Most tinpot thing I ever heard. (tinpot thread)

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This is especially relevant to my interests as I have a more seasonal taste for childhood-ruining rackets served up as "Christmas magic."

How about a picture of that old Southend mascot?

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Sammy the Shrimp!!! I knew the guy who used to wear it, sadly no longer with us, he had it specially made as he couldn't find a decent shrimp costume. It remains the best shrimp outfit I've ever seen, full length you would have seen that the body of it went all the way down to the ankles at the same, tight fitting, width, meaning poor Sammy could barely walk. Watching him trying to get round Roots Hall was ruddy hilarious. It came to a head in the mascot grand national when Sammy waddled along to the first 'jump' then face planted over it. The club seemed to think this was embarassing and decided to change the costume, to the much more embarassing and hideous current costume:

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The KKK would be proud of this, suppose he can walk though.
 

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In 2001 (i think) we played York away in the FA Cup, and the toilet in the away end was just a wall to piss against!
We were Championship, they were League Two, and we lost 1 nil, which was nice!!

I remember the days when pretty much every away end toilet was like that. One that seemed to survive into the 2000's was Gillingham's until they decided to tear the away down and replace it with a golf stand - which to me is more tinpot than a wall as a toilet.
 

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I'm guessing you guys never went to the away end at Stafford Rangers when they were in the conference. Toilets worse than the old York away ones (though not by much to be fair!)
 

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Also I was pretty hasty in the above post about fixtures it seems

(tl;dr for it: UCL are shit at organising fixtures, and for our 2nd close promotion battle in 3 season our biggest contenders will finish on a date weeks after we finish, in this case us finishing 3 weeks before EVERYONE else on April 6th).

They have now re-arranged a couple of our midweek matches to the last two Saturdays of the regular planned season, meaning we now finish on April 25th like our title rivals and most of the other teams in our league. If they will be allowed to allot any rearranged games in to weeks following that date will be a different matter... (and of course a repeat of history!)
 

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The ones at Ashton United's Hurst Cross are such that you can wee and watch the game, provided you're reasonably tall and have a willy anyway. Great ground.
 

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That is actually quite funny to be honest. I am all for trying to attract new fans and for advertising our games, but I am not in the "cheap offers" for local teams camp.
That scoreline was a tad embarrassing but memories of the play off semi final do tend to block it out though
 

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That is actually quite funny to be honest. I am all for trying to attract new fans and for advertising our games, but I am not in the "cheap offers" for local teams camp.
That scoreline was a tad embarrassing but memories of the play off semi final do tend to block it out though
just like memories of watching you oise the play off final blocked out our pain of being cheated in the Semi.... :D
 

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The ones at Ashton United's Hurst Cross are such that you can wee and watch the game, provided you're reasonably tall and have a willy anyway. Great ground.

I think you could do that at York too.

That's not tinpot. That's brilliant!
 

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Traffic cones in front of the doorway. Deadly hazard.
 

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Think that's the least of our problems with that beauty .
 

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That Santa picture could not be less classy if his hand was inside his trousers.
 
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Having a Saturday FA Cup game at Burton postponed because they didn't have any stewards was incredibly tin-pot.
 

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At Yeading's old ground (the Ding), if you were lucky, you could see a plane, a train, an automobile and a football match all in the same instant.
 

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Bracknell played a team in the Berks and Bucks Cup when they were at Step 6.

Away team player comes out after half time and has a piss against the posts.
 

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The most infuriating thing about that (apart from the ridiculousness of what they were doing) was the two guys on the left who were swinging their arms the wrong way
 

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Please spare 30 seconds of your life to watch this, you won't regret it.


God yes, these are toe curling. Some of our fans are doing it now. They end up looking like those Morecambe fans but reckon they look like this:

 

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Having a Saturday FA Cup game at Burton postponed because they didn't have any stewards was incredibly tin-pot.
Been there had that done to us...... was this the whole, we use Derby's stewards and they are at home excuse?
 

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