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Great win for the County. It's been a long time since they won a cup final.

 

Well, there was the Conference Play Off in 2013, and before that the last ever FAW Premier Cup.

 

Just got home from town, I have many videos, including one of the wife singing "Oh when the Saints" over the County fans singing "Oh When The Port Go Steaming In" (Wtf?) and the hilarious renditions of "Premier League and you f*cked it up..." then "Championship and you f*cked it up..." and finally "League One and you f*cked it up". Disappointed to report there was also glass chucking on Milton Rd and actual scrapping, which we saw a bit of, but all so lower league and rubbish. Whatmough was injured, if that's all the Skates have they are a one teenager team - and Taylor up front is clearly making a living as a Kitson impersonator not a striker.

 

Haven't had that much fun since last year's annual 3 points at Fratton. :) The last few minutes were some hilarious time-wasting too, ref was incredibly homer and still they barely created anything. First win for Newport this season (and I've seen all but one of their matches, more than Saints so far!).

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Are you saying they're NOT going to walk the league this year? I thought they were dead certs, what with Big Andy at the helm now.

 

I expect that's just your beer talk. Neil will report the true story, how they were on top throughout the game, and would have won handsomely if it wasn't for that e-mail the ref received just before kick off.

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I was pretty sober by 2am to be honest, had been basically out since 11am. The Brewers pub on Milton Road was home to a glass-throwing battle with the Milton Arms and a load of police - the Newport coaches turned up in the middle of it and it was vaguely sad to see some fat middle-aged losers waddling out of the emergency exit to erm, wade in. Broken glass around and we passed an hilarious conversation with one moron who was trying to clarify to the Police that his mate "had to get the bus back later" after they arrested him. Was quite pleased to see one of the antagonists looking rather worse for wear propped up against a garage. Saw one punch thrown, the bloke missed and fell over. I have about 5 minutes of video of people walking up a road en masse and then shuffling back again. It was frankly pathetic on both sides, suspect next year's fixture (assuming no promotions/relegations...) will be rather more expensive to police.

 

What do you want to know? Couldn't hear the Fratton end, the rest of the ground sang "Blue Army" twice.

 

One shot over the bar hit Westwood half way up the stand, you could see the drum and his hat. Whatmough was injured and didn't play, Devera was less awful than last season but still gash, they were tactically inept given that both Newport's wingbacks looked incredibly exposed all match long and yet they didn't once attack the wings.

 

Umm, other than that, nothing much in it between the "undefeated at home under Awford and undefeated in 11 matches - until yesterday" top 6 side, and the "been crap since Christmas and no win in 5 this season - until yesterday" bottom 4 side, and the winning goal was a free kick which I audibly described as "terrible" before it floated its way past everyone into the far corner.

 

Their keeper is wearing all fluorescent pink this season, btw.

 

I have to own up to having purchased a programme, a balti pie, a sausage roll and a diet coke for me and the wife, so by their maths I probably now own about 25% of the club.

 

I think there were a couple of dubiously-worded "give us your money" things in the programme which I might have a look at later, the only "Charidee" thing I saw in the pub was a bucket for "Scummers and Skates Doing It For The Kids" and a leaflet behind the bar generically mentioning fan ownership and pledging.

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I have to own up to having purchased a programme, a balti pie, a sausage roll and a diet coke for me and the wife, so by their maths I probably now own about 25% of the club.

 

 

:lol::nod:

 

did you get a real pie, one you could actually see and eat or a virtual one

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I was pretty sober by 2am to be honest, had been basically out since 11am. The Brewers pub on Milton Road was home to a glass-throwing battle with the Milton Arms and a load of police - the Newport coaches turned up in the middle of it and it was vaguely sad to see some fat middle-aged losers waddling out of the emergency exit to erm, wade in. Broken glass around and we passed an hilarious conversation with one moron who was trying to clarify to the Police that his mate "had to get the bus back later" after they arrested him. Was quite pleased to see one of the antagonists looking rather worse for wear propped up against a garage. Saw one punch thrown, the bloke missed and fell over. I have about 5 minutes of video of people walking up a road en masse and then shuffling back again. It was frankly pathetic on both sides, suspect next year's fixture (assuming no promotions/relegations...) will be rather more expensive to police.

 

What do you want to know? Couldn't hear the Fratton end, the rest of the ground sang "Blue Army" twice.

 

One shot over the bar hit Westwood half way up the stand, you could see the drum and his hat. Whatmough was injured and didn't play, Devera was less awful than last season but still gash, they were tactically inept given that both Newport's wingbacks looked incredibly exposed all match long and yet they didn't once attack the wings.

 

Umm, other than that, nothing much in it between the "undefeated at home under Awford and undefeated in 11 matches - until yesterday" top 6 side, and the "been crap since Christmas and no win in 5 this season - until yesterday" bottom 4 side, and the winning goal was a free kick which I audibly described as "terrible" before it floated its way past everyone into the far corner.

 

Their keeper is wearing all fluorescent pink this season, btw.

 

I have to own up to having purchased a programme, a balti pie, a sausage roll and a diet coke for me and the wife, so by their maths I probably now own about 25% of the club.

 

I think there were a couple of dubiously-worded "give us your money" things in the programme which I might have a look at later, the only "Charidee" thing I saw in the pub was a bucket for "Scummers and Skates Doing It For The Kids" and a leaflet behind the bar generically mentioning fan ownership and pledging.

Did you hear Awfords interview, not very complimentary about your lot. You ve only scored from set pieces apparently this season. They had all the chances but then went on to say you hit the bar and their keeper had to tip over lol

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I was pretty sober by 2am to be honest, had been basically out since 11am. The Brewers pub on Milton Road was home to a glass-throwing battle with the Milton Arms and a load of police - the Newport coaches turned up in the middle of it and it was vaguely sad to see some fat middle-aged losers waddling out of the emergency exit to erm, wade in. Broken glass around and we passed an hilarious conversation with one moron who was trying to clarify to the Police that his mate "had to get the bus back later" after they arrested him. Was quite pleased to see one of the antagonists looking rather worse for wear propped up against a garage. Saw one punch thrown, the bloke missed and fell over. I have about 5 minutes of video of people walking up a road en masse and then shuffling back again. It was frankly pathetic on both sides, suspect next year's fixture (assuming no promotions/relegations...) will be rather more expensive to police.

 

What do you want to know? Couldn't hear the Fratton end, the rest of the ground sang "Blue Army" twice.

 

One shot over the bar hit Westwood half way up the stand, you could see the drum and his hat. Whatmough was injured and didn't play, Devera was less awful than last season but still gash, they were tactically inept given that both Newport's wingbacks looked incredibly exposed all match long and yet they didn't once attack the wings.

 

Umm, other than that, nothing much in it between the "undefeated at home under Awford and undefeated in 11 matches - until yesterday" top 6 side, and the "been crap since Christmas and no win in 5 this season - until yesterday" bottom 4 side, and the winning goal was a free kick which I audibly described as "terrible" before it floated its way past everyone into the far corner.

 

Their keeper is wearing all fluorescent pink this season, btw.

 

I have to own up to having purchased a programme, a balti pie, a sausage roll and a diet coke for me and the wife, so by their maths I probably now own about 25% of the club.

 

I think there were a couple of dubiously-worded "give us your money" things in the programme which I might have a look at later, the only "Charidee" thing I saw in the pub was a bucket for "Scummers and Skates Doing It For The Kids" and a leaflet behind the bar generically mentioning fan ownership and pledging.

 

i was just driving past when this happend and there were 2 newport county coaches by the side of me just as we arrived at the junction fortunatly the police just arrived and there were not too many idiots kicking off but kids being shepperded by thier parents caught up in it.

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The Brewers pub on Milton Road was home to a glass-throwing battle with the Milton Arms and a load of police - the Newport coaches turned up in the middle of it and it was vaguely sad to see some fat middle-aged losers waddling out of the emergency exit to erm, wade in.

One Pompey fan got a fractured skull and ten stitches in a nasty head wound (a photo was knocking round twitter earlier).

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Classic that they've been out mucled by a former non-league firm... Their "hardcore" support must have... hmmm.... left(?) during the decline.... :lol: But theya re the bestest!

 

"I was walking up goldsmith before the game and saw the Newport lot being escorted by the police and it started to get a bit hectic. Quickly did a u-turn and ran into the ground for safely.

 

What happened after the game? Bunch of morons if you ask me."

 

"Unfortunately their mentality is 20 years behind most other clubs these days. I hope they get the justice they deserve."

 

"Last season I remember they necessitated a big police presence and it was the nastiest atmosphere coming out of the ground all season. Now I read, predictably, their fans were involved again in isolated incidents. Both teams need to exit this league- us to higher echelons, they back to Wales." :lol:

 

Bless them trololol

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:lol::nod:

 

did you get a real pie, one you could actually see and eat or a virtual one

 

Real pie. I'll give them one thing, their choice of chicken balti or steak was spot on, anyone would think they had fans involved in the decision making process or something. :D

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Did you hear Awfords interview, not very complimentary about your lot. You ve only scored from set pieces apparently this season. They had all the chances but then went on to say you hit the bar and their keeper had to tip over lol

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28906633

 

Stats:

Skates 2 shots on target, County 6.

Fouls, Skates made 13, Newport 17. None of them were remotely dangerous.

Bookings Skates 4 County 6, and two of the County bookings were for time-wasting during an incident in injury time when there was a Skate about 5 yards from the free-kick and the ref didn't ask him to retreat.

 

I saw County score twice away to third place Morecambe from open play in one half, they've also played 3 other matches. Also, if they only score from set-pieces, shouldn't Portsmouth be practicing not conceding from them?

 

In summary, Awford talking absolute sh01te.

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i was just driving past when this happend and there were 2 newport county coaches by the side of me just as we arrived at the junction fortunatly the police just arrived and there were not too many idiots kicking off but kids being shepperded by thier parents caught up in it.

 

You're probably in one of my three videos of the thing taken from the window of the Brewers as soon as the beer came flying back when it became obvious something was going to happen. The people struggling off the coach to join in is an hilarious clip in one of them.

 

There was a crowd of about 20-30 Newport morons outside the Brewers, of whom about 7 or 8 actually disappeared from sight across the road. My mate, a County fan, saw a drink go towards the Milton Arms, I only saw the one which came back which is what prompted the Newport fans to move towards the pub.

 

Despite hating all that nonsense generally, I quite enjoyed watching some morons suffering pain for being morons at the hands of other morons, it should be a tv show so we can all be appalled but glad of natural selection at the same time.

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I am sure there must be many on here disturbed about the way football has evolved over the years.

 

Too much money and rivalry.

 

With £70+ million of TV revenue plus over £90m income from transfer fees.

 

Throw a well heeled owner into the mix and surely some thought should be given to using the £160m or so to help pay part of the outstanding debts run up by the only other League side in Hampshire.

 

After all their city used to be in the County of Southampton so there is some historical reason, and perhaps a moral reason, for helping one of Hampshire's junior clubs disadvantaged by having a stream of ne'er do wells in the Boardroom.

 

Wouldn't it be nice if a decent financial gesture would help to move our near neighbours towards their dream of mid table obscurity in the Championship, rather than wallowing in Division 4, and a stadium suitable for their friendly and unfortunate fans.

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I've been told that Newport kicked pompey off the park and the ref let them get away with it.....also I heard that pompey spent too much time diving and the ref was a homer.

Was it somewhere in between perhaps?

 

Ref was very crap at dealing with time-wasting in injury time, hence 3 injury time bookings. It wasn't remotely dirty or even physical but there were 10(!) bookings, but if anything the ref was over-officious during the match and under-competent in added time and I don't think he particularly favoured either side. Oh, and the bloke the Skates brought on with the lime green boots and the stepovers was hilariously inept and ineffective at beating the notably weak defensively right wing back Jackson in one-on-ones.

 

Checking the stats, that was #14, Storey (not to be confused with Shorey). Absolutely a 10-trick no end product pony.

 

I'm trying to think of one of their players who played well, or looked outstanding, but I can't. Their keeper did ok, until he watched Sandell's "too straight" free kick drift past him inside the post. Devera still gash, Kitson - I mean Taylor - up front did nothing, they didn't create much and had very few threatening moves with the ball, though they seem to favour dribbling to passing, Newport marshalled them well considering that defence has gifted goals all over the shop so far this season.

 

Oh, and 16,191, though somehow it looked much more full than last season - guessing the section next to the away fans in the Milton End was empty, I couldn't see that.

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Good luck mate, are you taking some of the gang along with you ??

 

Just me and the wife, my mates Tim and Aston from Newport, my mate (Everton/Newport fan) Chris and his dad and kid, my dad, my auntie and her husband this time... :D

 

Also bumped into another County fan who lives in Hedge End getting off the train afterwards, which was a little weird.

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One Pompey fan got a fractured skull and ten stitches in a nasty head wound (a photo was knocking round twitter earlier).

 

Guilty parties on both sides, even walking past the Milton Arms on the way to meet my auntie at the Mr Pickwick it was obvious that the Milton Arms was a neanderthal hangout, and I saw a pint glass come heading for the Newport fans - full of beer, duhhhh - with my own eyes. Seeing as I also saw a punch thrown (and missed, and the guy fall over), and one of the main "lairy arms out, demonstrative singing, look at me" County fans sat on his arse leaned up against a garage looking dazed shortly after (and in the ground after that) I can confirm it was more than just posturing - though there was also a lot of posturing.

 

I had colours on, but it was zipped up jacket and shirt tucked in after that til we got in.

 

Still, when you've already walked past a petrol station which ten years previously had an upturned car on fire in it when you were being kettled to avoid thousands of Skate morons from lobbing concrete and rocks at you on Goldsmith Avenue, you don't really concern yourself with a few smashed glasses.

 

When morons attack.

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I see agent Connolly is still in their squad list. Has he played any football this year is he on the injured table hoping to get paid .04% of his salary?

 

He is last on the squad list in the programme, I don't think they've named him in a squad yet. I don't think he's injured, but it would hardly be unprecedented, and I can't believe they gave him more than a one-year deal in their condition, but they did...

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Classic that they've been out mucled by a former non-league firm... Their "hardcore" support must have... hmmm.... left(?) during the decline.... :lol: But theya re the bestest!

 

"I was walking up goldsmith before the game and saw the Newport lot being escorted by the police and it started to get a bit hectic. Quickly did a u-turn and ran into the ground for safely.

 

What happened after the game? Bunch of morons if you ask me."

 

"Unfortunately their mentality is 20 years behind most other clubs these days. I hope they get the justice they deserve."

 

"Last season I remember they necessitated a big police presence and it was the nastiest atmosphere coming out of the ground all season. Now I read, predictably, their fans were involved again in isolated incidents. Both teams need to exit this league- us to higher echelons, they back to Wales." :lol:

 

Bless them trololol

 

Newport has had quite the moron contingent for some time. There are a few problems - firstly, the place has a LOT of manky areas, and a lot of thicko yobs to begin with (especially the bit Tony Pulis is from) - the town has always been a bit rough, though I very rarely used to see actual fighting whilst going out there. Secondly, they have always been lower league and that allows for the kind of idiocy you can't get away with in all-seater grounds with decent CCTV.

 

Thirdly, and most importantly, when the rest of football was moving away from the nobbery of the 80s, Newport stopped having a football team of any note, so all the thugs who used to hang around causing trouble at Somerton Park in the mid 80s in Divs 3 and 4 didn't get the message that the rest of us have moved on and people don't do that kind of thing any more.

 

Also, none of these pr1cks are actually football fans anyway - they all disappeared entirely in the early 90s when Newport AFC's rivals were the likes of Evesham, Almondsbury Picksons, Swindon Supermarine and Leicester United, and only EVER turned up, even for home games, for Merthyr visits. In fact Newport have a large contingent of over 40 football hooligan tourists that you don't see at 95% of their matches.

 

They also had some issues at Lewes a few years back when a group of them decided to have a massive drinking session in honour of one of their mates who'd died (via samurai sword murder in a pub, mind you) and despite County's warning to Lewes not to open their bar, they basically trashed the place. Again, had nothing to do with football, just idiots on a day out getting as drunk as possible all through the match and not even watching it and kicking off when they stopped serving them.

 

But Portsmouth away, direct train from Newport, big home following for League Two, that's a prime one for a moron - especially when there was some trouble in Newport last season. There was NO trouble coming out of Fratton last season whatsoever though as alluded to above, despite that being one of the Skates' lowest points, they were all used to losing by then - unlike this season.

 

I didn't see any groups of away fans escorted to the ground - Goldsmith Ave would have been the train-travellers, and even if they had been, they were the wrong end of Fratton for the incident at the Milton, which involved fans drinking on Milton Rd at 2 or 3 pubs and some of the coaches arriving quite late (other coaches had been there for an hour by then). The Shepherd's Crook, where we went last year was home only, despite it being absolutely fine in there last year.

 

After the match we walked back to the station, there was a huge police presence and we, as some of the last out, didn't see anything happen. There were a load of Newport morons in the car park next to the station entrance, which was bizarre given that the queues to actually catch a train contained fans of both teams unsegregated, all going to get on trains out of Portsmouth, and there was no way of the morons working out which were which without either colours or accent.

 

The station wasn't well organised, we spoke to a policeman on the platform and it was clear there was one train (to south Wales) which had 2 rear carriages for Newport fans which were remaining locked until (probably) Fareham and others were told to get on the front 3 carriages if they wanted to get off before that. With us needing to get off at Fareham for Portchester and Hedge End and my mates at Southampton we, as Newport fans, had to go in the Skate carriages, but when we asked and said our destinations, we were directed to the Newport carriages, which would have meant we couldn't get off (assuming they did lock the doors).

 

So anyway, I didn't see any trouble afterwards, but there were groups that were there to cause it. About a tenth of the size of the Skate welcoming committee outside the ground during the match which was also live on tv for Skates v Saints in 2004 though.

 

Oh, and that victim/compensation culture tweet is pathetic.

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I have been waiting a while for this chance since the birth year idea came a long. So 1977 the king died' and it was until recently the Katy time a Brit won Wimbledon. It also means i missed or on our one FA cup triumph. So I have had a long time to one what to say but my memories of visiting Portsmouth seemed like a good idea. It has been 10 years since I was last in the UK, 12 years when I last went to Southampton and 16 since I visited Portsmouth and that was against my will when my Portsmouth living friend decided it would be funny to drive me over to the dodgy parts of Portsmouth while eating my saints shirt. Three was quite a lot of the island to choose from. I remember it as a rather crowded place with grim buildings. I don't th ink it has likely improve d much in the time i have been gone. Any way that friend is now a Portsmouth city counselor and shares a name with a premier league referee, one of two friend in the uk who have that distinction. I only lives in Southampton for 2 years but man was it better than Portsmouth. Now Portsmouth seems so irrelevant in the 4th tier and struggling. The best Pratt of Portsmouth to me WA always when you got back on the M27.

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http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/article/pompey-consider-crest-change-1889690.aspx?

 

This'll be fun, especially if we massively rig the poll.

 

Is it worthwhile to rig a vote where neither of he options make them look (any more) stupid?

 

I might vote for option C in the home of the potential to opt for something ridiculous when the phew are consulted.

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Is it worthwhile to rig a vote where neither of he options make them look (any more) stupid?

 

I might vote for option C in the home of the potential to opt for something ridiculous when the phew are consulted.

 

Yep, we could do that, or just vote for whichever option they don't want - should be obvious from POL. Childish I know but, that's me...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28906633

 

Stats:

 

Bookings Skates 4 County 6,

 

 

Ref was very crap at dealing with time-wasting in injury time, hence 3 injury time bookings. It wasn't remotely dirty or even physical but there were 11 bookings,

 

Looks like that trip to the sceptic isle has had more of an effect on you than initially thought ;)

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Newport has had quite the moron contingent for some time. There are a few problems - firstly, the place has a LOT of manky areas, and a lot of thicko yobs to begin with (especially the bit Tony Pulis is from) - the town has always been a bit rough, though I very rarely used to see actual fighting whilst going out there. Secondly, they have always been lower league and that allows for the kind of idiocy you can't get away with in all-seater grounds with decent CCTV.

 

Thirdly, and most importantly, when the rest of football was moving away from the nobbery of the 80s, Newport stopped having a football team of any note, so all the thugs who used to hang around causing trouble at Somerton Park in the mid 80s in Divs 3 and 4 didn't get the message that the rest of us have moved on and people don't do that kind of thing any more.

 

Also, none of these pr1cks are actually football fans anyway - they all disappeared entirely in the early 90s when Newport AFC's rivals were the likes of Evesham, Almondsbury Picksons, Swindon Supermarine and Leicester United, and only EVER turned up, even for home games, for Merthyr visits. In fact Newport have a large contingent of over 40 football hooligan tourists that you don't see at 95% of their matches.

 

They also had some issues at Lewes a few years back when a group of them decided to have a massive drinking session in honour of one of their mates who'd died (via samurai sword murder in a pub, mind you) and despite County's warning to Lewes not to open their bar, they basically trashed the place. Again, had nothing to do with football, just idiots on a day out getting as drunk as possible all through the match and not even watching it and kicking off when they stopped serving them.

 

But Portsmouth away, direct train from Newport, big home following for League Two, that's a prime one for a moron - especially when there was some trouble in Newport last season. There was NO trouble coming out of Fratton last season whatsoever though as alluded to above, despite that being one of the Skates' lowest points, they were all used to losing by then - unlike this season.

 

I didn't see any groups of away fans escorted to the ground - Goldsmith Ave would have been the train-travellers, and even if they had been, they were the wrong end of Fratton for the incident at the Milton, which involved fans drinking on Milton Rd at 2 or 3 pubs and some of the coaches arriving quite late (other coaches had been there for an hour by then). The Shepherd's Crook, where we went last year was home only, despite it being absolutely fine in there last year.

 

After the match we walked back to the station, there was a huge police presence and we, as some of the last out, didn't see anything happen. There were a load of Newport morons in the car park next to the station entrance, which was bizarre given that the queues to actually catch a train contained fans of both teams unsegregated, all going to get on trains out of Portsmouth, and there was no way of the morons working out which were which without either colours or accent.

 

The station wasn't well organised, we spoke to a policeman on the platform and it was clear there was one train (to south Wales) which had 2 rear carriages for Newport fans which were remaining locked until (probably) Fareham and others were told to get on the front 3 carriages if they wanted to get off before that. With us needing to get off at Fareham for Portchester and Hedge End and my mates at Southampton we, as Newport fans, had to go in the Skate carriages, but when we asked and said our destinations, we were directed to the Newport carriages, which would have meant we couldn't get off (assuming they did lock the doors).

 

So anyway, I didn't see any trouble afterwards, but there were groups that were there to cause it. About a tenth of the size of the Skate welcoming committee outside the ground during the match which was also live on tv for Skates v Saints in 2004 though.

 

Oh, and that victim/compensation culture tweet is pathetic.

 

 

Ironically we employ some lads from Newport.

 

Decent chaps and hard workers but you wouldn't want to cross them.

 

They used to be paid in cash but this was changed to direct debit, for a number of reasons, one of which was that their wives/girlfriends used to demand house keeping money every Friday evening and these outwardly tough lads were genuinely concerned about getting into trouble with their partners.

 

Apparently some of the Newport ladies were more frightening than their male counterparts.

 

Similar in many respects to the 'Valley People' who flock into Cardiff on a Saturday night

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Happy birth-year to me and thank you all for the hours, days & weeks of entertainment. I'll return to the crowds of mute readers again now.

 

Consider yourself one of the unsung heroes of this thread. We all have our part to play in chuckling at the screen, peferrably when the boss isn't around..

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I am sure there must be many on here disturbed about the way football has evolved over the years.

SNIP

 

 

So basically you're saying there should be more support for grass roots football? I agree. My team could do with some more practice balls, poles, bibs.. which reminds me, I must contact Monk. Most of the girls support Portsmouth but it would be dangerous to contact _them_ as it would probably cost us too much...

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Ironically we employ some lads from Newport.

 

Decent chaps and hard workers but you wouldn't want to cross them.

 

They used to be paid in cash but this was changed to direct debit, for a number of reasons, one of which was that their wives/girlfriends used to demand house keeping money every Friday evening and these outwardly tough lads were genuinely concerned about getting into trouble with their partners.

 

Apparently some of the Newport ladies were more frightening than their male counterparts.

 

Similar in many respects to the 'Valley People' who flock into Cardiff on a Saturday night

 

Maybe not relevant to a skate thread but remember getting hit in the face by a hot meat(?) pie at Ninian Park and you were with me LOL. Look at your email you have incoming........

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spyinthesky

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Maybe not relevant to a skate thread but remember getting hit in the face by a hot meat(?) pie at Ninian Park and you were with me LOL. Look at your email you have incoming........

 

I remember this very well

Christmas game which we won 5-3 I think

Only discussing this with neighbour I take to St Mary's.

Spookily he was on same (Shamrock & Rambler?) coach and had a mate who had been hit by an iron bar on the way out of the and was laid out on the coach coming home in a bit of a state.

Coach had little or no heating and it was freezing coming back over Salisbury Plain.

I was wearing a brand new reefer jacket (Xmas present) and we were all stood behind one of the goals mixed in with the Cardiff mob

I suppose it was fortunate that the missile that hit me was only a hot meat pie but could never get the smell of the contents out of the jacket despite dry cleaning

Dodgy times then. Where you stood next to us at Plymouth when a bloke got bottled?

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