OneUnited117

Nov 8 2008, 06:03 PM

Anyway. Well done da Silva. :) Nice to see an up-and-coming player score in a Prem game. :) <3s you. :P Come on you Reds! :) We've still got a game in hand, fourth place...not so bad. :) I'd rather take fourth place than no trophy for the last 5 seasons.[/color]

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There was a very memorable match that I went to, this is in 1976, and there was no premiership then and Birmingham were in the first division. The first game of the season was away at Old Trafford to Man Utd. I went along, and in those days Man Utd was a very sort of dangerous ground where you just shut up and you never wore anything other than red and white. Of course in those days, Man Utd fans actually lived in Manchester. Exactly. I took along with me and friend who was like a football rookie, he'd been down to St. Andrews a few times but he wanted to come to an away game so I took him.
When I got there I said "Mate listen, when you come here you just shut up and behave yourself and just don't do anything."
"Why?" (In a really brummie accent)
"Well because they don't like it"
"Well waht dey gunna do aboit it?"
"Don't find out"
So we sat there, there was 57,000 fans, a complete sea of red and white everywhere. You couldn't see a blue and white scarf for the love of the money. Well, there was one and there was a Birmingham City fan hanging off the end of it. So the game starts, and everything was fine until after about 20 minutes, Birmingham City scored away from home. Which just threw everybody, including the Birmingham City players they went and got the ball out of the net and tried to kick off again. It was then that I realized that all of the Birmingham fans, all 200 of us who had dared to go were sitting in the same block of seats and when the ball went in we all went "YEEEEEEAH-UUH!" :unsure:
57,000 people staring at you in silence. Then it started 'Yur gonna get your f'kin 'ed kicked in!"
So all the Birmingham fans knew exactly what to do, sit down shut up, except my mate who stood up shouting "That's the way to do it City, shove it up 'em come on you blue boys" :blink:
So anyway about 20 minutes later, Man Utd equalized so it was alright, I could go down to the bog. My mate came because he was gonna get some refreshments, and I said to him 'Look, whatever you do, don't say anything. If they find out you're from Birmingham you'll be in trouble"
"Well 'ow well day now yam fram Burmengam?"
I come out of the bog and looking for him and he's at the end of this counter and he shouts 'Ay, Carrott, dey'nt got no cowin' bovril!"
I think, I'll make his funeral arrangements it's the least I can do. But he got away with it because they thought he was taking the piss.
Anyway, a few minutes later Man Utd got into the lead, and I thought 'right we're okay now' and they didn't bother to look at us.
But you can never trust Birmingham to do what you want, about 3-4 minutes before the end they went and equalized. All the Birmingham fans went 'yep' *stood up quickly, and then down again*
The end of the game came, and we'd won 2-2.