used to go to all their home games. They were a really traditional Lancashire set-up, surrounded by cobbled streets, ancient turnstiles and wooden terrraces. This was before Jack Walker's millions propelled them into the top flight. Back them, Burnley, bitter local rivals were in Div 3 and much the weaker team. Vivid memories of Chelsea visiting (they were also Div 2 at the time), I've never before or since seen so much violence and aggro at a football match: bricks through pub windows before the game, Chelsea fans scaling 12-foot high fences in the stands to have a go at Blacburn Rovers fans. I would love to go back to Blackburn, supporting the Gas. Not too far from our home, either.
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Post by k4gas on Feb 15, 2017 1:41:59 GMT
I know I need to wash my hands, disinfect my appendages, but I enjoyed this from the dark side, in fact it's made my evening:
"AshtonG666 AshtonG666 Members 153 305 posts ID: 736 Posted 4 hours ago Come on, why are Rovers not losing against Sheff United FFS 1 person likes this"
sorry for the lack of formatting
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Post by k4gas on Feb 6, 2017 17:07:13 GMT
I just had a look at the Wikipedia article on Everton's training ground, as it's quite close to our house, and I remember it well when it was a pick-your-own fruit farm. It's 55 acres, just about twice the size of ours, but then I guess it houses a category 1 academy. Here's the link, perhaps worth a scan. There's a picture at the bottom of the article showing the layout of the ground. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finch_Farm
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Post by k4gas on Jan 18, 2017 17:56:11 GMT
Macca did a good job for us in goal on that freezing cold mid-week night in Wrexham. There was at least one tricky save he made in a crowded box, where he had to jump for the ball and catch it a full stretch. He'll always be a hero to me for his role in that game. Legend.
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Post by k4gas on Jan 17, 2017 15:45:43 GMT
It had definitely gone yesterday - I looked am and pm, over quite a few pages I'm ashamed to admit.
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Post by k4gas on Jan 17, 2017 0:34:36 GMT
about an hour ago k4gas said:
"Yeah, I noticed earlier today. What a pity, I used to enjoy reading it for its comedy value. They're clearly worried about their position - how sad ... I don't really want them in the same league as us, if they are to go down I hope we get promoted. Conversely, it's probably a bit early for us to go up, until our infrastructure is improved, giving better cash flows to sustain us, so in a strange way I hope they just survive a prolonged relegation battle if we stay in League 1 another season. "
Last Minute Winners asked: "Just out of interest why wouldn't you like seeing them in the same league as us? i'd fu**ing love it"
It's because many Sh1!heads are f*ckin animals, and can't be trusted to restrain from violence against our fans, be they children, female or just old (and I'm 59 and in no position to take on youthful thugs). We saw their disgusting behaviour last time we played them at Ashton Gate, and a little further back smashing up a pub in Cardiff, terrorising family groups in the pub. This goes beyond the bounds of acceptable inter-club rivalry. The only comparison I can think of in the UK is Celtic and Rangers. I live in Liverpool, most Everton and Liverpool fans at least have respect for the other club (and who can forget the FA Cup in 1986, with Wembley full of Scousers chanting "Merseyside", rather than Liverpool or Everton. There's not the same level of hatred between the two Manchester teams. you could make out a case against Millwall perhaps, but theu're pretty much equal-opportunities haters, hating everyone else. Actually, I personally do not hate the club, just dislike it. The animals amongst their fans I just despise, and want nothing whatsoever to do with them.
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Post by k4gas on Jan 16, 2017 22:32:57 GMT
Yeah, I noticed earlier today. What a pity, I used to enjoy reading it for its comedy value. They're clearly worried about their position - how sad ... I don't really want them in the same league as us, if they are to go down I hope we get promoted. Conversely, it's probably a bit early for us to go up, until our infrastructure is improved, giving better cash flows to sustain us, so in a strange way I hope they just survive a prolonged relegation battle if we stay in League 1 another season.
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Post by k4gas on Dec 18, 2016 19:32:19 GMT
Here we go where? K4 is quite right. I've defended the team for some weeks now but today was indefensible. Yet again a team at the bottom were made to look far better than they are. Radical changes are needed. The idea that professional sportsmen are just not trying is and always has been frankly ridiculous. It is far more personal than a comment on skill or aptitude and far less likely to be accurate. It is the first preserve of the bitterness that can disconnect a club from its fans and create an atmosphere that can become destructive. It is a hypothesis which cannot be proven and a comment which can never be shown to have any basis in objective fact. So ... as I said: Here we go. Your Worship, I share your concerns re creating a destructive atmosphere, and I agree that it cannot be proven that some players lacked application. However, DC in his post-match interview twice alludes to lack of application, so I'm in good company. After sleeping on it, I'm less upset than I was, and I was never slagging off the whole team. Onwards and upwards - before the season started, I said my target was survival in League Two, anything else was a bonus. Our squad has achieved miracles over the past two years - although there can never be any sitting on their laurels. I trust in the manager and the board to do what we need in order to progress. UTG!
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Post by k4gas on Dec 17, 2016 22:02:20 GMT
Some of the team looked like they weren't bothered, weren't committed. This is what upset me most about the debacle this afternoon. I haven't really seen this from a DC team before, odd days and odd players apart. There's very few of the team I would be bothered anymore if they were moved on in January. I thought this was our worst performance since Altrincham away in the Conference. The boos and jeers at the end were fully justified, in my book. In front of 1500 fans who bothered to spend the money and turn up. Pity the players on the pitch didn't. BTW, I'm not normally one to slag off the team, but I'm prepared to call it after a shambles like today.
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Post by k4gas on May 8, 2016 16:38:05 GMT
Just got back home in Liverpool, the celebrations, especially on Gloucester Road, were the best ever. We took part in the Liverpool homecoming in 2005, after the Champions League final, and it was more joyous than that, although to be fair there was half a million fans on the streets for that one.
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Post by k4gas on Apr 30, 2016 12:59:17 GMT
In the Burton Stone pub, last time was December 2012, just before McGhee's last game as our manager. What a difference, number and mood of our gasheads today. The game too is going to put some ghosts to bed for me, don't think I've ever seen a more miserable gutless performance by the team than then. Come on you Gas, we can and we will do this!
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Post by k4gas on Apr 16, 2016 16:37:36 GMT
Standing in the club bar pondering after our win against Yeovil. Howabout if our away shirt next season is the classic pink shirt we has as a charity fund raiser a few seasons back? I'd buy it like a shot, and we would have unique classy kits home and away. What does anyone else think?
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Post by k4gas on Apr 3, 2016 19:38:31 GMT
It was the quarters that did it for me and made me a Gashead. I've lived in Liverpool the past 32 years. We actually prefer attending Rovers games over Liverpool games these days, there's more passion. Back in the 80's Liverpool FC and its fans seemed the real thing, nowadays Liverpool FC feels like a money-making machine, with fans taken for granted (yes, I know, that's true at most clubs, to an extent).
I've no connection directly with Bristol, lived my first 18 years in Weymouth. I remember visiting Bristol Zoo in 1965, where a llama spat at me hitting me in the face and a large gorilla in a small cage was seated on its haunches and rocking backwards and forwards - that memory still haunts me today, half a century on. Bristol seemed still war-damaged then with plenty of bomb sites still, more so than Weymouth.
Sometimes we watched the Terras for free standing on the railway embankment above the Rec, but Weymouth has never really been a football town. The biggest rivals were Yeovile (Dorchester would have been, but they played in a lower league so we rarely played them). Nearest league team Bournemouth (yawn), half-way interesting teams we would have to gone to Exeter, Bristol or Southampton. We were water-poor, so that was never an option. Because of the similarity of the club colours, I followed (and still do) Aston Villa and West Ham.
Then, some time in the early 70's, I watched a televised game between Rovers and City. Can't remember the score or which ground, but loved the quarters (even on black & white TV) and became a Rovers supporter. I followed Rovers from a distance for many years, and when my son was of an age, planted the seeds of him supporting an authentic footballing team, and we started attending Rovers games at the Mem in 2007/08. So two Scousers, one an adopted son of the city and one born & bred, both massive gasheads now. We've even made my Liverpool-raised wife a gashead, and she doesn't even really follow football.
I hope this doesn't make us plastic, glory-chasing gasheads, not after what we've endured over these years.
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Post by k4gas on Mar 28, 2016 12:45:44 GMT
My family and 30 or 40 other gas, and Carlisle fans as well. All peaceful and friendly
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Post by k4gas on Mar 28, 2016 12:35:06 GMT
We're in the Beehive opposite the ground. Classy gaff!
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