Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Just a Bus Stop in Greenwich? Insult or Praise?

2»

Comments

  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 22,660
    You'll need to scour the French leagues next
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,855
    NEW LEADER 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Margaretsbury_F.C.

    This lot are 0.001 degrees off 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,855
    Alright, we have a winner 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Sports_F.C.

    Their pitch bestrides the meridian. We can all go home now 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,748
    The bus stop insult chant is possibly the worst chant in football 
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,397
    edited March 31
    CAFCTrev said:
    "we're the closest team to the Greenwich meridian, you'll never sing that"
    As the Pub landlord says " We tell you what time you have your dinner !!"
  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,269
    edited March 31
    Have I got this right?

    Supporters of a club, who are located in a a tatty stadium which is itself located in a borough that is a byword for grinding tedium, are attempting to insult the  Valley and the borough of Greenwich. Hmmm.

    Croydon Attractions. A television Mast and a old small tatty athletics “ stadium”

    Greenwich Attractions. The Cutty Sark, The National Maritime Museum, The Meridian Line, The Royal, Observatory, Greenwich Park, countless other listed buildings and a long Thameside Frontage etc. It also possesses a bigger football stadium.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,511
    edited March 31
    All this talk of nearest club to the Meridian line is rubbish. It's not called Orient Meantime or Wet Spam Meantime, or St Margaretsbury Meantime - it's called GREENWICH Meantime. As far as I'm concerned the important location is the Royal Observatory - we are 1.8 miles away, the Spanners are 2 miles away, so as far as I'm concerned we are the nearest League Club to the geographical point that sets world time.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 11,202
    .bobmunro said:
    All this talk of nearest club to the Meridian line is rubbish. It's not called Orient Meantime or Wet Spam Meantime, or St Margaretsbury Meantime - it's called GREENWICH Meantime. As far as I'm concerned the important location is the Royal Observatory - we are 1.8 miles away, the Spanners are 2 miles away, so as far as I'm concerned we are the nearest League Club to the geographical point that sets world time.
    As much as they no doubt would rather be, the Spanner’s toolbox is not in Greenwich. Time has literally moved on when they react to Greenwich clocks.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,911
    I always feel that our proximity to the meridian means the local clocks run slightly differently to elsewhere, which is why our games never start on time.


  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 17,075
    Big William said:
    I always feel that our proximity to the meridian means the local clocks run slightly differently to elsewhere, which is why our games never start on time.


    And maybe explains why refs invariably add on too much when we’re winning and too little when we’re not? 

  • Sponsored links:



  • LeeValliant
    LeeValliant Posts: 105
    Weirdly Charlton Athletic was the answer to a question on University Challenge this week concerning clubs in metropolitan boroughs. None of the intellectual giants knew which club was in Greenwich and one halfwit actually said Crystal Palace. 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 22,660
    LeeValliant said:
    Weirdly Charlton Athletic was the answer to a question on University Challenge this week concerning clubs in metropolitan boroughs. None of the intellectual giants knew which club was in Greenwich and one halfwit actually said Crystal Palace. 
    I hope they rescinded his scholarship there and then
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 28,818
    YTS1978 said:
    At haringey borough they sing "bus stop in Tottenham, we're just a bus stop in Tottenham", which makes sense, although they'll be a couple of divisions closer next year fingers crossed

    Dont think i've ever heard it as an "insult" towards another team. Especially weird if the bus stop is in a Royal Borough and there is no connection to another team. Odd.

    Bus stop in Croydon lol
    Bit rich coming from the arse end of Sainsburys anyway.
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,106
    Better than being any kind of stop in Croydon, I'd say.
  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,605
    Compare ground capacity
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,325
    You’re just a TV Ariel in London… or

    You’re just a greenhouse in London. 
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 1,798
    valleynick66 said:
    You’re just a TV Ariel in London… or

    You’re just a greenhouse in London. 
    Surrey 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 22,660
    valleynick66 said:
    You’re just a TV Ariel in London… or

    You’re just a greenhouse in London. 
    Not in London though. 

    "You're just a public park named after a Great Exhibition building that originally stood in Hyde Park and was then subsequently moved to Penge, in Surrey" has a nice ring to it, but a tad wordy
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 11,202
    Stuart_the_Red said:
    Not just a bus stop, but a train station as well!

    (for the spotters!)
    One of the few clubs of significant standing that not only has a station named after the club (😉) but is actually located by the ground. 
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 11,202
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    Stuart_the_Red said:
    Not just a bus stop, but a train station as well!

    (for the spotters!)
    One of the few clubs of significant standing that not only has a station named after the club (😉) but is actually located by the ground. 


    OK, maybe not necessarily named after the club but clearly its claim to fame is being near the club…

  • Sponsored links:



  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 25,576
    What do you expect from anything associated with Palarse… 😂

Categories

“Marketplace”