http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Football-Manchester-derby-kicks-later/story-26320362-detail/story.html Football: Where to be when the Manchester derby kicks off later By The Bristol Post | Posted: April 12, 2015 please log in to view this image Will it be United or City fans celebrating later? Comments (3) Manchester United host Manchester City in what is likely to be another fiercely contested local derby. All the action is on Sky Sports 1 and the game kicks off at 4pm so be sure to pull up a seat at one of these pubs. Walkabout Bristol!, Corn Street. Tel: 0117 930 0181 After a £500,000 refurbishment the bar has a new look with heaps of plasma screen TV's and two cinema sized screens. The Anchor, Gloucester Road. Tel: 0117 924 1769 Loads of screens and you can even enjoy the football in the sunshine in the beer garden. Afterwards you can do the quiz. The Royal Naval Volunteer please log in to view this image , King Street. Reputation for showing rugby over three screens and wide selection of craft ales. Tel: 0117 316 9237. The Penny, Whiteladies Road. Good ales on tap, decent grub and three screens to watch the game. Tel: 01179 733539. Racks, St Paul's Road, Clifton. Another venue renowned for staging games Racks has a good reputation for food and drink. Worth booking a table. Tel: 0117 9741626. The Roo Bar, Whiteladies Road, Clifton. Love it or hate it this bar can generate a pretty good atmosphere on big occasions like this. Tel: 0117 923 7204. Read more: http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Footba...tory-26320362-detail/story.html#ixzz3XE0eGpzy Follow us: @BristolPost on Twitter | bristolpost on Facebook
I think it makes a good point, why would the post print this? Especially at the moment, its says everything about the journalist to me..
Only three comments though, shows what a sad state in football we've become that a local paper can run this on a derby 160 miles away. Here's the comments please log in to view this image Romanovich | April 13 2015, 9:41AM Support your local teams - more respect for a Gashead than these local glory hunters who bore you to death about how good Liverpool/United . Moan over -well done City Report please log in to view this image DogTodd | April 13 2015, 1:00AM Wow. Bristol City about to win the Championship - great draw at Preston. The Gas doing well in their division, and the BEP chooses to run a story on where plastics can watch the Manchester derby. You couldn't make it up! Report please log in to view this image PeakyBlinder | April 12 2015, 2:40PM Wow - a list of pubs which have televisions. Cutting edge journalism. Read more: http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Footba...tory-26320362-detail/story.html#ixzz3XGKOJr23
I was in the Brunel on Sunday (that's the Engineers Arms or the House that Jack built for those my age). It was absolutely PACKED with MAN U supporters, who went mad when United scored. Unbelievable. As Romanovich says, I have far more respect for a Gashead supporting his local team than I do those 'plastic' fans.
But were they plastic fans? Probably but if you were living in Manchester does that mean you would have to stop supporting BCFC and convert to one of the Manchester clubs. Bristol is not just full of Bristolians!
Not really applicable, as we know for a fact none of those United 'fans' were from Manchester. If I was living in Manchester I'd still support Bristol City. And I agree with the poster above. I'd go further and say that I'd prefer any child of mine to be a Gashead (not that I'd allow that to happen) than a United fan. At least they'd be supporting proper football and experience genuine highs and lows rather than just watching the CL on TV every week and seeing that as success.
Know for a fact? Were they checking passports at The Engineers then? : -) And Im sure there are City fans that are not from Bristol. Would a City fan from Bath be called plastic? I'm not condoning it but premiership teams are a world brand and they are going to have their supporters from all over the globe. Is it right? Probably not but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it
Okay I don't know for a fact, but do you seriously believe that anything more than 5% of the people there were from Manc? And supporting City when from Bath is acceptable, as there are no league clubs nearby apart from us or Swindon or the like, so you'd choose from them.
To be honest I don’t want to debate to much with you as I do sort of agree with you but Bath City were in the Conference not too long ago, which in all but name is League 3, and I think some other Bristol club is currently playing there. My point is though the Conference is 2 Divisions below us, as we are 2 Divisions below Premiership, although not for much longer
I understand what you are saying Loathsneyd. I myself am a Bristol City fan 100%, but I have lived in Swindon since 1997, so does that make me 'plastic' because I haven't changed my allegence to STFC? The answer is a resounding 'No' because of where I came from. If I was born in Swindon, but chose to support Bristol City then possibly - in some people's eyes, yes (not a good example because there has never been that much of a difference between the 2 sides - and City are not on Sky every week). If I chose to support Chelsea or Man U then definitely! People have their own reasons for supporting their chosen clubs, which is their perogative - just as it is mine to dislike it. What really frustrates me are people who are born and have roots in a town/city but choose to turn their back on their home club and align themselves with a 'big' club simply because they are on Sky or BT every week. I bet there are Bristol-born 'fans' who would genuinely cheer on Man U or Chelski in Bristol pubs with Sky (they wouldn't attend the ground) if they were playing Bristol City or Rovers (I say 'genuinely' because there are Gasheads who would cheer them against us and City fans who would cheer them on against the Gas - that doesn't count because their motivation is different!). My brother-in-law is a Man U fan - but he comes from (and still lives in) Manchester, so that doesn't wind me up as much - he is supporting his local side, which happens to be very successful. I simply do not know if there were any genuine Mancs in the Brunel on Sunday, but I would bet a medium-sized amount of money that there were NONE. At the end of the day it's a personal thing - like a religion - which team you support. There is nothing illegal about it. But it DOES wind me up!!!
Like it or lump it, most kids nowadays support Premier League teams. Hell, in my office I am the only person that doesn't support a Premier League team. As Premier League teams get bigger, the Football League will just look worse. That being said, I don't see why such a big article was needed from a local paper. The Premier League is big, so it's big news. This means that journalists far above that of the Bristol Post's staff are going to be writing lengthy articles about the Manchester derby. Why even bother when there are other things going on in the city. From a business perspective it seems like a stupid thing to want your staff to do.
When I worked in Flax Bourton office, there was more Spurs fans than City fans, loads of Man U and Arsenal fans, and they were all from Bristol or surrounding areas. I even got ridiculed by them for being Welsh and supporting City, it's ok for them to support a team 100 to 160 miles away. But because I come from another country a mere 20 miles away it's wrong!! I don't mind it when people support clubs they won't ever see, or if they do it's very little, it's their choice. As far as I'm concerened I've lived and breathed my club since I first went in 72-73, I've felt relegation, I've felt promotion, I get excited at FA cup draw days, can they say they've actually felt the emotions that we have all felt.
Think I heard the other day, that Monmouthshire is going back to England. If you google Monmouthshire we ain't Welsh we ain't English we are a shire because we considered ourselves to be the rich back in the old days and didn't want to share the wealth. You peasants get orfff moi land
