If there was a space in a car I'd get a ticket and chip in on Juice. **** trains it'll be a night match.
Trouble every time I've been there ****ing horrible ground, horrible area & horrible supporters .......... still, it's only an hour from here.
I have many a close friend that is Newcastle daft. Two were actually there when it happened, both have told me in all seriousness and fairness that Clark didn't have any say in what was happening and that the top was literally forced onto him. It wasn't pre-planned and he had no idea what was going to happen. I believe them. If I go to Birmingham, I will mock and chant against him with the Sunderland fans but it will be more Punch and Judy from me then vented hatred.
Strange city, as you seem to get no bother at either Villa or West Brom, but always loads of edge at Birmingham City.. I suppose it is the same with us and the Mags, where the Skunks tend to cause bother on a regular basis.
One of my good friends, who died recently, regularly took him home in his taxi, and he always said he was the perfect gentleman and also gave great tips. However, if it happened the way you said, why on earth did he not come out and apologise at the time and say he had been set up?
Absolutely, he had many a day to sort it out and never did. I totally accept he might have been set up, but he could have dealt with it afterwards. Short-sighted really. He might one day have had the chance to manage us, like Brucie. Can't see it happening now. Ever!
I'm sorry to hear of your loss mate. I can't really add anything to what you have posted, I wholeheartedly agree with you. He should have come out and defended himself. Maybe he thought the damage was already done or maybe he just didn't know what to do for the best before it was to late. Either way he let himself down by remaining silent.
I'd just warm people who are going for the first time that the police have a habit of allowing the 2 sets of supporters to leave at the same time. The home & away supporters are separated by a long mesh fence as they file out. Once they reach the street they come together and there was a big clash the last time I was there. A Sunderland teenager, in a shirt, had his jaw broken when he was jumped by a gang of them ..... bad day that was, the police did **** all.
The Villa fans are a pack of vermin. One of them booted my mates wing mirror to kick it off and me and my buddy got out the car and the **** froze and started shaking like a whippet left out in the snow, we made him take his trainers off and we passed them through a window of a stopped bus that then drove off. Part of the reason I've got a lot of time for you lot is cos on numerous occasions I've been to watch us play and it's always a good laugh in town and around the ground, when you're about. I'd say similar for the travelling Toon fans as well, they get a bad press but I've never seen any of it in Manchester. The worst travelling fans for me have been foreigners especially Turkish, after that I'd say Leeds, they look similar to each other, packs of wide boys with pipe cleaners for legs in baggy jeans that have been tightened with extra belt holes cos they're that skinny with a Hackett t-shirt, (fake in the Turks case).
