Why is an idiotic thing that Ben Foster did (that would rightly rile fans up) being discussed on the Ben Foster thread? Isn’t that exactly the type of thing that should be discussed? It’s like saying we shouldn’t have discussed Andre Gray breaking lockdown - or we were using it as a stick to beat him with - rather than talking about getting relegated. All the conversations can be had surely?
Possibly also his wage demands and level of performance mark him out in a different camp to say Hughes (wage demands) or Gray (contribution to team)
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make now? You posted something about it and that post was replied to. Its 72hrs after the event and people still want to discuss aspects of it. Thats the point of the forum and this thread.
Hilarious that he uploaded and then quickly deleted his latest YouTube video that described Salah as ‘absolute flames at the moment’. Lol.
To be fair, I watched it before he pulled it (first one I’ve watched since some point last season) - I was interested to see what he said after the game or if there was any reference to ticket-gate. 11mins long and the first 9 mins is his usual pratting about at training with all the usual sentences thrown in ‘legends’ etc etc and then another odd bit about ketchup in his hotel room - then the camera is passed to some bloke and his kid to ask people walking to the ground for predictions. Then the last 2 mins is Foster post-game where he actually tones down the happy-go-lucky attitude and is a bit more respectful and doesn’t really go OTT about Liverpool and just says they are really good without really creaming himself too much. And then he has their GK’s shirt to giveaway and not Salah’s. Not really sure there’s anything in there worthy of the club telling him to pull it.
Interesting.. I guess he wouldn’t mention the UFC guy now ? Without the Go Pro in the goal the match day stuff doesn’t really mean much. Guess the guy with the son is probably his friend “Tom” who goes cycling with Foster and been at games before .
In one of his podcasts (with Mark Goldbridge, I think) he discussed Scott Carson and his lack of game time in recent years. Foster made the comment that he’d much rather be in Carson’s situation and be employed by a big team just to be a character, rather than be in a lower league and actually have to play. I promise you it wasn’t sarcastic and I fully believe he was being honest.
Never mind anything else, the grammar, punctuation, typos and overuse of exclamation marks in that post is unforgivable!!!!
Also, re that Paddy idiot and Foster - I don’t really care if members of our team give tickets away to friends who are opposition supporters and I don’t really care if they are allocated seats in a home stand. But I do care if they are giving them to complete bellends who have no respect for where they are sitting - to get ejected from the stand, that bloke must have celebrated in a way that the stewards thought was inciting the crowd. The fact that Foster thought this bloke was an appropriate person to give tickets to makes me question his overall judgement.
Twitter is great today. His teenage fan boys sticking up for him. Of course none of them Watford fans. Oh and we are only blaming him for our poor performances.
Certainly right there as I was told it's up the steward themselves to decide if someone needs to be kicked out. So guess if someone just gets up and claps they might get away with it. Like you say he was probably doing rather more than that or been warned before. Has anyone sat or stood in an opposition stand before? Did it at Southend in 1996 when we drew 1-1 (relegation season) - late decision to go whilst visiting family. They scored in the last minute so was quite hard to not stand out as the home fans celebrated like mad (relatively)! And maybe more with more risk at Wolves (met friends who were Wolves fans holiday ) but we lost 3-0 so didn't matter!
When I was at uni in Leicester I went to Leicester-Millwall with a group of friends. A male friend and I stayed too long in the pub, got separated from the rest of the group and couldn’t get in to the home end. We blagged our way into the Millwall end but the steward guessed we weren’t Millwall fans and advised us to “keep quiet”. Leicester thrashed Millwall and, trust me, we didn’t move a muscle to celebrate. To be honest, it wasn’t really fun at all - would have been better off staying in the pub.
I watched his vlog with the Man Utd supporter streamer and FIFA player, name escapes me. Anyway, Foster had to do his youtube sponsor **** and it was Manscape so had to listen to him talk about shaving his balls and his mate said something about it being Bens anniversary soon so he better get them sorted out, it was really uncomfortable to watch. I swear Foster thinks he is 19 and starting up a youtube channel. Wont be long until he is boxing Logan Paul or is it the other one? Edit - Found the Manscape thing, it is right after the intro, what a ******* clown.
I've never been in the home end at a match as an away fan or vice versa, so I was wondering this - obviously you have to keep schtum when your team scores, but what if the oppo scores? Do you have to force yourself to celebrate (I couldn't think of anything more painful doing that while stuck in the away end during Saturday's game) or is it OK not to react, as people might think you're just there as a neutral? On a related note, one of the first games I went to was a drab 0-0 between Charlton and Southampton at the Valley with my brother and a mate of his. We were in the home end and I said that Kevin Phillips who Southampton had recently signed was one to watch, before my brother shut me up and said that could get me in trouble. But I mean, c'mon this is Charlton we're talking about, not Millwall - is it not OK to talk about good players regardless of what team they play for?
I remember I saw this a few weeks back, he must’ve celebrated something like this: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8kryaRx/ Pathetic reaction from the Utd fans.
I didn’t have to worry about that at the match I was at as Leicester thrashed Millwall and Millwall didn’t score. But if they had, I would definitely have faked some kind of polite celebration - trust me, they were not a bunch of people you would mess with, especially not in the moods they were in as they were getting pummelled by Leicester; two of them around us were kicked out for racist abuse and one of the scariest and most aggressive in our immediate vicinity was a woman - so, yes, I would have pretended to celebrate. However, I’m not a “die hard” Leicester fan; if it were a side playing against Watford, I think I’d find it much harder and wouldn’t go in the away end for that reason. I think that’s one of the reasons Mr HH prefers not to come with me to VR to see the Liverpool matches - it just wouldn’t be that fun for him in the Rookery. The only time he’s come with me is when I treated him to one of the restaurant packages for his birthday and we sat in the “posh seats” where it’s a mix of home and away fans (fun fact: Damian Lewis was sat behind us).
that time we best Millwall 6-0. I lived not so far away at the time so decided to go watch on the day, sat in the middle of a home stand. just kept quiet. Very very quiet. Like my life depended on it I think the general rule if you sit with away fans is you can get away with just being quiet and neutral. Plenty of the our fans outside the rookery don’t stand and might just clap a goal. If they score and everyone around you is standing up, then stand up so you don’t stick out. It isn’t that hard not to celebrate and jump up and down when your team scores when you are surrounded by thousands of skinheads trying to work out if you are lunch
Funny how literally no one responded or looked bothered ! Even if someone did it for that long at a rugby or cricket game you’d probably see some sort of reaction .
The hardest is when Watford get a penalty. Not cheering is easy but you need to remember to cheer when the Watford striker puts it into orbit.
