Incident after the Forest game?

[Matt Morriss 69]

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Harsh calling him that. [N]

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Haha its not aimed it him its a tip to this dude

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[The Butler 0]

[quote user="Huckerby''s Boots - Matt"]Anybody see this? Heard about it but didnt know he got a mention in The Sun! www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3118211/Battered-over-my-green-Canaries-kit.html[/quote]

Totally inaccurate as his Dad posts on here!

Now you............

[Mtv 0]

Nearly choked on my coffee.........excellent!

[Jim Smith 2,314]

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[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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Well I also watched hundreds of games as a lad and would say the atmosphere was markedly better then than it is now even with there often being several thousand less fans in the ground. Of course there is a place for families and kids at football but Carrow Road (and football in general) has become overly sterile most of the time. You only need to look on here at the number of posts over the last year complaining about people swearing at matches, the Grant Holt song, people standing up at games etc. Fact is there has been a large influx of "new age" fans since the playoff season and Cardiff. Some people will think that (and the change in atmosphere it has brought about) is a good thing but I also suspect many will not. As someone commented above, the fact that many of our fans were dancing around singing "lets all have a disco" as the team got relegated in the most humiliating circumstances possible at Charlton a couple of seasons ago says it all!

I don''t think anyone (except maybe a very small minority) would want to go back to the days when football often meant violence and it was unsafe to follow your team away from home but by the same token for many the football and saturday afternoons has always been an outlet, an opportunity to let off some steam and provided a real buzz. Sadly you don''t often get that from the Carrow Road matchday experience these days!

To be fair, the morph suit this kid wore is one of the more amusing costumes but i still don''t understand why people feel they have to dress up or paint their face week in week out to have a good time at football.

[Epic Beard Man 0]

Careful, his father will hunt you, find you, and punish you! ha ha ha

[Paul 0]

[quote user="Epic Beard Man"]Careful, his father will hunt you, find you, and punish you! ha ha ha[/quote]

You are an arse of the highest order, probably a binner

[Marty 0]

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.

[Mtv 0]

It''s ok epic......you are quite safe, hiding behind your keyboard festering with your inverted anal complex. You dont have much going for you do you? So I''m pleased for you, thatyou can enrich your lonely, sad life on the back of Joe''s publicity.

Now its over I just hope for your sake you can ''piggy back'' on something else that can get you some obviously needed attention. Good Luck . 

[Epic Beard Man 0]

Thanks you for your kind words all knowing oracle.

[Tangible Fixed Assets anyone? 0]

Norfolk''n Good - MTV mentioned how City fans back their own.....2500 away fans and no one went to help him out?

Tangy:

Unfortunatley I am not a Time Lord so I can''t travel through time.