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[MadFrankie]

Anyone for Frickley?

OK, when are we going?

[JTH]

Anyone for Frickley?

OK, when are we going?

Now that is a daft question, altogether now....

[RedhillAlty]

Frickley - not so daft.
I remember one incident at a night match in the late 70's when we were coming out of their club after a half time beer.
Some young Frickley fans started throwing snowballs at Alty fans who were already behind the goal.
Some of our fans chased them off, when some of those kids decided not to run.
A well know Alty character got a snowball smack in the face - I think it has a stone in it.

[SW]

Horrible humourless bunch were they not, very odd lot in S Yorks (my Missus is from Dinnington, an old pit village), and she's as weird as they come.

I remember that game well, wasn't it just around the first miner's strike, not the Thatcher v Scargill one?

Talking of stones in snowballs, Runcorn at home circa 77-78 anyone?

[RockyRobin]

Anyone for Frickley?

OK, when are we going?

Now that is a daft question, altogether now....

OAFTN

[York Alty]

Re: frickley fans.   

Many yorkists are humourless dour and inward looking - I point at the woman beater geoff boycott as a prime example.  Not all yorkists, but many in my opinion are.  The seemignly continual reference to gods own county enforces that sort of attitude.

[SW]

My mrs is a Yokshire "lass". Her sister recently sent a postcard with a blue background and a white rose with the statement "Yorkshire.....God's Own Country". What a bunch of up themselves tossers they really are, can anyone on here think of a type of people who devote themselves to a county rather than thier town or football team?

[jiminlondon]

cornish people

my partner is cornish btw

[SW]

Yep Jim, you are right although I have some Cornish friends who do not have "Kernow" stickers on their car. Where my missus comes from in S Yorks they don't really have much to shout about, even North and West Yorkists seem to detest them.

[York Alty]

god yes - they can get very tribal.  starts off as yorkists, soon splits down into north, south etc, then towns, villages. 

i should move really but where I live is the exception that proves the rule.

cornwall is odd - but it's a long way and you don't pass through it very often - that must give it a bit of a uniqueness.  the only thing special about yorkshire is it is home to many of englands most revoltjing places.  rotherham, sheffield, barnsley, huddersfield, batley, middlesborough (they still claim it), harrogate, halifax, leeeds, hunslet and hull (the buggers claim that too).

I REALLY SHOULD MOVE!

[jiminlondon]

cornish people are different to yorkies but they are the only other ones who define themselves by the county they come from. look at thhe glastonbury coverage, i can guarantee a couple of cornish flags at the front

the thing is that most of the really cornish people i know really think they are a different country which is the root of the pride whereas yorkshire people just know everyone else hates them so they stick together.

some of us have cause to be glad for the hatred between south/north yorkshire when doncaster/rotherham were more concerned with kicking hell out of scarboro than us

[Wilmslow Alty]

Sorry but Im going to trump all those with my ace card

Worst game for fans when I was a steward also, was the Home Port Vale FA cup game a few years ago. Due to a mix up with ticket sales half the Vale fans ended up in the home end, and were chanting and very very intimidating. How that did not kick off into a major riot I will never know.

Can anybody elase trump that, or is the enough trumping for the evening.

Steve from Sale

I got punched from a fist that appeared from between two policemen - where did all those police come from anyway?

[thegazelle]

the story has been told before redhill .

but your version is a little array (is that how you spell it)

i got hit on the end of my nose by a snowball with a stone in it and lead a red mist charge of one

admittedly they were younger than me but a fair crew of them and i think somewhere in my robinsons bitter addled brain i expected them to run
alas a few stood their ground and as i arrived in their midst my kung fu kick entry went sadly wrong as my back leg slipped on ice. i went down and the vultures ran in for the kill . however one Phillip  Hall came to my rescue . as we retreated with the odd punch thrown Phil got hit by another stone infested snowball straight in his left eye he carried a fantastic shiner for weeks afterwards and has still not forgiven me.

a warning to youngsters
drinking from 11 in the railway hale then tins in the car all the way to s yorks plus two hours in the club at frickley makes you do stupid things
what a drinking car that was though phil, me , the late great henry burke and Charlie(heald green alty's dad) calnun

stupid but somehow funny

[jiminlondon]

watched it from a safe distance gazell, and can confirm it was indeed funny. same night that heathcote told me he would see me outside after i had the temerity to complain when he missed an open goal.
is it just my memory or was that early 80s sometime?

[Uncle Globnasty]

Ahh yes, but Cornwall is one of the six Celtic 'nations' with it's own language and culture and as such have more of a justification in thinking of themselves differently.

cornish people are different to yorkies but they are the only other ones who define themselves by the county they come from. look at thhe glastonbury coverage, i can guarantee a couple of cornish flags at the front

the thing is that most of the really cornish people i know really think they are a different country which is the root of the pride whereas yorkshire people just know everyone else hates them so they stick together.

some of us have cause to be glad for the hatred between south/north yorkshire when doncaster/rotherham were more concerned with kicking hell out of scarboro than us