Post by Dave on Sept 26, 2008 22:17:51 GMT
Well I have been hoping for ages, that this weeks winner, would In the end get the hang Of forum posting. He has been a member from the start and haa shown great improvement In his posting ability.
I have chossen two Of his posts as the best post Of the week.
The first one I have had time to digest and have moved my view slighly, as we all need some understanding from others at times.
So well done Merse this weeks winner.
Post 1
I think it should be acknowledged that Paul Gasgoigne suffers from mental illness and therefore should NOT be held as a figure to scorn nor one to ridicule.
By the time he was 14 he had witnessed the deaths of two of his best friends - one of them lost control of a bike he was riding down a steep hill in a dare devil bet and was catapulted into the River Tyne and swept away to drown.
Gazza also suffers from Acute Attention Deficiency Syndrome...............even into adulthood and also displays the "twitchiness" of Tourette's Syndrome"
I once lost someone very close to me who was derided as an alcoholic with all the attendant scorn and disgust that other people hold "alchies" in. If those judgemental people had known that she turned to excessive drinking to mask the constant pain and insecurity she suffered after years of serial sex abuse, rape and other paedophilia, they might have been more help to her before she eventually died at 26 from acute liver failure in enormous pain, disfigured and bloated on a life support machine for nine whole days whilst her closest watched her slip away.
Paul Gasgoine's not a disgrace to football and does not deserve to be forgotten. He is a very sick and unhappy young man who once brought a unique pleasure and enormous enjoyment to millions of people.
Have a bit of pity and respect for him please.
Post 2
I take it that it is still all-ticket? Any chance of just turning-up and going in the home-end?[/glow]
I rang and booked my ticket this afternoon and the girl on reception said i could have paid on the gate if i had wanted too, as they hadn't sold very many.
I still think there will be a couple of hundred there though???
This ridiculous situation relates to Buster's tale of developments at Colchester.
It seems that every season there is at least one match that gets made "all ticket" or "all ticket for our fans" for no other reason than some nincompoop feeling that it is unhealthy to have a lot of people turn up at one venue at the same time - but surely that's just what football is!
I guess some simple plod at the Gloucestershire Police HQ has looked at last season's numbers and failed to correlate that then it was a Bank Holiday, and also that we were taking much larger numbers away with us then anyway.
All ticket for a midweek game over 120 miles from home is simply stupid and one can only feel sorry for FGR trying to run professional football in such a "Dibley like", Parish Council area.
Buster asks whether any new stadium matches the atmosphere or indeed betters the one of the ground it has replaced and true, it is hard to think of one, except for Hull City's "KC" which was built further into town than the old Boothferry Park..................may be if they stopped encouraging clubs to re-locate to such soulless out of town locations, away from all the periphery additions (like shops, pubs and town centres) local and police authorities wouldn't have to worry about what fans were up to just outside these shiny new stadiums.
Colchester join Weymouth, Shrewsbury, Darlington, Yeovil, Newport and Salisbury to name but half a dozen clubs who have had the heart of the community feel ripped out of them by being stuck out on some ring road or remote part of towns who could and should easily embrace a few thousand souls bringing a bit of atmosphere, life and no little spending power to urban environments that are crying out for a bit of life once a fortnight or so.
It is for this very reason that I always despair of folk who want to see OUR club relocated to the Ring Road, The Willows, or even Clennon Valley for that matter....................we wouldn't be having a debate about Boots pub if the club was stuck out at any of those soul destroying dumps as there wouldn't be ANY non match day business to sustain it!
If I do go tonight (which will only be in the unlikely event of my being within that part of England around late afternoon - right now I don't know where I'll be) I'll be pitching myself in the best part of the ground I can and the local busybodies won't know whether I support Torquay, Forest Green, Nottingham Forest or Forrest Gump for that matter; and it won't affect the way I behave for one second.
I don't have a ticket nor ever intended to get one, they're little more than arsewipe as far as I'm concerned!
I have chossen two Of his posts as the best post Of the week.
The first one I have had time to digest and have moved my view slighly, as we all need some understanding from others at times.
So well done Merse this weeks winner.
Post 1
I think it should be acknowledged that Paul Gasgoigne suffers from mental illness and therefore should NOT be held as a figure to scorn nor one to ridicule.
By the time he was 14 he had witnessed the deaths of two of his best friends - one of them lost control of a bike he was riding down a steep hill in a dare devil bet and was catapulted into the River Tyne and swept away to drown.
Gazza also suffers from Acute Attention Deficiency Syndrome...............even into adulthood and also displays the "twitchiness" of Tourette's Syndrome"
I once lost someone very close to me who was derided as an alcoholic with all the attendant scorn and disgust that other people hold "alchies" in. If those judgemental people had known that she turned to excessive drinking to mask the constant pain and insecurity she suffered after years of serial sex abuse, rape and other paedophilia, they might have been more help to her before she eventually died at 26 from acute liver failure in enormous pain, disfigured and bloated on a life support machine for nine whole days whilst her closest watched her slip away.
Paul Gasgoine's not a disgrace to football and does not deserve to be forgotten. He is a very sick and unhappy young man who once brought a unique pleasure and enormous enjoyment to millions of people.
Have a bit of pity and respect for him please.
Post 2
I take it that it is still all-ticket? Any chance of just turning-up and going in the home-end?[/glow]
I rang and booked my ticket this afternoon and the girl on reception said i could have paid on the gate if i had wanted too, as they hadn't sold very many.
I still think there will be a couple of hundred there though???
This ridiculous situation relates to Buster's tale of developments at Colchester.
It seems that every season there is at least one match that gets made "all ticket" or "all ticket for our fans" for no other reason than some nincompoop feeling that it is unhealthy to have a lot of people turn up at one venue at the same time - but surely that's just what football is!
I guess some simple plod at the Gloucestershire Police HQ has looked at last season's numbers and failed to correlate that then it was a Bank Holiday, and also that we were taking much larger numbers away with us then anyway.
All ticket for a midweek game over 120 miles from home is simply stupid and one can only feel sorry for FGR trying to run professional football in such a "Dibley like", Parish Council area.
Buster asks whether any new stadium matches the atmosphere or indeed betters the one of the ground it has replaced and true, it is hard to think of one, except for Hull City's "KC" which was built further into town than the old Boothferry Park..................may be if they stopped encouraging clubs to re-locate to such soulless out of town locations, away from all the periphery additions (like shops, pubs and town centres) local and police authorities wouldn't have to worry about what fans were up to just outside these shiny new stadiums.
Colchester join Weymouth, Shrewsbury, Darlington, Yeovil, Newport and Salisbury to name but half a dozen clubs who have had the heart of the community feel ripped out of them by being stuck out on some ring road or remote part of towns who could and should easily embrace a few thousand souls bringing a bit of atmosphere, life and no little spending power to urban environments that are crying out for a bit of life once a fortnight or so.
It is for this very reason that I always despair of folk who want to see OUR club relocated to the Ring Road, The Willows, or even Clennon Valley for that matter....................we wouldn't be having a debate about Boots pub if the club was stuck out at any of those soul destroying dumps as there wouldn't be ANY non match day business to sustain it!
If I do go tonight (which will only be in the unlikely event of my being within that part of England around late afternoon - right now I don't know where I'll be) I'll be pitching myself in the best part of the ground I can and the local busybodies won't know whether I support Torquay, Forest Green, Nottingham Forest or Forrest Gump for that matter; and it won't affect the way I behave for one second.
I don't have a ticket nor ever intended to get one, they're little more than arsewipe as far as I'm concerned!
Thankyou for the kind words, I'm really quite humbled that you believe I may be learning to post 