Fair enough. Can’t help being born in a certain time period, but my days of supporting City began with us near the foot of the football league pyramid. By the time I came around, Sheffield United were a Premier League team or there abouts, I don’t think they bothered with us until we reached the Championship.
https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/hull-fans-really-dont-like-the-blades.70450/ Some decent folk among the sty dwellers it seems, plenty of grudging recognition that they live in a barren post industrial dump that compares unfavourably with our more historic port city with its centuries of heritage. Despite this, I'm afraid I may have join in the popular refrain of "We saw you crying down Wembley Way". I will be amazed if our Easter Monday game passes without trouble/arrests down Princes Ave or in town, specially if we win. Cliche, but they don't like it up'em..
There's some boring stereotyping on that site. Probably posted by the usual misfits who have never been further than Doncaster. None of them recall the FA Cup Semi Final but oddly they are all experts on the Hull accent as ridiculed in the HDM at regular intervals. Of course the Sheffield accent rolls off the tongue, if it were still the 15th century. Looking forward to this one.
Grimsby -Footballing ****houses from across the river. Decent chunk - a noticeable amount of time. My time supporting the club - pertaining to how long I’ve supported Hull City AFC. Above us in the footballing pyramid - in leagues above the one we were in. As did Sheffield United. Which is why to me they aren’t rivals. They’re just another club in Yorkshire. To me they might as well be Rotherham.
Thee, thy, thou= all still current, parlance down in the S postcode. Don't mind that as it happens, just like our Norse vowel sounds, a sign of centuries-old accents and speaking. Cowld today or is it kerld ? Ask the linguistic experts of the HDM , experts at mangling our heritage and selling it back to us as quaint unique naffness.
I do a bit of business in Sheffield and have enjoyed taking the mick out of them for the last 15 years. They know more about our Premier League days then I do which tells you how closely they followed our fortunes. One of them organised a pub for us before our game at Bramall Lane this year. The pub was in Rotherham. The Blades amongst them also tell me 'its all over Sheffield' that young Jarrod is joining them for £10m IF they go up. Easter Monday is their cup final.
All set up for a corker on Monday. Wigan, Reading, DQPR etc don't get the pulse racing. You can see the dollar signs in their eyes and their pork love for Chris Wilder as they turn the final corner. They will have the usual arrogance coming here, but they were nowt special at their place this season, and scraped a one nil before Nigel Adkins got stuck into the team mid season and improved us. Hopefully Campbell, Bowen and Grozzer will respond to the atmosphere and tear the gammons a new one.
Why is that worth pitying? Until 2003 I’d never witnessed City to be anything other than a bottom division club (though knowing they had been higher). So for me, promotion was a new thing, so going into the Championship was literal euphoria. I mean, I’m not the kind of twat who would dismiss somebody else’s support with something as dismal as pity, but if I was, it’d be those who have had to wait multiple decades to see success. I only had to wait one.
Pity= dismissive? Pah. In your thin-skinned mind. Why not try taking the words at face value? I'll try and word it differently: the intense and bitter games against them from 1971 to the mid 80s. produced many memorable and eventful games on and off the pitch: Bramall Lane 71, Hour of Hell in West Hull 1976, the Keith Edwards years when he swapped adoring fans of one club to the other (twice), Burnley 84, relegation and promotion battles together almost every season until they got promoted late 80s and our paths separated.
I'm with Sterling, Sheff U mean little to nowt to me personally as I wasn't around to see the worst of it go down. I completely get those who were around at the time hate them and exactly why they hate them, but I don't feel the same as I didn't experience it. I obviously still don't like them, but I don't hate them, per se. For me, TWS are way worse - the fact my old man supports them might have intensified that, but they've done more to irk me than Sheff U have. My dad doesn't get why I hate Arsenal more than Manchester United - it's because Arsenal have in my experience been bigger ****s towards Hull City than Man Utd. Simple.
Fair enough, but I wasn’t there for that, so I can’t call them rivals, can I? I’m sure there are plenty of clubs we battled with in the late 40s, it doesn’t really mean much to me because I wasn’t there.
It literally is that simple. I’ve never liked Scunthorpe, they’ve always treated us with such disdain and ditto Grimsby and Lincoln. So to me they are rivals. I’m not massively happy about Luton coming up either. I seem to remember them being a set of ****ers when we battled them for promotion in League 1. It’s a horrible away day as well.
