catskillz
Sunday 24th October 2010 2:19pm
Merseyside
3,395 posts
Quote: Jack Massey @ October 22 2010, 6:46 PM BST
Yeah I did. It was a day out ruined by a fellow FC United fan. Just way too far in the manc-scouse rivalry stakes. I was stood next to him and I don't know if you're aware of the layout of the ground, but you are stood right next to the field of play from the front row in the middle of the ground, so you could touch the players from where I was stood and I was stood next to this absolute twat who whenever a Marine player ran past he said 'Oi (refer to there number, so for example number 3), you're a scouse c**t' He did this all the way through the first half and just got on my nerves so much. I like the rivalry, but this was just in your face being an absolute twat. I had to move places for the second half I couldn't stand it any longer. On the way out, the local ASBO's thought it would be funny to shout to us FC fans who were standing across the road 'Don't get a plane home' (referring to the Munich Air Disaster), we crossed over and they looked really threatened. Then one of us called them tossers and what a surprise as we were stood on the same side of the street as them they didn't respond. So yeah, not a great atmosphere.
That's probably because Blundellsands, which is where Marine's ground is, is about as tough as Surrey.
By the way, on the subject of the Manc-Scouse rivalry, away from football grounds, I think it's mostly Mancs abusing Scousers. The reason for this is that all accents, from the outskirts of Merseyside, to Yorkshire, sound pretty much the same to us. So, if we hear someone saying things like "Any road" or "Aye", we don't know whether they're from Manchester, Southport, Rotherham, Oldham, Burnley, Bradford, Preston, Blackburn, Barnsley, St. Helens, Wigan, Widnes, Blackpool, Hull, Sheffield or Huddersfield etc.