I understand Madness was a North London band

[Guns 'n' Roses]

Suggs though is a Chelsea fan isn't he? Any gooners amongst them?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

*We had our share, but not as many as Chelsea.

[Free SL]

I think a couple of the others are as well.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

myth so beloved of the New Wave of Islington leftie Arsenal 'fan'.

[Free SL]

I let facts get in the way, didn't I?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

If I recall correctly

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

non-gender specific organic way. I remember that the bananas being chucked at Cyrille Regis were definitely fair trade.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

He removed his helmet before laying into them. Jolly good sport I thought

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Never really got them myself though I did own the first album as a young, impressionable kid.

Quite liked it.

Went very downhill from there I thought.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

The Liberty Of Norton Folgate in 2009. I have the latter, 'tis good :nod:

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Surely if you're running into a ruck you'd want to keep the helmet firmly on?

I was standing next to a copper the day Villa won the league by losing at Highbury. When it all kicked off on the CE he leant back on a pillar and said, "That's not even a proper fight". Then it went off on the north bank and he whipped off his helmet and dived in with enormous gusto, grinning all over his face.

He f**king loved it, that copper.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

I felt very much at home amongst the 29 stone boneheads trying to 'Stomp'

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The North Bank was like the Nuremburg Rally at times.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You know, the chanters and pointers. I let the big boys do the scrapping.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Always thousands of the buggers when you got off the train clipping your ankles if you got to close to the edge of the kerb. Clouting anyone who actually stepped into the road.

Mind you, they strangely went absent the first time we beat them in 50 years or whatever it was. Getting to the buses across the park was not fun

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

It is with great fondness I remember the stupid big nosed idiot halfway up the Clock End who in the final years of Highbury would on the occasion of each match stand and invite I think the entire visiting fans to a fist fight.

He was a complete bell end.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

We were always telling them to do their job as I recall

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

observed by visiting parties who tended to sneak up on me. Fortunately I was too small for anybody to take notice. Got a real thump before the Man Utd Final and outside Filbert street on a couple of occasions they caught me. :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What a prize c**t.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Mack]

[Luis Anaconda]

[barrybueno]

or were.

[wibble the lobster]

both now

their main problem with the music critics is they werent the Speicals and their line up wasnt alligned with the multiucltural ethos and make-up of other 2-tone bands.

a fine and fun pop band though and far more productive in terms of hits than the other 2-tone and ska bands of the era.

there was a madness musical few years back - a lot better than the mamma mia nonsense I had to sit through.

last boat to cairo
shut up

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

You can come back in 2014/15 :wave:

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Peter]

The opposite is convention in my line of work.

[Mack]

[Luis Anaconda]

Arsenal is... sounds terrible, p

[Luis Anaconda]

Good article with BoD in the Guardian today on the tour. Come on the Lions

[barrybueno]

go into hiding when the 2 teams meet tho.

[Ashberto]

[Peter]

Unless we are asked to call arsenal it rather than they/we etc.....

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Is he?

[Mack]

be very much the second string playing in that :-(

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[Luis Anaconda]

not sure the players will get pissed with the fans as they did on the last Aussie tour

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

very drunk.

[Ashberto]

I think that The Kinks' first gig was at the pub now called the Clissold Arms in Fortis Green, East Finchley, which you may recall from F's funeral.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That was nice, wasn't it?

[Mack]

True story ..:-)

[barrybueno]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ashberto]

Very pleasant afternoon. Under the circumstances.

[Yesterday Once More]