Swansea City Cheering Thread

[mattie]

I've conquered this thread on behalf of queen country and democracy from the savage 12 fingered monstrositys.

Fuck knows when this turned into a boro thread to be honest.

But i am really looking foward to seeing more of joe bennet next year, west ham need a left back!

dave

Bringing it back on topic, anyone tried lavabread?

Fuuuucking disgusting. Putting rotting seaweed on an English breakfast.

Savages.

 

[kained&able]

when in wales you call it a colonial breakfast mattie. Its like an english breakfast but shitter.

dave

 

[mattie]

when in wales you call it a colonial breakfast mattie. Its like an english breakfast but shitter.

dave

I'll try that next time.

 

[William of Walworth]

Bringing it back on topic, anyone tried lavabread?

Fuuuucking disgusting. Putting rotting seaweed on an English breakfast.

Savages.

Lavabread is truly foul. It's a Swansea/Gower delicacy mind. Allegedly anyway ....

 

[Streathamite]

It's extremely effective.

Are we sure it's still there? If not, how would we notice?

that's the point, the smog cloud helps us convince ourselves middlesbrough no longer exists

 

[Plumdaff]

I quite like lavabread

Of course the BNP target a place like Swansea, it's white and poor, but you do have to understand that the fact that a few fuckwits occasionally turn up at Swans matches with Union Jacks and the like makes it apparently legit for Cardiff fans on here to taint the whole club and city (the economic problems of which would normally make it precisely the places a true socialist/anarchist on urban should speak up for) with racism and loyalism. But if you ever dared to point out that the bluebirds have some prominent hoolie fuckwits in their support you'd be out of order to the "family club of the year".

Do you know what? At the moment I don't fucking care The club this week has probably done more for religious and racial tolerance in the city than a fucking decade of ranting at bitter numpties on here will ever do. Go you Jack bastards

 

[strung out]

that middle paragraph is spot on

 

[kained&able]

I think its quite good that there are some swansea fans who have a bit of patriotism to their nation.

I did enjoy myself a bit last night!!!!

dave

 

[trampie]

Eight years ago, the Swans stayed in the football league after winning their last match of the season 4-2, with a Swansea player scoring a hattrick and Swansea scoring two penalties.

Spooky or what ?

Looks like the Swans will win their opening game in the top division 5-1

 

[1927]

In 1981, there was a Tory government, a recession and a royal wedding and the Swans got promoted to the top division, the same in 2011.

Spooky or what ?

You missed out the bit about Preston getting relegated.

 

[Clint Iguana]

I quite like lavabread

Of course the BNP target a place like Swansea, it's white and poor, but you do have to understand that the fact that a few fuckwits occasionally turn up at Swans matches with Union Jacks and the like makes it apparently legit for Cardiff fans on here to taint the whole club and city (the economic problems of which would normally make it precisely the places a true socialist/anarchist on urban should speak up for) with racism and loyalism. But if you ever dared to point out that the bluebirds have some prominent hoolie fuckwits in their support you'd be out of order to the "family club of the year".

Do you know what? At the moment I don't fucking care The club this week has probably done more for religious and racial tolerance in the city than a fucking decade of ranting at bitter numpties on here will ever do. Go you Jack bastards

It would be silly for a Cardiff city fan to deny we do not have any idiotic thugs following our team. the difference between us and Swansea though is that when the EDL rolled into Swansea, the Jack Army came out to support them, when the EDL rolled into Cardiff, the Soul Crew gave them a slap and sent them home with their tales between their legs.

Now i am not going to suggest it is quite that simple and the soul crew are some sort of Antifa militants, but the simple fact is the BNP and EDL are most definitely not welcome in the diff.

I hasten to add - i know a good many jacks who are not at all happy with the BNP either.

 

[William of Walworth]

Did 'the Jack Army' really come out an support the EDL? In force???

No doubt some scummier elements of it did, but how many? What proportion? Really?

I'm glad you added your last sentence there!

 

[Clint Iguana]

Did 'the Jack Army' really come out an support the EDL? In force???

No doubt some scummier elements of it did, but how many? What proportion? Really?

I'm glad you added your last sentence there!

Ok, i will rephrase.

Some of the 'jack army' came out to support the EDL - none came out to oppose it. After all, their 'main man' Mr Tooze is a leading light in the BNP.

In Cardiff, some of the soul crew came out to chase the EDL out of town. None came out to support them.

 

[Belushi]

"Our mindless thugs are better because they're not racists"

 

[ddraig]

come on now
Clint knows what he's on about and he doesn't mean that

 

[William of Walworth]

Thanks for clarification Clint -- as you'll most likely know I'm no defender of racists/condoners of racists and sometimes some people round here depress me with how much they can get away unchallenged with how they talk

 

[Clint Iguana]

"Our mindless thugs are better because they're not racists"

I have not said either set of thugs are better or worse, i was merely pointing out that in Swansea there is a small element of organised fascism, but not in cardiff. I am sure a good many cardiff hooligans are racist, it just does not manifest itself in any organised way.

Most of the swansea fans i know i have met through my trade union activities - many of them are also involved in anti-fascist activity

EDIT - I have to say, i was actually a little bit proud of the way cardiff's 'boys' reacted to the EDL presence. Well, perhaps proud is not quite the right word - but i was definitely pleased they were not going to tolerate the EDL

 

[phildwyer]

As a lifelong Cardiff fan, I'm delighted at Swansea's promotion.

There's no traditional rivalry between us, it only dates from the 80s, and was artificial even then. All Welsh people should support each others teams.

 

[zog]

You make me laugh Phil

 

[Buds]

Ok, i will rephrase.

Some of the 'jack army' came out to support the EDL - none came out to oppose it. After all, their 'main man' Mr Tooze is a leading light in the BNP.

In Cardiff, some of the soul crew came out to chase the EDL out of town. None came out to support them.

Um, isn't one of the leading lights of the EDL/WDL notorious Cardiff City hooligan Jeff Marsh?

 

[Clint Iguana]

Um, isn't one of the leading lights of the EDL/WDL notorious Cardiff City hooligan Jeff Marsh?

Banned from Cardiff city and disowned by city fans. Generally considered something of an embarrassment by all concerned.

Was only ever notorious in his own self published books.

 

[trampie]

Um, isn't one of the leading lights of the EDL/WDL notorious Cardiff City hooligan Jeff Marsh?

Well fancy that how for some Cardiff City fans that are posters on here, those in glass houses and all that.

 

[Ranbay]

I have not said either set of thugs are better or worse, i was merely pointing out that in Swansea there is a small element of organised fascism, but not in cardiff. I am sure a good many cardiff hooligans are racist, it just does not manifest itself in any organised way.

Most of the swansea fans i know i have met through my trade union activities - many of them are also involved in anti-fascist activity

EDIT - I have to say, i was actually a little bit proud of the way cardiff's 'boys' reacted to the EDL presence. Well, perhaps proud is not quite the right word - but i was definitely pleased they were not going to tolerate the EDL

^ This, i was there and caught up with a few in HAHA's after

 

[Clint Iguana]

Well fancy that how for some Cardiff City fans that are posters on here, those in glass houses and all that.

If you continued reading you would have discovered the truth

 

[1927]

Um, isn't one of the leading lights of the EDL/WDL notorious Cardiff City hooligan Jeff Marsh?

Pretty sure I saw him in LIdl th other day wearing a t-shirt which had "intellectual hooligan" on the front. Anyone whio has ever met him will know that is only 50% accurate!

 

[marty21]

I'm pleased they went up, I remember the 70s side that went up to the First Division, and saw them in the mid 80s when I was at Swansea Uni, when they were heading back to the bottom. I saw my sister today, she told me my nephew is a mate of Scott Sinclair's brother, and has met Scott a fair few times -

 

[badlands]

its complete hatred tbh

nothing.

absolute loathing.

 

[ddraig]

right then
what about this, i mostly agree
"A victory for Swansea, not Wales" by Adam Higgit

http://waleshome.org/2011/06/a-victory-for-swansea-not-wales/

Even at the national level, fans seem resistant to seeing their sport and their passion co-opted for political ends. At the club level, such gambits are not only futile but likely to be counterproductive. Swansea and Cardiff, like Manchester United and Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal, Portsmouth and Bouremouth are implacable rivals and enemies, not regional allies. Most would back the Mladic First XI over their neighbour. Some appear to enjoy seeing their rival fail more than witnessing their own club succeed. This is tribalism at the purest form western life now allows. It is not always healthy or pleasant (and in Cardiff and Swansea’s case, like Celtic and Rangers’, it is often decidedly ugly) but it is a fact and it can’t be wished away with platitudes or appeals for a higher, Welsh sense of unity.

Nor should it be. Leaving aside the violence and intimidation that often attends the meeting of these two great Welsh clubs, there should be room inside modern Welshness for distinctive, divergent, rival regions, for impassioned sporting tribalism and for heartfelt and irreconcilable differences of opinion. Gwynfor Evans spoke of Wales as a “community of communities”, a plural, diverse collection of communities that together comprise a national polity. Yet little of this notion now appears to survive within Wales’s modern nation-building discourse. Instead, and increasingly, Wales is described aspirationally as an undifferentiated entity, united within itself by its distinctiveness from the Outside Other. Appropriate concern is paid toward ethnic diversity, while elsewhere all other such divisions are there to be battered down or overcome. For some, such as those disparities of wealth, opportunity and aspiration, this is right and proper. But in a quest to forge the Welsh sense of self into something that functions as a civic mentality, the danger of is prescribing a monocultural Wales, where all must commit to their Welshness above – and even to the exclusion of – all others, and where rivalry within this suffocating entity is to be deplored and discouraged, in the name of preventing a return to divide and rule.

 

[trampie]

What a load of rubbish, yes there is tribalism in sport, yes there are people that want to see their rivals lose, but there are also lots of people that congratulate the Swans on their achievement and see it as an achievement not just for Swansea but for Wales as well.

 

[1927]

What a load of rubbish, yes there is tribalism in sport, yes there are people that want to see their rivals lose, but there are also lots of people that congratulate the Swans on their achievement and see it as an achievement not just for Swansea but for Wales as well.

Fuck off!