manchester is crawling with drunk scots types.
i love scotland and scots, but i honestly believe the world would be a better place without football and football fans.
it's a 'carnival atmosphere' according to the news. well getting foghorns in your ears from people creepign up behind you and seeing innocent women get jeered at by groups of drunk men for having breasts is exactly what makes the mardi gras great i'll bet.
Don't worry
They will be very quiet but about half nine tonight
oh bejesus
flyering tonights going to be fun then
seriously lizzy,
you should see if you can swap for tonight. Its probably going to be grim. Don't wear shorts!!
haha my dad's there
but he's not like that and he's with his boss. it's only for a couple of days...
should they just cancel it?
I bet piccadilly gardens
is pretty much a vision of the inner most ring of Hell at the moment.
:D
I actually saw some BBC man trying to do an interview on the news earlier in Piccadilly Gardens, but literally every five seconds, some dick would wander into shot, and they had to abandon it.
Ha ha!
Its not a day to be a regional sport reporter. I can just picture terrifyingly sunburnt Scottish men wading through the fountains with all the pigeon aids, causing huge amounts of aggro in Somerfield while more cider is bought. Blargh.
North West Tonight is going to be full of it, 'party atmosphere' et cetera. Nope! By 10pm tonight it'll be a running battle through Eastlands! Man Man should be some sort refuge.
Yep
thank god that show's been moved to Scubar - I think the safest place to be is underground.
I didn't know it'd been moved
thanks for the hot inside tip. They'll never find us all if we hide in the basement of an aquatics-themed bar!
:D
:D
Christ
it's horrible - I cycled through town to get to work today and town is absolutely heaving with people in blue shirts, and even at 9am everyone seemed to be drinking. I was actually woken up this morning by some scots singing outside my flat (cursed yuppie city centre living) - why'd they all have to get here so early? I'll bet it's even worse on the way back tonight, and the traffic on the way to Man Man tonight's going to be hell. Football, eh?
probably what the people
of the ATP towns think as well
I was waiting for a remark like that
I really don't think the two compare - 100,000 drunk football fans all over town =/= 2,000 twee indie kids trying to get a little drunk on a bus before they head inside the arena. And it's not like the ATP crowd are going to riot if Of Montreal fail to play 'A Sentence Of Sorts In Hondsvringen', is it?
I wasn't talking about
rioting just large amounts of people pissed up and singing.
^ this
I got the bus from fallowfield,
and some sovereign ring toting smackhead hovel dwelling twat was pulling up girls skirts. I know its a big game for them, but being wankered at 9 in the morning, jumping in front of metrolinks in st peters square, already throwing bottles around, isn't going to help the 'carnival atmosphere'
'Best fans in the world' though, right?
Rangers fans?
When would that ever happy Scot image apply to them.
I might dress up as the Pope
and run through Albert Square screaming CELTIC, whilst pinching off a massive sausage on their scally kids heads.
I strongly recommend this!
thats the celtic fans apparently
but that tagline makes me cringe
For the first time in my life
I want Old Trafford blown up.
thats a bit harsh
especially considering its at the city of manchester stadium.
oops
Consider everything I've ever said redundant :$
I seriously thought it was at OT
Goes to show how little interest I pay towards the UEFA Cup eh?
No worries,
I think we all let you off this time.
apparently....
...'its all in good fun' and 'they mean no serious harm'.
i know i sound like a 50 year old daily mail reader, but, ... seriously, grow up people, it's just a day trip out and a football game.
next time i travel to a gig, i must remember to go down the day before and stumble around drunk all day beforehand.
i'm well excited about going into town later
!!!
I know
some Rangers fans who are utter guff heads. I think they may be up there and are probably injecting strongbow into their veins...
"Guff head" is my new favourite insult :D
Oh and actually they're all drinking Carling from cans
took me a surprisingly long while to figure out why!
nowhere sells Tennent's?
*Special Brew
I have a Celtic
away shirt that my dad in law gave me where they're sponsored by Carling. I think NTL did something similar by sponsoring both clubs as well.
they've been sharing sponsors for years
to stop fans of one club boycotting the other club's sponsor etc
Was
McEwans another one back in the day?
I don't think McEwans sponsored Celtic
I could be wrong though.
My uncle gave me an old Rangers shirt back in the McEwan days. It looks pretty great
I reckon so
I think CR Smith was the first company to do it way back when.
I don't know much about Scottish politics, but
they must be one the only groups of football fans that vote conservative.
Vote for the union jack > vote for the working man?
hooray!
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1049539_tesco_slammed_for_booze_sales
hurrah!
http://tinyurl.com/5uar6q
stating the obvious FTW!
“This kind of selling encourages irresponsible drinking which in turn can lead to serious public order problems.”
...
Sure. Manchester is full of people who think they're Scotch or Irish.
In actuality, they are just poor and ginger.
:D
i feel sorry for
any manc dwellers becaus win lose or draw they'll start tearing the place up later tonight
...
Is there some kind of system in place to ensure external observers know this is happening?
Glaswegian football fans are horrid.
All of them.
I'm working in Old Trafford at the moment
and there is a huge crowd milling slowly towards the metrolink, singing, and wearing skirts. I can confirm that some of them are drinking....yes thats definately a bottle of buckfast that I see. Some of them appear to be using their children to administer their half two heroin dose. Their eyes are glowing red, and they are stabbing grannies.
Its very very similar
on Oxford road... why are the kids here and not at school? Crazy times!
You're so very correct
I was walking through picadilly before and I could've done without the foghorn being blasted in my face. My mate was trying to get me to shout 'CELTIC!', but I'm guessing I would've been killed. Also, do only the Scottish stereotypes support Rangers?
^ i think it's the excitement of it for them
that brings out the inner wanker
no
just predominately wankers ;)
i don't doubt there are alot of wankers. I live amongst it.
However, there will be plenty of people there to enjoy the game and there will also be others who are just getting a little carried away with excitement, as opposed to those who would usually be a rowdy, irritating Neanderthals
to harmlessly enjoy the game**
as do i
i think my point which i admit is biased by being a celtic fan is that its almost inevitable that there'll be trouble
I'm also biased
as a Celtic fan but it genuinely seems to me that when Rangers are in Europe that there always seems to be a lot of trouble that accompanies them. Compare this to 80,000 Celtic fans in Seville and not one fan being arrested a few years ago I don't get the impression that will be the case tonight regardless of the result.
Good luck to them but I'll be hoping the lose as the years of gloating would simply be too much to take. It would almost be like england and that world cup they won 40 years ago...
England won the World Cup!?!
PLease tell me you are joking.
i empathise completely...
i am truly ashamed to be associated with it all purely for living in Glasgow. Our city's CRAWLING. I hope they lose and it'll shut everyone up.
You sound like such a bunch of snobs
i hope they win.
have you seen the state of them?!
It all seems harmless enough.
On my way to work this morning (9ish) there were people already drunk lining the streets, which is always nice to see. The two pubs near by work were bursting full by 10am and it's all seemed pretty jolly, apart from when my supervisor looked out of the window and was greeted with chorus's of 'Get yer tats oot' and at least three cocks. I don't even work in the city centre either, this is three or four miles out of town, but i guess people want to see Old Trafford whilst their here. A couple of schools near me have rented out fields to campers and they all look full. I'd say the 100,000 people estimates are extremely conservative. They'll probably find it puzzling when in February next year such an alarming percentage of newborns are ginger.
i don't see how this is unusual for Manchester
other than the fact most are Scottish, for a change
They don't normally have this many
fans, wondering around, getting pissed, and so early in the day...
Definitely.
It's actually shocking to hear or see any kind of atmosphere around United's ground. Also, police are normally very strict on people drinking in the streets around here, but i think they've been told to lay off it today, because literally everyone i've seen has had a can of Tennants or a pint in their hand. Do you work in the Kellogs building?
Next door actually, in British Gas
Where do you work?
Warwick House.
Opposite the Cricket Ground. I was going to apply for a job at British Gas, actually, but it all looked like Customer Service or Sales work. They're meant to have loads of jobs going, yes, anything else, say general admin, data entry, tedious unskilled work?
There is plenty of tedious work to be done here.
I wouldn't recommend it though. I wish you worked in Oakland House, then I could wave at you like a mentalist out of the window.