Topic: Shanklyboy's and Fat Scousers ( Leo who's still alive ) auld arse thread

[Kwaideng]

.
 noticed there was quite a bit of booing coming from the back of the Kop yesterday.I understand peoples
frustration at the result but I've never understood this reaction to it..

I was on the Kop for the St Etienne game. After they scored, and the following tense  wait until we got the better of them there were quite a few divs in there moaning and slagging our lads off.   Yes......one of the greatest teams on the planet...ever.
 Some of the things they come out with "Oh just fuckin score will yizz, ya twats" ... bear no fuckin relevancy to the game. It's a sport,  it's liable to be unpredictable that's its essence and beauty.

Nothing changes.  There has always been and always will be bellends.

That is why we have never had a revolution in this country.
There are too many selfish sheep-like one eyed cowards that spoil the opportunity when it comes.

 Anyway more importantly...that  Frankie Cocozza still going .........they'll be naming a one-night stand after him next

[blert596]

Fuck them, they'll never know. We've seen things they'll never see & don't deserve to. Pricks.

    

I was, and still am, absolutely fucking gash at Scalextrix.

[Terry de Niro]

Fuck them, they'll never know. We've seen things they'll never see & don't deserve to. Pricks.

Amen

Amen indeed.
Brilliant stuff..

[KopThat]

We couldn't afford Scalextrix, too many kids, I thought me mates that had em were dead posh,
I was a master at Subbuteo though, still have a box full gathering dust somewhere

[stanleyparkmudonmyboots]

We couldn't afford Scalextrix, too many kids, I thought me mates that had em were dead posh,
I was a master at Subbuteo though, still have a box full gathering dust somewhere

How did you keep your pitch smooth? Did you iron it or tack it down? Could never keep mine flat

[richmond-red]

Ahh well we're unbeaten in Eight. Fucken flying in my book. Might go into the rest of the site & tell them about 67 to 72 and how the great manager we had never won a tap, or about how that prick down the other end of the lancs couldn't deliver the league on his first seven years, despite consistently spending more than any other c*nt,by a million miles, when he did, it was through luck (for him), a youth squad that had fuck all to do with him! If they had shown less patience he'd have been with Docherty & the Old Swan c*nt.

Us?

The last manager who had that last long was Paisley, fuck me, he was vying with Billy Bigham (goat an all) & Bill McGarry & Joe Harvey. I didn't know anyone who didn't go the match,the pricks in the threads would have been having violin lessons then, not trying to keep the cars on the the corners of their mates Scalextrix tracks, the pricks.

Fuck them, they'll never know. We've seen things they'll never see & don't deserve to. Pricks.

Amen

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Word! Halleluyah!!!!

This deserves repeating "Fuck them, they'll never know. We've seen things they'll never see & don't deserve to. Pricks."
 

[KopThat]

How did you keep your pitch smooth? Did you iron it or tack it down? Could never keep mine flat

Would often have to iron it, and smooth it out on any spare bit of carpet you could find,
some of the injuries we harsh especially when my sister trod on one of my players,
out comes the airfix glue, and down to 10 men for the time it took to dry.

I would even glue written numbers on the back, so I knew which one was Smith, Hughes, Keegan or Toshack etc
My liverpool team was of course the first I got from the standard ones you got, must be over 40 years old now,
got the camera men, police stretchers and tv camera stand just to add to the atmosphere

[JohnnoWhite]

Stanleyparkmudonmyboots wrote: How did you keep your pitch smooth? Did you iron it or tack it down? Could never keep mine flat


I cheated a bit. We got a piece of 3 ply cut to the pitch size - and stuck it onto the plywood sheet. Like Wembley it was.......

[Rafa_La]

Stanleyparkmudonmyboots wrote: How did you keep your pitch smooth? Did you iron it or tack it down? Could never keep mine flat


I cheated a bit. We got a piece of 3 ply cut to the pitch size - and stuck it onto the plywood sheet. Like Wembley it was.......

Until Bonfire Night... piece disappeared on account of Guy Fawkes needing to 'sit' upright in cart.

One of the few times it was not me. Honest

[JohnnoWhite]

Naw Rafa lad - no-one got anywhere close to the board.
It stood against the wall under the stairs away from all them bommie-knicking bleeders......present company excepted of course.......

[JohnnoWhite]

Jagged Princess wrtote yesterday:

Going back to your point about the money, I think it’s been said so many times, especially in this thread, the money men have taken over the game from the ‘working man.’  That bubble you speak of will burst and possibly sooner than expected with people having to cut back on so many things because of the mess the bankers and governments have gotten us into.  Football is a luxury the working class roots it sprung from can no longer afford.


Top post love.

[Rafa_La]

Naw Rafa lad - no-one got anywhere close to the board.
It stood against the wall under the stairs away from all them bommie-knicking bleeders......present company excepted of course.......

Wish that happened with us.

Minds as sharp as a tack eyeing off anything, even nailed down or belonging to neighbour

[happydaze]

ahh the good old days when the only pitches with any 'grass' on from say november to march were those subbuteo ones !

Good old muddy pitches. was it a game against brighton i recall when the ball stuck in the mud a few inches short of their goal line, kop end -  certain goal , ball rolling in , then just stuck !


and remember the first home game each season when you got your first view of the untouched green carpet of turf .

[JohnnoWhite]

Aye and you instinctively knew you needed to look at the pitch hard and long and take it all in - just so you could remember how well it started out in August when you were standing there ankle deep in the snow of December and January!!

[Vulmea]

For me its always been kind of easy to make choice. One sets out to divide man from man - Capitalism - and the other for all its faults sets out to maximise the goodness that mankind is collectively capable of delivering - Socialism. It is not difficult for me to knowwhich pinciple to opt for. One day there will be second democratically elected communist government - once mankind has set aside his foolish squabbling - and then it will be possible for true socialism to emerge from the total mess that is capitalism. Let us hope it does not get subjected to the same disgraceful treatment as did the first (in Chile in 1973)     

not  a big fan of democracy if i'm honest its just better than the alternatives

always used to play subbuteo on carpet -

dont think I had a team that didn't have at least one player glued back together - and that never worked yu'd never get them straight again unless you used two ton of glue - I actualy used just the base to represent brian hall

me mum bumped into Kevin keegan when she was buying me Subbuteo cricket in jack
sharps in town and got him to sign the box - weird thing that

[theboyspen]

Remember the 'Team Colour Chart' with Subbuteo? It had most of the teams from Europe on it & I would pick my favourites & hope to get them for Xmas. I never did thoughas we were too poor to afford single teams in the 'new style' boxes, with their bent legs & arms! We had to settle for second hand 'International' box sets which came with the two standard 'Red/Blue shirts & white shorts' teams that always stood with one foot forward!(?)
Later when I'd collected some more modern teams I remember having two of the same (white shirts/ blue shorts) and decided to paint my own kit. It was round the time of the 1974 World Cup and i quite liked the idea of owning a Zaire team (Green shirts/ gold shorts) so I bought some airfix paint and lo.....
I had my very own team of painters & decorators who could've doubled as camoflaged soldiers!! Even their faces/arms/legs were a browny green & yellow! Totally ruined I daren't let thrm out of the box when I played my mates in competitions!
I always liked a French team's colours of 'All white with two red bands around the sleeves' but couldn't get hold of it. So I bought Ajax and painted over the red stripe in white. Trouble is I couldn't paint the red bands on the arms so they had to stay all white! Looked like Man U away!! (That season!)

[john_mac]

Remember the 'Team Colour Chart' with Subbuteo? It had most of the teams from Europe on it & I would pick my favourites & hope to get them for Xmas. I never did thoughas we were too poor to afford single teams in the 'new style' boxes, with their bent legs & arms! We had to settle for second hand 'International' box sets which came with the two standard 'Red/Blue shirts & white shorts' teams that always stood with one foot forward!(?)
Later when I'd collected some more modern teams I remember having two of the same (white shirts/ blue shorts) and decided to paint my own kit. It was round the time of the 1974 World Cup and i quite liked the idea of owning a Zaire team (Green shirts/ gold shorts) so I bought some airfix paint and lo.....
I had my very own team of painters & decorators who could've doubled as camoflaged soldiers!! Even their faces/arms/legs were a browny green & yellow! Totally ruined I daren't let thrm out of the box when I played my mates in competitions!
I always liked a French team's colours of 'All white with two red bands around the sleeves' but couldn't get hold of it. So I bought Ajax and painted over the red stripe in white. Trouble is I couldn't paint the red bands on the arms so they had to stay all white! Looked like Man U away!! (That season!)

Remember painting the Peru one, all white with a red diagnal and, strangely had an orange Blackpool team. Fuck knows where they came from!

[its cold in the stands]

Remember painting the Peru one, all white with a red diagnal and, strangely had an orange Blackpool team. Fuck knows where they came from!

probably the matthews, mortensen team, didnt know you were that arl john!

[john_mac]

probably the matthews, mortensen team, didnt know you were that arl john!

Yeah, couple of years below you

[Yorkykopite]

Subby - loved it! You could buy stands and terraces but they just didn't look right. Plus once you'd set them up you couldn't get your elbow down to ground level so there was no game. So I created my own terraces by laying pencils on the floor behind the goals to make a massive pen and then packing the pen with red marbles. It almost looked like the Kop, especially when a goal was scored and all the marbles were pushed forward to create a surge.  When Liverpool played away I'd always introduce a load of 'travelling' red marbles into the blue home end and there'd be a bit of a ruck. You can't get more realistic than that. 

[Sandblast]

Remember i bought the all green Aussie team in time for the '74 world cup. Bought the ref & linesman set as well - pointless. I got the miniature FA Cup after the final that year.

[John C]

Remember the 'Team Colour Chart' with Subbuteo? It had most of the teams from Europe on it & I would pick my favourites & hope to get them for Xmas.

Yeah I had that mate, probably still have. I used to collect odd teams like Blackburn and Blackpool, loved the kits.
Remember trying to find a carpet that the pitch would lye flat on, I had a snooker table and the pitch welded itself perfectly flat to the baize. Great times, particularly once you all agreed a different set of rules.

[Jagged Princess]

Jagged Princess wrtote yesterday:

Going back to your point about the money, I think it’s been said so many times, especially in this thread, the money men have taken over the game from the ‘working man.’  That bubble you speak of will burst and possibly sooner than expected with people having to cut back on so many things because of the mess the bankers and governments have gotten us into.  Football is a luxury the working class roots it sprung from can no longer afford.


Top post love.

Thanks John.

Whilst my post probably laid the biggest blame at the door of the bankers and the government, they are in no way totally responsible for the state of the game.  Take a right turn and look to those that are running it, the FA’s, UEFA & FIFA.  Then take a left turn and look towards the greed of the men running the clubs. 

I know a few have mentioned about how they can’t be bothered much now and for me I have to agree and the turning point was the games at Anfield last season against Sunderland.  That game was a turning point; we’d sat and seen a man on the touch line who’d replaced a modern day legend.  That man wasn’t fit to have his name associated with Liverpool Football Club, never mind manage it. 

I suppose I lost a bit of love for Liverpool Football Club that day, couple that game with the two cancers that were slowly but surely killing our club and not just financially.  The decisions that pair of bar stewards made set this club back years and started a rift within our fan base which will take a long time to heal.

I’m harping on a bit here but that last paragraph has me almost filling up with tears when I think of how much emotional and financial investment the likes of us and our dad’s before us put into our club, a club whose foundations were built around the working class.  The same working class who now more than ever could do with a bit of escapism from the harsh realities of everyday life, unfortunately the price of a ticket is too high. 

P.S. sorry to ruin your Subbuteo boys

[only6times]

My lad would look at me like i'd pissed on his dinner if I came home with Subbuteo for him.

Saying that, if I was 10 and they had psp's and Wii's, I wouldn't have moved, friggin Atari tennis beep, beep, beep.....

[Jagged Princess]

My lad would look at me like i'd pissed on his dinner if I came home with Subbuteo for him.

Saying that, if I was 10 and they had psp's and Wii's, I wouldn't have moved, friggin Atari tennis beep, beep, beep.....

Atari tennis, now you're talking 

[JohnnoWhite]

JP posted this : I’m harping on a bit here but that last paragraph has me almost filling up with tears when I think of how much emotional and financial investment the likes of us and our dad’s before us put into our club, a club whose foundations were built around the working class.  The same working class who now more than ever could do with a bit of escapism from the harsh realities of everyday life, unfortunately the price of a ticket is too high.  

No you're not girl - you're saying it exactly like it is - indeed how it NEEDS to be said. Those harsh realities referenced above are sadly likely to get harsher yet.

What used to be OUR game has been highjacked and is moving away from us season by season. How else could it have been said Colette?

Well said indeed.

[Rafa_La]

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Closest to Atari I ever got

[stanleyparkmudonmyboots]

What about Striker,bit more sophisticated than subb' you had to bang their heads and they would kick the ball.
Think I preferred Subb though even if that green plastic fencing with the brown posts drove me crazy trying to
put it together.

[JohnnoWhite]

Well we tapped in panel pins all round the edge of the plywood-mounted green baize pitch - so the ball was always in play!! Ever inventive my aul' feller God rest his soul.

[only6times]

What about Striker,bit more sophisticated than subb' you had to bang their heads and they would kick the ball.
Think I preferred Subb though even if that green plastic fencing with the brown posts drove me crazy trying to
put it together.

What about test match, bowler had a chute to roll the ball bearing down?

[JohnnoWhite]

A right lazy bar steward that bowler was - he never ferkin' moved from the wicket did he.......

We also had that boxed Owzat set (steel hexagonal pieces) where you rolled it, noted the score until it rolled onto Owzat and then the bowling side rolled their drum to see whether the guy was given NOT OUT, LBW, BOWLED, CAUGHT, STUMPED or RUN OUT!! Hours of endless fun with a note pad and pencil......

[stanleyparkmudonmyboots]

What about test match, bowler had a chute to roll the ball bearing down?

Ok any body remember this one; You had a football pitch made of wood and painted with all the markings on.Your players were
a bit bigger than subbutteo players but each one had a magnet in the base,you would then have a plastic stick with a magnet on
the end,this you would shove under the pitch and you could move your players about using the magnets.This one did really drive me
mad as i could never swap between players quick enough,being only a little lad and not having the strength to pull the magnets apart.

[JohnnoWhite]

Magnetic footie yep - can't recall the commercial name but I'm with you about moving the bloody stick too fast and leaving your player static or falling flat on his arse as your opponents scored !!

Another world-beating idea that fell on ITS arse for me.

[stanleyparkmudonmyboots]

While your about Johnno,any thoughts bout your club naming that stand after your manager

[JohnnoWhite]

If anyone ought to have had a stand named for him it was Matt Busby. He took over a club lying in ruins following the Luftwaffe's blitzing of Trafford Park and dragged it out of its sad and desolate past into the hard, moneyless post-war present. He then envisioned and commissioned the re-build of a bright and successful future established on the principles of playing the game as it ought to be played and bringing in kids through the ranks to endevour to do just that.

Sure, his statue stands outside the ground he saved from the wreckers and for me, a statue is the more fitting tribute to mark outstanding achievements than ever is a stand.

Anyway, for me this naming of stands business is much overplayed. I don't like it much I'm afraid. A few big letters stuck on some facing boards 120 feet above the pitch is pretty naff in tribute terms in my opinion.

As for our current Scottish manager, well I have always held the view that he'd have done better to have taken a leaf (or three!) out of Matt's book when making public pronouncements. Matt's approach was to give respect always until it was necessary to show the hard steel within the man. However today's manager is who he is and is a product of a different time - but whether you like him or loathe him, his teams' achievements on the park over the 25 years he's been there have been simply undeniably special.

So will he get both a stand named for him AND a statue? I don't know - we'll only find out of course, when he's dead and gone (now don't start getting excited youse lot and starting any collection.........or indeed any petition )

[happydaze]

check out this website fellow auld arses!!!!

http://www.oldfootballgames.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=70431

[montysmum]

Thanks John.

Whilst my post probably laid the biggest blame at the door of the bankers and the government, they are in no way totally responsible for the state of the game.  Take a right turn and look to those that are running it, the FA’s, UEFA & FIFA.  Then take a left turn and look towards the greed of the men running the clubs. 

I know a few have mentioned about how they can’t be bothered much now and for me I have to agree and the turning point was the games at Anfield last season against Sunderland.  That game was a turning point; we’d sat and seen a man on the touch line who’d replaced a modern day legend.  That man wasn’t fit to have his name associated with Liverpool Football Club, never mind manage it. 

I suppose I lost a bit of love for Liverpool Football Club that day, couple that game with the two cancers that were slowly but surely killing our club and not just financially.  The decisions that pair of bar stewards made set this club back years and started a rift within our fan base which will take a long time to heal.

I’m harping on a bit here but that last paragraph has me almost filling up with tears when I think of how much emotional and financial investment the likes of us and our dad’s before us put into our club, a club whose foundations were built around the working class.  The same working class who now more than ever could do with a bit of escapism from the harsh realities of everyday life, unfortunately the price of a ticket is too high. 

P.S. sorry to ruin your Subbuteo boys

One of the best posts I have read.  Well said JP

[stanleyparkmudonmyboots]

If anyone ought to have had a stand named for him it was Matt Busby. He took over a club lying in ruins following the Luftwaffe's blitzing of Trafford Park and dragged it out of its sad and desolate past into the hard, moneyless post-war present. He then envisioned and commissioned the re-build of a bright and successful future established on the principles of playing the game as it ought to be played and bringing in kids through the ranks to endevour to do just that.

Sure, his statue stands outside the ground he saved from the wreckers and for me, a statue is the more fitting tribute to mark outstanding achievements than ever is a stand.

Anyway, for me this naming of stands business is much overplayed. I don't like it much I'm afraid. A few big letters stuck on some facing boards 120 feet above the pitch is pretty naff in tribute terms in my opinion.

As for our current Scottish manager, well I have always held the view that he'd have done better to have taken a leaf out of Matt's book when making public pronouncements. Matt's approach was to give respect always until it was necessary to bring out the hard steel within the man. However today's manager is who he is and is a product of a different time - but whether you like him or loathe him, his teams' achievements on the park have been simply undeniably special.

So will he get both a stand named for him AND a statue? I don't know - we'll only find out of course, when he's dead and gone (now don't start getting excited youse lot and starting any collection.........or indeed any petition )

Yeah get your point,was not having a dig can understand the sentiment behind it.Do you think it will have any effect on future managers sitting in the
dug-out looking up at that knowing they cant top what he has acheived.

[JohnnoWhite]

Not really. Whoever comes and whenever that someone comes, he will arrive at a place where someone else made history. Like every great club in truth. That's a simple fact. I agree that it's most unlikely that the club honours won under his managership will ever be equalled. So for me, WHOEVER comes (if he's smart) needs to blow THAT particular unwelcome burden to smithereens on his very first day's interview with the jackals and media shitheads. That'd get this "overwhelming history burden" bollux out in the open and shut of in the very same action.

Like they say, the incomer needs to do it his way which is how it needs to be - so long as he sticks to the principles laid down by Sir Matt, he'll do for me.

Like I said before, I don't go in a lot for this naming business - it doesn't seem to me to be a fitting tribute to the person whose achievements the club are seeking to "honour/commemorate". I'd much rather they set up some sort of SAF Trust Fund for underprivileged kids in and around the Old Trafford area which would actually benefit kids the world would appear to have forgotten about.

I know you weren't having a dig - no problems on that score mate.

[only6times]

One of the utd lads in work said the statue should go in centre midfield , it would still move more than Carrick.