Not just by fans on the pitch but by the music. We don’t need backing tracks on a night like that. Just let it happen naturally.
I thought that the antics of some of the kids on the pitch were quite entertaining. But I agree, the music was pants. I left at that point.
The highlight of my evening was the stewards playing the long game with the **** in the white trousers who was incapable of leaving the pitch and finally getting him when he bared his arse at them for the second time. We'd spent a good 10 minutes beforehand commenting that it was surely only a matter of time.
The thing that annoyed me from these so-called fans, especially the 40 year olds who still can't take their ale and the 15 year olds who only go on to taunt the opposition fans knowing full well they'd run like hell if a Bolton meathead got over the barriers, is that our brilliant Under 18 team who have had a fantastic season are playing a national final on that pitch at 12pm today. Wnakers.
"In the hot air balloon of life, some people are just ballast". Words said to me by a co-worker years and years ago, but I still remember them every single time somebody winds me up.
How can you say that when we’ve entered the stadium to the sound of the wonderful Ms Ellis-Bextor (Mrs. Jones really) the previous 2 games. I used to like Sweet Caroline. I like quite a few Neil Diamond songs. But crikey, I’m sick to the teeth of it now. It started by getting played before every headline boxing bout, but now it’s just…everywhere. At least they’re not ruining Play Me or And the Singer Sings His Song for me. But to get me singing to Status Quo was unforgivable. It reminded me of when we beat Germany 5-1. There were about 20-30 of us watching the game in the local to my office, the Windmill, off Tottenham Court Road (sadly, no longer there). Me and another of the lads had to be talked out of going home when Germany scored and then the game got more and more surreal. So we were all in an extremely buoyant mood by full-time, at which point Mark put the music back on. They tended to play punk and new wave stuff in there, but for some reason they played Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader. I can’t stand that song, but we’d just beaten Germany 5-1 and we were happy. The drink was flowing and there were literally people dancing on the tables. That song, which I still hate, reminds me of that night whenever I hear it. And my mate who had to be talked out of leaving met his (now) wife of 20 odd years after the match in that pub that night, so I imagine the song has even more meaning to those two.
The Status Quo thing really wound me up. Nothing to do with anything. It’s the one time we get to really celebrate something on our own ground, and we’re drowning out our own fans with irrelevant noise - as if someone has thought - “oh we must put in some party tunes, to help folks get in the mood”. Please please don’t do it again.
The 'antics' of people on the pitch were pathetic mate. Simple. Stay in your seat, applaud go home. Equally simple. Total morons
Agreed. The only 'music' that should have been heard should have been fans chanting, not ancient songs associated with loads of other clubs and events. The stewarding was really poor not making sure people sat in their seats and allowing people to stay on the gravel track when the announcements were clear to get back to your seat. I would say ban for life as many who went on the pitch as they can identify, but the players were complicit in it by allowing fans to take selfies with them, get a autograph etc. You can't tell fans to stay off the pitch if when they get on the pitch players are interacting with them.