Message from an old git

[CLOTH EARS]

I would just like to add again that this Dock strike thing was TOTAL ******.....a complete & utter myth!!! Some of them claim that the name they give us stems from the mythical strike..... 'SCUM' stands for 'Southampton City Union Men' who allegedly broke a strike. I can tell you 100% that the name 'scummer' came from a local pub singer called 'Shep Woolley' He was an ardent Pompey fan who wrote a song about Pompey in late 1983 and in this song he reffered to us as 'scummers'. It made the local news on Radio Solent at the time it came out because some Southampton people thought it was wrong for him to refer to us by that name, Obviously the pompey fans latched onto the scummer thing from then onwards and amazingly we drew them in the FA Cup 4th round a couple of months after the song came out and it was an ideal chance for them to chant 'scummers' at us all afternoon. From this time onwards the 'scummer' thing has stuck.

 

As for the Skate thing well that started to be used after 'The Ugly Inside' fanzine in the late 80's early 90's had a cartoon called Sid the 'Skate'. Sid was a pompey sailor boy. The term Skate is a term that has been used for years and years for Sailors who when at sea and sexually frustrated used to use the mouth of a Skate fish to pleasure themselves, apparently it feels close the real thing! With Pompeys obvious links to the royal navy the word Skate seemed like an ideal term to use for that lot.

[Elmore]

I will be shouting and swearing at the TV no doubt!! Unless my wife goes into labour, and then I will be off to the hospital!!

 

Me too! Ours is already 2 days overdue - I so wanted to be at the match, but have to settle for the pub and being "on call".