Already had the text messages, whereās the best pubs around your ground pal. Donāt you just loveāem.
Little story; new neighbours 18 month ago, perfect neighbours, knew he was a Wednesday fan but doesnāt go , but all his mates are ā massive ā Wednesday fans. For 17 month never once mentioned them or how they where doing, all of a sudden heās outside looking for me, started when they played MK the other week. Saw him at the top of the drive, shouts, ā we took 5,000 to MK last night, if it had been a afternoon kick off weād have taken 7,500ā.
ā Thatās not manyā thinking he might bite, but no reaction.
Goes quite a few days, then see him at the top of the drive again, this was after they had secured a play off spot.
ā Bastard Mackems have only given us 2500 tickets, they donāt want to give us any advantage with our away followingā .
ā You goingāI asked, politely.
ā Nah, mates are going theyāve got tickets, they where hoping for 10,000 but they knew if theyād given them that many it would have given us a big advantageā.
Now Iāve heard all these tales about Wednesday fans and their obsession with crowd figures and always thought it was a wind up from Blades fans.
I turned and walked away but couldnāt resist a, ā Thara proper Wednesday fan arenāt thaā politely of course.