Trouble in Cleethorpes

Painfully obvious what was going to happen today, let's invite a local club with a fanbase of dubious reputation for a Saturday afternoon in sunny Meggies and see how many businesses they can trash. Reason I stayed away today and probably explains low home turnout.

From the Sheff UTD forum ( says it all ) -

Personally I thought it was as well as I have seen us play in a pre season game certainly first Half Sharp, and Fleck were stand outs and DCL had the best 45 I've seen him have.

However the day was completely ruined for my family by The Walking Brain Dead who call themselves our fans, particular mention to the off his face youth who stuck his face infront my. 16 year old niece and said "show us your mammaries love " & then his mates who threatend us when we told him where to go.

Proud of himself I am sure.

Lets not be naive, this was always likely to happen...we've been out of the league that long, the boot boys have returned, ive seen guys from the 80's who i haven't seen in years, in the past they loved nothing better than a good old scrap, these people have been deprived for years...together from what i remember happening on the way to the Alfreton game a couple of years ago, when our fans went on the rampage in Sheffield...unfortunately this is likely to happen again now we're in league 2, with local derbies we'll see the visits of Mansfield, Notts County and Donny... in future i suggest we give these yorkshire pre-season games a miss, it just not worth the hassle.

Quoted from OllieGTFC

Oooo it is good to have a good welcome back to the football league still w**kers though

Erm, 1) it was a friendly and 2) we are not in the same division as them.

Even if GTFC were a long established League 1 team would we expect to beat SUFC.

Lets not get ahead of ourselves eh.

I don't get that.

The result doesn't matter anyway.

Quoted from LH

A few weeks ago someone posted on here that they don't get why people would willingly go out on a weekend to drink themselves into a rage to go and risk serious injury (and potentially death) by fighting likeminded morons just because they come from a different town and support (loosest definition of the word) a different football club. Throw into that the money spent on clothing and it's completely beyond me why anyone would do it.

Mind you I'm up early in the morning to go and hit a little white ball around a park and they probably don't get that.

I wouldn't be to sure about that  

http://www.bing.com/videos/sea.....E720&FORM=VRDGAR

Were the Old Bill caught off guard today?  Pre season game for them as well as for Town - like us on the pitch, seems they fell short.

No arrests for the trouble that appears to have occurred is hardly a ringing endorsement for the Old Bill  

Quoted from Grimal

I wouldn't be to sure about that  

http://www.bing.com/videos/sea.....E720&FORM=VRDGAR

It is a frustrating game at times! I'm at the point now that I know I'm excrement so there's no point getting myself down about and enjoy it when I play well.

In that sense I suppose it's like watching Town!

Humberside Police reporting six arrests including serious assault and affray. Videos I've seen on facebook showing Town got shown up a bit so hopefully that'll be a reality check for them and they'll keep their heads down from now on.

I was walking through the market place with my 2 young children, one of which is severley disabled at around 1pm and it seemed like a party atmosphere... fit forward 30 minutes  when we were walking back and it was.like a war zone... I spent q0 years in the Army and it felt like being back in Helmand..... guys between what looked.like 16-60 running Round and fighting... absolutely embarrassing. Why can't people just enjoy a sociable beer, the sunshine and a game.of football without it all ending in violence... really don't understand!!!