It's getting like that inside OT now as well. Boos are starting and you can sense the players are affected by it. People will quote what wages each player is being paid to put up with moans and groans but the fact is it does affect the players, it doesn't help and it certainly isn't 'support'.
'Welsh' comes from the Anglo Saxon word 'wealsch' meaning 'foreigners',which is how the 6th century Saxon invaders viewed the inhabitants of these isles. The inhabitants themselves called themselves 'Cymry' meaning comrades. Cymry being the people, and 'Cymru' being the land. An 8th century anglicisation of 'Cymru' produced 'Cymbry' or Cambria. This can also be seen not only in Wales proper but in other parts of Britain which survived the anglo saxon invaders for centuries such as Cumberland = Cymruland'; also Northumbria = North Cymruland." and here endeth todays history lesson my fellow sheep.............
Cumbric was a variety of the Common Brittonic language spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" in what is now Northern England and southern LowlandScotland. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the other Brittonic languages. That's your lot for today, these Islands are a rich tapestry, and vast depth of intrigue going back thousands of years, we were here first of course......
One last thought? The people seem to have called themselves Cumbri the same way that the Welsh call themselves Cymry (most likely from Brittonic 'kom-brogī meaning "fellow countrymen"). It is likely that the Welsh and the Cumbric speaking people of what are now southern Scotland and northern England felt they were actually one ethnic group. Old Irish speakers called them "Britons", Bretnach or Bretain. The Norse called them Brettar. In Medieval Latin, the English term Wales and the term Cumbri were Latinised as Wallenses "of Wales" and respectively Cumbrenses "of Cumbria". The usual English usage was to call them Welsh. In Scots, a Cumbric speaker seems to have been called Wallace, from the Scots Wallis/Wellis "Welsh". Interesting aye.............
And keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, bouzouki, balalaika, harmonica, and an assortment of whistles. Met him when I was in a band supporting The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. He showed up for no other reason than he wanted to. Very well spoken intelligent chap. Not the least bit wild. He reckoned his stage persona let him get all that out of his system.
I despair with our fans, it's actually embarrassing the way some go on. It's awful to be a part of. I'd rather sit amongst 20k at an half empty stadium all of which want to support, not to throw dogs abuse at the players every time they make the slightest mistake. These people are the ones who "won't be renewing if we get relegated", good ****ing riddance I say.
If your interested in the rich Celtic history of the North of England (or should that rightly be Breton/Britain) then this is a good short account: Link: http://www.old-north.co.uk/lang_intro.html
We can have a go at players on forums like this, but in the stadium it is simply stupid, as it de motivates and is counter productive, always far better to carry the players and build the team confidence, we have our idiots also, who boo. I have never ever done it and never will..........
