highlandcowden Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 ive sacked plenty,for a variety of reasons-just shite,public transport,somewhere to be later etc i actually stayed till the end of the infamous 10-0 at tynecastle-partly just doggedness on my part,partly because of the weather-it was pishing it down and i thought it might let up.it didnt if i recall correctly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthelie' Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 4 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: November 2000, Saints are 4-0 down at Ibrox after 20 minutes. Fearing it would end up as double figures I left there and then. I walked to PRW and waited for a bus, got off at Barshaw Park, walked another 5 minutes to home, switched on the radio and the 2nd half had just started. It finished 7-1 so I didn't even see our goal. Kenny Miller scored 5 and the Ref made Saints players wear Rangers red socks. I was at that game and scrimgour had a nightmare. Never left a game at half time, but once went to a junior game and me and my mate were well pissed off there were no pies left b4 kick off. We were more bemused when the manager made all his subs in the first 20 minutes of the game. On hearing our concerns an old guy quietly informed us 'this is the fucking second half'. Hung about for 5 mins then sloped off back to the pub. Probably wrong thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Old Firm fans from The Highlands make me want to vomit. They are the absolute dregs of society and sadly outnumber County and ICT fans many times over. There's always a bonk masheen type in every pub in Inverness wanting to educate you all about the good IRA or how Sturgeon is in a secret lesbian relationship with Judy Murray. None of them could point out Ireland or Glasgow on a map to you. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 1 hour ago, tree house tam said: If I must. I'd been out on the Friday night and got pretty fucked up, pulled a burd and went back to hers. It was a pretty mad night that involved various drugs and some viagra, not much sleeping put it that way. Met my mates in the pub in the morning and off we went to the football, gets inside the ground and the bitch starts saying she wants me back round to pump her again. Starts sending me pictures etc. Now anyone who knows what the after effects of viagra are will know that at the sight of the dirty pictures you will instantly have a boner again, so rather than sit watching Saints players take five touches to control a ball I took the sensible option and emptied mine. You ripped the head off it in your seat at McDiarmid Park...??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Old Firm fans from The Highlands make me want to vomit. They are the absolute dregs of society and sadly outnumber County and ICT fans many times over. There's always a bonk masheen type in every pub in Inverness wanting to educate you all about the good IRA or how Sturgeon is in a secret lesbian relationship with Judy Murray. None of them could point out Ireland or Glasgow on a map to you. Can you explain to me why a football fan from Caithness, Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles etc. should feel obliged to support Ross County or ICT? These teams are literally hundreds of miles away. It's impractical for 99% of people living in these areas to attend games in Dingwall or Inverness. -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superkillieaway Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Left before half time just once v oldco at Rugby Park. It was the last game of the season and they could win the league if they beat us. The club (chairman) sold the home fans out and allowed loads of them to get home end tickets. Was basically a mixture of us and them in the home end. Obviously, being the vermin they are they didnt try to hide the fact they were in the home end but came in with sombreros and party hats. Stewards didnt chuck anyone out but attempted to segregate them in the home end. Then they proceeded to go 3-0 up after about 6/7 minutes. All hell broke lose around us with killie fans telling them where to go, a few fisty cuffs. I remember some old women in a rangers top swinging at someone and then about bovrils and pies getting chucked everywhere. Left 5 mins. Think they won by 5 or 6. We got a consolation through a James Dayton freekick. But really couldnt give a f**k at that stage. The antics that day led us to selling 3 stands to Celtic for there title party the next season. I decided to give that one a miss. Also left tynie after about 50 mins. 3-0 down at Half time to a hearts team of teenagers + Ryan Stevenson. The season they went down and we stayed out of the playoffs by a bawhair. Stevenson got a hattrick i think. Shouldve left at halftime but i persuaded my pal to wait and see if we got any better after the break. Hearts came straight back out and continued to give us a spanking, we left when the 4th went in and went straight to the nearest pub. Shouldve got rid of Alan Johnston that night, gave him and the players some amount of abuse before leaving. Thought we were down that night. Thankfully, Terry Butcher had other ideas. Left others in the last 10 mins, especially during the Locke/Mculloch/Johnston eras. We were rotten during that time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 It's not sad or depressing lads, it's how this works. People are going to support the teams they can engage with most often.Is it the rampant bigotry and sectarianism you engage with most about the **** ? Can you explain to me why a football fan from Caithness, Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles etc. should feel obliged to support Ross County or ICT? These teams are literally hundreds of miles away. It's impractical for 99% of people living in these areas to attend games in Dingwall or Inverness.Isn’t Govan even more hundreds of miles away? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 1 minute ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: Is it the rampant bigotry and sectarianism you engage with most about the **** ? Isn’t Govan even more hundreds of miles away? A man using the H word trying to take the high road on bigotry is very, very funny. Sure it is. But as I stated multiple times on this thread, those are games you can actually watch, because they're on the TV. -4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_K_97 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Forgot to mention the earliest time I ever left a game in my previous post. It was the last game of the season in Walter Smith's last season as Rangers manager and his last game was away at Rugby Park. As a young turnstile operator at that match I worked a fairly horrendous shift in the main stand - but did see a grown man almost greet when I told him that voucher 20 he'd clearly bought off a Killie fan for an inflated price wasn't valid as this match was home game 19 of the season, so that was a slight consolation. Finished my shift as early as possible and along with two mates I worked with decided to get a seat in the main stand to see some of the game despite us being down 3-0 after something ludicrous like 12 minutes. Took a look around, saw it was full of people who obviously weren't home fans creating a poisonous atmosphere and decided not to stick around. We went back to mine to watch that fairly horrendous film Buried. Was quite realistic when the helicopter with the league trophy flew over the house towards the stadium though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 It's nice to see an Old Firm fan admit that they follow their team because they were on telly a lot. Brave in a way. If he can follow that logic to work out that he means Rangers are his favourite tv show we'll all have had a productive evening. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 3 minutes ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said: It's nice to see an Old Firm fan admit that they follow their team because they were on telly a lot. Brave in a way. If he can follow that logic to work out that he means Rangers are his favourite tv show we'll all have had a productive evening. Well since I'm no longer living in Scotland, I'm resigned to the fact that trips to Ibrox are increasingly rare for me (I used to get maybe two or three times a season before all this shite started). For all of us emigrants, or folk living at the opposite end of the country, our football team is our favourite TV show, regardless of who our team is. That's just how life plays out sometimes - what can you do? I'm sure it hasn't escaped you that Hibs are your favourite TV show at the minute too, and likely will be for a very long time. So it's a bit weird to see you looking down your nose at other folk when you're in the exact same situation as us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkee Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Never, even when we got pumped in the CL I stayed to the bitter end. Painful as it was. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Well since I'm no longer living in Scotland, I'm resigned to the fact that trips to Ibrox are increasingly rare for me (I used to get maybe two or three times a season before all this shite started). For all of us emigrants, or folk living at the opposite end of the country, our football team is our favourite TV show, regardless of who our team is. That's just how life plays out sometimes - what can you do? I'm sure it hasn't escaped you that Hibs are your favourite TV show at the minute too, and likely will be for a very long time. So it's a bit weird to see you looking down your nose at other folk when you're in the exact same situation as us.I’d rather watch Cobra Kai atm than Hamilton, defo not my favourite ‘tv show’ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 10 minutes ago, G51 said: Well since I'm no longer living in Scotland, I'm resigned to the fact that trips to Ibrox are increasingly rare for me (I used to get maybe two or three times a season before all this shite started). For all of us emigrants, or folk living at the opposite end of the country, our football team is our favourite TV show, regardless of who our team is. That's just how life plays out sometimes - what can you do? I'm sure it hasn't escaped you that Hibs are your favourite TV show at the minute too, and likely will be for a very long time. So it's a bit weird to see you looking down your nose at other folk when you're in the exact same situation as us. Yes, someone picking their team based on who the ones on the telly were and someone watching their team, that they follow not based on who the ones on the telly were, on the tv because of migration or a massive pandemic, are exactly the same. Between this and the 'the H word is actually sectarian' pish I don't think you're worth discussing the matter further with 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibsFan Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Never left a game early (apart from once in injury time to catch the only train I could make home). It's not out of principle or anything, I just always think I'll jinx it and miss a ridiculous comeback. Maybe the 7-0 against Malmo should've been an exception. But I know people who left at 3-0 down to Falkirk in the semi final, and there are allegedly one or two people who left when Halliday made it 2-1 in 2016. Weirdos. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said: Yes, someone picking their team based on who the ones on the telly were and someone watching their team, that they follow not based on who the ones on the telly were, on the tv because of migration or a massive pandemic, are exactly the same. Between this and the 'the H word is actually sectarian' pish I don't think you're worth discussing the matter further with It's wild to me that you can't see the fundamental point being made here, which is that not everyone has a local team because Scotland is a fucking enormous place with a lot of regions that have a very low population density. When there is no local team, those people are going to form an attachment with the team that they can watch most often, which is going to be the teams on the TV most often. SPL clubs made a collective decision years back, in conjunction with the broadcaster, to ensure that every game on Sky/Setanta/whoever would be whichever Old Firm team was playing away that weekend. This was to maximise the revenue from the TV deal while protecting the 3pm blackout by limiting the number of games shown. So of course most people without a local team are going to become Old Firm fans - that's a consequence of the SPL's decision to show only those games. This is still the broadcasting policy decades later, except we decided to sell a few more games to Sky so we now get some more games from other teams. You're entitled to hate that, but it seems weird to me that people would hate folk without a local team taking an interest in Scottish football. These are people who would otherwise be lost to the EPL or football altogether. And as for the H word, it's been long established by multiple authorities committed to the fight against sectarianism that it is a sectarian term. I had assumed this was now widely accepted by everyone, and why the term is now censored on here. Unless you think the "KAH" graffiti in places like the Bogside is a call to wipe out Rangers supporters. But that's for another day. Edited October 13, 2020 by G51 -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Feel free to enlighten me on how it would be possible to follow East Fife in those days from Caithness then. Bearing in mind that the good thing about football is actually watching it. Are you thick?I was just about the only Dons fan in Caithness for many years 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G51 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Just now, Raidernation said: Are you thick? I was just about the only Dons fan in Caithness for many years Clearly I am, so please explain it to me. And your last sentence proves my point. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Sorry your thread got ruined by defensive **** @Ric 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-MAN Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Almost half way thru. Did make it back to the Counting House when game hadn’t finished yet. Lge Cup Final 0-3 loss to Celtic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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