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Why don't COCKNEY'S support their local team instead of supporting UNITED +LIVERPOOL ?
Why don't COCKNEY'S support their local team instead of supporting UNITED +LIVERPOOL ?
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yes Chopan -it's now on the A12
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From north london used to get there easily even on bank holidays much quicker than trying to get to southend, m11 and cut across from stanstead easy drive and you can avoid the traffic that goes to clacton when you get close if you wanna go upmarket you can go to Frinton
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that's still a tidy drive -but nearest coastline for you chopan.
Frinton has def gone downmarket in the last 5 years ago - first it was a pub ,then a chip shop , now they have a POUND SHOP |
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Colchester's new ground is soulless, Layer road was much better (for atmosphere).
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From north London i would be tempted to head torwards Dorset ,longer drive but its bloody gorgeous down there
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all new grounds are souless im afraid
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wasn't it just biscuit - although when lumps of rust started falling from the roof after a wayward strike on goal you knew there were problems
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was just gonna say love dorset but for the day its a bitch used to stay in lymington new forest
nice gaff takes dogs right by the forest but its 4-5 hours driving if you do a day trip up your end is 3 hours 1 1-2 each way max |
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yep,traffic terrrible near to heathrow,west London
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When you son asks WHEN ARE WE GONNA GET THERE every 5 mins you take the easier option and besides
i know the new forest bmoth experience is a lot classier but the kids just wanna catch the crabs and eat ice creme and the dog just wants to swim in the sea he dont gove a ---- if its bmouth or walton |
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dog love a good swim
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golden retriever goes right out into he sea natural swimmers they are will fetch the ball all day
from the sea. |
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time now for me to get out and enjoy all that lovely snow before it melts away
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gl have a good one
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chopan - yes they do - they'll swim all day mate - retrievers esp
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just had pie & mash in my local manzis
there seem to be a lot less man u /lpool shirts about on children than there were 15-20 years ago. you actually see a few fulham shirts round our way now and that was unheard of a few years ago. the ones who get me are the ones who had no particular allegience but attached themselves to a successfull club the older ones are lpool fans, the more recent are man u, solely to have an interest when it was on in the pub, thus enabling them to celebrate goals with unmitigated glee. and laud it over "local" fans. plastics== all of 'em. |
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same with the irish imo
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227 backed 3 the other day 9s on here was unlucky but trap 5 ran on well on poor going 3 should lead today though so gonna play small 3 win 5-3 and small 1-3 2-3
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I saw a manchester.city fan once in a pub in manchester,there he was bold as brass wearing his etihad shirt, i asked him since whern did mancs support city?? He said he was from stockport and carried on drinking his robinsons.True story.
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when i got to utd arsenal on the train can nver get a seat for the London and Luton Mancs
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Still at least they go to games cant slag em off for that but they all got London, Beds accents
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Cockneys are working class Londoners living in the east End. They don't support teams from the north. They usually support West Ham.
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no mate they live in essex mate not in the east end the bangledesh live in the east end.
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paulcarm
Cockneys are working class Londoners living in the east End. They don't support teams from the north. They usually support West Ham. Get your facts straight! A Cockney is anyone who lives south of Birminham. So whilst I agree with the title of the thread, it would be daft to expect your Devon Cockney or your Brighton Cockney or your Oxford Cockney to support West Ham |
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I saw a manchester.city fan once in a pub in manchester,there he was bold as brass wearing his etihad shirt, i asked him since whern did mancs support city?? He said he was from stockport and carried on drinking his robinsons.True story.
If you had waited longer, instead of rushing off to catch your Ryan Air flight, you and your Dublin, Belfast and Heathrow bound mates would have seen plenty more blues. Probably would have seen 'proper' reds, who actually go, outnumbered by proper Rochdale and Macclesfield fans too. |
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Was that you LF with the moustache,kangol fleece,ben sherman on for weeks...
 I agree with you.our catchment areas are manchester,salford and everywhere else,yours are stockport,rochdale,bury etc,that malady is from rochdale. |
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Yes, a Cockney (or Mockney even as they are sometimes known ) is regarded as a 'working class' or 'lower working class person' from the Home counties.
Herts,Bucks,Surrey,Greater London,Kent,Sussex and most of Essex - the old East End is indeed mostly comprised of non Cockneys. They speak loud and dress loud , wear football shirts at an advanced age , have shaved heads and wear shiny appendage . They all drive white vans or know someone with a white van. They were all aspiring night club bouncers in their prime . Some have migrated to more rural parts of late - Suffolk, Berks, Hants etc |
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and if you drive a white van ,don't take it personally -
and i mean don't take offence , not steal the van |
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Scanned this thread and having lived in these areas for virtually my entire life, northern teams, although supported, are not as common as people make out. There are a lot of Irish (or of Irish parents) in London who usually support Liverpool (generally), not forgetting a lot of northerners down here who surprisingly support northern teams. Since Arsenal starting hitting the heights, children of parents who were not into football usually chose the gooners (being the successful team of their era) just like the 60's child who sided with Spurs. Yes, northern team supporters are evident but on a very low ratio; in fact, there are just as many non-supporters as northern supporters in these parts.
What people fail to realise is that around one-fifth of the population live in London (give or take) and even a small percentage (less than 1%) makes a lot of northern supporters. |
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I love where i live, and i love my team. 2 completely different locations but never troubled me once, couldnt give a flying xxxx what other supporters say, my money is as good as theirs.
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In the 80's if football wasn't really in your blood you tended to say you supported Liverpool, over the last 20 years or so its got 10 times worse and it's become Man Utd. The vast majority of these are weak willed, slightly odd people who migrate to these clubs for the same reason's people want to be with the "in" crowd.
Football has become very fashionable and these saddo's want to be associated with the most fashionable club's. If you truly love football, you love your own club which is most commonly the one nearest to your roots and hate the rest. Unfortunately since the advent of the family friendly stadia,sky tv, big money(big headed) players,football, mainly at the top end has become so wishy washy and boring that many of the true fans, myself included, have given up. What i wouldn't give for terraces, roofless ends, players who had proper feelings and pride for the club they played for etc etc. Never mind up with EPL (fkn hate that phrase) |
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Very good post nonaynever and spot on, i can't stand modern day football and modern day football "Fans", i blame it on skinner and baddiel.
And also Manchester.city... |
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Plenty of Liverpool and United supporters here in Reading who were born in the town. Mainly Chelsea, Arenal, Spurs and Millwall supporters and obviously Reading.
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I think you'll find that most "Cockneys" as you refer to them, do support their local teams.
Any southerners that support Man Utd and the Chelsea of the north generally tend to live in Surrey and the like, and are therefore generally not "Cockneys". Neither are most people down south, i'm sure you have to be born within the chimes of the Bow Bells. Most Arsenal supporters are anything but, down at the Emirates with their rattles and scarfs  It's like me saying "Up North" is anything past the Watford gap. |
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Never mind up with EPL (fkn hate that phrase)
____________ it's quite simple, it's not a phrase ,its an abbreviation like BBC ,RAC ,ITV It stands for Eco-friendly Public Lavatories |
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Bow bells ? maybe 100 years ago.
Cockney is a generic term - similar to Essex girl - an Essex girl can come from Swindon ,she doesn't literally have to come from Essex |
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feck me, and i thought i lived in the past. tell you what, I will go back and support Leatherhead FC as that is where i grew up as a kid.
I will leave my chosen team to the locals only to support, absolutely no woollybacks allowed. Will ask them not to distribute any merch outside of that city and all visiting fans must provide I.D. on arrival in the city. |
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@Coachbluster
Yes i'm aware "Cockney" is used as a generic term to describe southerners. However, it's like saying anyone from "Up North" is a Geordie. Its incorrect, and very narrow minded. |
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Its northerners who brought about the term if you like .
Aspro is correct when he talks about numbers around London - It's mainly because the home counties (cockney/mockney) accent is prominent in the south /south east. In the north there are varying cut off's to discriminate ( in dialect) - Manchester,Liverpool,Leeds,Newcastle ,Nottingham accents are all very different . Now pick one from Dover and Cambridge - 120 miles apart - same accent |