Dickie Bird Statement

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  1. Jimmy viz

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    Why would anyone doubt him despite, perhaps, a poor choice of words he's been a Barnsley fan longer than most of us have been alive. A proper one. He's not Parky.
     
    Jimmy viz, Aug 21, 2017
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    Some folk need to get a life and a brain.
     
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    Round of applause on 84th minute for dicky on sat .
     
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    Barnsley through and through, yet he wears a Sheffield United tie, bigs up the Blades AND goes on to say that they will beat us. I'm sorry, but no proper Barnsley fan would wear a Sheffield United tie to a South Yorkshire derby with Sheffield United - that's just ridiculous beyond all realms, even if there was money on offer to wear the tie, I still wouldn't do it.
     
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    Dickie comes from an era where it was the done thing to be gracious to your opponents rather than slag them off like a spoilt child.
    I would imagine quite a lot of fans thought they would beat us. Including me. He said what he thought. It's been his job throughout his working life to give an honest opinion.
    Maybe most of us would have avoided that situation but equally it's not requisite to be a one eyed, hatred filled neanderthal to support your team either. Get off his case for gods sake.
     
    churtonred, Aug 22, 2017
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    Half tarn fans I know go to our games one day then watch man united in a united shirt the next.
     
    DusThaNoIII, Aug 22, 2017
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    Now that winds me up
     
    twillo, Aug 22, 2017
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    Why. I've no problem with someone supporting a second team. I'm always first and foremost a Barnsley fan but when I lived in Liverpool I sometimes went to Anfield (and even once to Goodison) to watch a match and support the home side

    Tonight I am going to a cup game with a friend of mine and will be cheering on the home team.

    Actually I quite like it as its much less stressful - its enjoyable when they play well and win, but also when the opposition play well and you aren't devastated with the result whatever happens.

    Apart from a few sides such as Leeds Blunts Millwall Birmingham and Cardiff I dont think I would have a huge issue to go in the home end and and cheer them on as long as they weren't playing us
     
    Farnham_Red, Aug 22, 2017
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    Ive heard some years he's camped in the car park over night to ensure he gets his ticket first! ;)
     
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    I don't think many people were bothered about his prediction.
     
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    Were you wearing a Sheffield United tie too? Tell you what, when we play Sheffield Wednesday, why don't we all wear Owls scarves and go around saying they're a great club, and that they are going to beat us - what fans we have!
     
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    Let's hope YOU still have all your wits about you when YOU'RE 84.
     
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    Once again, I hate the internet. If you saw an 84yr old man, who'd been a Barnsley season ticket holder longer than you'd been alive, as a guest at Sheff United wearing one of their ties, heck even if he was wearing one of their shirts and scarves too, would you go up to him and start insulting him to his face and calling him a 'freeloading old b******' and then going around trying to get everyone else there to join your group and start calling him one too and encouraging them to add their own insults? It's pathetic what people will say and do behind a keyboard.

    This isn't aimed at anyone specific in this thread, just a general musing about how people behave differently online like it suddenly doesn't matter. I assume either Dickie was upset, or the clubs felt embarrassed, or both, due to them both releasing statements. At the end of the day, an 84yr old man just went out for a nice lunch and a game of footie and maybe made a daft comment, 'cos that's what old people sometimes do.
     
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    JamDrop, Aug 22, 2017
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    I'm not an expert, but I'm sure there is no requirement to wear the club tie your getting hospitality from. My old man's in his 70s, supported Blackburn as a kid, if you offered him free hospitality at Burnley I dare say he'd take it, would he put on a Burnley tie? Would he chuff.
     
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    I agree, I've been in with West Ham fans away at Leeds and Sheff U, I sang as loud as the best of them cockeneeees!
     
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    And as somebody else pointed out, if Bird did it with the Fowls or Leeds the long time regulars on here would be less forgiving. I don't appreciate what he did and won't ever change my mind about the bloke. And thats my choice to think that, like it is everybody elses.
     
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