Flares

[rob_bridge]

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.

[flybo]

Flares are shite.
Drums are shite.
Brass bands are shite.
Playing music after goals is shite.

Spot on

[Simon Ward]

Just to ask the obvious! Are they still in fashion?

[Phil from the upper holte]

Someone let off a smoke bomb at Wigan when mcshit was here, was ridiculous, you couldn't see anything

[Jimbo]

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.

[Miguelito]

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!!

[paul_e]

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.

[Des Little]

I just thought there had been an increase in lost sailors attending games in recent years

[exigo]

Added to the atmosphere at this under 11 game.

[freethinker]

I haven't had a chance to read the whole thread. Has anyone made a joke about flared trousers yet?

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

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!
;-)

[Miguelito]

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)

[freethinker]

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.

[Miguelito]

Give me a pack of sparklers and i'm well away haha

[Hampshire Villa]

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.