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Post by lympstonegas on Mar 31, 2017 19:08:23 GMT
Yep and always fancied getting sally James in there lol
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Post by Officer Barbrady on Mar 31, 2017 19:19:55 GMT
Plenty on here with an urge to p1ss over the back of some poor sods legs. Personally I'm keen just to slide through white dogsh1t in Eastville park.The good old days eh. Where did all the jokes about white dogshit disappear to?
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Post by gasforeverman on Mar 31, 2017 20:51:10 GMT
Stood on the tote 77 to 82 then the north enclosure for a few yrs.. Used to hang around with some rough and ready mates lol. Most of the trouble was hand bag stuff. Defo an intimatding area around the m32 underpass and stapleton rd. Old fox, sugar loaf, and black swan were propa geezer boozers utg!
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Post by Dr Gas on Mar 31, 2017 22:13:03 GMT
F**K...did someone get out of bed the wrong side??? I'm an old Tote Ender and proud to be associated with the Tote End. Its what made Eastville! I had many a good time on the Tote. Yes there were moments when things go heavy. The game with Stoke City in 1971 when Stoke fans were given part of the Tote on the right side. Then there were the moments when relationships were formed. One moment it pushing against a girl and next u kissing by the toilets. But you just had to accept what the Tote End was. It had a reputation with other clubs who wanted to "Take" the Tote. Most failed. And those who were at the FA Cup game with Southampton when their fans invaded the pitch and made their way towards the Tote. We just stood there and waited. And as the Southampton fans got closer, there was a charge from the Tote! Good old days. And by the way, anyone know how Joe90 is??? Now he was a proper tote ender and sometime started the chanting...Happy Days. But that's how football has been since the 1960's. Yes, things are changing. Most stadiums are safer places due to Bradford and Hillsborough. and of course you will get idiots, just like you do most week ends in most town and city centres. But at the end of the day i'm a proud Tote Ender and a proud Gashead - until I die that is....UTG I believe he serves in the lower bar in the Dri Build.........oh and posts on here as Meader
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Post by inee on Apr 1, 2017 12:02:48 GMT
I used to go to the north enclosure with my dad 1968-73 then from 75-77 the tote end and never felt threatened or was aware of any trouble in the ground though i know there were issues after the full time whistle. I played myself for 30 years so only went to the tote end sometimes after 77. In fairness to the op football hooligans put lots of people off going to matches and attendances suffered badly because of it. I think the small number of trouble makers at recent matches needs to be treated very seriously and anyone caught causing aggro should be banned for life. Heres a scenario for you ,someone hit youat that point you snap point that you snap, you end up lashing out, you get arrested, not the person who hit you or goaded you into a response, everyone around you know it was self defence, but the filth decided it was you, you go to court get fined and banned for life, how would you feel. The point is quite a few people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time get arrested around the country regularily(im not saying everyone arrested is innocent) but those that are have absolutely no chance of getting a judgement in thier favour, as someone has pointed out got down town on an evening, look how many people are fighting all over the place and look at the different way they are treated, look at thier fines etc, not many will be banned from going out for life.
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Post by inee on Apr 1, 2017 12:06:16 GMT
Yep and always fancied getting sally James in there lol Ah i bet you thought the okey kokey, was the hokey cockey
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2017 12:47:54 GMT
I used to go to the north enclosure with my dad 1968-73 then from 75-77 the tote end and never felt threatened or was aware of any trouble in the ground though i know there were issues after the full time whistle. I played myself for 30 years so only went to the tote end sometimes after 77. In fairness to the op football hooligans put lots of people off going to matches and attendances suffered badly because of it. I think the small number of trouble makers at recent matches needs to be treated very seriously and anyone caught causing aggro should be banned for life. Heres a scenario for you ,someone hit youat that point you snap point that you snap, you end up lashing out, you get arrested, not the person who hit you or goaded you into a response, everyone around you know it was self defence, but the filth decided it was you, you go to court get fined and banned for life, how would you feel. The point is quite a few people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time get arrested around the country regularily(im not saying everyone arrested is innocent) but those that are have absolutely no chance of getting a judgement in thier favour, as someone has pointed out got down town on an evening, look how many people are fighting all over the place and look at the different way they are treated, look at thier fines etc, not many will be banned from going out for life. We have a system in the uk and we have to abide by it. If a person is convicted for assault by a jury for example they have to take their punishment. Regarding the "banning" issue i suppose only incidents inside the ground come into that category. The last couple of away games i went to i noticed a group or groups of people appearing to be intent on aggro,different to other away games ive watched in the last 3 years and it troubled me. "the filth" ? have you been watching some reruns from the old sweeney tv show?
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Post by inee on Apr 1, 2017 13:03:34 GMT
Do we over romanticise the 'good old days'? I think we do and I also think it has an impact to attract some of the dickheads who follow our club, and are proud to represent our club. They want to show us to be hard, we can't be beat. We stand. nope but like any walk of life if someone starts on one of yours , most would stand firm out it's basic human nature , i don't feel talking about the tote attracts any sort of behaviour for some it's the best memories they have of the club , there was some thing magical about the tote , in those days you worked yer arse off all week and relaxed at football, different times different place different way of lifeNo disrespect to the Tote End Old Boys thing that's going on, but its logo is a fist with a tat on it's knuckles. f**kin 'ard in a VIZ style. Is it my knuckles have 4 dots(acab) top of fingers tote, bottom of fingers skin so f**kin what does this make you better than me because you haven't got them ,so the logo reflects what some people have tattoo'd I'm old enough to have been on the Tote as a young boy. Often it was just pure exciting, but often it was just bloody terrifying. It was aggressive, racist and often just plain nasty. so was school, youth clubs, the streets, I always felt safe on the tote and was buzzing being there, it was the way it was back then nothing more nothing less, if fighting was your thing it was a lot more violent in real life than it ever was on the tote Let's not forget that the back end of Eastville wasn't nice. It was a rampant recruiting ground for the National Front and could be a deeply unpleasant place to be. Even when we first moved to Twerton the pub to the right of the ground was rife with ultra right wingers selling the 'Bulldog' newspaper (remember fat Darren?) I remember being in there when they were selling it with the headline "The Last White Hope" as they were so proud. They were promoting the white man, Joe Bugner, who had become a nationalised aussie, against the evil black man, Frank Bruno (English, end of) same as any school playground college or uni, pub or street corner for some reason you seem fixated on the nf(who were never called an ultra right wing group, they were a far right group), what about the anl or anarchist recruiting on the tote, conveniently forgotten in trying to make out the tote as evil. you could easily buy a copy of the anarchists cook book on the tote, the reality again is it reflected what was going on in real life no more no less again for every member of the nf there were many more who weren'tBack in the day it was an excuse to get pis*ed right up and do what you want. I've seen a fellow gashead get a broken nose by another gashead because he wore the wrong colour top. Yes some got watered, some smoked a joint or two some had a nice fat glue bag but if you wanted a good punch up you tended to stay on the side of sober as its far more effective to fight sober, i've seen people get punched for all sorts of things so again just a reflection on real life at that time That's what's happening again now, led by 'old boys' who should know better, gladly followed by youngsters who are looking for an excuse. Maybe but what about the police who antagonise fans and force some to retaliate. do you have kids if you do you will soon realise some don't need an excuse ,rightly or wrongly it's part of growing up it isn't as if this generation of yung un's are the only ones to be a bit punchy IMO the glorifying of the "good old days" is what has allowed these middle aged idiots to resurrect themselves and for the youth to think its cool to behave like f*cking morons again, because they're following their elders. Why idiots just because they don't conform to what you deem good morales, a lot of people dont change as they age just get older, injuries take longer to heal when your old Terrifying innocents wasn't big and clever then and nor is it now. It quickly stopped being that way as there was no fun in having fisty cuffs with someone who didnt want it, not saying it was clean cut, but the majority of people wanted to fight with like minded people But with this romanticism of the "good old days" it means you're standing up for your club. You're Hard. You're showing everyone else that your club is not for the taking. Not necessarily, do you not look back on things, not everyone romanticises the old days but look back on a period of life that was different , life was a lot harder in those days money non existent, people were angrier ,yes i did some awful things when younger, would i change anything now nope it's the way it was, life is so wishy washy these days it's sometimes good to look back and see how much life has changed It's so out of date, but the 'good old days' are being celebrated. They shouldn't be. ive replied in bold, our fathers and grandfathers fought more openly than us, on the pubs, terraces or on the streets, goes back to when time began, every generation has differing ways, in one way a lot from our generations would work, have a scrap on a saturday, get watered on sunday go to work refreshed, wasnt about being big or clever just how life was for many many people, the only reason it became a big thing in the 80's was it was on every news program ,in every news paper ,so some people became attracted to it more. in every generation something will be held up as evil, in the 80's it was football, when there was worse trouble on every street corner (lets focus on something to defocus on worse event). Someone may or may not have got a slap at coventry, apart from those involved no-one knows what went on or why , no need to condemn everyone, or cry if you saw it report it, i still can't believe we live in a society that actively shops their neighbours for silly things) that's the job of the police . It is highly likely that in any crowd of people in ant situation some like to fight ,some like to get stoned ,get drunk, and commit far worse crimes, but do you focus on those, there has never been a time that no one has fought at football it's just a bit more underground now, no matter how much the authorites crack down it will always be there , just be thankful it isn't as open as it was.
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