Ever Met A Nice Luton Fan?

Discussion in 'The Hornets' Nest - Watford Chat' started by tonycotonstache, Aug 4, 2020.

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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. Klein Lust

    Klein Lust Uber Keine

    It was this one time, Skegness Butlins, with my wife, we decided to play ten pin bowling, I was wearing a WFC top, the fella behind the desk trading shoes, said he was a Luton fan, he seemed relatively normal, gave me the right size bowing pumps anyway.

    I've never actually been to Luton. I just know it for that real life police thing on the TV, looks a bit like Rhyl without the sea, or Rochdale, or where they film Shamless.
     
  2. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    I can understand your difficulty at the time, in 1986 Argyle were rooted in the third tier whereas we were firmly placed in Division One at the time.

    The only other team I ever went to regularly in my life was 1FC N*rnberg when I lived in Nuremberg during my Industrial year out while at Uni, thankfully I missed the 96/97 season where we finished 13th in the 3rd tier,the lowest we've finished since I started my Hornet journey in 1983. While I still look out for N*rnberg's results 23 years later, I could never class myself as a fan even though I went to about 15 home matches, the last being at the beginning of the 97/98 season. For me it was something to do that was 'normal' for me at 3pm on Saturday afternoons while I was abroad.
     
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  3. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    Is "u" with an umlaut banned?
     
  4. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    Anything with a diacritic above the letter is banned, not a smart thing when you've had 2 Serbian managers in recent years!
     
  5. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    As I drove to see my brother and sister in law yesterday morning a black Vauxhall passed me near Stevenage and the passenger, leaning half out of the window, proceeded to hurl a volley of abuse in my direction, accompanied by the finger.
    Pleasant chap!
     
  6. lm_wfc

    lm_wfc First Team

    Doesn't sound like a nice Luton fan at all tbh. If he didn't know you sounds like would have been happy beating the **** out of you, then you had to buy him drinks for the privalage.

    I knew a few Luton fans at school. Overall gotta respect those who grow up supporting their **** local team instead of the top 4, just like most Watford fans.
     
  7. Andy Mac

    Andy Mac Academy Graduate

    I used to play for an amateur team in London. One of my team mates (he was even worse than me) was a L*t*n fan. I remember we were having a couple of pints in the Moon before a midweek M1 derby match a good few years ago when the Police stopped anyone coming in 'cos of running battles in the High Street. Unfortunately they wouldn't let anyone out either, so we missed the kick off! (Don't worry; he was going in the away end, me down the Rookery. Yes, I'd have a pint with him before / after the game, but there was no way I was going to sit with him during the game!)
     
  8. rochdale away

    rochdale away Reservist

    Some years ago used to play squash with a bloke who supported them. On the surface seemed a nice fella but obviously lurking underneath was a complete c**t.....just the way it is
     
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  9. Lincshornet

    Lincshornet Academy Graduate

    Went to Portugal last year with my son for the Nations League finals and one night he was out wearing his old Solvite away shirt. A couple of L*t*n supporters put a sticker on his back and posed for a photo, absolute top guys and had a couple beers with them. It's quite normal when away with England for a ceasefire in hostilities.

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  10. foxywfc

    foxywfc Reservist

    Currently in facebook jail for comments made towards some scum fans. Reading their comments makes me think they must be admin of the group and can’t take back a bit of banter when told to **** off back to the camp site pikey ****ers.


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  11. LutonDan

    LutonDan Academy Graduate

    Reading through this thread, it strikes me that there are some who react to a question like this, without giving it any thought. I am sure that the more cerebral amongst you know intellectually, that ones place of birth doesn't define or inform ones character, and as some have said there are halfwits and perfectly decent human beings following both teams.
    I only created this profile on here to come on in 2015 to express our solidarity with you over the assault on Nic Cruwys, a sentiment that was universally voiced on Outlaws at the time.
     
  12. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Oh do give over. Can you tell us what sentiments are being expressed on the Outlaws right now then?

    Are they, like us, recalling tales of past attacks on kids and families and dodging mobs and missiles?

    Or are they almost exclusively straining at the leash and impatient for more of the same?

    Of course we have morons amongst our support, but nothing like your grunting neo-fascist man-thumbs.
     
  13. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    I need you to tell me what Outlaws says because I understand it can't be displayed on anything running an OS later than Windows 98.
     
  14. LutonDan

    LutonDan Academy Graduate

    I doubt you really believe that, I'm all for the football rivalry, I can't stand Watford, but as a socialist, I resent the personal nature of it all, the idea that we're all fascist thugs is ridiculous, and I know that you know that.
     
  15. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Ah a fellow socialist. Welcome comrade. Before responding to your points, could I just say that you seem a decent sort of a lad. It's never too late to repent you know. I can see how maybe you've fallen in with lumpen elements and been misguided. There's still time to step back from the path of darkness. Elton loves a sinner who repents is all I'm saying.

    You're right that the personal nature of it is absurd. But you're looking in the wrong place. If you've read through the entirety of this thread then you'll see that apart from some obvious joking, most say that yes they've known perfectly reasonable Luton fans. Nobody doubts that makes up the vast majority of your support.

    BUT

    You have, and in living memory always have had, a sizeable minority of neo-fascist thugs. We're you supporting them at the time of plastic pitches and away fan bans and John Carlisle and Hitler salutes? You're support is notorious across the lower leagues - it is not only with us. I can't understand how you can be blind to the fascists amongst your support and seek to deny them. It is a contradiction.

    Fraternal greetings

    Clive

    PS Can I have my scarf from 1972 back?
     
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  16. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Likes for Dan for the solidarity, Clive for the lols.
     
  17. LutonDan

    LutonDan Academy Graduate

    I was, and I hated David Evans, and what he turned our club into, in fact I was active in getting tickets away fans in that era, a few of us ensured that there were always some away fans there. John Carlisle was our local apartheid loving Tory MP, but I don't recall him having anything to do with our club, particularly, and as for Hitler salutes and the like, I am not being deliberately blind here, but in 44 years of following my team home and away, I have never heard or seen anything like that. I think sometimes we are conflated with the those EFL ****wits, who are not wanted or welcome at LTFC. We had a core of black players in our best ever teams, of the 80s, and they were heroes, and are club legends, so this fascist thing just doesn't wash, a nice stick to beat us with, but from someone intimately involved in my club, I can tell you it's an urban myth, even the MIGS were a multiracial group.

    I reciprocate your fraternal greetings, brother.
     
  18. Hogg-DEENEY!!!

    Hogg-DEENEY!!! Squad Player

    As far as I know Tommy Robinson and his knuckle-dragging followers aren't to blame for the plight of Bury, Bolton, Wigan and many more, but **** them nonetheless! :p
     
  19. Dapper dave

    Dapper dave Academy Graduate

    'knuckledragger'
    A man who puts his personal safety (and his family) at risk on a daily for having the audacity to expose Muslim grooming gangs?.
    Socialists always talk a good game, but ultimately are full of fantasies and BS.
    Socialism.. Marxism.. Communism has FAILED miserably in every country stupid enough to let it breed.
    Absolute shitcunts the lot of em
     
  20. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Is that really the dictionary definition? I feel the Oxford Concise has really gone downhill in recent years.
     
  21. Dapper dave

    Dapper dave Academy Graduate

    How about replying on my actual point..?
     
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  22. Johnno1234

    Johnno1234 Academy Graduate

    I lived and worked in L*ton for 9 years, and still live in an LU postcode area today but thankfully nowhere near the cesspit any more. I got to know plenty of scum fans either through work or my Sunday league team, and as you’d probably expect they’re a real mixed bag. I count one of them as one of my best mates these days and he’s always been very balanced in his views and can’t stand football violence or their fanbases’s glorification of it. Another lad I worked with for years was also decent and a complete pacifist, but at the same time I always felt like he put up a bit of a wall towards me due to my WFC fandom. They can be a bit funny like that, and honestly I don’t really see that happen the other way round.

    As for the others, some of the lads on my Sunday team were proper oiks and were actively involved in their off-the-field BS. They’d regularly turn up on a Sunday morning with black eyes and cuts and bruises, regailing the changing room with stories of what they’d been up to in various other sh**hole towns the day before. One incident that stands out was our giant centre back turning up having had a proper kicking off some Notts County fans and his nose was still bleeding on and off, so had to play our game with tampons stuffed up his nostrils. Despite their neanderthal behaviour on a Saturday we always had good banter and never a problem, and definitely count each other as friends even now we’ve all moved on.

    The only really foul one I met was briefly on our Sunday team, but ran deep with the MuG’s and had a seriously checkered personally and a criminal record as long as your arm. Racist as you can get and just genuinely wanted to hurt people, and once allegedly punched a baby but that’s a different story entirely.

    Overall, my personal experiences with LTFC fans have been pretty good and most of them are fine. They do have a tendency to talk a lot of **** about the past though!
     
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  23. ITK platypus

    ITK platypus Squad Player

    Once I was on holiday in Devon and I slipped off the edge of a cliff. I caught the edge with my hands but my grip was weak and I was slipping. Suddenly a strong hand grabbed my arm and yanked me to safety.

    I was initially grateful to this stranger who had saved me from certain death but then I noticed he was wearing a LTFC training top. I looked him in the eye for a few moments then slowly and methodically loosened my belt and dropped my jeans. I then proceeded to defecate on the scumbag’s shoes in front of his family who had hurried to the scene.

    The **** looked at me with a somber understanding that he had deserved this treatment and worse.

    Scum all of them.
     
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  24. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    When my parents split up, my Mum moved to Watford with me, whilst my Dad became a copper in Bedford. About 8 years later for various reasons contact with my Dad stopped, by which time he had a son and daughter with his second wife. They were about 10 and 6 years younger than me.
    Contact with my Dad was made again 18 years later and, horror of horrors, my half-brother was a fully-fledged scummer whilst my half-sister was about to become engaged to one! For some reason, my half-brother would rarely talk to me, trying to ensure he was 'otherwise engaged' whenever a family reunion was arranged. I got on better with my half-sister, and to be fair her (now ex) husband was an OK bloke, even if he was a bit of a slob.

    It just seems to me becoming a scummer infects the personality.
     
  25. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    Ate you sure he was a Luton fan? He might have been a tennis coach!
     
  26. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    Worst Lion King sequel ever.
     
  27. Ilkley

    Ilkley Formerly known as An Ilkley Orn Baht 'at

    As a teenager I had the good fortune to meet Eric Morecambe at a charity cricket match. I even have a polaroid* of the two of us doing his trademark glasses half off thing. You’d struggle to meet a nicer bloke. Can’t vouch for the rest of them mind.

    * Polaroid photos - what us oldies had before mobile phone selfies.
     
  28. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

  29. RS2

    RS2 Squad Player

    Vermin. All of them.
     
  30. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    It's possible but they had Imodium Town stickers holding their vehicle together, notwithstanding that it was a Vauxhall,made in Loon.
     
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  31. SkylaRose

    SkylaRose Administrator Staff Member

    When I went to WGSFG I sat on a table full of scum. I was the only loyal hornetta on said table and everytime the convo turned to football I loved bigging up Watford. Got some pretty evil stares and comments from my fellow pupils but I didn't care. I was born a yellow and will die one. It was especially nice when we beat them 4-0 at their place in 1997. I was 17 at the time and still knew a few of them then. Thankfully we laughed it up as banter and a light ribbing. Most of the animals who support them today are not football fans' in my eyes. Just thugs who like to start a fight "just because...". There are some nice ones about, but yes most of them are pretty low.
     
  32. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    I had a friend at STAGS who was a ***** fan.
    Her favourite player was that chap with a moustache,David Moss?

    She was perfectly pleasant.

    Clearly unhinged but perfectly pleasant!

    My brother Paul had two friends who reminded me of the Mitchell brothers. They were ***** fans,car dealers and sold me a white car with the number plate ' WFC' at the end.

    To this day I regret not keeping the plate.

    Fool!
     
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  33. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    David Moss was an excellent player and in fact part of an excellent team they had in the late 70s/early 80s. Back then the rivalry was extra-fierce, given that the two type amps were evenly matched. Unlike today. ;)
     
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  34. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    I regret to say he was and they did.
    Steins, Hideous Harpenden wrecking Harford, Nicholas,Kirk Stephens (Stevens?) the Nawab of Pataudi*.

    Mr Punch/Back Seat Pleat as manager, Captain Pugwash/David Evans as owner.

    * I put him in to see if anyone was still awake!
     
  35. BC Hornet

    BC Hornet Academy Graduate

    There used to be an avid Luton supporter in the next door office to me. Obviously gave her serious grief most Monday mornings. She was lovely, really attractive, and always signed off my expenses with hardly a question, so ok in my book. The rest of em can f off.
     

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