To be fair, the Arsenal fans saw the irony in the mauled chant, they even stayed behind to applaud us for it.
Unfortunately, it was a short lived support for our irony.
Unfortunately, it was a short lived support for our irony.
The only advantage of having a season ticket is that you are garanteed tickets for away games! If we hadn't followed the team away this season I think I'd be suicidal by now. At least those who have travelled should have experienced a more satisfying season.
I've really enjoyed the away games! the home games, even the ones we won were poor by comparison. Sorry if that ramble is a bit off subject but I was thinking about the last post re:supervstadium adress
Well I must say I never appreciated the seminal terrace irony of the Hull fans subverting the notion of homophobia being rife among football supporters. Good on you. And I can't imagine why anybody else would have thought you were being serious with the mauling gestures; I mean Hull is widely known as a place of sophistication, wit and sagacity so it completely bypasses me why the ironic nature of that chant has been overlooked.
Ill Ducky, Have you been spending quality time with a Dictionary and a Thesaurus to be able to come up with that statement? Or did you get someone to ghost write it for you??? I just can't see you being able to come up with all that on your own!!!
The politicians are never ever gonna vote for standing of any kind at an English Football stadium again after Hillsborough regardless of so called safe standing areas in the Bundesliga -from my recollection Germany hasn't suffered the trauma of losing the lives of ninety odd supporters at a football ground.
As for atmosphere, its all aquestion of trying to get like minded supporters, who wish to sing, to group in one area of the stadium - how this comes about I'm not too sure.
The East stand is too big and there are pockets of vocal types all over this side of the ground -unfortunately there are larger pockets of dead heads even on this side of the ground. I should know I sit in E7 and most around me are stuffed.
In the days of BP and few season ticket holders - if you wanted to be vocal you just needed to pay on the day and plonk yourself in the part of the ground that generated the singing. One time Bunkers, other times Kempton.
The fact that we have now to make a decision in advance in terms of where we want to sit in an all seater stadium, f*cks this option right up.
Il Duce - I sort of see what you mean that the scarf thing isn't literally homosexual, it just seemed really... gay when performed at the KC this season.
The mauled by the tigers thing is ironic, the idea being that when 3 goals down the last thing you want to see is 3,000 amber-clad fully grown men waving tiger claws at you. I've yet to meet a single opposition fan who appreciates it as irony, you all seem to think we're trying to be genuinely scary.