Match Atmosphere

[mattypnufc]

Just now, Tross said:

 

Aye, you wouldn't take a crate of Budweiser with you  Also used to let you keep the drink underneath and sell you it back a quid a can. 

Absolute grifter.  We just played along tbf. 

[Superior Acuña]

9 hours ago, gdm said:

 

hope we never become this 

 

 

 

Looks normal behind the goal but terrible at side - looks like there's a whole block of tourists. Suppose better to have them together in a way, but that's not sort of place want to have them.

[HaydnNUFC]

5 hours ago, OCOCOL said:

her Google eyes, her broken nose , her raggy gash etc. haven’t heard that in a while maybe since championship seasons away at the likes of Barnsley or Preston - with big allocations and loads of pissed up younguns  

 

anyway I digress - great post mate as a non exile and veteran of Barrett (who’s back going now btw) and Seiftts buses to a middle aged fart who will still be singing his heart out on the 16th!

Two 17 year old lads on my table on the train back after Arsenal away last month started belting this out and instigated the whole carriage singing it.  Great laugh.

[Superior Acuña]

5 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I haven't been in years - and for those who don't know, I live in Sydney, so that probably seems like a reasonable excuse.  But it isn't really - I boycotted after KK was pushed out (I was a ST holder who would average c. 10 away games per season - yes, there were bigger 'superfans' than me, but that took a serious chunk of my income and time).  I would've lost 'the bug' either way after boycotting for so long.  Then I fucked off abroad because - in part without the 'structure' of matchdays - I wanted a different life.

 

I point this out because during my years as a 'regular' (c.1989 - 2008) the atmosphere was never perfect - in fact, it was often shite.  Thanks mostly I think to Wor Flags, I think the atmosphere has actually

improved over the last few years - I can promise any young'un, it really wasn't that good in the past a lot of the time.  @Heron and his pals get plenty of kudos on here - absolutely correctly - but you know what, they probably still don't get enough credit!

 

I can still remember the first time I started a chant - it was one of the biggest adrenaline rushes of my life.  You feel like a conductor or something.  After that, my ridiculously loud voice could be heard starting 'DRRRRRIIIIIINK DRINK WHEREVER YOU MAY BE' or 'Geordie Alouette' etc - or even sometimes one-off originals.  And I fucking loved it.  Some of you poor bastards likely had your eardrums knackered by my voice at away games, or on a Keith Barrett coach.  For that, I don't apologise .  It is also why I love reading @NUFC91's posts in this thread - they basically reflect my views as a younger bloke re atmosphere.  But if you think that we've lost something recently - we haven't.  That's been gone for decades now.

 

The point of this self-aggrandizing post is that I've been both - the lunatic spending every penny on watching NUFC, singing every song non-stop - and also the older, miserable bastard who through distance doesn't go anymore.  If you've got a Wembley ticket, make as much noise as you can - this is the entire point of all those shite afternoons in the arse end of nowhere, or watching shite NUFC teams lose at home vs weak opposition.  I've been to Wembley four times, and we lost every bastard time.  My Charity Shield programme in 1996 has got Warren Barton's signature on it - which, bless him, sums it up.  I'd have been even more fucked-off if we'd sat there like day-tripping mutes.  So don't sit on your hands - you'll regret it if you do.

 

Cheers  

 

 

Six times and six losses for me  

 

Even managed to see Shearer score and it be the one time he was playing against my team.  Conceded 14, scored 1.

 

(The last three finals, the charity shield, the semi-final and England v Scotland in Euro 96).

 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Superior Acuña

[ramirez]

1 hour ago, Superior Acuña said:

 

 

Six times and six losses for me  

 

Even managed to see Shearer score and it be the one time he was playing against my team.  Conceded 14, scored 1.

 

(The last three finals, the charity shield, the semi-final and England v Scotland in Euro 96).

 

 

 

Was confused by that shearer goal for a bit!

[TheBrownBottle]

3 hours ago, Superior Acuña said:

 

 

Six times and six losses for me  

 

Even managed to see Shearer score and it be the one time he was playing against my team.  Conceded 14, scored 1.

 

(The last three finals, the charity shield, the semi-final and England v Scotland in Euro 96).

 

 

 

Haha I didn’t count the Chelsea semi!  I was there too.

 

That Euro96 match must’ve been a pisser for a Scotland fan - and if you’d went to the game a few years later, you’d have seen a Scotland win (Don Hutchison, the Englishman who scored for Scotland against England, also the Geordie who scored for Sunderland against Newcastle.  A man not to be trusted )

[ramirez]

I done those five plus England v Czech in Euro 21 which was massively lacking in atmosphere due to limited capacity.  The only England game I’ve ever been to.