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Manure oot.

 

Sent you a pm mate.

 

They can concentrate on the league now....

 

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Pointless exercise

 

Well if Man City don't win it, there's gonna be an unusual name on the cup this season.

 

Won't be popular on here, but I want forest due to a close friend. I get the history, but I wasn't involved in it, I wasn't even alive. Going to the football over the past 20 odd years and hearing people my age shout scab scab scab, despite them having not a clue why they were shouting it in the first place... I just can't force the resentment or feelings i suppose

 

They have probably been told of the hard times their parents and grandparents suffered during the 1984/5 strike for just trying to keep their jobs while miners in Nottingham went to work and laughed at those on strike. I myself was on strike aged 35 with a young family, But why have you mentioned people shouting Scab? just say I would like Nottingham Forest to win.

 

I've mentioned before I like Forest due to a close personal friend, mate. I was then called a scab for it. So I felt I couldn't mention it without context - I know all about the miners striker, my grandad was a miner. He never spoke about it though. I've grown up with an intense dislike of tories, stemming from that very reason, a large part of it anyway.
I'm 30 she's 28, her parents aren't from Nottingham and don't even like football, but they moved there when she was a bairn and she loves football, so the obvious club for her was Forest, she goes to every home & away game alone. I've seen messages on her personal accounts from 60 year old men abusing her in her private chats when we've played each other, starts off with 'scab bitch' or some other 'banter' and then more egregious, vile insults. And I mean proper stomach churning vile. All from Barnsley fans, all from men, all from people who have no idea who she is or why she supports Forest, yet she gets tarnished with it anyway.

Like I said, I fully understand the history of it. It impacted my family.

 

You don't have to explain yourself Frog.
I look at the good footy rivalry we've built up with Notts Forest over the years (going back to the early 90s), and I don't get involved with the 'politics'.

 

We have no "good footy rivalry" with forest, it's entirely "political" and it's toxic home or away.

 

As an ex miner and picket. I very rarely use the word scab only in conversation as to the fact those who did. Did us no favours. But it's a song i would'nt/won't join in, due to the fact the biggest heroes imo. (Where those in areas that miners predominantly went to work). Stayed out and lots of em to the end.
Generalisation is pathetic really.
Its like all football fans from the 70s onwards were treated like vermin and ALL classed as hooligans. (It was a fair old minority at some clubs). but wrong on so many fronts. And still a minority.

 

And that is surely all down to opinions!.
While I do obviously understand it, I choose to not get involved with it.

 

Concentrate on staying up.

 

They are Nottm Forest. Just putting my pedant hat on again.

 

I see no footy rivalry at all. To me Forest like County are just another team we play. Rivalries are in effect derbies. This toxicity you mention I've never seen spill over. Into full blown violence for example. Unlike some derbies. Mainly of the past.
The political side will always be there to an extent, given the fact the UDM masters became thatchers puppets joining in tea parties.
But this is football we are talking about where most fans are of an age to not have a clue.
The chanting can be toxic I suppose to a degree. But it's on the wane compared to the 80s /90s. (I'd rather be a xxxx than a xxxx.was a particularly offensive chant) And is unpleasant. But I find other chanting to be of a worse nature.

 

I always prefer to call them Notts Forest (or even Florist lol), and I know that winds them up a bit.

 

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It's a good job for them that there are 3 poor teams at the bottom or they'd be in a relegation scrap. Pity.

 

You quite obviously do not understand the history of it, you didn't see or feel the pain, those weak kneed barstewards from Notts are a stain on the working class.

 

Ok