Thanks to those charasmatic young chappies , sat behind me who spent most of the game chanting 'Scabs' at the Derby fans. It really added to the enjoyment of seeing the Reds lose a really important game as well as ensuring my ear drums were on the point of popping at one point,. The spit down my coat was indeed an added bonus. This must be one of the most puerile and inappropariate chants imaginable. FFS - the Miners strike is well behind us now and whilst it has left a deep wound in the history of Barnsley as a town it really is time to move on. I would think 50% of the Derby fans would not be old enough to even know what the chant meant -and most of the other 50% weren't even working down the pits...................get a life boys (and a brain too whilst you at it)
wound ?</p> are you taking the pi$$ - More like a amputation ? are you that Knight off of the holy grail ? or don't you remember that ?</p> It's merely aflesh wound </p>
My point was more the inappropriate chanting. I was trying to demean the importance of the strike on Barnsley as a community. It's on a par with England v Germany games and the aeroplane mimiking, chants etc etc. Well in the past - never forgotten because of it's historical importance - but sadly these days, it's about as 'humorous' a chant as Barnsley fans seem able to come up with. In fact, the chant arguaably stoops to the low level of the Leeds fans and the Munich Air disaster chanting.
Are all Germans still Nazis then bearing in mind people from Derby are all still scabs and always will be?
thing is the only people who chant it are indeed 12 or atleast too young to have been invilved with it themselves. and although it is a'wound', why is it that you hardly ever see any one over 35-40 who is actually likely to have been most affected, chanting at the fans, because they are not idiots, thats why and they dont see it necessarry to chant it all the time..
