Barstooler face offs?

[pól-dcfc]

Apparently so, insofar as there was any divide in Manchester. Can't remember whether the phrase "the Catholic Church at play" was meant to be said about Everton or Man. United, but it was one of them!

Matt "Knight Commander of St. Gregory" Busby happily played for Protestant City, though. (And was subsequently made club captain -- presumably through some kind of administrative error -- of Protestant Liverpool in the thirties.)

Don't think there was any English clubs, even if their fanbase came to be associated with one religion over another (mainly due to the presence of ignorant Irish immigrants), who operated a x-religion-only policy similar to that of Rangers, for example, which is the reference point most people would think of when you say "Protestant club". It doesn't seem to have been the same situation, even on Merseyside, where there was huge Catholic/Protestant tension (thanks to the Irish again -- hurray).

Manchester City would strike me as a Protestant club, in so much as I used to get frequently abused for being Irish when I worked in a bar frequented by City fans. Several City fans I know were also told from a young age to follow Rangers, and some can even be heard belting out "**** the Pope and the IRA" on occassion, often directly in my face while I handed them over another pint of that filthy dishwater they call Lager (that'd be Carling so).

[Erstwhile Bóz]

Manchester City would strike me as a Protestant club, in so much as I used to get frequently abused for being Irish when I worked in a bar frequented by City fans. Several City fans I know were also told from a young age to follow Rangers, and some can even be heard belting out "**** the Pope and the IRA" on occassion, often directly in my face while I handed them over another pint of that filthy dishwater they call Lager (that'd be Carling so).
I remember in that programme about the win over England (the year before the Hungarians) one of the lads was talking about joining City, and he said he "should have joined United because they were the Catholic club" (:rolleyes: ) and he mentioned that in the boardroom they had loads of Freemason gear around the place.

The Pope/IRA abuse you got would just be par for the course for most English scumbags, though, wouldn't it? The last time I got it was from football types in Stoke-on-Trent, but I didn't place Stoke City into my mental "Prod" compartment.*








*This mental compartment may or may not exist.

[Jerry The Saint]

I remember in that programme about the win over England (the year before the Hungarians) one of the lads was talking about joining City, and he said he "should have joined United because they were the Catholic club" (:rolleyes: ) and he mentioned that in the boardroom they had loads of Freemason gear around the place.

The Pope/IRA abuse you got would just be par for the course for most English scumbags, though, wouldn't it? The last time I got it was from football types in Stoke-on-Trent, but I didn't place Stoke City into my mental "Prod" compartment.*








*This mental compartment may or may not exist.

If it did exist, would it be a compartment for Mental Prods, or would the compartment itself be mental:confused: :)

[pól-dcfc]

The Pope/IRA abuse you got would just be par for the course for most English scumbags, though, wouldn't it? The last time I got it was from football types in Stoke-on-Trent, but I didn't place Stoke City into my mental "Prod" compartment.*


Quite possible I suppose yeah. I worked in another bar after the one I was talking about, and one of the bouncers was a big (the man must be about 40 stone, no word of a lie - I've seen him drink over 40 bottles of Orange WKD in a single sitting) City fan. He told me it was until recently a very Man City 'thing' to be anti-Irish Catholic.

[superfrank]

Manchester City would strike me as a Protestant club, in so much as I used to get frequently abused for being Irish when I worked in a bar frequented by City fans. Several City fans I know were also told from a young age to follow Rangers, and some can even be heard belting out "**** the Pope and the IRA" on occassion, often directly in my face while I handed them over another pint of that filthy dishwater they call Lager (that'd be Carling so).
I remember reading the first page of Jeff Winters' autobiography (I stopped after that, it's a pile of crap) and in it he claimed to have been stabbed by a Celtic-shirt wearing Man City fan when he was at Maine Road for a City-Boro match. Apparently Boro were identified as a Rangers club and that's why he got it.