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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on May 5, 2008 5:43:42 GMT
1968- the year i first got interested in football, following Manchester City. 4 years later i started following Stafford Rangers thenBrian Glanvilles' World Football Handbook opened the way to a global obsession giving me teams to follow in nearly every country. ;D 2008 and now i think i may have reached the end of the line. Many hot coals have been poured onto my unprotected head over the years but this season has been one of the worst i can remember. City hit the ground running but then faded while Stafford just hit the ground. The season was summed up for me when City were knocked out of the FA Cup by that bloody ballon. The next day, the 'Game' section of The Times ran with the drawing of a bunch of ballons printed on every page. The pie for the weekly "spot the pie" competition was placed at the bottom of a ballon-string trailling into the BSP result "Stafford Rangers 1 Salisbury 5" The lights have been going out all over Europe, too, some of the lowlights being Aris Salonika and Atletico Madrid going out of the UEFA cup to Bolton bloody Wanderers. I face relegations all over the world, and, despite the oasis of our first double over the tw@ts since we relegated them in 1974, the depressing prospect of a rag Premier and Champions league double. The last straw came last night as i tuned in to TRT to watch my team Ankaragucu in the Turkcell Superligi. After going 1 down to a penalty given for a dive which would've made even Cristiano Ronaldo blush, we were penalised with a free-kick following another outrageous fall to earth. The ensuing free-kick struck the bar, bounced down, hit the keeper on the foot and shot into the back of the net. It's the last straw. As the evil one said "football- bloody hell!" Forty sodding years of this. I'm seriously considering going off to be a Buddhist monk.....
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Post by ambersalamander on May 5, 2008 18:17:45 GMT
That's what football is all about, my darling. There's always more pain that glory for the true fan!
Just look at Sutton...
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Post by amberaleman on May 5, 2008 22:07:48 GMT
I think all of us will have felt like the Sultan at some time. Most seasons contain little dashes of both joy and despair, but occasionally you get one where the scales tip crazily one way or the other. After forty years of dedication, anyone can be forgiven a certain amount of world-weariness. But we all know that things do get better, even if it can sometimes be a long wait. Sticking with your club(s) through the lean times allows you a sweet appreciation of the seasons of plenty when they do return. "Where were you when you were sh*t?" It's heartening to realise that you were one of the few who actually were there.
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davetscfc
Steaming Bovril
......and it's Salisbury City......
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Post by davetscfc on May 6, 2008 9:16:48 GMT
I repost my reply to a "Why Do We Do It?" question on this thread - tinpotterrace.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=345&page=1And yes, while realising that we all were newcomers once, there's always a sense of pride in my head when I hear a "where were you when you were poo" chant. Actually, it was only when reading the "60 years of the Whites" book that was published last summer that I realised I was the total opposite of a glory hunter. For my first few seasons we were total rubbish, and it makes me wonder how I ever got the bug so badly! My dad must have been hardening me up!
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Post by ambersalamander on May 12, 2008 21:49:29 GMT
Then I don't know what happened to me! My dad hasn't the slightest interest in football, and nor does anyone else in my family.
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Post by Meadow on Jul 12, 2008 9:27:01 GMT
Oh dear,more spam to remove Sultan, at least you haven't had your club taken away from you!!!!
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Jul 26, 2008 8:37:05 GMT
Meadow, at least you've had some wonderful memories and great times along the way. You climbed all the way up from the Southern League to the Premiership and won the FA Cup! When the club was moved to MK, you had wonderful, commited fans who built you up again so that you are definately on the way back up. As an aside, you could probably buy a season ticket to watch AFCW for the price it would have been to watch a single WFC game were you still in the Premier. At the end of the day, i understand fully well that i am an ageing teenager approaching 50 who likes to have a good ole moan every now and then. I'm even considering starting my own blog entitled "Sultan's Mountainous Molehills" one day! Our little exchange reminds me of story that we were told at Primary school about a village chief in Africa who was fed up of people moaning to him about their problems and how so-and-so in the next hut had it so much better. The chief got each villager to put a token representing themselves into a hollowed tree-trunk. That done, he got everyone to pull a token out at random and swap that person's problems for their own. Within a week he had the whole village clamouring to have their own original problems back! ;D
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Post by DJhinckley on Jul 27, 2008 22:12:05 GMT
a beef in black bean sauce pineapple chicken ginger and garlic chicken kung po duck 2 egg fried rice 1 fried rice and portion of chips please
oh and spare ribs no sauce, ta
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 29, 2008 15:32:17 GMT
For the benefit of our readers, DJ has not lost his marbles; he was merely replying to a spam post that I subsequently removed!
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 29, 2008 19:04:18 GMT
Reminds me of an incident in the days of Pyramid Portal, the infamous Russchad's posts were deleted to leave behind what appeared to be me having an argument with myself.
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Post by DJhinckley on Jul 29, 2008 21:45:15 GMT
For the benefit of our readers, DJ has not lost his marbles; he was merely replying to a spam post that I subsequently removed! booooooo, you're no fun anymore
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 30, 2008 15:48:40 GMT
;D Sorry, sweetheart. I deleted the offending post before I saw that you'd replied to it. I mean, if you had the power to delete it, considering that those posts are about two feet long and the delete button is at the top of the post, would you bother scrolling down first to see if anyone had replied? I'm still fun, PROMISE
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Sept 19, 2008 9:21:07 GMT
I'm guessing that this doofus is a Chelski fan?? no? Fair enough. I could delete, but then I'd be as DJ!
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Post by Meadow on Sept 19, 2008 9:52:26 GMT
Oh well, at least we can READ it unlike most spam. Understanding it is a different matter
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Sept 19, 2008 11:50:47 GMT
For those of you watching this thread on Dave; apologies. You will have missed the thrust of the two most recent contributions!
Spammery - with a politely worded invitation to purchase the currency used in World of Warcraft, resulted in a brief riposte from myself, then Meadow. Other than that you have not really missed anything - the spam was in English for a change; that really was the punchline.
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