Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: dave.woodhall on August 15, 2013, 06:01:03 PM
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WM want to talk about flares at matches tomorrow. What's your opinion?
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Ain't worn any for years!!!!
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Clearly they've been covering Wolves too much. We don't wear them in Brum
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I think they add a bit of atmosphere and do look good when crowd is in full song but obviously they can be dangerous and having them thrown at us at Blues away wasn't great (I know Villa threw first).
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WM want to talk about flares at matches tomorrow. What's your opinion?
I think they should talk about it if they want to.
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A novelty when they were rare, when we beat Small Heath with that last minute Milner pen I was in the North Stand and it was rocking, the flare added to the atmosphere. You see them everywhere now.
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They're like, groovy man. I dig them.
People letting flares off at a match should have the flares set off in their battycrease.
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It's more of a continent thing really. I don't really see the point in them myself and taking one to pre-season friendly at Walsall was a bit silly.
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i don't think its something people really care about unless they see them. Not really part of English football culture. be like asking an Italian fan about a half-time pie and a bovril.
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Isn't it a night club?
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I like them, but I think that is the aftersmell which reminds me of cap guns.
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A well thought out flare at a night game in European competition when we are trying to stoke up the atmosphere is good.
Struggling with the point of them outside it mind. They stink and you can't see shit for five minutes if you are close to them.
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Isn't it a night club?
It was on Broad St, as for the fiery ones I think they should only be used a European night games, just to add to the atmos!
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I like them. My main memory from seeing AC Milan when I was 10 at the San Siro was the atmosphere and all the flares and huge flags. But that's their culture, I remember they had water filled bins close by for the flares to be thrown into after.
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I like them but flares are dangerous and will just end up being used as weapons.
Pyro (Smoke Grenades) on the other hand are a lot more useful, the look nice and they seem to stoke up the atmosphere. And crazily, I actually like the smell.
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Swing those pants.
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Flares are okay but I prefer kipper ties, personally.
Seriously, flares would make us look European and 'experienced': go for it, I say.
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Have many people been hurt by them at the football?
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WM want to talk about flares at matches tomorrow. What's your opinion?
Do they have a particular problem with them at The Keepmoat and/or Firhill ?
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I had some really nice brown ones that I bought in Oasis in 1972.
Cool.
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Dangerous?
Caught my stack heels in them a couple of times and nearly went arse over tit.
That's about it really.
;-)
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prefer stay-press (with the obligatory ski jumper or Y cardigan)
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I think they add something rather exciting to the atmosphere. But then I've never been so close to one where they've been set off...
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I am usually in favour of anything which livens things up a bit, but I can't say I like inhaling smoke if I can help it. In P6 at VP, and at a couple of away games, this activity has got on my tits.
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They do look good admittedly, however I was by one at Wigan last game and my eyes were fucked for 10 minutes. So basically, I don't spend all that money for my eyes to sting.
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They've got no place in English football. They add nothing and are just one more thing for scrotes to cause trouble with.
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In the right hands they could add something, but in the wrong hands they can be deadly. That story about the kid in south america a few months ago is absolutely horrific.
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Us and Man. United are the worst offenders for this in the premier league I'd say.
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I like them, but there is the obvious danger of someone being hit by them.
I was at a game in Rome when the Lazio fans managed to fire some sort of flare into the roof of the stand. The fire burned for about 5 minutes while the coppers (and firemen) just sort of stared at it while smoking... no panic or stewards running around panicking.
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A well thought out flare at a night game in European competition when we are trying to stoke up the atmosphere is good.
Struggling with the point of them outside it mind. They stink and you can't see shit for five minutes if you are close to them.
Quite. There's a time and a place.
A cup semi-final against ManYoo on a Wednesday night? Fine.
12.45pm at home to Norwich? You look like a dick.
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No thanks, was close to one last season and they go for ages and they do f@" k up your vision.
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Flares are shite.
Drums are shite.
Brass bands are shite.
Playing music after goals is shite.
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They've got no place in English football. They add nothing and are just one more thing for scrotes to cause trouble with.
Agreed.
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wank, leave it to the italians
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I want ones like they used in the First World war on little parachutes...
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I know someone who got badly burned and scarred by a flare at a match in Italy. Not something I would be in favour of.
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I think we should import other European fan traditions.
I am going to try to smuggle a scooter into the upper Holte and chuck it over the front of the stand.
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I think we should import other European fan traditions.
I am going to try to smuggle a scooter into the upper Holte and chuck it over the front of the stand.
I'm bang up for that. I'm going to throw a pigs head at Downing when he tries to take a corner for West Ham.
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I think we should import other European fan traditions.
I am going to try to smuggle a scooter into the upper Holte and chuck it over the front of the stand.
I'm bang up for that. I'm going to throw a pigs head at Downing when he tries to take a corner for West Ham.
Also, first defeat, let's all go mob handed to Bodymoor Heath for the next training session and beat the shit out of the players.
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Flares are shite.
Drums are shite.
Brass bands are shite.
Playing music after goals is shite.
With you all the way. The fan culture here in Australia is the euro version and it's shite. The songs/chants are led by a guy with a megaphone. Not spontaneous and it sounds like the fans have no brain between them. And flares are a pain. I used to like 7 Nation Army but now I want to boak when I hear it.
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I think we should import other European fan traditions.
I am going to try to smuggle a scooter into the upper Holte and chuck it over the front of the stand.
I'm bang up for that. I'm going to throw a pigs head at Downing when he tries to take a corner for West Ham.
Make sure you hit him.
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I don't see the problem at big night games. This is the best non-Villa game I've been at and it was like Dresden in there (without the fatalities) but certainly added to the atmosphere although it didn't harm that my favourite team in Brasil pumped Boca that night. ;)
http://youtu.be/LwFp_OJcMkQ
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Mind you it was even more impressive for the final which I didn't make.
http://youtu.be/PMbOQvEzjY4
How about flares at an indoor basketball game?
http://youtu.be/dLx0bQZUIZw
Both clubs share the anthem Horto Magiko. Love the anthem and I like both clubs although I've no idea why an abundance of shamrocks and tricolours especially in Flu's claret, white and green would appeal to a Villan from Ireland. :)
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I can't see how any one can support people chucking these things when their use has put people in hospital.
Why don't we go back to throwing bog rolls? You can get a giant pack of them for a reasonable price at Costco.
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A bit dated if you ask me.
I had a beige pair of farahs I bought from discount man in smethwick.
Used to tear to easily for my liking :o
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Flares - too young to be too mentally scarred by the trouser version.
Nightclub chain utterly rubbish - wasn't it 70's renaissance music IIRC.
Flares burning smoking items are a bad idea mostof the time unless in distress at sea / in a desert etc....
Villa Flairs - Brian Little, Sid Cowans, Dwight Yorke, Paul Merson would be ones I consider.
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Flares are shite.
Drums are shite.
Brass bands are shite.
Playing music after goals is shite.
Spot on
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Just to ask the obvious! Are they still in fashion?
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Someone let off a smoke bomb at Wigan when mcshit was here, was ridiculous, you couldn't see anything
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Someone let off a smoke bomb at Wigan when mcshit was here, was ridiculous, you couldn't see anything
Oh, I think they knew what they were doing.
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I don't see the problem at big night games. This is the best non-Villa game I've been at and it was like Dresden in there (without the fatalities) but certainly added to the atmosphere although it didn't harm that my favourite team in Brasil pumped Boca that night. ;)
http://youtu.be/LwFp_OJcMkQ
That looks incredible!!
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I hate them, I'd outright ban them, they've got to be, for example, more dangerous than having a bottle of coke with the cap on.
I just don't see the appeal, I don't think they add to the atmosphere in the slightest.
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I just thought there had been an increase in lost sailors attending games in recent years
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Added to the atmosphere at this under 11 game.
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I haven't had a chance to read the whole thread. Has anyone made a joke about flared trousers yet?
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I haven't had a chance to read the whole thread. Has anyone made a joke about flared trousers yet?
Isn't that what the thread's about?
Bugger!
;-)
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Added to the atmosphere at this under 11 game.
See, now that's when flares are good. granted the game got delayed but that atmosphere, for an u11's game, is better than any i've seen in England. Looked controlled as well, so no muppets throwing flares around, pretty sure at one point i even saw someone in the crowd put out a flare that the guy next to him had lit (think the guy with the flare knew the guy next to him was going to put it out as well)
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See, now that's when flares are good. granted the game got delayed but that atmosphere, for an u11's game, is better than any i've seen in England. Looked controlled as well, so no muppets throwing flares around, pretty sure at one point i even saw someone in the crowd put out a flare that the guy next to him had lit (think the guy with the flare knew the guy next to him was going to put it out as well)
I bet you love bonfire night.
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Give me a pack of sparklers and i'm well away ;) haha
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I had some really nice brown ones that I bought in Oasis in 1972.
Cool.
Oasis Wow , I had forgotten all about Oasis. Got my first pair of Loons and scoop neck Tee from There. What a place! Oasis for some Loons and then down to Virgin to listen to some albums on that big cushion thing they had.
Loons they were proper Flares.
Back to the real subject they will just be interpreted as Hooliganism by the Daily mail etc.
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Oasis...... Got a Funky Monkey from there and an awesome pair of red and white striped jeans. Oasis had its own particular smell IIRC.
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Oasis...... Got a Funky Monkey from there and an awesome pair of red and white striped jeans. Oasis had its own particular smell IIRC.
Patchouli.
I had some...and wore it. So did my girlfriend.
40 years later my son does.
Smelt it on him a few weeks weeks ago and I was transported back in time...happy days!
Perhaps they could make patchouli scented, musical flares with Richie Havens singing "Freedom".
Peace man!
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I had some really nice brown ones that I bought in Oasis in 1972.
Cool.
Oasis Wow , I had forgotten all about Oasis. Got my first pair of Loons and scoop neck Tee from There. What a place! Oasis for some Loons and then down to Virgin to listen to some albums on that big cushion thing they had.
Loons they were proper Flares.
Back to the real subject they will just be interpreted as Hooliganism by the Daily mail etc.
For that reason alone they should be compulsory
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I like them, especially the flares compared to the smoke bombs.
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Oasis...... Got a Funky Monkey from there and an awesome pair of red and white striped jeans. Oasis had its own particular smell IIRC.
Patchouli.
I had some...and wore it. So did my girlfriend.
40 years later my son does.
Smelt it on him a few weeks weeks ago and I was transported back in time...happy days!
Perhaps they could make patchouli scented, musical flares with Richie Havens singing "Freedom".
Peace man!
Yes my older Sister, now Head of Science in a big Comp oop North, purchased a suede fringed jacket from there which she anointed with that.
I've never seen it spelt before.... Thought it ended in '....... Oil'