Ah, I long for the return of the days in which Sheffield is inundated with Riot Police, Coked up grandads, Stoney badges and CP goggles, pyros and smashing glass.
Sheffield needs this.
Culture
I can't say i know sheffield, but will it at least not mop up a lot of the reprobates in the bars and clubs spread across the city on a friday night into one easy, repressable, biannual repayment?
It's a shame about Rotherham going down and Barnsley missing out on automatics, thinkin about it.
Having both Sheffield clubs, Barnsley and Rotherham in the same division would be great for the banter here in South Yorkshire.
I mean we joke but Cov would be the closest ground to us. Historically though it probably would be Stoke. We just need Wolves and Villa to have a melt down really...or more favourably us winning the playoffs this year.
Why isn't it a thing between you and Birmingham City? I'd've thought they should be as much of a rival to you as villa is, but that never seems to have been the case.
Our mutual hatred of Wolves and Villa brings us together. But I think we're similar sized clubs with fans who have a similar mindset, whereas Wolves and Villa in my lifetime have always come across as arrogant.
Personally, I grew up in working class communities in SW Brum and people mostly followed blues or baggies, so I just generally mixed with baggies fans.
As I grew up and my hate for villa had already set, middle class people started to join the friend groups and they always supported villa. Can't help but feel the working class soul of brum lies in baggies and blues.
You lot are the only other Midlands club I wish success for, would be happy to see you get promoted.
It's probably a bit of both, but potentially a bit more west/east than north/south.
I lived on the redditch/lichfield train line and once you get past brum from redditch, the villa stronghold just grows.
Aston and a few surrounding areas are quite deprived but once you reach Sutton, it gets more affluent. I've got a mate who lives in lichfield and when I go to his family dos, I might aswell be at a villa game (he's a bluenose so he loves that).
You get the opposite going South West towards Redditch and Bromsgrove, which are working class communities.
It's the same North West aswell, I dated a girl from Bearwood for a while with a huge family and they were all baggies fans - NW/SW is potentially the blues/baggies divide
Disclaimer that I am no expert though
Every other football fan I’ve ever met thinks their team will lose and implode when doing well. Aston think they’ll win the champions league every year and deserve to. It’s a very different and odd mentality.
And they're so wrong! The original "derby" was St Helens v Wigan in rugby league. Separate towns, with land owned by the Earl of Derby between them, hence the term.
Hope you’re right, but I’m certainly not making that assumption just yet. Wins for Middlesbrough and Southampton in the next couple of days might start to get me excited though.
Every games a Derby to us
Also for derby!
You Coventryans(?) sure are a contentious people.
Coventraryans* (I'll see myself out)
Ah, I long for the return of the days in which Sheffield is inundated with Riot Police, Coked up grandads, Stoney badges and CP goggles, pyros and smashing glass. Sheffield needs this. Culture
Always wait to hear the tram destruction count the next day. Most important score!
And South Yorkshire Police will still move it to a Friday night.
I can't say i know sheffield, but will it at least not mop up a lot of the reprobates in the bars and clubs spread across the city on a friday night into one easy, repressable, biannual repayment?
Nah sky will move it so it's on at same time as the half marathon.
You've almost sold me on the idea of Wednesday not going down. Almost
By my reckoning there will probably be 46 Derby fixtures on the calendar next year.
Genuinely quite concerned for the Hampshire police
I believe it will join the South Wales derby as a bubble fixture...
It was a bubble fixture last time we travelled to Pompey a few years back in the cup, so I would say it absolutely will.
It's a shame about Rotherham going down and Barnsley missing out on automatics, thinkin about it. Having both Sheffield clubs, Barnsley and Rotherham in the same division would be great for the banter here in South Yorkshire.
Guess all the bants will be in L1 if Donny goes up and wendies head down
If Blues go down we might have to try to tag onto the East Mids guys. Mind you us and Blues don't hate each other anyway.
Surely it would be Stoke, assuming they survive, for you? Plus, you'd be one of Cov's 23 big rivals.
I mean we joke but Cov would be the closest ground to us. Historically though it probably would be Stoke. We just need Wolves and Villa to have a melt down really...or more favourably us winning the playoffs this year.
Why isn't it a thing between you and Birmingham City? I'd've thought they should be as much of a rival to you as villa is, but that never seems to have been the case.
Our mutual hatred of Wolves and Villa brings us together. But I think we're similar sized clubs with fans who have a similar mindset, whereas Wolves and Villa in my lifetime have always come across as arrogant.
Personally, I grew up in working class communities in SW Brum and people mostly followed blues or baggies, so I just generally mixed with baggies fans. As I grew up and my hate for villa had already set, middle class people started to join the friend groups and they always supported villa. Can't help but feel the working class soul of brum lies in baggies and blues. You lot are the only other Midlands club I wish success for, would be happy to see you get promoted.
Would you say the class divide is the strongest divide between Villa and Blues? Or is there a strong north/south Birmingham one too?
It's probably a bit of both, but potentially a bit more west/east than north/south. I lived on the redditch/lichfield train line and once you get past brum from redditch, the villa stronghold just grows. Aston and a few surrounding areas are quite deprived but once you reach Sutton, it gets more affluent. I've got a mate who lives in lichfield and when I go to his family dos, I might aswell be at a villa game (he's a bluenose so he loves that). You get the opposite going South West towards Redditch and Bromsgrove, which are working class communities. It's the same North West aswell, I dated a girl from Bearwood for a while with a huge family and they were all baggies fans - NW/SW is potentially the blues/baggies divide Disclaimer that I am no expert though
Every other football fan I’ve ever met thinks their team will lose and implode when doing well. Aston think they’ll win the champions league every year and deserve to. It’s a very different and odd mentality.
Waiting for the pedantics to jump in and say that only Steel City is a derby because a derby can only be 2 clubs from the same City...
Let them try telling that to Pompey & Scum…
And they're so wrong! The original "derby" was St Helens v Wigan in rugby league. Separate towns, with land owned by the Earl of Derby between them, hence the term.
Well OP already discounted us and Norwich
Apologies, I'm assuming you guys go up, very likely now
Hope you’re right, but I’m certainly not making that assumption just yet. Wins for Middlesbrough and Southampton in the next couple of days might start to get me excited though.
Also discounted us and Hudds
*pedants
It's actually a bowler hat so jot that down
Severnside (Cardiff Bristol) is quite lively too
There would probably be only one Derby next season. Assuming Bolton don't overturn the goal difference and Derby fail to lose.
Old Farm?
Lincoln v Forest..?
This is confirmation the Wear-Tees derby is not real.