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Dear Incider,
The funniest thing to hit my TV screen since the Gas relegation
in May 2001 is the announcement that Clueless has been appointed
manager at Stoke City.
“It’s triffic”, Tone told the assembled Press,
“that Stoke are a proper football club”.
Perhaps by that he means:
(a) He won't get into a fistfight with the Chairman.
(b) He won't waste cash on crap signings and long contracts for
said crap.
(c) He won't do a runner when the going gets tough.
(d) He won't be compensated for being totally useless.
AS HAPPENED EVERYWHERE ELSE
Well, Clueless, if you're as good at Stoke as you were at Gillingham,
City, and Portsmouth, there could be a job for you gutting fish
on an Icelandic trawler.
Bets of luck, Potters, you're gonna need it.
On another matter, I've been a City supporter for over 30 years
since being taken to a game in the Jack Connor era of the club,
and watched City up and down the land through the glory, glory years
of the "old" Division One and the "heap of crap"
years of Division Four!
In 1993 I was ordained as a priest and have worked around the country,
spending the past five years in the north-west conducting missionary work
in and around Wigan, where the egg chasers rule supreme and the
local soccer team relies on Gashead mercenaries to score their goals
for them.
I would like to know if there are any other City supporters in and
around the north-west for mutual support, travel to matches, a chance
to laugh at the Duke's "I'm a Premiership standard striker"
comments etc. [Editor’s note: Anyone wishing to make contact,
email The Incider and we will put you in touch.]
Kevin Crinks
Dear Incider,
Firstly I'd like to say thanks to you for keeping me informed on
the goings on at Ashton Gate. Being a Bristol exile, currently living
in Leicester, I have found it hard in the past to keep up to date
with what is really happening and what the fans think rather than
the corporate line that usually comes through the official website.
I am also making an appeal to any other Cider Reds in the area
to get in touch if they want to travel to matches around the East
Midlands (I will be at The Posh and hopefully Mansfield as well)
and reminisce about the good old days - beating Liverpool and Chelsea
in the FA Cup are two of my particular favourites!!
Keep up the good work!
Dan Jacklin
Dear Incider,
After getting my six-year-old daughter to show me how to do this
I felt I had to reply to one of your articles. What a excellent
article, spot on. Sky TV have taken our game away from us, repackaged
it and sold it back to us for £34.99 a month and like lemmings
we have all purchased it.
Our once sleeping giant of a football club is now a lumbering drunk
stumbling from one financial crisis to another whilst the rich get
even richer, and all the kids our the local parks follow Manchester
united. Thank you for reading my ranting. Good work with the fanzine
and even better with yer daughter...don't worry it does get easier.
Shaun Hosier (aged mid-30s!)
P.S. Just a thought for a good idea for the fanzine.
How about asking City fans if /when City get to the European Cup
final where do they want it held and who against? Mine is against
Sporting Hehow (great name) at the Schwarzenegger stadium (where
Sturm Graz play). I’ll even offer two tickets for the game
for anyone who gets it right !! You can’t lose. [Editor’s
note: Anyone who fancies taking Shaun up on this challenge,
send your responses to letters@theincider.com.
No need to rush, you should have a few years to come up with your
choice…]
Dear Incider,
Hello from Barnsley!
I’m responsible for the Barnsley fanzine Red Or Alive? along
with four or five other
guys. Could you let people know about our "Sponsor a Seat"
campaign. It works by people coughing up £10 and in return
they get to have whatever they like (within reason) on a seat in
the ground. They’ll also get a certificate, I believe.
If you go to: http://www.barnsleyfc.org/
you can downlaod the form there or get a link to it (people need
Acrobat). As much publicity as possible would be great.
Thanks again, the help is appreciated
Andrew Hirst (Barnsley fan!)
P.S. Can we have our ex-manager back please? :(
Dear Incider,
I reckon allowing Marvin Brown being allowed to leave on loan for
Torquay was a bad move. Personally, I believe he should be in our
first team, but he's never really been given a chance. I reckon
it's not an ideal time to let him go as well, just when Matthews
got injured (again).
The only positive thing to come out of this would be for him to
play really well so Danny Wilson actually gives him a chance up-front
for City when he comes back. However I read somewhere he's going
to be on the bench most of the time anyway, so that's not very likely.
If we're not careful I can see us doing what the Gas did with Zamora,
selling him for peanuts then looking like total idiots when he turns
out to be one of the best young talents in England.
On to a completely different subject now…the East End. Despite
the recent outcome of the controversial trial, I reckon that any
City fans that have been to a recent away game should be given the
option to sit in the East End, as the atmosphere in the City end
at away games is absolutely top class. All the away fans could then
be moved over to the Williams Stand. That would be my suggestion
anyway.
Sam Alward
Dear Incider,
Bloody marvellous! Laughed my dinner up. Nothing as funny or as
biting since the heady days of The Bountyhunter.
What about this for an idea? A filthy rumours and gossip page. Stick
in a disclaimer so you don’t get sued by the caring, sharing board and
invite all manner of rumour true or otherwise. For example, I thought
Colin Cramb was a god. I managed to get his shirt from the club shop.
But I also know that Crammy was a pisshead and used to go in the pub
in Portishead most nights and when the team were away and when he was
injured. How do I know this? A bloke in work told me - that's as good
as fact in my eyes.
Any sightings off-duty could also be added, such as the time I saw
Elvis in Asda in Bemmy with a trolley crammed with Carling - when he
too was injured.
That sort of scurrilous crap. And if anyone has got anything on the
greatest cover-up since the Kennedy assassination - the Gas blowing
promotion - it should be welcomed with open arms.
Anyway, keep going as the One Team has gone very stale of late.
John Kavanagh
[Editor’s note: Thanks for
the suggestion. I think our lawyers would break out in a cold sweat at
the prospect of some of the rumours bandied around recently! But feel
free to write in with any sightings of players out and about. I saw
Ricky Chandler walking down
Bedminster High Street once, but that’s about it!]
Dear Incider,
Congratulations on little RedTop!
If her first experience of AG is anything like mine she'll probably
drink herself stupid, spend most of the game dribbling and talking
gibberish and s*** herself just before the final whistle. Being
a relative late arrival at Ashton Gate myself, my drink was taken
from a pint glass rather than a curvaceous, ample bosom. Missed
out on that score!
Excellent fanzine by the way.
Redskin_BCFC
Dear Incider,
This is the only fanzine site I visit. And congratulations to RedTop
on the birth of his new daughter.
Eddie Hitler
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