Watched that, it was mentioned that England won, no mention whatsoever of the result of Bristol City v Bristol Rovers, slack journalism!
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Mentioned in another thread recently how it doesn’t feel much like a derby to me anymore.
Perhaps its getting older and living away from South Wales. I’m not from Cardiff either (or Swansea for that matter), so all that capital city/2nd city banter is pretty tired and means absolutely nothing to me.
Even for a relatively younger supporter the ties have been so infrequent, went through the ages of 13-22 without a meaningful game between the pair.
The travel restrictions and early KOs haven’t helped and definitely suck the life out of proceedings.
I remember? Late 99 early 2000s swansea came to ninian Park.
They segregated the Swansea fans and Grange end fans with a green curtain thing. So couldn't have eyeball to eyeball banter.
Ruined the occasion.
I don't think we will ever get the atmosphere back to games, such as the autoglass in1993 where the Jack's scored if I recall in the last minute of normal/ extra time.
I have plenty of mates who follow Swansea but as far as I am concerned I support Cardiff city and any team playing Swansea
I have even had plastic Liverpool and United fans locally tell me I should wish them well as they are a fellow Welsh club !!!
To which I reply which fecking Welsh club do you support then ?
Dozy Welsh idiots
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To me that suggests they most definitely see Rovers as their main rivals.
Both Wurzel clubs hate us because of the wales England thing , been lots of trouble with rovers over the years , at eastville and twerton park and when they have come to ninian and that visit to the ccs for an evening game a few years back
But their main rivals are each other
You can wander down the road , side by side with Bristol fans , and have been able to do so for a couple of years now .
That’s not something you can do at Swansea .
I didn’t go to the most recent Swansea game , couldn’t be doing with the bus malarkey .
Hardly felt anything when we lost other than disappointment in the performance .
It's worth mentioning that the atmosphere in the evening derby match when Chopra scored at the end was no better than the midday games.