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**dalo** · 07/03/2002, 9:57 AM

Does anybody remeber a TV football fanzine programme broadcast on BBC two a number of years ago presented by Shelley Webb and Terry Christian?

The reason i ask is that they devoted a 15 minute segment to Cork City football Club and it's supporters. I reckon it was 1992 or 1993 and was around the time of Sultans Of Ping were doing ok and their were doing their "give him a football and yard of grass" and "where's me jumper" thing. They also spoke to the hoof!!! guys and the cameras accompanied the supporters on a away trip.pretty funny stuff and the programme were fascinated at how hardcore the supporters were.

Anyway a guy in work was asking did I remember the same programme and i do. It was pretty much at a time when the CCFC and their supporters was a real cult thing. Happy days

**Ali-G** · 07/03/2002, 10:09 AM

They followed the Sultans and the Independant supporters club to a City away match, I think it was a Bohs game. I remember being on the bus, talk about rock-n-roll, we had the sultans and the bbc on the bus that day. I dont remember the result of the match, could have been a draw.

The heart-breaker was that the multi-channel broke down the evening that the program was on, so I never got to see it. I wrote away to the bbc for a copy of the program, but got a PFO from them. Did you see the actual episode with City on? Maybe the multi was only broken in Blackpool that day

In those days though, it wasnt the hoof guys, it was the NMPP guys. They were more or less the independant supporters club.

God be with the days.

**dalo** · 07/03/2002, 10:20 AM

i remember the programme alright. I thought it was very funny and showed up CCFc supporters in a real postive light. they were really good times to be a college student and a CCFc supporter in Cork we had the football thing (city!!) the music thang (sultans, frank and walters) and the gorby's thang (2 punts to get in and 99p for a bottle of TNT cider) going on. the football while not always great was more than compensated by the shed wit and the fanzines.

also Cork City was a safer place to be out at night back then

the progamme also featured roy's keane parents house in mayfield (up the road from my own gaffe in mayfield) with some of the supporters standing outside it.

i think the progamme itself was one of the best things ever done by the beeb. in fact I think the presenters were quite im pressed by the craic of the supporters.

**pete** · 07/03/2002, 11:36 AM

Never saw that programme as no foreign channels in thsoe days......

Sultans brings back the memories......

IMO was probably a lot safer to walk the streets of Cork until around 1994/95.

**dalo** · 07/03/2002, 11:55 AM

having been the victim of a attempted knife assault in cork recently i can testify to that.

i wonder does anyone else remember the programme

**A face** · 07/03/2002, 1:05 PM

has the program on video .... i have seen it a few times, definitely worth a look if you can, good craic, i would love to see fans do something like that themselves. Can be that hard to do, sorry that was it is not that hard to do !!

**mouldymurphy** · 07/03/2002, 1:29 PM

Originally posted by Ali-G

The heart-breaker was that the multi-channel broke down the evening that the program was on, so I never got to see it. I wrote away to the bbc for a copy of the program, but got a PFO from them. Did you see the actual episode with City on? Maybe the multi was only broken in Blackpool that day .
God be with the days.

good ould multi anytime you wanted to watch sonething the cu*t of a thing would go off

can remember the programme though twas a classic

**Pablo** · 07/03/2002, 1:47 PM

Yeah i remember that. The Cross was a fortress back then and you had to q to get into the shed if you arrived after 1.30! happy days indeed.

dont think we'll see them again.............

**dalo** · 07/03/2002, 1:52 PM

Originally posted by Pablo
Yeah i remember that. The Cross was a fortress back then and you had to q to get into the shed if you arrived after 1.30! happy days indeed.

dont think we'll see them again.............

i think fortress is streching things a bit

however the reason why the shed was so busy is that no-one would pay the money to sit in the crappy stand or the mucky st annes end. at least the shed was warm.

when they built the new stand i for one was so glad to warm my rear there

**Pablo** · 07/03/2002, 1:56 PM

Yes it was a fortress Dalo, and for your information there was only one admission price back then. There was no stand and the The St Annes end was lovely and grassy!

Thats the era the shed became famous, not for the juvenille idiots with their half cans of special vat who frqeuent it at the moment.

**dalo** · 07/03/2002, 2:42 PM

Originally posted by Pablo
Yes it was a fortress Dalo, and for your information there was only one admission price back then. There was no stand and the The St Annes end was lovely and grassy!

Thats the era the shed became famous, not for the juvenille idiots with their half cans of special vat who frqeuent it at the moment.

ah sure we should tear down the stand, pull out the seats and go back to the days when the cross was a large field and the shed was the only bit of shelter there. i can't remeber when that dire temp. stand was erected but there defo was one there

as for being a fortress I am sure tom mcmulty would disagree with you there

as for the shed in those days there was always a number of knobs in it it is just more noticeable now.

anyway it would be great to see that programme some time again. doubt if it will ever happen though.

**Pablo** · 07/03/2002, 2:46 PM

temporary stand? No fella, never.

Anybody can pick out one match, but i'm sure the older fans will tell you that City were so well supported back then, the atmosphere in that Field as you call it , was 10 times as good as it is now.

I hope it gets like that again.

**dalo** · 07/03/2002, 3:17 PM

Originally posted by Pablo
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I hope it gets like that again.

can't argue with that. i think we all wish for that. the cork soccer public deserve the best football team in the country (if only to stop my uncles and father bleating on about HIb's in the 70's and Cork Utd in the 50's)

**James** · 07/03/2002, 3:21 PM

Originally posted by dalo

can't argue with that. i think we all wish for that. the cork soccer public deserve the best football team in the country (

so then dalo do you think the present management and board are the right people to obtain this dream ?

cause i dont

**dalo** · 07/03/2002, 3:23 PM

yawn james yawn james

**Pablo** · 07/03/2002, 3:27 PM

then again, in those days we had a crook as a chairman(allegedly) and a wino as a manager(ALEEGEDLY)

And we didnt do too bad

**James** · 07/03/2002, 3:31 PM

yea ok point taken...

lets forget the chite we are in so, pull the wool back over our eyes,and remember the good old days...

ahhh *nostalgic sigh*

queing for 30mins to get into the shed
singing 40 mins b4 KO in the shed
city still playing hoof footbal, but at least scoring goals
the best strike force in the league
we didnt have a joke of a manager
jumping up when a goal was scored cause there was always some big fooker in front of you blocking your view, when u were a small kid.
listening to the banter though was the best thing and that is sadly missing...twas more craic at some games listening to the comments then watching the game

ahh happy days

**Pablo** · 07/03/2002, 3:33 PM

Bring back plonk!

**Pablo** · 07/03/2002, 3:35 PM

Bet ye thought ye'd never hear someone say that!

**pete** · 07/03/2002, 3:48 PM

I suppoose it could be said plonk while being a shady had a bit of vision & I suppose he might have been ahead of his time?

With so many more people having cars these days, the doggie track next doot & the south link road to be extended in a few years I think bishopstown would probably be a success now?

Says a lot about the current climate that we have to resort to nostagia.