Despite the title, this thread isn't for those who attended second rate fee-paying schools to relate tales of how they were treated as '***s' (he knows who he is), it's more for memories of the beasting and banter with opposition players; my favourite was the night match at Carlisle where Matt Glennon was given it non-stop e.g. ''Matt Glennon ate my pie, Matt Glennon supped my pint, Matt Glennon smoked my ***s plus the usual ''you fat, or useless so and so - he was visibly shaken at half time! Due to a 2x10 shift I never saw the Jay Tabb beasting but, my son who was using my pass reckoned it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen at a football match; the misplaced place pass from Adel Taarabt and the subsequent loud vocal derision from the E. Stand I did see, their best player rendered a gibbering wreck for the remainder of the game - priceless! Not a player, but a special mention of the 'well built' female Hartlepool fan who was jumping around celebrating a clearly offside goal, those who were there will smile at the memory of it Any more?
The Jay Tabb thing was brilliant. As was Deano getting the booking at Stoke when he was warming up in the way of Delap taking a throw in.
Paul McShane taking the towel in that same match and using it to dry his armpits was another fine moment. Charlton away in about 2005. Danny Mills for them got booked, Nick Barmby and Ian Ashbee systematically took it in turns to kick him and wind him up for 10 minutes solid until he snapped and got himself sent off. An absolute masterclass.
My mate heckled Paul Cooper the Ipswich Town Goalie for a full match from the South Stand. Seriously we where sick of it by half time. Anyway the following year Ipswich are in town again. As cooper ran towards the south south stand my mate started again. Copper looked up gave him a wave and shouted “ here we go again”
I remember Kevin Ellison taking a throw in just in front of us playing for Tranmere in 2006, junior shouted 'City Reject' and he turned round and told him to **** off. He was ten at the time.
Pre season friendly when I was about 15. Stood at front of the south stand during the pre game warm up. It was when Alan Fettis had that greasy, curly long hair do. He came right up to us to collect a ball from against the fencing and gave one of those 'alright lads' nods. Kid I was with calmly, yet brazenly said to him 'I think you need to get an hair cut mate'. Pretty sure it wasn't long after that he got the short crop.
Couple more, not so much beastings as good banter - a well past his best (allegedly) and overweight Neville Southall was playing for Torquay, he got a bit of pretty good natured stick from Sth Stand and he was giving plenty of chat back to the fans, he played an absolute blinder that day to keep a rampant City down to the one goal (Dave Brown mebbe) - another goalie who enjoyed the banter was Mooney for Accrington in the cup game - when the away fans were giving it ''we're only here the Mooney'' he was lapping it up, not sure he enjoyed the penalty shoot-out though!
Was sat in the East stand for the Newcastle game a few years back in the league cup (we won on pens, ta Jak), one closet (for that game) Newcastle fan with us. Jonjo Shelvey came across to take an innocuous free kick from an offside position near the touchline and the following then occurred: City supporting mate: "oi, egghead, you can't pass for ****". Newcastle mate: "howay man, he's got alopecia." City supporting mate "and you've got alopecia!" One of those moments where I didn't know whether to be a complete **** and laugh or stay quiet and just let it linger, so I just facepalmed. It drew a fair few laughs from around us anyway.
FA cup quarter final v Stoke 1971 I was a 12 year old right at the front of Bunkers near the goal. Gordon Banks was getting dogs abuse when it was 2-0, when he went behind the goal to retrieve the ball for a goal kick he gave us young ‘uns the v sign. I was, and still am, shocked.
I remember being behind the goal at Torquay giving their ex-Everton and Welsh international goalie a gobfull for the full half. You know,..... 'is this what it's come to?, you're now a fat has been slumming it in Division plop ya porky twat'. Turns out I spent a drunken afternoon calling him 'Chamberlain' instead of 'Southall'. We won 1 - 0 (pen)
Christmas time and stood in the Kempton. Gregor Rioch was having a stinker for us and was subbed in the second half. He was on our side of the pitch when he got the wave to come off. He took his captains arm band off and slung it to the floor in disgust then sulked off. I shouted something like' take the shirt off as well Rioch because your a ******* disgrace', he turned and glared. At the final whistle Rioch is out of the dugout like a greyhound out of the traps and sprints across the pitch to the East Stand where i was stood, and there wasn't many of us left by then. He stopped dead a couple of yards before he reached the cinder track and gestured to me which I returned the compliment, then he turned and walked away shaking his head. That night I was at a house party in Brough, all stood in the kitched as you do, tiny one too, and who walks in? Gregor ******* Rioch. He recognised me straight away and to be fair apologised for throwing the captains arm band to the floor. I honestly thought he was going to jump into the stand that day the way he came sprinting across the pitch at the end.
The Nick Deacy strop in front of Kempton was an all time classic. He'd been playing **** for weeks and each match the heckling towards him got louder and louder, and this particular game he was subbed off in the second half and the cheer from Kempton was as if we'd scored - he turned around and gave it the double 'V' sign, and the abuse escalated - I think he later apologised and stated that he needed to get it off his chest. Mike Smith the manager at the time must've agreed from that point that he was a **** centre forward, and duly converted him to a centre back - Deacy actually won over the fans after that and turned in a few decent performances playing in defence.
Another Kempton story. League game v Chelsea mid 80's. Tuesday night I think, crowd about 8,000. Chelsea had a meat head centre half in those days, Graham Roberts? but he got dogs abuse from the Kempton all game and Keith Edwards was running him ragged. The crowd always seemed louder under the lights for some reason and this Chelsea lad was receiving some advice from us about his weight. Second half and with the Kempton laughing at him, he swiped Edwards legs from under neath him and we got a penatly to make it 3-0. Not sure if he was sent off or not but I do remember him turning to the East Stand and giving us all the V sign. Great night that.
Barnsley away in 2013, when we’d been infiltrated by a load of Hull fans, at the end of the game they gave some of the players a proper beasting.
I've just looked that game up to see if I was there - I wasn't. However, I didn't realize just how abysmal our record against Chelsea is: 4 wins out of 48 games. The win you reference being the only one of the 4 to happen in the last 98 years. When you consider that of the 48 games, 36 of them were league games when we were supposedly both at a similar standard it's an absolutely appalling record. The other 12 were FA Cup or League Cup games and we haven't won a single one of those. https://www.11v11.com/teams/hull-city/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Chelsea/ I sincerely doubt that we have a worse record against any other team, against which we've played a reasonable amount of games. I guess that Chelsea are our true bogey team.
