Loved the piece in the last edition " Sticks & Stones..." It mentioned the one man pitch invasion at Blackburn in 89/90 where one of our own zigzagged past the Blackburn team before giving Alan Clarke a right mouthful. The article wondered whether the fan ever attended a BFC game again? Well the reason for his frustration was a) a skin full of beer b) a heavy drubbing at cards pre-game and c) Simon Garner and his pals taking the pi$$ to the tune of 5 goals. Enough to drive any supporter to desperate measures. We (his mates at the match) didn't know what was going on until we saw him break through the stewards and start his run to the Barnsley dug out. Obviously we knew it couldn't be one of our own players because he was going past Blackburn players but it did take the Police/Stewards some time to 'take him down' by which time he and Clarky had enough time to share their life histories. Sadly it all ended badly. I took him to court and although the Magistrate did have some sympathy with his line of defence "I wasn't causing trouble Gov'ner, it's just we have a $hit Manager and I felt the need to point it out to him" he was nonetheless banned and fined. That wasn't the worst of it though. The really bad news was he gave his season ticket to me so I had to endure that 'mixed' season. Even worse, said supporter has followed the Reds ever since. He takes his place every home game in the top left hand side of the Ponty together with the other 40/50 somethings. As Eddie Waring once said, in different circumstance "poor, poor lad".
Ha ha Spot on (and he gave me permission whilst stood on Chesterfield Station to mention him by name). Fool!
Good lad is Garf,although he needs to ditch that manky Portsmouth shirt he keeps turning up for work in.I'll let him know in the morning he's achieved legendary status on't bbs.sithi
