Hull City fans from 1980s

True. I felt sorry for a lot of fans I know in a similar boat.

Personally, I wasn't that fussed about not actually going (strangely my attendance at games started dropping heavily with our revival about ten years ago - not connected to our success by the way) but felt for others who wanted to go and who were with me seeing us getting hammered at some ****hole or other on a freezing Tuesday night.

Hopefully, the tickets be handled better this time.

 

To clarify we are all fans, but there are new and old fans, and of course its about mileage. Anyone with 10 years on the clock is only ever going to be a veteran of modern football, anyone with 20 or 30 years service will be a veteran of both old school football and our clubs darkest days, the respect should grow, 40 or 50 years and you've seen it all. Pick your local club as a lad and stick with it through thick and thin, you'll eventually see glory and appreciate it when it comes and we should all be enjoying City's golden era right now!

 

Yep, and that would be you.

It's all you bang on about you boring ****.

 

I think that's the key point.

 

Addressing another point made by Peter earlier in the thread.

I've never met anyone from England who supports City without some sort of link to the club/city.

 

I'm certainly enjoying this Golden Age, made all the more sweeter by having endured the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune along the long and winding road.

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I hope our newer fans can keep a sense of perspective this coming season if we get a tonking or two, or SB gets enticed away.

It won't be as bad as losing 0-3 at home to 9 man BHA.

 

This was a pretty good thread until Aggro wheeled himself to his keyboard and found it.

It's bemusing some of you are arguing about who's the best fan. Especially with him.

 

When I was younger I would regularly get told I looked like Tony Blackburn. Later I was told I looked like Neil Morrissey. It's only recently that I've been told I look like Peter Saxton.

 

I met him around 1985. He just said he decided to support City. I can't understand it, either.

I knew a City fan with a cockney accent. I can't remember if he left Hull when he was 18 or his dad left Hull when he was 18. This guy therefore had a connection with Hull in case you think I don't realise! He was in the police which was very useful one time when we came back from a night match in Hull. We usually had the dilemma of dropping everybody off one at a time while travelling round London or dropping everybody off in Central London. He suggested we drive to a police station and he arranged a lift home for everybody in police cars.

 

I missed out on getting a ticket from City for Old Trafford. I bought a ticket with hospitality which solved the problem.

 

I don't mind if they do that. You don't really appreciate the good times unless there's been bad times.

 

I used to go round the terraces at away matches and talk to everybody so I was more likely to meet them.

 

Maybe I'm being unfair. I remember it was frequented by a bunch of cocks, maybe they weren't southern. Weatherill was the one. I recall him being irritating but great match reports. Wasn't he based down south?

As far as the Andy's go I'm a friend of Dalton's so know about his fanzine. I have it in my head that Medcalfe used to do Hull, Hell and Happiness or one of the fanzines of that time.

 

I mind people who support someone else when things are bad and then come back to City when things are better. As I said before, no problem with those who opt not to go but return as at least they have supported City and no one else. How anyone can switch between teams is a mystery.

 

By and large, I’d say it was the most middle class City vehicle online (especially at the time - not sure about now as I've not read it for well over ten years) and it could be cliquey (as Pete explained) but it could also be funny and interesting to different degrees in really **** and bleak City times.

I remember quite liking it, though admittedly, I didn`t parlez with the other members much nor was I interested in being part of the group as such – so the clique thing didn't fox me.

It was pretty much the first time I’d got internet access that I signed up and it kept me going with City news (I didn`t live in Hull at this time). Also, what further impressed, was that it gave me more news than when I actually lived in Hull (didn`t have the Internet in Hull at this time). An aside: how the transmission of City news (like all news) changed in this period. Previously and not that long ago, if you didn`t have the radio on you might have to wait until the HDM came out to realise that we’d signed someone. Actually, one of the good things about that, was turning up on Saturday and seeing a new player in the lineup who you didn't have a clue had signed for us the day before.

Back to Tiger Chat, yes some of them could be a chore (like all things like that) but the thing that did my head in the most was the volume of emails that’d clog up your inbox – I later realised you could subscribe to the digest but then you missed out on the real time element which can oft make things more interesting.

 

I can think of an East Yorkshire White, that most contemptible group of people, who got tickets for those away gaes and used to tell me he was taking his son to games like Liverpool at home as his son was a fan of StevievG whilst City fans were struggling for one of the few on general sale. A wholly unsatisfactory state of affairs. Not unique to us. I used to work in Leeds and saw the same thing happen there late 70s early 80s, not as much a problem for home matches as they had a larger ground than us but a lot of the fans who were going before Revie turned them round lost out to newcomers for finals and European ties and it caused a lot of bad feeling..

 

Think of that **** Tim Lovejoy or that gruesome toad (and ****) David Mellor.