| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 18:50 - Mar 7 with 3027 views | switchingcode |
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| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 20:44 - Mar 7 with 2831 views | ShotKneesHoop |
The very best of the best. Clive could be writing articles for the Sunday papers, with stuff like this !!! Ooops.
Glad to know it's not just me, I thought it was all about just getting too old but it's more than that. It's sliding doors time, and the train has just moved off in a different direction,
I used to love all that build up before and the aftermath of an R's game, but now it's just an expensive, unpleasant and nasty pain in the Harris,.... because we are now living in an expensive, unpleasant nasty country.
If I was 40 years younger, I'd emigrate to Oz. I'm starting to really hate this Bojo place. It's not just a football thing, it's a nation thing.
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| Why does it feel like R'SWiPe is still on the books? Yer Couldn't Make It Up.Well Done Me! |
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| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 01:57 - Mar 8 with 2574 views | superhoopdownunder |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 20:44 - Mar 7 by ShotKneesHoop |
The very best of the best. Clive could be writing articles for the Sunday papers, with stuff like this !!! Ooops.
Glad to know it's not just me, I thought it was all about just getting too old but it's more than that. It's sliding doors time, and the train has just moved off in a different direction,
I used to love all that build up before and the aftermath of an R's game, but now it's just an expensive, unpleasant and nasty pain in the Harris,.... because we are now living in an expensive, unpleasant nasty country.
If I was 40 years younger, I'd emigrate to Oz. I'm starting to really hate this Bojo place. It's not just a football thing, it's a nation thing.
[Post edited 7 Mar 2022 20:53]
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Australia has gone downhill massively in the past few years due to appalling government (both at a federal and state level). If they got out of our lives and actually represented us then it would be terrific. | | | |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 07:48 - Mar 8 with 2447 views | ShotKneesHoop |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 01:57 - Mar 8 by superhoopdownunder |
Australia has gone downhill massively in the past few years due to appalling government (both at a federal and state level). If they got out of our lives and actually represented us then it would be terrific. |
I was in Sydney four years ago and it was like a breathe of fresh air compared to here.
If it’s any consolation, you’ve got a long way to go until you get to the garbage we have to put up with back here. | |
| Why does it feel like R'SWiPe is still on the books? Yer Couldn't Make It Up.Well Done Me! |
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| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 09:38 - Mar 8 with 2329 views | toboboly |
Gotta admit I am fairly glad I have done a load of aways in earlier years. The "lads" massing at the Orient end during the penalties was something to behold, not in a good way. |  |
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| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 10:15 - Mar 8 with 2281 views | robith |
This really was a fantastic read, and chimes with a lot of my experiences, albeit as a mid 30s rugby playing unit who can handle himself, I've sacked off away games altogether.
I'm no shrinking violet and my eyes are open - regularly on work nights out pre pandemic I would find myself suddenly stood on my own in the pub. But my "oh...this is the way things are now" moment Cov at home early season. A few of their youngsters tried to smash the religious preachers outside Shepherds Bush station, and then I was coming out of Sainsburys on Uxbridge Road and saw three Coventry fans the same age of my dad doing bumps off their hand in the middle of the street.
I love away games - I'm an obnoxious man who absolutely loves the beers, but the agg - specifically from your fellow Rs- and it feeling like a bad lottery about how you chose to support your team might be received, I need it like a hole in the head |  | | |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 10:16 - Mar 8 with 2281 views | Harbour |
Thanks Clive very good read a bit sad that toxicity is still around and not getting better have noticed the flares coins and other items being thrown on the pitch not a great look. Back in the early 1970s when I first went to LR violence was very common inside and out of the ground let’s hope this does not come back. But as you say a reflection of life in the UK. | | | |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 11:00 - Mar 8 with 2200 views | Boston |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 10:16 - Mar 8 by Harbour |
Thanks Clive very good read a bit sad that toxicity is still around and not getting better have noticed the flares coins and other items being thrown on the pitch not a great look. Back in the early 1970s when I first went to LR violence was very common inside and out of the ground let’s hope this does not come back. But as you say a reflection of life in the UK. |
The uptick in violent crime appears to be widespread across the ‘Western world’. [Post edited 8 Mar 2022 11:01]
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| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 14:16 - Mar 8 with 1964 views | stowmarketrange |
It isn’t just our fans though,although that’s the ones we see most of.I’m lucky in a way that I have to travel differently to some of our London based fans,so I don’t tend to get the same experiences travelling to and from away games that most others do.I only get to see the poor behaviour in the pubs and in the grounds.Peterborough was as bad an experience as it was for the league game.
We had one group of lads about 16 sitting on the stairs next to us at the back of the stand who looked the worse for wear.One even had fallen asleep with his head in his hands during the game.
The Blackburn away game opened my eyes to the conduct of other club’s fans though.I boarded a Leeds bound train at Peterborough at 07.39 to find it full of Spurs fans making their way to Leeds for a 12.30 ko.The amount of empty tins and bottles scattered all around showed that the party must’ve started well before 7am,and it continued in full swing until we got to Leeds station just after 9am,where most went straight to pubs for the 3 hour wait for the game to start.
My return train from Leeds was due to leave at 5.45,some 3 hours after the final whistle,and I expected to have a quieter trip back south to Peterborough.
How wrong was I?The carriage I was in was already full of partying Spurs fans by the time I found my reserved seat.Once again it was party time,but it seemed like even more beer was flowing on the way home than before.
Unfortunately the train stopped at Doncaster because someone had been hit by a train at Newark and we had a 45 delay at the station.This allowed a special beer run to get some more supplies to quench their thirst even more.
Luckily I departed at Peterborough to find that I’d missed my connecting train,and had I choice of them supplying a taxi or waiting for a train to Cambridge,with another connecting one from there.
Some of the now very drunks spurs fans decided to do the same as me to get back to Ely.
There was a Mexican stand off on adjoining platforms as a group of 15 Hull fans spotted these Spurs fans on the other platform,which lead to increasing levels of banter between the groups.I still had to laugh though as grown men were shouting about getting mauled by the tigers while using their fingers as pretend claws.
The connection from Cambridge was where it all started to liven up again as a group of 4-5 young girls got on clutching an open bottle of Prosecco and a few plastic glasses.It seemed that one of the girls went to school with one of the spurs fans from Ely,and invited them to their table to continue the party,which unfortunately was the seat next to mine.What a laugh was had by all the drunken teenagers all the way to Ely,where thankfully they all got off.
I arrived back in stowmarket 90 minutes late with my ears still ringing,but so glad I’m not 18 any more.
I’m not sure I can be bothered with any more of our away games now because it all seems like too much hassle for very little reward. |  | | |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 21:38 - Mar 8 with 1569 views | ManinBlack |
Brilliant write up and so very true. I recall the old days when we had the Rangers Rocket to away games. Even a midweek game away at Crewe, BR ran an extra non stop service to Euston afterwards so you could get home. Overnight trains are only a handful these days and most are for airports or getting to Scotland.
So very true about Coventry Arena station. When City and Wasps play the station is shut so what was the point opening a new station which is only open when no sport events and then nobody uses it?
I have been saying for a long time the people are so divided that an argument would start playing noughts and crosses and tossing the coin as pro noughts row with pro crosses and pro tails rant with Pro heads as to which is better. |  | | |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 22:07 - Mar 8 with 1528 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
The lad behind singing about David Marshall sounds like the same lad sat near me in R block during the the West Brom game. Except he kept singing a song about Lee Wallace (which annoyingly I can't remember now). Over and over on his own with nobody joining in.
He ended up pissing off the two people in the row in front of him, not just for singing that Lee Wallace song but I think he was leaning on them, bumping into them etc. So much so that they got in a prolonged argument during half time which got worse and worse and looked like it was going to kick off. A group of young fans a couple of rows in front tried to calm him down but his eyes had gone (he was very drunk or high or something). One of them (who turned out to be an Arsenal fan) went up to try to stop him and ended up dragging him out of the stand where I guess he got ejected because he never came back second half. [Post edited 8 Mar 2022 22:09]
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| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 22:14 - Mar 8 with 1506 views | Noelmc |
Fantastic Clive.
You really should do a book. |  | | |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 23:24 - Mar 8 with 1411 views | Watford_Ranger |
Not looking for an argument on it but this country irreversibly changed in 2016. Covid absolutely exacerbated the process. | | | |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 07:26 - Mar 9 with 1315 views | stowmarketrange |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 23:24 - Mar 8 by Watford_Ranger |
Not looking for an argument on it but this country irreversibly changed in 2016. Covid absolutely exacerbated the process. |
I thought it changed for the worse in May 1979.That was the start of everything being about me me me. [Post edited 9 Mar 2022 7:54]
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| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 19:04 - Mar 9 with 1080 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Coventry/Peterborough/Millwall — Awaydays on 07:26 - Mar 9 by stowmarketrange |
I thought it changed for the worse in May 1979.That was the start of everything being about me me me. [Post edited 9 Mar 2022 7:54]
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Not a bad shout at all. Before my time. | | | |
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