[Westbars Spireite]

Arnold Tabbs, on 09 November 2024 - 08:49 AM, said:

Not going to deny it. I want Mansfield to win.

Anybody else?

Absolutely not. Hope Wrexham smash them.

[Benno Spire]

stokey, on 09 November 2024 - 11:04 AM, said:

I was in the toilets down The Duke last Saturday, and a bunch of lads came in. Most were having a laugh, and a few asked where they could see some live music, 'cos they weren't from 'round here. I suggested Real Time Music or The Rutland. They then went on to say they were from Mansfield, and I didn't react - there was no air of football - just some lads asking about music. Then they brought up football - again, I didn't feel any threat, and I grudgingly (but genuinely) said they were doing well. Then, a new little guy came in who was obviously with them, and asked if I was a Town Fan. "Yes", I said, proudly, but with no confrontation in mind - I was having a pee!! It all turned from here...the little guy with the Napoleon Complex decided to kick off at me with 6 mates behind him. I got out of there straight away, but couldn't help thinking if they didn't watch it, they'd get their heads caved in coming down Brampton and acting like that. I used to sometimes go out in Mansfield in the 90's for a change of scenery - twice a year or something, but I'd always keep my head down. This was a p!55 take picking on a lone guy on his own turf whilst he's having a pee

Sounds typically cowardly Scabby, six onto one attack from behind while your hands are full

[Osborne again]

DOUGLAS JARDINE, on 09 November 2024 - 10:50 AM, said:

Basically I will add it?s about the bottom wipe they have playing for them who disrespects the poppy and our country

Anyone who disrespects either or both has my utter contempt, but I haven't got the deep hatred of Wrexham as a club, not like I have of Scabfield. My hatred of the club, the town, hell even their beer gave me severe stomach ache. I just can't relate that feeling to Wrexham.

[Westbars Spireite]

stokey, on 09 November 2024 - 11:04 AM, said:

I was in the toilets down The Duke last Saturday, and a bunch of lads came in. Most were having a laugh, and a few asked where they could see some live music, 'cos they weren't from 'round here. I suggested Real Time Music or The Rutland. They then went on to say they were from Mansfield, and I didn't react - there was no air of football - just some lads asking about music. Then they brought up football - again, I didn't feel any threat, and I grudgingly (but genuinely) said they were doing well. Then, a new little guy came in who was obviously with them, and asked if I was a Town Fan. "Yes", I said, proudly, but with no confrontation in mind - I was having a pee!! It all turned from here...the little guy with the Napoleon Complex decided to kick off at me with 6 mates behind him. I got out of there straight away, but couldn't help thinking if they didn't watch it, they'd get their heads caved in coming down Brampton and acting like that. I used to sometimes go out in Mansfield in the 90's for a change of scenery - twice a year or something, but I'd always keep my head down. This was a p!55 take picking on a lone guy on his own turf whilst he's having a pee

I'd have definitely been tempted to turn round and slash on him.

This post has been edited by Westbars Spireite: 09 November 2024 - 12:00 PM

[Painted Wagon]

Will never want the yellow stain to win.

[Bluekent]

Benno Spire, on 09 November 2024 - 11:49 AM, said:

Sounds typically cowardly Scabby, six onto one attack from behind while your hands are full

How do you know his hands were full you mucky man?

[Osborne again]

stokey, on 09 November 2024 - 11:04 AM, said:

I was in the toilets down The Duke last Saturday, and a bunch of lads came in. Most were having a laugh, and a few asked where they could see some live music, 'cos they weren't from 'round here. I suggested Real Time Music or The Rutland. They then went on to say they were from Mansfield, and I didn't react - there was no air of football - just some lads asking about music. Then they brought up football - again, I didn't feel any threat, and I grudgingly (but genuinely) said they were doing well. Then, a new little guy came in who was obviously with them, and asked if I was a Town Fan. "Yes", I said, proudly, but with no confrontation in mind - I was having a pee!! It all turned from here...the little guy with the Napoleon Complex decided to kick off at me with 6 mates behind him. I got out of there straight away, but couldn't help thinking if they didn't watch it, they'd get their heads caved in coming down Brampton and acting like that. I used to sometimes go out in Mansfield in the 90's for a change of scenery - twice a year or something, but I'd always keep my head down. This was a p!55 take picking on a lone guy on his own turf whilst he's having a pee

Someone would accommodate them, don't worry, but that's typical scabs. I wonder if he'd be just as brave in the pub bar? Probably better staying in their own shed of a town if they want to try playing the big un, or they could end up with a jigsaw for bones.
I used to go out for a drink with my mates,not a war with the next town, so if I went to Sheffield, Nottingham or Manchester, I was very careful and so we're my mates.

[spireitetoo]

1 nil wrexham

Not much to worry about in league 1 if this is the standard

This post has been edited by spireitetoo: 09 November 2024 - 12:38 PM

[PontePete]

Scabs 1 down, shame

[Osborne again]

PontePete, on 09 November 2024 - 12:40 PM, said:

Scabs 1 down, shame

Pity it's not 10-0.

[Arnold Tabbs]

DOUGLAS JARDINE, on 09 November 2024 - 10:50 AM, said:

Basically I will add it?s about the bottom wipe they have playing for them who disrespects the poppy and our country

My grandad lost his left eye due to a shrapnel wound at the Battle of the Somme and I don't think he did so in order that James McClean should be forced to wear a poppy if he doesn't want to. In 1934 grandad was killed in an accident when he was hit by a car on his blind side, so his death was a direct consequence of the First World War, which he was conscripted into because he had the terrible luck to have been born in 1893. Goodbye to his job on the farm; hello to carnage in the French mud.

Just like at the Charge of the Light Brigade...

Their's not to wonder why
Their's but to do, and die.

When he died, his widow - pregnant with her third child - was left with no income, since not only her husband's wage was lost but his ?1 a week war disability pension was stopped as well. 13 year old Uncle Arthur had to leave school and get a job in order to pay the rent, but only till 1939 when he too was called up to fight in the Second World War, which wouldn't have happened but for the economic sanctions imposed on Germany in 1918, which created the chaotic conditions that Hitler and the Nazis were able to exploit. After that the family had to live on charity till the Welfare State was created in 1948. That's how to treat your heroes!

Like grandad, Arthur survived the war, but the TB he contracted in the Navy, and the many X rays he had afterwards, might have contributed to the oesophageal cancer that killed him when he was in his early sixties.

I don't wear a poppy either. If you do, that's your business entirely and nothing to do with me.

[DIFH]

New chant for when we play them - 3 is a magic number.

[Cartman]

stokey, on 09 November 2024 - 11:04 AM, said:

I was in the toilets down The Duke last Saturday, and a bunch of lads came in. Most were having a laugh, and a few asked where they could see some live music, 'cos they weren't from 'round here. I suggested Real Time Music or The Rutland. They then went on to say they were from Mansfield, and I didn't react - there was no air of football - just some lads asking about music. Then they brought up football - again, I didn't feel any threat, and I grudgingly (but genuinely) said they were doing well. Then, a new little guy came in who was obviously with them, and asked if I was a Town Fan. "Yes", I said, proudly, but with no confrontation in mind - I was having a pee!! It all turned from here...the little guy with the Napoleon Complex decided to kick off at me with 6 mates behind him. I got out of there straight away, but couldn't help thinking if they didn't watch it, they'd get their heads caved in coming down Brampton and acting like that. I used to sometimes go out in Mansfield in the 90's for a change of scenery - twice a year or something, but I'd always keep my head down. This was a p!55 take picking on a lone guy on his own turf whilst he's having a pee

Would have been interesting had they ventured into The Barrel

[RN Blue]

I caught the last 20 of this, scabs came into and looked most likely to score, Wrexham looked nothing special.

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Ditto.

Both are large, direct and physical.

Can't argue it's not been successful but not what I'd want to watch every week...

[Siberian Spireite]

Westbars Spireite, on 09 November 2024 - 12:00 PM, said:

I'd have definitely been tempted to turn round and slash on him.

Yellow stain indeed.