Gemmel Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 FFS http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8493000/8493003.stm Richard Owen, Honorary Club Historian for Portsmouth Football Club said: "Southampton Company Union men **** Owen...........PLEASE, just please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 Owen? Owen who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 Small time, very, very small time. When you have to fake something, you're always going to be small time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobM Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 That puts him on-par with the Echo, getting their 'facts' from internet B.S. and rumour and creating a story out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 That puts him on-par with the Echo, getting their 'facts' from internet B.S. and rumour and creating a story out of it. I could just about forgive a lazy journalist looking for an easy story and not bothering to do the research, but when "Club Historians" try to pass it off then it really is small time. Fine if they want to hate us, no problem with that, fine if they want to call us scummers and the city scum, but peddling that mythical line is just so small time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 Small time, very, very small time. When you have to fake something, you're always going to be small time. A bit like Saints Trust membership numbers then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Site Agent Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 Genevieve Bailey could have been my Auntie but for a tragic family event. Nice lady and I believe her more that the owen feller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLOTH EARS Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 I can't believe that the BBC still buy that dock strike ******! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 I can't believe that the BBC still buy that dock strike ******! A liitle note to them might not go amiss!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stardustonmyfeet Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 The only way to make amends for this would be to have the media report the background behind calling them 'skates' as fact. At least they describe the place as a small fishing village. Wasn't aware of this however... funny how contrary to what gets reported, looking back in history it's always Portsmouth who are the strike breakers. Southampton historian Genevieve Bailey says most of the rivalry is maritime based. "After Titanic sank in 1912, sailors from Southampton refused to crew her sister ship Olympic, due to the lack of lifeboats." She explained: "Dockers from Portsmouth agreed to take the place of their Southampton counterparts." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 18 December, 2011 Share Posted 18 December, 2011 Perhaps he should have a word with his mate: "(Incidentally, in his book Seventeen Miles From Paradise, the Portsmouth historian Colin Farmery busts a myth. The oft-quoted reason why Saints fans are known as "Scummers" is that dockers from Southampton – the acronym-tastic Southampton Company Union Men – crossed a picket line in Portsmouth during a strike in the 1940s, or possibly the 1920s. Farmery points out that Southampton was very much a left-wing city, whose workers would be highly unlikely to turn scab, and anyway unionised dock labour was only established in the 1950s. It would be slightly hypocritical to attack Southampton for this in any case, seeing the city of Portsmouth plundered Southampton's cross-channel ferry business during an industrial brouhaha during the 1980s. Farmery also notes, while we're on the subject, that "Skates", the nickname given to Pompey fans – a reference to a dubious piscine-based practice favoured by lonely desperate sailors on the rolling seas – was originally a term coined by Portsmouth residents to annoy their seafaring pals, and only later adopted by Saints fans. Anyway.)" Lifted from here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2011/dec/16/joy-of-six-portsmouth-southampton-derbies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redondo Saint Posted 19 December, 2011 Share Posted 19 December, 2011 Owen? Owen who? owen the Saints going marching in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 19 December, 2011 Share Posted 19 December, 2011 Took your time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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