When you're at games do you like to chat?

[ShockingBadBuy]

I like a good yak before kick-off, and at half-time. Hardly happens these days, I'm afraid, due to that gormless twat Sinclair bellowing inane platitudes through the PA or inflicting his shite taste in music on us at ear-splitting volume.

Harrumph.

 

[norfolkblade]

I like to have a chat about the game but won't extend further than that. I usually head up on my own so am grateful of a chat while I'm at the game. Turns out you're all miserable twats though so I'll make sure I sit in silence next time

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Love a good chat about the game. I'm usually at the game on my own as I don't have many friends, so I'm all ears for a chat about the game.

The bloke behind feels the need to commentate and tell the players what to do every time they get the ball, I wish he would chat about something else!

I'm going to shut the fuck up then next match just in case I sit next to one of you lot.

I like to have a chat about the game but won't extend further than that. I usually head up on my own so am grateful of a chat while I'm at the game. Turns out you're all miserable twats though so I'll make sure I sit in silence next time

Sounds like the club needs to organise a "chatting" section of the ground.
Match-related chatters at the back. Non-match related chat on the front few rows.

 

[Blade for Sale]

As a Northerner I have no issue with complete strangers striking up a friendly conversation, with 2 exceptions, namely at the footy or at the urinal. Away fixtures at Hillsborough count as both.

 

[TTMeysh]

My impeccable middle class accent means I occasionally have to over-share anecdotes about being stood on the terrace at Mansfield in the snow with those around me to allay their suspicions that I'm some kind of interloper or police nark.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Sounds like the club needs to organise a "chatting" section of the ground.
Match-related chatters at the back. Non-match related chat on the front few rows.

I tried to engage with someone about the need for a singing section because of the shit atmosphere - a big topic on here - to no avail. People can be so rude.......

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I talk at matches, but not usually to my neighbours, unless the wife's with me, and then I'll occasionally respond to her questions like, "who's that?". I bought her a programme on saturday to keep these questions to a minimum.

There was an occasion a few seasons ago when one of our full backs had got the ball and there was acres of space down the flank for one of our forwards to exploit. He hadn't seen it obviously. So I'm shouting, "DOWN THE LINE! DOWN THE LINE!" And then he hit this ball and it came it flying into the South Stand where I sit and nearly hit me on the head. I shouted back, "not to me - to him!". Which brought a bit of mirth to those around us.

 

[blade too long]

my entire chat lines at games


get me a pie if your going, are they still 1.50

any pinapple chunks left

take my nob with you I could do with a piss

 

[super_pig]

Fuck no. Last season I had 2 women behind me who were talking like they were sat in Starbucks. Did my head in

kop ?? .. stairwell d ??

 

[Northyorksblade]

My impeccable middle class accent means I occasionally have to over-share anecdotes about being stood on the terrace at Mansfield in the snow with those around me to allay their suspicions that I'm some kind of interloper or police nark.

If you aren't joking, I have to agree with you. As I too have kept my Southern 'posh' well to you lot! accent, I have to make sure I name the whole team in my conversation, what system we are likely to play and discuss the last fifty games I've been to. (Though if I really was posh, I wouldn't finish a sentence with a preposition )

 

[Jehovah]

During the Weir reign I was sat in the Tourettes area.

 

[silverfox]

I "talk" to the ref and linesmen more than the person next to me....he's a miserable git anyway!

 

[TTMeysh]

If you aren't joking, I have to agree with you. As I too have kept my Southern 'posh' well to you lot! accent, I have to make sure I name the whole team in my conversation, what system we are likely to play and discuss the last fifty games I've been to. (Though if I really was posh, I wouldn't finish a sentence with a preposition )

I'm certainly not joking, I had a long conversation in the Royal Standard a few years ago with one guy where the penny only dropped after ten minutes that he thought I was an away supporter (think we were playing one of the London clubs). I wondered why he was working so hard to persuade me the Blades had edged it.

The irony is I am a born and bred Sheffielder but have lived in the south for thirty years, latterly married to a Londoner: so I get that the rough edges have been rubbed off my accent in that time. But: everyone I work with instantly recognises that I'm from Yorkshire and the more switched on can narrow it down to South Yorkshire.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I’m from this neck of the woods, but I don’t speak with a broad local accent because I learned very quickly that if you want to work outside of Sheffield and get on in your career you have to learn to speak properly and not like some local oik.

This means I speak “posh” to most Sheffielders. I don’t. I speak clear English without a strong local accent that’s all.

Most people recognise I’m from the North. Some can place me as Yorkshire. But I’m talking about Southerners now. People from Sheffield haven’t a clue where I’m from!

 

[Sean Thornton]

I’m from this neck of the woods, but I don’t speak with a broad local accent because I learned very quickly that if you want to work outside of Sheffield and get on in your career you have to learn to speak properly and not like some local oik.

This means I speak “posh” to most Sheffielders. I don’t. I speak clear English without a strong local accent that’s all.

Most people recognise I’m from the North. Some can place me as Yorkshire. But I’m talking about Southerners now.



People from Sheffield haven’t a clue where I’m from!

Up your own arse?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Last season i had three lads sat behind me who did nowt but talk about the bets they had and should they cash aht.

And now i have this season got four chaps who have come in on a row of empty seats in front of me,this row has had little use except for big games since 2007,ffs all they do is chat blah chat blah,and one of em is the size of three horses and Saturday he came in late and plonked his big fat arse on the two seats right in front of me,i had to shift to row behind me,seriously thinking of moving seats now and ive been sat in these same seats for 11 years.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Up your own arse?

I’m surprised you raise it as a question! I thought you’d already decided?

 

[Muttley]

As I sit around friends then yes, we do chat. When the match is on it's only stuff about the game , we leave the other stuff for pre match and half time.
Generally we all try and watch the game and have a laugh.

 

[Muttley]

i ask this as I had someone sitting next to me yesterday who wanted to talk, ALL GAME. In the end I had to be rude and just ignore him. I don't want to chat, I may have the occasional expletive outburst, or say to our Jack who was that who made that pass. (The old eyesight isn't what it was.) I just want to sit and watch the game. The time for chatting is pre or post match!

YOU have expletive outbursts? I can't believe that ;-)

 

[Northyorksblade]

YOU have expletive outbursts? I can't believe that ;-)

Very occasionally, like when Rhodes celebrates in front of the kop, or the linesman doesn't flag an obvious off side

 

[Sean Thornton]

I’m surprised you raise it as a question! I thought you’d already decided?

I just wondered why, coming from Chesterfield, you'd have a Sheffield accent to be rid off. Surely, assuming you haven't always had a 1930's BBC Newsreaders voice you'd have started off with that gormless twang still popular today in North East Derbyshire. Now that I can understand......

 

[Canterbury Blade]

During the Weir reign I was sat in the Tourettes area.

Samaritans on speed dial. Sorry if that disturbed anyone during the (B)Adkins times...

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I just wondered why, coming from Chesterfield, you'd have a Sheffield accent to be rid off. Surely, assuming you haven't always had a 1930's BBC Newsreaders voice you'd have started off with that gormless twang still popular today in North East Derbyshire. Now that I can understand......

Well I can understand why you say that duck!

I only breached the womb in Chesterfield. Ashgate maternity hospital it was. It was the birthplace of second choice for parents from Eckington back in the day. First choice was on’t rug in front o’t coal fire wi’t coal tongs and a bucket of warm water handy.

Eckington was an accent of its own back in the day. Not like Chesterfield, with its “arse” for “house” or “rarndabart” for “”roundabout”, or “tarn” for “”town”. But not like Sheffield either with its “pal” for “”serry”, or the Dee dar twang.

The accent was closer to Barnsley with its “sooap” for “soap” and “feeeast” for “feast” (fun-fair). A lot of that stems from it being a mining community which drew workers from the coal mines of South Yorkshire. My ancestors came from Swinton, Mexborough, Wath, Barnsley, A’s did many more.

“Akthi” = “listen”, “Sithi” = see. These are phrases that were commonly spoken but they are more Yorkshire in root than Derbyshire.

I found out that my mothers side of the family were once wealthy landowners in Yorkshire and owned property all over the country. But some great grandfather was the black sheep of the family and broke away from all that to work in the mining industry. I descend from that lineage, fortunately or unfortunately depending how you look at it!

Personally I’d have preferred the wealthy lifestyle, so I try talking posh to see if I can restore it!