Unsavoury fans

[TKIZ!]

How come a Macc landlord knew some Bolton fans?

I'm not arsed about folk singing Munich songs (tar and feather me if you must) though I wouldn't do it

We do have more than our fair share of plankton, the majority of the slackjawed seemingly from Farnworth, Walkden and the Hultons

Shame, really, but hey, it's football, not the ballet

And there's me thinking most of them came from Gastley Bridge, Tonge Moor, Harwood and NotsoBreightmet!

I don't think it's exclusively this club but have to say since Terry/Suarez incidents it seems to be happening more and more or is that just me?

[Gail Platz]

Yeah there was a large dick head contingent out in force at Macclesfield. The 'out of the ordinary' fixtures such as Macclesfield, Munich, Madrid etc attract these idiots that have no interest in the football.

I got to Macclesfield pretty early on Saturday and hit a few pubs along the way. Got chatting to some of their fans and they're probably the nicest bunch of supporters I've ever spoken to. Despite the result I was looking forward to getting back in the pubs after the game, only to find that every one we walked past was closed, which I found a bit strange.

Got to the point where I got to one right near the train station which was shut, but just as I got to the door the landlady opened it. "You're not riff raff are you?" she asks. Of course not! She lets us in and claims that there'd been Bolton 'fans' 10 minutes after kick off causing bother in the pubs in Macclesfield, clearly there for nothing else.

Set of fecking idiots the lot of them.

[TKIZ!]

Yeah there was a large dick head contingent out in force at Macclesfield. The 'out of the ordinary' fixtures such as Macclesfield, Munich, Madrid etc attract these idiots that have no interest in the football.

I got to Macclesfield pretty early on Saturday and hit a few pubs along the way. Got chatting to some of their fans and they're probably the nicest bunch of supporters I've ever spoken to. Despite the result I was looking forward to getting back in the pubs after the game, only to find that every one we walked past was closed, which I found a bit strange.

Got to the point where I got to one right near the train station which was shut, but just as I got to the door the landlady opened it. "You're not riff raff are you?" she asks. Of course not! She lets us in and claims that there'd been Bolton 'fans' 10 minutes after kick off causing bother in the pubs in Macclesfield, clearly there for nothing else.

Set of fecking idiots the lot of them.

It's all a bit pathetic. Grown men and young lads wanting to fight should do so on their own time without the pretence of 'supporting' a football club

[officer_dibble]

munich?
good crowd in munich i thought? or was i just too pissed?

[TANGODANCER]

Troublemaking fans have always been part of football. None of it's anything new. The Everton louts invented "whizzers", plastic bags of pxss and shxt. to lob into the Embankment end back in the 70's and there was plenty aggro inside the ground, not just outside it. .

[coffeymagic]

We do have more than our fair share of plankton, the majority of the slackjawed seemingly from Farnworth, Walkden and the Hultons

Bit of a sweeping statement there. Growing up in Walkden and The Little 'Hulton' I think you'll find it was the fans from these areas (including 'Nth and Swinton) that kept this club going during Ye Olde Days.

The majority of 'Boltonions' never gave a flying fancy about BWFC so to tar us as Nuggetville is a bit much.

I'm sure there are just as many knobheads from every street around town as there are from the other side of Long Causeway.

That said I really do cringe when I hear Bolton 'fans' singing songs about Munich. Give it a rest it was (over) half a century ago. You weren't alive, 99pc of United fans weren't alive and it makes you look like a neanderthal. You're singing about people dying for Christ's sake.

When we played Hibs up here the other year we ended up in a pub with the knobheads I grew up with (yes the Walkden/LH ones) and I was pretty ashamed by their behaviour. Singing about the IRA and Fish Suppers - c'mon it's like the 1990's never happened.

What's worse it is EXACTLY the same people. Blokes in their late 40s/50s acting like drunken teenagers trying to impress their mates.

I think we have an attitude here where 'taking' a town centre is seen as a victory. Swarming all over a place like a plague, leaving it in puke and pish covered ruins doesn't make you a good ambassador for your town or more importantly yourself.

Trying to copy what Leeds, United, Liverpool etc etc have done on Euro tours is really pretty bad.

What ever happened to decorum?

Proud to be a Wanderer?

[CAPSLOCK]

Bit of a sweeping statement there. Growing up in Walkden and The Little 'Hulton' I think you'll find it was the fans from these areas (including 'Nth and Swinton) that kept this club going during Ye Olde Days.

When we played Hibs up here the other year we ended up in a pub with the knobheads I grew up with (yes the Walkden/LH ones) and I was pretty ashamed by their behaviour. Singing about the IRA and Fish Suppers - c'mon it's like the 1990's never happened.

What's worse it is EXACTLY the same people. Blokes in their late 40s/50s acting like drunken teenagers trying to impress their mates.

I think that's what I said - but it aint just the old uns

The young uns are conditioned to follow on with the sectarian bullshit

ps don't kid ourselves it was only the Walkden mob who kept us going!

[Peter Thompson]

We do have more than our fair share of plankton, the majority of the slackjawed seemingly from Farnworth, Walkden and the Hultons

Bit of a sweeping statement there. Growing up in Walkden and The Little 'Hulton' I think you'll find it was the fans from these areas (including 'Nth and Swinton) that kept this club going during Ye Olde Days.
The majority of 'Boltonions' never gave a flying fancy about BWFC so to tar us as Nuggetville is a bit much.

I'm sure there are just as many knobheads from every street around town as there are from the other side of Long Causeway.

That said I really do cringe when I hear Bolton 'fans' singing songs about Munich. Give it a rest it was (over) half a century ago. You weren't alive, 99pc of United fans weren't alive and it makes you look like a neanderthal. You're singing about people dying for Christ's sake.

When we played Hibs up here the other year we ended up in a pub with the knobheads I grew up with (yes the Walkden/LH ones) and I was pretty ashamed by their behaviour. Singing about the IRA and Fish Suppers - c'mon it's like the 1990's never happened.

What's worse it is EXACTLY the same people. Blokes in their late 40s/50s acting like drunken teenagers trying to impress their mates.

I think we have an attitude here where 'taking' a town centre is seen as a victory. Swarming all over a place like a plague, leaving it in puke and pish covered ruins doesn't make you a good ambassador for your town or more importantly yourself.

Trying to copy what Leeds, United, Liverpool etc etc have done on Euro tours is really pretty bad.

What ever happened to decorum?

Proud to be a Wanderer?

What a load of tripe - I knew most and still know many of the Walkden / LH lads, and they were and are good lads, but to say they kept the club going in the dark days is rubbish, they followed the club everywhere in decent numbers but were a small minority even in Div 4 / Div 3 days.

[Bruce Rioja]

Yeah, cause it was me and my mates that kept us going and, thankfully, we were as far away from those places as it's possible to be whilst remaining in Bolton.

[coffeymagic]

Thank you.

Just redressing the balance from one end where M38/M28 is like some kind of ferral breading ground and a normal place with it's average number of fans:dickhead ratio.

Of course it wasn't Walkden/Little Hulton/Swinton that kept the Wanderers going but don't dismiss them all as nuggets.

Some of us just supported the team.

We travelled up and down the land courtesy of Moggertours plc with a hardcore of about 10-15 lads every week I never saw trouble once.

Beer+Women+Football+chips.

But without the women.

[Peter Thompson]

We travelled up and down the land courtesy of Moggertours plc with a hardcore of about 10-15 lads every week I never saw trouble once.
Beer+Women+Football+chips.

But without the women.

You obviously didn't travel with the main LH Lads back in the 80's & early 90's then

[coffeymagic]

We travelled up and down the land courtesy of Moggertours plc with a hardcore of about 10-15 lads every week I never saw trouble once.
Beer+Women+Football+chips.

But without the women.

You obviously didn't travel with the main LH Lads back in the 80's & early 90's then

The Albion lot?

Like I say - I was a good boy.

[Andy Waller]

Yawn......

[coffeymagic]

Yawn......

Keeping you up?

[Peter Thompson]

The Albion lot?

Like I say - I was a good boy.

Yes - good set of lads !!

[Andy Waller]

Yawn......

Keeping you up?

Boring "I had a scrap in the 1980's" yarns...

[Peter Thompson]

Boring "I had a scrap in the 1980's" yarns...

Don't read it then....your not forced to read every thread

[coffeymagic]

Yawn......

Keeping you up?

Boring "I had a scrap in the 1980's" yarns...

I think you'll find we're saying quite the opposite here.

[Andy Waller]

We travelled up and down the land courtesy of Moggertours plc with a hardcore of about 10-15 lads every week I never saw trouble once.
Beer+Women+Football+chips.

But without the women.

You obviously didn't travel with the main LH Lads back in the 80's & early 90's then

That's not saying "the opposite" is it?

[officer_dibble]

no, the opposite to that would be "I saw trouble every week".