Old City Forum

That would have been StinkyDocker.

 

Yeah, I liked AN, some class match reports on there.

 

remember the city independent message board,

 

I always thought EssexGull was local, based on the fact that he had too much inside information on one or two of the regular posters and the area to be someone posting from Essex or elsewhere. EGDWright was another fine contributor with some excellent views on the club, suspect he is still beavering away somewhere uncovering otherwise unknown or lost histories and tales of our club.

 

I think it was Footymad. Though I think I was on CI as well.

 

Bizarrely, EssexGull also claimed to be a Torquay fan.

 

EssexGull had an ongoing campaign against that ex marine (forgotten his name) who used to come up from Portsmouth to every game. Reckoned he knew him from years ago. Weren’t there two EssexGulls, the original and a pale imitation?

 

Pompey Pete, met him on many away trips down south.

 

Remember it well and Pompey Pete as twowrights rightly called. There could well have been two EssexGulls, the original and an imposter. One of them really got to Pete and he stopped posting ( biting) as some of the stuff was getting quite personal.
I thought one of the EssexGulls was also Days of Speed, remember him? I knew DofS, and fronted him about it and of course he denied it. All a bit of fun back in the day but one or two of the posters on CI did go too far with the personal stuff and I had a run in with one of them, who of course denied it, but his posts did me a lot of damage (financial) and the stuff he accused friends of mine of was complete rubbish. Another poster even contacted another posters workplace in an attempt to do the person damage, which was all a bit embarrassing at the time.

 

That would have been bummers, he ended the poor guys career in one phone call.

 

This also happened on Tiger Chat back in the day, the perpetrator occasionally posts on here these days. Dreadful business and truly appalling behaviour.

 

It wasn’t. I know the two concerned and one day they met up and got along OK. Not putting names to it as I met the one who tried to get the other, who I have known years, into trouble and after arguing with him on CI and on here, introduced by Trumpton Tiger, (the poster in question no longer posts) had more than a few pints with him a number of times.

 

He went under the moniker 'Sun40' - talked to him a few times at away games, Fulham was last one, he was sat with young Jacko; saw him at Arsenal one time and he was stuck away with the sit-down types, he got regaled with 'Pompey, Pompey give us a song' - he gave some kind of a wave as I recall.

 

A good description of him would be 'pocket battleship'.