Ha good on him, evidently the young man has been brought up well. That said about the Turks last night, that was some mighty support chief. Quite impressed It was the entire stadium in unison too, which was nice to see, wonder if we will replicate it at OT in the return leg

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Imagine the day when Fin comes home to after making new friends in school who are members of the barmy army. Will they turn his head?

turkish football fans are vile,if english fans would have stabbed two travelling fans to death we'd be banned from europe forever,turkey is the bumhole of europe.
i like the way this thread is drifting as geordie now has nearly ten pages,the drum could be coming out of the cupboard for next year,crikey it will be a "sticky" when he announces that he's coming out of retirement

To get slighty back on topic anyone got a trumpet for next season? Do the tune for great escape

is the drum on ebay i want to start a one man band and apear on brittons got talent ?

I'm sure that show's available on t'internet if you search hard enough.

Anyone who thinks Turkish football fans are vile has never been to a football game in Turkey.

I have and they're absolutely brilliant.

An isolated incident involving a mob of "Ingurland Till I Die" Yorkshiremen burning Turkish flags and wiping their ar$e on Turkish notes in Taksim Square is not a benchmark to tar a nation who have some of the most passionate supporters in Europe.

I really really hope not.

Boo, where is the spirit of 1966 mate, keep st George in my heart etc?







True, very dull and lacks any wit, or imagination. Although you're not on your own, no one has any good chants in RL.

claptrap,two innocent middle aged family men stabbed to death are hardly hardcore "ingurland" hooligans.all clubs have an element of troublemakers and i have travelled to enough grounds to know trouble is not far away in england or abroad,every time an english club goes to turkey there is trouble of varying degrees and to try to blame it on england fans alone is way off the mark.

I wonder if those who bait the Turkish realise they were a vital ally in the Crimean war.

i wonder if the turks who bait the english even think about such former alliances.

yes,geordies got ten pages,drumroll please!

Guess you have never been to Elland road then mate?

With the exception of Old Faithful I agree. Marching On Together is a great song but obviously it's not really an RL song (and no I don't support LUFC but it is a great song). Salford have ised a couple of United songs and Saints do their version of Sheffield United's Greasy Chip Butty which is okay but apart from that it seems 90% of fans in Super League learned their chants from Tim Lovejoy

I'm going next Tuesday and can't wait.



I've missed them.

i have been to elland road mate and i think leeds fans are vile but the two men in question didn't deserve their fate,i have been to all the usual "hotspots" following united over the years,the point i was making is that you will get trouble in places like turkey and it's not all down to visiting fans.

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Yes I'd forgotten all about Old faithful. That St helens one is pretty good too IMO, not entirely original but fair play to them, they manage to get some well thought up lyrics in reference to various aspects of their town.

Salford do OK for vocal support, small but loyal following etc but yes they do tend to take United/FCUM songs, and pass them as their own, but I won't slag them off too much as they at least do make a fair old racket when they want. I like their slow version of 'Salford reds arising'.

We at Widnes had a decent version of 'green and red of mayo' by the Saw Doctors, but only a few knew the full song, as guess what, it died a death.



As for Leeds away, as you probably established I am United fan, but 2 of my kopite mates are going, would have been 3 if 'Wire 85' wasn't being such a girl about trains home

Trouble does tend to follow the Ingurland boys and clubs whose fans have their mentality though.

Have United ever had bother in Turkey? I know all that "Welcome To The Hell" stuff years ago was Galatasaray V you but that was in the very early days of Turkish sides playing in games of that magnitude. Liverpool have never had any trouble at all (in fact many of our Euro away regulars have had pre-arranged friendly meets with Galatasaray and Besiktas Ultras in their bars (my mate goes to every one and has shown me the pictures - including him with Al Paslan of UltrAslan as featured in Danny Dyer's pwapa nawtee programme) and were treated as honoured guests.

Our fans don't behave like Leeds fans and I imagine neither do United's and we have both played in Turkey plenty of times so I think the tache is back is promoting a naive English view in all honesty.

The Turks I met personally in 2005 were absolutely fantastic and that was with 40 odd thousand "English" descending on their country.

You do know that none of those incidents actually happened don't you?
A West Yorkshire policeman was with that group at the time and he also confirmed it didn't happen.

That was the Turkish medias cover up to make sure their innocent angels got off lightly. The same "passionate fans" who were giving all the leeds fans cut throat gestures in the ground.

united have experienced trouble in turkey,i think you are the naive one in saying liverpool fans don't behave badly in europe,who cost the english a long ban from europe?
i have several friends who support liverpool,everton,man city as well as united and the propensity for trouble is there at all grounds in all countrys,can you not get it into your head that it is not down to english travelling fans,some cause trouble yes but foreign fans in certain cities are ready and waiting to cause trouble.
this has happened in instanbul,rome and rotterdam,not always but quite frequently.

All these posts because of a supporter electing not to drum anymore. I think this thread is a good candidate for the bin.

I did say something similar myself yesterday. None of the mods will dare delete this thread though in case they get removed from their precious positions of authority

It's reached a fair few pages to be honest, nothing vulgar or horse related. Good thread.

i did consider it when it turned to foosball to potentially nip the usual ing contests in the bud but since everyone's playing nicely(even though it has gone waaaay off topic), i've left it.

That said, i've not read the next post after yours, so my opinion may change and punishment may have to be handed out.

your leader has spoken