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    [quote user="Herman "]Just been listening to Stuart Maconies Freak Zone on 6music.Some odd shit on there[:O] Portugese prog-rock anyone?[/quote]

     

    I always forget that show is on, anyway I was watching the Ryder cup.

    Todays albums were Mew - No More Stories.... and Propaganda - Secret Wish deulxe edition.

     

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    WoaS, yes i''m off to Nottingham to see them, I think it will be good. They did the entire George Best set a couple of years ago and it was a stonking performance. I think Bizarro is a better album than George Best. Have you heard Seamonsters? if not it is worth a go, a bit darker than Bizarro but probably their best album in my opinion.

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    I can see your point of view JS, but I guess there is good and bad in both older generation football as well as what we experience at the modern game. I quite like the sense of humour and spirit of the Norwich fans. I was at Blackburn all those years ago when we got slaughtered 7-1, I thought it was amusing for our fans to chant we want 7. Sometimes you have to see the funny side. I didn''t see anyone laughing at the play-off final mind.

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    [quote user="A Change is Gonna Come"][quote user="Jim Smith"]

    [quote user="Marty"]I''m all for making it better family entertainment. We want to encourage kids, wives, girlriends etc. to come and watch it. My other half wouldn''t go if there was too much violence, and rightly so. She does b*llock me for gesticulating to the away fans when we score but that is acceptible banter for both sides, it''s all good natured. Punching people for no reason is not acceptible behaviour, whatever people think about this lads attire, it doesn''t justify this mindless thugary..
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    I am no doubt a dinosaur but personally I would prefer less wives/girlfriends at the game and a bit more edge to the atmosphere (other than in the family areas). Each to their own I suppose!

    [/quote]Completely agree Jim. I don''t know why there is this seeming obsession with trying to encourage more and more women and kids to games.
    Stephen Fry when speaking about his recent directorship appointment said he would like to see 50% of the crowd female.Why? If women want to go to football they can buy tickets the same as any bloke can! (My Mrs who is a football fan also ,not City though,agrees with me on this.)

    And so much effort is made into making ''the matchday experience'' , akin to a kids party (3 mascots?).

    Instead of putting extra seats in at CR they should have turned the space into ball pits for toddlers,that''ll keep em coming for year after year I''m sure!

    Yeah I know the arguments about season ticket holders of the future etc. but why cannot kids just enjoy the football for it''s own sake, like I did when I was a nipper?

    As for the fancy dress / face paint / inflatable brigade,don''t get me started!
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    OH yeah, as a kid growing up i''d love to go an watch a game of football and watch grown men punching each other in the face, or even worse, punching young lads in the face, that would really be a great experience.

    Maybe more women are put off by the testosterone fuelled atmosphere of football, grown men acting like knob-ends. I watched many games as a lad and to be honest I prefer the more respectful / fun atmosphere of the modern game (it doesn;t take away the passion). Why people hark on about the good old days of football when it was only blokes, no birds, kids or people in fancy dress enjoying themselves (how dare they!) is beyond me. In the past I have been chased away from football grounds, had my car vandalised, been verbally threatened for no reason, been on the receieving end of the delightful cut throught gestures and I am meant to somehow feel sad that the game has progressed into an new era where it has become more family friendly. At the end of the day it is a game, one that everybody should be able to enjoy without getting assaulted! just my opinion, maybe it says something about peoples values in life. Believe it or not, I have just as much passion watching a game now than I ever have had, and that is with my girlfriend present, she goes though the mental anguish of being a Norwich fan too - that doesn''t make me (or her) a lesser fan. I have no real regrets that some of these more "edgy" aspects of football are on the decline, I don''t miss seeing members of the ICF dishing out their pathetic little calling cards or hoards of grown men shouting f____ N_____ to black players anymore. Maybe some people can take their rose tinted spectacles off for one minute, but each to his own.   

     

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    [quote user="Jim Smith"]

    [quote user="Marty"]I''m all for making it better family entertainment. We want to encourage kids, wives, girlriends etc. to come and watch it. My other half wouldn''t go if there was too much violence, and rightly so. She does b*llock me for gesticulating to the away fans when we score but that is acceptible banter for both sides, it''s all good natured. Punching people for no reason is not acceptible behaviour, whatever people think about this lads attire, it doesn''t justify this mindless thugary..[/quote]

    I am no doubt a dinosaur but personally I would prefer less wives/girlfriends at the game and a bit more edge to the atmosphere (other than in the family areas). Each to their own I suppose!

    [/quote]There are no family areas in the away stands, so such segregation is not really possible for the away trips is it? You can''t say no young''uns and birds can you?

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    I''m all for making it better family entertainment. We want to encourage kids, wives, girlriends etc. to come and watch it. My other half wouldn''t go if there was too much violence, and rightly so. She does b*llock me for gesticulating to the away fans when we score but that is acceptible banter for both sides, it''s all good natured. Punching people for no reason is not acceptible behaviour, whatever people think about this lads attire, it doesn''t justify this mindless thugary..

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    [quote user="Graham Humphrey"][quote user="Jim Smith"]What happened to this young lad was out of order but perhaps a more pertinent question is why so many of our fans feel the need to attend games dressed in fancy dress on such a regular basis. The Canary Fairy was embarassing enough (after the initial burst of amusement) but we now seem to have a whole generation of fans who think "having a good time" at football involves dressing like a clown and throwing a couple of lilos around for 90 minutes. Fine for the last game of the season or certain other big games but soem seem to now do it every week. I remember seeing our fans at Swindon away last season dressed in skirts, wigs and carrying w*nker wands and frankly thinking many of them were just embarassing.[/quote]Wow, you are such a ray of sunshine.[/quote]I reckon he''s probably a childrens entertainer! all that tough talk is absoute popycock.

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    Now I actually thought Russell Martin had a good game, the better of the full backs. I thought Ward was solid and Barnett improved after looking a little edgy at the start. Not sure about LB''s distribution but he looked solid defensively. I was not so impressed by Surman but he imporved, he worked hard and covered a lot of ground but his passing was not so good. It''s funny how peoples opinions vary so much. Overall I enjoyed the game.
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