uttoxram75

4 minutes ago, Ken Tram said:

 

Does Mel have a mug?

Oh dear.....i'm sure there will be a few suggestions in answer to that....

See above!!!!!!

What a superb thread.

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

Wait, wait, rewind.

why is there a hairy nipple in the picture and the poor dogs got his tongue out?

You've just put me off me brekkie.

2 hours ago, Gypsy Ram said:

 

Party Lebanon after surf. Loads of jihadis about and killer grooming gangs.

Michael Jackson still alive then.....

1 hour ago, froggg said:

Sunset in me garden.

Bit like mine mate only the red glow is from burning cars in Stoke...

At work.....

20 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said:

View from an alfresco dining pod at the Raddle Inn, Hollington nr Alton Towers.

 

And the lamb was superb.....

sheepshag army!!!!!!!

View from an alfresco dining pod at the Raddle Inn, Hollington nr Alton Towers.

Day out at Markeaton with the grandkids

On 14/04/2017 at 07:51, i-Ram said:

Can't help yourself can you. Even BobbyD outlining earlier how his life supporting father didn't go to another game after experiencing football violence fails to put you off glorifying the wonderful act of kicking someone's head in, even if you do nicely cloak it as nostalgia. You should try and move on from the 70's and the Skinhead culture buddy. Hopefully it's not too late yet for you to become an 80's New Romantic.

Its how it was. Away fans came into the Popside to attack Derby fans. They got a good kicking. They could have gone into the away section.

The New Romantics were w@nk tbf.

6 hours ago, GerryDaly said:

To the poster who was questioning the Ultra Cultra back in the 70's ... 

 

 

Well my dad took me to the DCFC game v Sheff United in the season when we were CHAMPIONS of England .. 

 

We stood at the front in the "away" end .. Looong before the kick off .. 

 

I'm gazing around at the ground when all these Sheff united fans , maybe 100 or so , ran on to the pitch towards our end charging us .. 

 

No coppers around. Surreal. lol 

 

 

I will never forget the Derby fans from our end charging back at them and taking the corner flags (yes this really happened !) and throwing them back at the United fans ... 

 

Who then slunked back into the opposite end.. 

 

This is etched in my memory ... it's not glorification ... just how it was. OK ? 

 

 

I was there. That's exactly how it happened. We ran on to the pitch and chased them back to their end. 

I know we've done this before but its sort of compulsory when it pops up again!

First game 1970 v Everton who were Champions at the time. Walking up to the ground as a 10 year old with the crowds, the smell of cigarette smoke, walking past pubs with that old stale beer smell wafting through the doors, being scared when grown men are shouting and threatening each other across the street, coppers keeping order with clips round the ear.

Get into the ground, feel the buzz, the sheer excitement and electricity of thousands packed in like sardines, swaying and singing, being lifted up by complete strangers and passed down to the front to sit legs crossed at the side of the pitch.....

I remember playing Leicester at home after Clough and Taylor had been sacked/resigned in 1973, it was the first game i went to with mates rather than with an adult. I was on the Popside, i thought i was a proper grown up, its hard to explain, but  i was a skinny little lad who took confidence from being old enough to get the train into Derby, walk up to the ground and be part of the masses singing their hearts out every game. I turned from a timid lad to "one of the boys" at a school that was mainly Stoke fans. Never did get bullied or picked on after that point and have always worn my Rams colours/badges etc since. Still do now.

!974-75 season was unbelieveable, we took on every club with total football. Colin Boulton in goal (got to be the best ever English keeper not to get a cap), Toddy, Nish, Thomas and Peter Daniel (standing in for the injured Roy Mac) at the back, Bruce Rioch, Henry Newton and Archie Gemmill in midfield, Gladys, Zak, Big Rog and Frannie Lee smashing the goals in......went every game, home and away. The Vulcan Street Popside was the place to be back then. Away fans would try and "take" it,  never happened....Tottenham, West Ham, Man City, Arsenal.....all got a good kicking a few seconds after the initial gap opened up on an already packed terrace.....fair play to them, can't remember any other fans trying to take the Popside, How those gaps opened up is amazing but once the bloke with the cap (from Ilson), or the big Dutch lad, Johann, piled in, it was all over for the away lads who thought little Derby were an easy touch. This was 7 or 8 years before the DLF were even heard of.

We are the Derby, the Midlands we rule....

Lack of sofas ATM but was heartened that the random can of Stella in a hedge has now been upgraded to a bottle of Sharps Atlantic. 

There's hope for us yet....

New Micropub opened in Utch  selling locally brewed ales and ciders.

Had a decent pint of Burton Town Thomcat American Pale Ale. 

Hope the place does well but i fear Wetherspoons will see it off.

Hospital visiting again. The White Swan in Littleover, Cheap and cheerfull Sunday carvery, Excellent value and decent pint. Very busy but the staff were really good, squeezed us in (3 adults & 2 kids) and looked after us brilliantly.

Might have to copy & paste that onto Trip Advisor!

Is that your knee or head?

Cosmo, hospital visiting so decided to pop into town...very average at £16 each.

Prefered it when it were Zanzibar followed by a dodgy kebab up Green Lane

This thread is the seat of all learning...

This is a serious thread, there'll be longue bans for any puns here.

5 minutes ago, angieram said:

And yet I hear the sort of stuff I read on here regularly at both home and away matches. I can't understand it.

Up at the back of the South stand we hear very little slagging off of individual players. Everyone is standing and its more like the old terrace atmosphere. Individual moans don't get heard because there's always a chant being started, it may not spread down the stand but there's rarely a moment without someone trying to get one going

I've been in all areas of the ground since it opened in 1997 and i have found the quieter the area the more likely some knobbhead will scream out his displeasure at one of the players. Maybe they don't get a word in at home so its the only chance they will be heard!

When you are more interested in getting behind your team you are less likely to moan during the match.

Thinking back, it happened at the Baseball Ground in the seating areas, the terraces were generally full of people who wanted to sing and support their team. They tended to leave the moaning until after the game.

6 minutes ago, Inverurie Ram said:

Sad news that a Derby supporter would choose to turn on one of their own players at a ground where they are there to support them, especially when so many decent supporters couldn't even get a ticket for today's match.

Top post me owd mucker. Moaning about players is all well and good in the pub, at work or on here, but it takes a special type of cockwomble to slag their own players off at the match.

Don't go, stay at home and moan on Radio Derby on a Monday evening.