Peter Venkman
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« Reply #30 on: Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:47:28 » |
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Just been shopping in Wantage both my lads wearing their full Town kits with pride saw a number of twats with oxford tops who just scuttled pass I could not help but laugh at them.
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Bennett
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« Reply #31 on: Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:48:55 » |
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kids wearing full kits, oh my days  |
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And this is the well.
Drink full and descend.
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Benzel
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« Reply #32 on: Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:50:07 » |
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I might just go to Oxford in a Town shirt soon. Just go and wave at some Pox.
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« Reply #33 on: Monday, April 5, 2010, 12:33:45 » |
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come on Sailsbury!
beat the pox today!
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« Reply #34 on: Monday, April 5, 2010, 19:15:51 » |
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In the CGH I was told that Salisbury borrowed Town's team coach to go to Oxford.
I wonder how that went down.
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« Reply #35 on: Monday, April 5, 2010, 19:30:54 » |
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Luton hammered Grays 6-0 at home today.The Luton manager Richard Money wasn't happy with the Luton fans impatience.Jonny take note! |
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« Reply #36 on: Monday, April 5, 2010, 19:33:00 » |
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Apparently the police asked the driver to move it away from the ground, so it sounds like it went down like a lead balloon . It is not exactly the most conspicuos team bus covered in Town badges with FourFourTwo and EA sports logos  |
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Ardiles
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« Reply #37 on: Monday, April 5, 2010, 19:46:42 » |
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I might just go to Oxford in a Town shirt soon. Just go and wave at some Pox.
I wore my Swindon shirt around Oxford city centre the day after our play off triumph in 1993. Got one irritated look from a local, but that was about it. Fewer people care than you would imagine. |
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« Reply #38 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 00:32:58 » |
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I wore my Swindon shirt around Oxford city centre the day after our play off triumph in 1993. Got one irritated look from a local, but that was about it. Fewer people care than you would imagine.
Sorry but I respectfully disagree. Having lived near O*ford for 30-odd years & worked there for over 20 years I can promise you that many people do care. Even Oxon people that have no interest in football dislike all things Swindon-related. O*ford city centre is just full of teenagers, families & Yanks/Spanish/Japanese/Aussies/Germans etc, so of course you're not going to get any trouble. Also it's not exactly a football town so they have less numbers. If you'd have wandered around anywhere away from the city centre - Cowley, Cowley Road, Headington, Iffley, you name it - then you would've had some fun & games, I promise you. |
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« Reply #39 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 07:14:41 » |
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I'm with One F in Fitton on this.
A few years back, we decided to bus it in from Chippy to Oxford and get the train to Wycombe to see Swindon. I had the old round neck Town shirt from the McMahon era on under my coat. All that was visable was STFC on my neckline.
Sat in Yates having a pint and a lad of about 20 comes up to me and says ''we're away to Carlisle today, not many have gone (pointing over to a large group of unsavory looking characters) I suggest you leave''.
We necked our pints and left quickly!
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #40 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 07:24:02 » |
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Wimp.
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Ardiles
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« Reply #41 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 07:42:44 » |
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Well I lived in Oxford for 4 years, and the only trouble I ever encountered was outside the Manor Ground itself. As for wandering around Cowley, I did plenty of that when I lived in Cowley. In my experience, the threat of aggro existed only in pockets. If you didn't go looking for it, it was unlikely to find you.
All I'm really saying is that in a city of 120,000 (?) odd people, the home gate there is (and was) little more than 5,000 or 6,000...of whom many will come in from outside. Of course, anecdotally, we've all got stories to tell. But I think the overall picture of open hostility is grossly exaggerated by some.
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Ralphy
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« Reply #42 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 07:50:11 » |
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I was hardly stood on the table singing Swindon songs though was I !
My shirt was not even visable, just the STFC on my neck.
Anyway, I went to school with a load of O*ford fans and their wankers end of story.
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« Reply #43 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 07:52:57 » |
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Apparently the police asked the driver to move it away from the ground, so it sounds like it went down like a lead balloon . It is not exactly the most conspicuos team bus covered in Town badges with FourFourTwo and EA sports logos It was parked in a lay-by on A34 near Abingdon apparently. |
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Ardiles
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« Reply #44 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 07:57:22 » |
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Sorry Ralphy...I wasn't implying that you were looking for trouble. As I said, we all have stories to tell. (I have a few of my own.) But I'm simply saying that I think they're the exception rather than the rule.
One memory that does stand out is meeting the caretaker chap who used to work at the Gloucester Green bus station. I walked past his 'office' one day shortly before catching a coach to Swindon for a home game - and there were wall to wall Swindon Town posters. He was a bit of a fan, and didn't mind the general public knowing it!
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