Genuine question why are Cardiff fans shouting 'scabs' at Notts Forest?

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  1. Oas

    Oasismad BFC New Member

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    I understand why we have in the past - just wondered how it affects Cardiff fans?
     
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    Turvey Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Fans from the Valeeys is it! nt
     
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    South Wales was a big mining area

    The Rhondda (sp) valley and all that
     
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    The South Wales coalfield were as solid for most of the strike as the Yorkshire coalfield. More solid probably.
     
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    South Wales is as a traditional coal mining area

    As Yorkshire.
     
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    Oasismad BFC New Member

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    ok thanks - never knew that.
     
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    RE: South Wales was a big mining area

    Spartacus -- Rhondda Valley - your spelling is o.k.!
     
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    Are you serious?

    The Valleys was as big an NUM stronghold as South Yorks - sometimes more militant.
     
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    That's why I thought it ironic all the trouble we saw at Wembley

    Surely South Yorkshire and South Wales are like peas in a pod.
     
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    RE: That's why I thought it ironic all the trouble we saw at Wembley

    wat trouble i saw none, didnt know there was any
     
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    RE: That's why I thought it ironic all the trouble we saw at Wembley

    Me neither (dunno)

    I'm from the Rhondda Valley btw & can guarantee you that no-one broke ranks during the last strike - they wouldn't dare do it around here. The next valley over is the Cynon Valley and the town of Aberdare. Anyone coming from Aberdare are known as "snakes" - because miners from Aberdare broke from a strike at the start of the last century!

    The "snakes" nickname came from where they were seen with their lamps "snaking" down the mountain to the colliery in Merthyr under the cover of darkness.
     
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    Do they break the last miners strike?
     
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  13. Bluebird

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    I'm assuming you're asking about Aberdare there and, to my knowledge, no - as I said, they still carry the shame of their great-grandfathers to this day.

    There were a handful in the S Wales region that did though towards the end of the strike (desperation was cited by many of them) - and several of those were to later take their own lives because of the shame they'd brought on themselves & their families. A taxi driver was killed taking a scab into work as well when a concrete block was dropped from a bridge onto him.

    Many, many sad episodes from that time I'm afraid.

    Nottingham will never be allowed to forget their part in the dispute in these parts.
     
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    David Wilks wasn't it who died? I remember reading about that case when I did my degree. Hancock and Shankland did the dropping. Guilty of murder, but reduced on appeal to manslaughter. Useless facts, but you just reminded me of it.
     
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