An email from Robbie:
“…they got stuck on the train back with a shitload of Millwall fans on the next carriage. The Millwall fans proceeded to smash all of the windows out of the train carriage with wine bottles…”
I got picked up at 6AM to catch the train from Portslade to London. I was told to be prepared with some beers. So I bought four tall cans of Kroney.
On the train at 6:30, the fellas I was with proceeded to bring out the cans at 6:35. I followed suit. 1 hour later; arrive at London Victoria. Two cans in. 7:30am. Take the tube across London to Euston station in order to catch the train to Birmingham.
Catch the train to Birmingham at 8:45. Finish my two other cans on the train ride and the fellas head over to the bar car and grab a tall can of Carling for each of us.
10:15 arrive in Birmingham. 5 cans in. Head immediately for the Pub. Stay there until 1:30 drinking. It is beginning to take its toll, keeping up with the English Lads drinking is no mean feat. I am beginning to nurse the pints. We head over to the ground as kick off is at 3pm. Hit two more pubs on the way. Have to find away fan pubs but they are all full. Brighton has brought 7000 fans up for this match as it is rare that they get the chance to play a Premier League club in the FACup.
Huge Police presence around the ground and in Birmingham in general as there are loads of travelling away fans due to the FA Cup matches all over the country. Wolverhampton vs Crystal Palace just up the road. Crystal Palace are Brighton fans biggest rivals and they are both playing in the vicinity. Could be sticky later if we end up on the same train back to London, so I was told anyway. I then wonder how the day might unfold.
The lads told me about the last time they went to Birmingham for an away match they got stuck on the train back with a shitload of Millwall fans on the next carriage. The Millwall fans proceeded to smash all of the windows out of the train carriage with wine bottles, and these are thick double glazed train car windows we are talking about here. As they say here in Blighty, NUTTERS!! Anyway that is another story.
We get to the ground for kick off and I am in the middle of the away stands and these motherfucker’s are some of the loudest fans I have heard yet. My head hurt afterwards they sang so loud. The atmosphere was brilliant. Every time the home Keeper took a goal kick the Brighton fans said ahhhhhhhhhhhh, YOU’RE SHIT, just as he kicked the ball………hilarious.
Brighton Lost 3-2 in the end but we got to cheer a couple goals and they could have scored a third. Considering Brighton are two leagues below Aston Villa they did really well and could have easily got away with a draw. After the match we head back to a pub in the town centre for more pints before we catch the train. I begin to wonder if we will end up on the train with some Palace fans. At the train station the police presence is huge and we were privileged enough to see some real proper lads getting arrested for just being drunk, stupid and aggressive.
We get on the train and are lucky enough to be on a train full of Brighton fans. Arrive back in London at 8:30pm. Forgot to mention before we got on the train the fellas each grab a bottle of wine to drink on the way back. At this point I have had enough of drinking but they polish off their bottles handsomely. On the tube back to Victoria they said they were really glad that I came along but that I would need to learn how to drink before I came out again. Love it. Once I got off the train back in Brighton about 50 Brighton fans get off the train and break out in songs echoing all over the station, it was awesome…….football culture in this country is so unique, nothing like I have ever seen anywhere in the world, now that they have learned how to manage the violence, it is a brilliant thing to behold………the only violence is the violence on the liver……ouch my liver……..
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One more inch…
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I’d rather donate blood than money to Haiti. No one can take a cut off the top of this donation…
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Our friends from the UK sent us this Christmas present via Eastern Europe. Thanks Robbie & Chantelle. I’m glad to see my friends buy me things that get me on the no-fly list. I’m sure Canada Customs had one helluva time getting them open to check for drugs, it took half an hour to open each one up.
Great detail work.
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The movement starts with your participation: The Five Columns – War of the Flea
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The first thing I’d like to admit is: We’re not into conspiracy theories, we just use the mystery around these theories to market our products. We use the Freemasons and their history with golf as an angle, that’s it. But this story deserves more attention. What makes this story very interesting is the fact that these scientists are telling us about something we should be concerned with but not show us why. Should we just listen to people and take them at face value. Question everything… even this story below.
On Friday, news broke that a hacker had broken in to the computer systems used by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia in Britain, obtaining more than 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents. The material, which covers a period of more than a decade, has led many to conclude that climate scientists associated with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and various government agencies have been cooking the books to make the case for man-made global warming. Climate researchers deny any wrongdoing, explaining that the e-mails are innocent and have been taken out of context. The University, while confirming the hacking, cannot confirm the authenticity of all the stolen documents. Here is a sampling of some of the exchanges:
* From: Phil Jones, Feb 2, 2005
“The two MMs [Canadian skeptics Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick] have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone.”
This text was stolen from the National Post
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The Knights Templar were a monastic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 C.E., whose mission was to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades. Over the next two centuries, the Knights Templar became extraordinarily powerful and wealthy. Threatened by that power and eager to acquire their wealth, King Philip secretly ordered the mass arrest of all the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307 – Friday the 13th.
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Over the last couple of years the alternative golf apparel industry has grown in terms of the amount of companies as well as the products they offer. We asked ourselves. What makes these golf apparel companies alternative? Is the brand slightly different from standard golf companies? Is the product different? It seems when these companies say they are alternative they mean an alternative not the alternative.
There are companies out there who have created an alternative look and attitude, Tattoo Golf is one of the first companies and we respect them for what they’ve done with their brand. Kikkor Shoes have also done a great job of truly being different in the golf world, which to most people…is the definition of alternative.
My observations with the golf industry have concluded that using the term alternative in the golf apparel industry actually means “we’re not a large company” instead of meaning we’re selling a different attitude or lifestyle, and different product than the rest.
This is one of the words that I see come up here and there. He’s edgy, they’re edgy, it’s edgy. What the fuck does that mean? I’ve found two definitions of the word. These two are undeniably the definitions. One is Webster’s, the other is the street version. I’ve never used the word “edgy” as in the street meaning, in a serious sentence. It’s always said with cynicism, in a cutting manner. So how do people live with themselves when they use edgy when describing one’s self.
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