Ever Met A Nice Luton Fan?

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Ever met a nice Luton fan?

  1. Yes

    55 vote(s)
    53.9%
  2. No

    21 vote(s)
    20.6%
  3. Evil people. All of them.

    19 vote(s)
    18.6%
  4. My 2nd team actually

    7 vote(s)
    6.9%
  1. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    On holiday? At work?

    Discuss
     
  2. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    Yes too many to mention to be fair. There's decent and idiotic in every fan base.
     
  3. Supertommymooney

    Supertommymooney Squad Player

    At a family event with recently discovered relatives of my mother in law.

    Mostly Spurs fans although they lived in Luton.
     
  4. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    There was a story a few years back regarding a Watford supporter. By all accounts he was contemplating not letting his son go for trials at Luton. Sorry but that is one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard...
     
  5. I'd have had him committed for psychiatric treatment immediately
     
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  6. Moosegasm

    Moosegasm Reservist

    I met an English guy in an embassy in Istanbul. We got chatting and got on well. Then it transpired that not only was the c**t a Luton fan, he'd actually been in the away end for the 1985 (i think) FA cup replay when we were 2 nil up with 10 mins to go, they came back to 2-2 and then won the toss for the 2nd replay which they won at the kennel. Knowing that he was one of those orangutans celebrating the 2 late goals and then going crazy when they won the toss sickened me to the core. I left immediately.
     
  7. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    Who, Dad or Son? o_O
     
  8. My first job was a summer job at a company where the guy who was Kenilworth the cat worked. In my lunchtimes I used to fill his exhaust pipe with anything I could find so his car wouldn't work. I once plastered tomato ketchup inside his car door handles. Childish I know.
     
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  9. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    Living in Leighton Buzzard it's a 50/50 split between us and Luton, one of the few places where there is actually a sizeable number of both.

    I know a couple of Luton fans who are top blokes and have a good laugh with them. A couple of lads in my son's team who I'm assistant for are big Luton fans. One couldn't bring himself to look me in the eye or talk to me for a couple of months when we joined. I just thought it was funny. Another claims to support Everton but has gone to Luton for years and he's full of snide remarks and has clearly told his fat, talentless son that he has to hate Watford at all costs. Him and a few other more serious ones are absolutely ecstatic about playing us again - like they've won the lottery.

    We play quite a few teams from Luton (as well as Bedford, Aylesbury, Flitwick etc.) and the ones we have problems on and off the pitch with are almost only ever the Luton ones.
     
  10. Moosegasm

    Moosegasm Reservist

    I'd never knowingly interact with a Luton fan. If I met an attractive female luton fan I'd only do an*l. I avoid Luton like the plague and the 1 time I flew out of Luton airport it was all I could do not to vomit. Tragically and regrettably, I have to admit every single person from Luton I've met outside Luton has been a likeable person and even though they were not Luton fans they would probably celebrate a victory over Watford considering people from Luton celebrate if someone from Luton passes a GCSE.
     
  11. Moosegasm

    Moosegasm Reservist

    Watford legend! If only u were club captain we'd still be in the premier league.
     
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  12. Carpster

    Carpster Squad Player

    I must admit in my youth on a night out in Scumland. I picked up a dogshit on a stick and neatly hid under the car door handle of the first car sporting a Luton window sticker.
     
  13. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Loads at the L&D. Our lab's cleaner (an ex-MIG) has to be one of the funniest/nicest blokes I'll ever meet. The security crew took it as a personal insult to their 'professionalism' when I was a victim of an attempted car-jacking (by pikeys) in 'their' car park but, TBF, they also took me pleading for them not to kick two of gang they caught to death as another personal insult to their "professionalism"...
     
  14. Harefield Yellow

    Harefield Yellow First Year Pro

    I have the pleasure of counting "their GT" among my circle of football-related friends, namely David Pleat.

    A true gent who I can assure you holds our club in very high regard ("hope Watford escape the drop, and the season finishes fairly" is part of a text I've still got on my 'phone from him when the season re-started), I last saw him at one of the Under-23/PL2 Cup thingies at St. Albans in February. He's 75 now and prior to the lockdown was still getting out to three or four games each week, the man's knowledge and love of the game is amazing.

    He had an op to clear a spot of cancer in March that had spread from his prostate, and I was delighted to hear when I last spoke to him about six weeks ago that it had been successful. Sadly though, his wife lost her battle with Motor Neurone Disease the weekend before last - dreadful condition.

    I'm sure that when "his time comes" there will be similar respect shown as the mob up the road did when we lost GT.
     
  15. MarlonsCellMate

    MarlonsCellMate Reservist

    I turned down a job offer from a company when the owner told me he was a scummer.
     
  16. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Conversely I do hope the 'Orn who was a salesperson at Horiba Jobin-Yvon is on these boards - as your 'bantz' stopped my (at the time) line manager and lab director spending 'our' £300K EU grant with you on a confocal microscope for surface analysis...
     
  17. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    A friend at work (& current line manager) is a Luton season ticket holder and his wife is a Watford fan. They are happily married despite me telling her before the wedding they weren't compatible. I bought their new baby a Watford babygrow and teddy. He is looking forward to the derby matches next season much more than I am.
     
  18. watfordD92

    watfordD92 Academy Graduate

    To be fair my trip to Whispnade Zoo yesterday went rather smoother than I thought it would. Only a wry cheeky smile came my way from the 2 Luton fans I spotted towards my Watford polo.
     
  19. Knight GT

    Knight GT Predictor extraordinaire 2013/14

    I used to play cricket with a couple of their fans, one of them a very decent fellow, the other was a bit of a ****.
    When I was much younger and living in Amersham, myself and a few mates arranged to go on holiday to Ibiza and I made them go from Gatwick despite Luton airport being a lot closer and cheaper. I also refuse to wear anything orange!
     
  20. LondonOrn

    LondonOrn Squad Player

    Nice post.

    It’s funny because I’ve heard pretty mixed opinions about the guy - many couldn’t stand his commentary for ITV (couldn’t see the problem myself, thought it was inoffensive at worst) and it seems Sheff Wed and Spurs fans don’t have much good to say about him. And then there’s the kerb-crawling allegations...

    I prefer to believe the positive things said about him, and this post is a nice portrayal of the man he really is.
     
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  21. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Goes to show the knobs are usually the ones that don't get out much and don't mix with any Watford fans
     
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  22. Harefield Yellow

    Harefield Yellow First Year Pro

    The perception amongst the Spurs fans I know these days is that he was stitched up to create a vacancy for Venables, once their board knew he (TV) was going to get the boot at Barcelona in the summer of 1987, they wanted him in at all costs, and DP was on borrowed time. In fact I said as much to him once, he sort of screwed his face up and shrugged his shoulders which pretty much said it all, and the wounds have clearly never healed. If there had been any serious substance in it all, he wouldn't have got jobs at other clubs, he certainly wouldn't have got media work (they don't touch dirty so-and-so's with a bargepole), and he wouldn't have ended back at Tottenham ten years later as Director of Football.

    With Sheff Wed he inherited what was left of the ageing team that had been relatively successful in the early 1990's at a club without much money to rebuild. You certainly can't argue with what he did in his first spell up the road while GT was working his magic here. He did say about a year ago that he was toying with getting his autobiography together (to which my response was "don't leave it too long like Graham did" - as you can imagine they were very close friends), but I'd guess caring for his wife and his own health issues have put that on ice.
     
  23. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    I have genuinely only met one Luton fan in my life and they nicked my phone out of my jeans when I was swimming.

    No smoke without fire.
     
  24. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    No I haven't.
     
  25. HornetMan

    HornetMan Academy Graduate

    Being only 22 I've not had the experiences many have had with them. Before I got together with my current girlfriend I matched with a girl on Tinder- she was good looking and only a year older than me so we got talking. We got onto football. She said she'd been afraid to tell me who she supported (my bio made it quite clear who I support), I was expecting the usual crowd we've had 'banter' with over the last few years- Wolves/Palace/Bournemouth etc. Nope. She said she was a Luton fan and has been all her life. Family and all.

    I very quickly said "I'm Watford, no thanks" and unmatched her.
     
  26. Eastcoastorn

    Eastcoastorn First Year Pro

    Met Eric Morecombe once in St Albans. He was lovely. Thought it was hilarious I was a Watford fan.
     
  27. Luther Bassett

    Luther Bassett Reservist

    To be fair, he really didn’t need to bother screwing his face up...
     
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  28. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    I had my hair cut by one. As we were talking football found out half way he was one. I said please don't cut a Luton badge in my hair. He obliged so there is at least one OK fan.
     
  29. Supertommymooney

    Supertommymooney Squad Player

    Do you still have both ears?
     
  30. folkestone orn

    folkestone orn Squad Player

    I've only ever met one. Be was a bit 'meh'. Probably as good as it gets.
     
  31. hemelhorn88

    hemelhorn88 Academy Graduate

    My boss in my old job was a fan of that lot. She was a nice person. She married a Stevenage fan. Christmas couple of years ago he posted a picture on Facebook of their child in a Stevenage shirt. Poor child at least it wasn't an orange one I suppose lol
     
  32. LondonOrn

    LondonOrn Squad Player

    Oh, and to answer the original question - I've met one that I was at school with but I hadn't seen him since. I say "hadn't" because he died tragically young last year. Unfortunately I wasn't at all into football and didn't know he was a Luton fan back then. He was a lovely guy, and it's a real shame that I never saw him again after I became a WFC fan, would have made for some fun conversations!

    I presume like me he was brought up in North London - would be interesting to know what turned him on to that lot.
     
  33. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    oh no
     
  34. lendal

    lendal Reservist

    Worked in a Luton school for nearly two decades...no real issues, chit chat as expected - they will acknowledge they have prats, same as we have. Any trouble will be from external idiots just using the excuse.


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  35. samuihorn

    samuihorn Academy Graduate

    I have a couple of friends that support them.. One since school days, (late 70’s) must be one of a very few from Watford.
    Banter aside, can always have a reasoned conversation about football.
    The other I know from when I lived on Samui, still good mates but talks utter carp when it comes to that lot.
     

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