Takeover rumours

[Chris Smith]

What's the Italian for "I like punk and I like Sham I got nicked over West Ham"?

[dave.woodhall]

What's the Italian for "I like punk and I like Sham I got nicked over West Ham"?

Mi piace il punk e mi piace Sham avuto scalfito nel West Ham

[Jimbo]

That kind of thing was rife at the Spartak Moscow game I went to at the Luzhniki in Moscow. Loads of Lonsdale-wearing wannabe Russian hoolies saying "Oright mite!"

[fbriai]

What's the Italian for "I like punk and I like Sham I got nicked over West Ham"?

'Mi piace il punk e mi piacciono gli Sham e mi hanno arrestato làggiu a West Ham'

You need to pronounce 'punk' as 'pank'.

You weren't too far off, Dave!

[Chico Hamilton III]

Didn't jimmy Pursey receive a police caution for indecent assault on a young girl? And does he still live in Stourbridge? my mate is a postman and he once delivered an ironing board to Pursey. Rock and roll

[Glenn Peen]

...I'm still reeling from Dave Woodhall "totally agreeing" with one of my posts.

A proud first for Glenn Peen.

[Chris Smith]

What's the Italian for "I like punk and I like Sham I got nicked over West Ham"?

'Mi piace il punk e mi piacciono gli Sham e mi hanno arrestato làggiu a West Ham'

You need to pronounce 'punk' as 'pank'.

You weren't too far off, Dave!

Thanks, I'm singing that while trying to make the veins on my forehead bulge. The cat has left home in disgust.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Disagree with the statement about east London locals - West Ham fans tend to view their support of the team as a visible badge of what it means to be from east London. Their support, and that identity, stretches right out to the hinterlands of Essex and Kent, too. They have a strong support base and could surprise a few people when they have a big, free stadium. The potential is there.

I'd say that West Ham's fanbase is more Essex and East Anglia, not Kent. The hordes of white-flight Millwall fans have colonised the Kentish hinterlands. Dirty barstards, dirty fackin' rotters....

[Ads]

That kind of thing was rife at the Spartak Moscow game I went to at the Luzhniki in Moscow. Loads of Lonsdale-wearing wannabe Russian hoolies saying "Oright mite!"

Did you get asked for the time?

[fbriai]

What's the Italian for "I like punk and I like Sham I got nicked over West Ham"?

'Mi piace il punk e mi piacciono gli Sham e mi hanno arrestato làggiu a West Ham'

You need to pronounce 'punk' as 'pank'.

You weren't too far off, Dave!

Thanks, I'm singing that while trying to make the veins on my forehead bulge. The cat has left home in disgust.

No worries, Chris. I'm sure the cat will be back.

On the back of Dave's insight, I've just found a book on the history of punk in Bologna. I might well have a read and see if it meshes with his thoughts.

[dave.woodhall]

What's the Italian for "I like punk and I like Sham I got nicked over West Ham"?

'Mi piace il punk e mi piacciono gli Sham e mi hanno arrestato làggiu a West Ham'

You need to pronounce 'punk' as 'pank'.

You weren't too far off, Dave!

Thanks, I'm singing that while trying to make the veins on my forehead bulge. The cat has left home in disgust.

No worries, Chris. I'm sure the cat will be back.

On the back of Dave's insight, I've just found a book on the history of punk in Bologna. I might well have a read and see if it meshes with his thoughts.

Could be different because Bologna's left-wing isn't it?

[fbriai]

Slight aside.

I went to see Blur play in Milan once. Years ago, 97 or so. Was surprised how many Italian kids in the audience dressed in skinhead gear. They'd clearly only heard the earlier albums. Certainly not that one where they turned into Pavement, anyway.

Were they skins or punkabbestia, Paulie?

[fbriai]

What's the Italian for "I like punk and I like Sham I got nicked over West Ham"?

'Mi piace il punk e mi piacciono gli Sham e mi hanno arrestato làggiu a West Ham'

You need to pronounce 'punk' as 'pank'.

You weren't too far off, Dave!

Thanks, I'm singing that while trying to make the veins on my forehead bulge. The cat has left home in disgust.

No worries, Chris. I'm sure the cat will be back.

On the back of Dave's insight, I've just found a book on the history of punk in Bologna. I might well have a read and see if it meshes with his thoughts.

Could be different because Bologna's left-wing isn't it?

Yes it is, but there is a heavy anarchist vein, which is likely a distant relation to it in some way. I'm just hypothesising though.

I'm in Pisa, which is very left wing as well, but I still see a fair amount of West Ham about.

[Jimbo]

That kind of thing was rife at the Spartak Moscow game I went to at the Luzhniki in Moscow. Loads of Lonsdale-wearing wannabe Russian hoolies saying "Oright mite!"

Did you get asked for the time?

No, but they were very interested in my St Pauli top, in a we-will-kill-you-for-wearing-this-left-wing-shit kind of way.

[Dr Butler]

Disagree with the statement about east London locals - West Ham fans tend to view their support of the team as a visible badge of what it means to be from east London. Their support, and that identity, stretches right out to the hinterlands of Essex and Kent, too. They have a strong support base and could surprise a few people when they have a big, free stadium. The potential is there.

I'd say that West Ham's fanbase is more Essex and East Anglia, not Kent. The hordes of white-flight Millwall fans have colonised the Kentish hinterlands. Dirty barstards, dirty fackin' rotters....

loads of west 'am here in Cambridge.......should be intresting this week in the lead up to the game.

they won the world cup ya know and have THE academy that other teams especially Chelsea seem to get their youngsters off them...and Tevez loves em because he never scores against der ammerz and he makes that stupid crossed two armed/hand wanking sign that they do.....