Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 902278)

Well played merits must go to Accy Stanley and fingers crossed in the play-offs... unlucky Burnley at Leeds but maybe next season..Preston not a good season.. looks like Rovers have pulled one out the hat and yet again make up the numbers in the Prem next season...(speaking of Rovers.. not sure how Sabden or Chorley got on)
I feel sure that most right thinking North-West footy fans will cheering on Man UTD for the Premiership and in the Champions League Cup Final..:)

Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 902374)

I am looking at the phrase following that post "WE ARE UNITED...WHAT DO WE WANT".
If I was to answer that I would probably banned from Accyweb for life.
Sorry but Barcelona for me and if Rovers beat Man U I think it might wipe the smile of your face:p

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 902278)

I feel sure that most right thinking North-West footy fans will cheering on Man UTD for the Premiership and in the Champions League Cup Final..:)

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 902278)

I feel sure that most right thinking North-West footy fans will cheering on Man UTD for the Premiership and in the Champions League Cup Final..:)

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 902600)

Dream on, Mancie, lad, dream on. However, if you substitute the words Stanley for Man Utd and play-offs for premiership, you may well be nearer the mark! :D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 902432)

Well to me yesterday was a perfect day, Rovers won for a change, Stanley sealed a place in the play offs, the Dingles were put out of their misery, and Chelski cut the Plastics lead to three points, an Arsenal win today would make it a near perfect weekend especially if City & Birmingham win too:)

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 902675)

well reckon this afternoon makes it perfect.:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38: still Absence makes the heart grow fonder.:D

Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 902680)

I think Man U should have had a penalty...............life's a pig init:dflam::dancedog:

Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 902706)

Beats me how an Englishman can be so biased, to wish us loosing to a load of foreigners,

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 902720)

There's quite a bit of irony in that statement :D

Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 902706)

Beats me how an Englishman can be so biased, to wish us loosing to a load of foreigners

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 902808)

how English are Man U anyway?...foreign players, foreign owners, foreign fans (Manchester's full of 'em on matchdays).

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 902862)

United have a damn sight more "English players" than the likes of Rovers...as for foreign fans...do you really excpect a club that gets 75,000+ on matchdays to be soley supported by English.
I'll say this again.. if a few thousand paying "foreigners" turned up at Stanley or Rovers on matchdays I doubt they'd be told to sod off at the gates.. ;)

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 902862)

United have a damn sight more "English players" than the likes of Rovers...as for foreign fans...do you really excpect a club that gets 75,000+ on matchdays to be soley supported by English.
I'll say this again.. if a few thousand paying "foreigners" turned up at Stanley or Rovers on matchdays I doubt they'd be told to sod off at the gates.. ;)

Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 902880)

Calm down dear, calm down. :D:D:D

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy (Post 902912)

Anyone would have thought Man U lost at the weekend?????

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 902918)

Well you can tell they did because of the lack of Plastic Mancs on here since yesterday, they only sing when they're winning :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 902923)

Its always been like that, worked wi some fer 20 odd yrs never changed, though to be honest i hope they dont lose to that ruskis lot.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 902928)

Na just let the Spaniards make a Messi of um:)

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 902862)

I'll say this again.. if a few thousand paying "foreigners" turned up at Stanley or Rovers on matchdays I doubt they'd be told to sod off at the gates.. ;)

Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson (Post 902866)

They could be from the Planet Neptune, as far as I'm concerned.

Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 902999)

There,s a difference between "supporting" their team and accepting their brass to fill Stanley's coffers. No contest. I don,t think I was complaining about "a load of foreigners" just about Englishmen supporting them over British teams.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903029)

Hear Hear:D

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903087)

This, from the man who's hoping the Spaniards "make a Messi" of United. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903147)

Don't really care who makes a mess of United Wyn, I'd bring back Attila the Hun if it would help Mongol FC:D

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903156)

Well, in that case it's no good saying "hear hear" when Ossy Kid starts complaining about Englishmen supporting foreign teams over British teams...you plastic Blackburnian, you! ;) :D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903157)

born and bred Rover

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903159)

Hmmm...I don't think you were actually born in Blackburn...more likely at home or Rough Lee. And I don't think you were bred in Blackburn, either. So, saying you're a "born and bred Rover" is like Barrie saying he's "born and bred United". I know you certainly don't live there now, as I had to pass your address on to Bee - he's coming round to see you tomorrow with his collection of Sesame Street videos and a list of questions about shops. ;)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903160)

Wrong again son I was born in a Blackburn Hospital, my father was born in Blackburn too:tongueout:tongueout

Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 903196)

So Wyn explain what a "plastic" is if you don't mind. Reading what you say, if you were not born in the town or live in the town of the team you support, does this make you "plastic"??

Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 903227)

Thanks Wyn, so, as I was born in Leyland, moved to Accy age 5 supported Stanley since the mid 50s, adopted United, also in the mid 50s, I guess I,m not "plastic" {smile**. So using your logic, if you were born in England and support a "foreign" club, does THIS make you {plastic**? {grin**

Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 903227)

So using your logic, if you were born in England and support a "foreign" club, does THIS make you {plastic**? {grin**

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903241)

Roy only has a foreign club as his second club. I'm far more concerned about him coming from Church and supporting Rovers! ;)

Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 903252)

Sorry Wyn, born in Blackburn lived in Church. ;)

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903254)

Apologies yet again :o ...was EVERYBODY on this forum born in Blackburn? ;)

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903161)

In that case, I take it all back and apologise for calling you "plastic"...

...however, Bee's still coming round to see you tomorrow. :D

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903206)

Sometimes yes, sometimes no, Ossy Kid.

It works like this...if you were born or grew up in Accy and district, you must be a Stanley fan first and foremost, although I allow people to have other teams as second clubs. If your principle club is other than Stanley, you're a plastic.

However, if you were born outside Accy and district, you're perfectly free - in fact, I positively encourage you - to adopt Stanley as your club and this does not make you plastic in any way whatsoever.

Quite logical really, isn't it? ;)

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 903256)

heres one that wasn't.:D

Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 903196)

explain what a "plastic" is if you don't mind.

Originally Posted by ossy kid (Post 903317)

Wish I'd never asked??

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 903306)

Here we go, best professors hat on & let's begin with the dissertation shall we ? Here's how I see it :) The suffix Plastic relates to an imitation of the original, as synthetics (plastics) became more readily available, cheaper & easier to use "Plastic" replaced the original material.

So in Footballing terms the original supporter would've been someone from that Town or City, born there & usually living there in later life. For the bigger clubs no big issue but smaller clubs would tend to struggle to get punters through the gates. Through the advent of public transport & the Auto-mobile this made journeys to far away places more readily available so people had the chance to travel to experience "better footy" & so they did. Initially a few hardy souls would travel to one of the nearby big Cities to watch the big clubs, thereby neglecting their Town teams & the like.

Then further inventions such as wireless & television hit the market, opening the sport to an even wider audience of non locals who would then at some point flock to these far flung outposts of sport to enjoy the titillation of a big club winning games ! The locals at first accepted the influx in revenue & commerce from these outsiders, but soon becoming swamped by them they rather derogatorily started to refer to them as "Plastic" (non originals). This sobriquet was then by extension carried across into other activities & sports ensuring its use as a colloquialism in the present day vernacular & it appears that this appellation is mightily alive & well in this modern day & age. :D

Thereby endeth this particular homily, please place your chairs up on the desk before you leave, the cleaning woman has better things to do than run round after you lot, exit quietly as other lectures are still in progress & just one moment Johnson ! ...... I'd like a word with you ! Young Mancie ! Put that can back in the bag ! Until you leave the confines of this room you're still on my time thank you very much ! And you boy ! "Who Sir ? Me Sir ?" Yes you sir ! less of your chit chat Master Jaysay & tuck your shirt tails in you, you scruffy little Homunculus ! :s_aim1:

Hopefully that makes everything as clear as mud now ? ;) :D

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903254)

Apologies yet again :o ...was EVERYBODY on this forum born in Blackburn? ;)

Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 903358)

nope ... born northfield road, rising bridge .... :tongueout:tongueout:tongueout

Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson (Post 903363)

Born in Hyndburn I see.

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 903254)

Apologies yet again :o ...was EVERYBODY on this forum born in Blackburn? ;)

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 903371)

Don't tar us all with the same bog brush :eek::eek::eek:

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 903391)

You tell him Dave, give him 6.:D

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 904988)

if all clubs had the same revenue mancie who knows?:dflam:

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903157)

Not plastic about this lad born and bred Rover till I die mate, :p:p:p

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates (Post 907265)

Seem to remember that in a post quite some time back you stated that you were originally a Stanley fan until they folded and then you started to going to Ewood:rolleyes::tongueout

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 907312)

No that was cashy Barrie, used to go and watch Stanley sometimes and even Burnley (in them days I had no football scene going to the dingle dome) Went with mi Dad to see my first Rovers match when I was 5 so have been a Rover for 60 years now:p:p:p

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates (Post 908414)

Knew it was one of you rabid anti United fans;):D
Anyway, you don't live in Blackburn so why support Rovers:confused:

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates (Post 908414)

Knew it was one of you rabid anti United fans;):D
Anyway, you don't live in Blackburn so why support Rovers:confused:

Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 908428)

I too can lay claim to the first.
I don't live in Blackburn but like John I have supported Rovers for 60 years.
You don't live in hyndburn so why support Accyweb?:confused::rolleyes: