Scarfers

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

 

 

[Mark (Flag) Braintree]

Promote your club and get called Scarfers.

Give up.

[GarySTFC]

Obviously the vote is for 2nd place behind the kings that are St.Albans.

[Matt]

Forgive me, but what's a scarfer?

[King Carlos]

A football supporter who attends matches but chooses not to adhere to a 'casual' dress code. Someone who feels that in order to prove their allegiance to their club that they have to dress up like a Christmas tree.

[Diz]

with flashing lights on there jester hat!!

[jel]

So why would Ford be on the poll??

[Urchin Boy]

Billericay Fan's Don't Need To Dress Up, They Look Like Mug's Anyway ! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[mala_D]

Why would anyone NOT want to wear their club's shirt?

1: Can't afford one.

2: Their club is an embarrassment, which they wouldn't want to admit to supporting.

3: They know that their own actions are liable to bring embarrassment on the club/nation they support, and out of a misplaced sense of "duty" don't want to tarnish the club/nation's name.

4: Ideological reasons i.e. anti-capitalism?

5: Going out somewhere immediately after the match, where club shirts are not "appropriate attire".

6: Too fat to wear one, and the club's stock of XXXL have sold out.

7: Frightened of being recognised by opposing supporters.

8: So anally-retentive that they consider a football shirt not to be a worthy "fashion item".

9: Club's shirt is so appalling that no one - except an asylum-seeking Kosovan - would wear it. [Think Sutton United's one might qualify!]

10: Similar to point # 8, except that the club's shirt doesn't match shoes/trousers/handbag.

 

Interestingly, I saw a prog on tv about hooligans Oop North who disassociated themselves from wearing club shirts on the basis that it wasn't "individual enough" for them.

All of them were wearing Burberry check baseball caps and scarves! Retards!

 

 

[Mark (Flag) Braintree]

Maladroit, Well made point/s.

Brilliant.

 

[JaredSUFC]

I wear my Sutton shirt because:-

a) Shows a little pride in my club

Purchasing a shirt provides that little bit extra income for SUFC

c) Wearing my shirt around Manchester/Sutton provokes people to ask about the club, a little bit of extra interest never hurt anyone

d) I often go out of my way to look 'unique'

 

Although i do rarely wear it to games anymore.

[JaredSUFC]

Obviously the only possiable response to the poll was Hornchurch BTW.

[Uncle Urchin]

tell you what jared...for a university undergrad and quite possibly a future leader of the socialist party........your spelling aint 'alf crap.....anyway.....

 

Hx supporters buy and wear shirts in very large numbers for three reasons....

 

1/

 

the shirts are well priced as we don't rip OUR supporters orf.....

 

2/

 

they are pure unadulterated class and you can wear them anywhere...(accepted by all major establishments)

 

3/

 

ALL Hx supporters are proud of their club and want to be associated with it....

 

I went into HSBC in upminster a few weeks ago...it was packed.....about 20 people in the little reception and all but 4 or 5 of 'em were wearing Hx shirts...

I was in me pin stripes and brogues which the supporters in the main never see me in....a fair bit of good humoured banter abounded...including some p*** taking from the cashiers......

 

its an urchin red and white world around there...

 

different class.....?

 

you betcha.....you wunt get that anywhere else....quality....

[JaredSUFC]

Don't the staff in HSBC have to wear red and white?

 

As for crap spelling, it's part of my socialist revolution, evil capatilist royalist swines imposing spelling on us! bah!

[mala_D]

...or Samuel Johnson, who, in 1755 (if I remember correctly) standardised the spelling of English words in his "dictionary". His father was a bookseller...not a member of the aristocracy.

I'll happily blame the royal family for most things, but I'm not letting them have the credit for that one!

[Uncle Urchin]

your wrong there maladroit......its a well known fact that the first 'proppa' english dictionary was introduced in basildon in essex....

 

oh yes....thats why essex folk pronounce their words so well.....ineed...thats where the word 'scarfa' eminated from.... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[CANV EFM]

anyone who wears a footy shirt anywhere, apart from at football games is a full blown chavster.. in fact even wearing one at footy is a bit chavvy.. the only acceptable venues are where its really ironic like .

1. sking..

2. at a man u game

3. funerals

[Stu B]

We only have the most scarfers because we have the most fans <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[GarySTFC]

Sorry peeps but I can't see the problem in supporting your local football club by wearing their shirt here there and everywhere. Anything that raises awareness of my club and is likely to get more people in is good in my book.

 

Oh, that and the fact we have a wonderful sponsor emblazoned across the front.

[Stu B]

I wear a club shirt to matches,and to my own football training,but rarely at other times. I think scarfer really refers to the people who wear the club hat,club scarf,club jacket,and everything about the club. The nonleague trainspotting,anoraked,geek if you will..