Hi folks,

35 year old Glasgow based Blues fan here, been a Chelsea fan since that night in 2000 when we spanked Barcelona 3-1 with a wonderful free kick from Zola and two from Flo. Grew up a Rangers fan but my interest is solely in Chelsea and has been for years now. I didn't get "into Chelsea" through the so called "Blues Brothers" link, I just fell for the Blues that night against Barcelona and was hooked ever since.

Looking forward to getting involved in some chat and debate here, and in the meantime lets get into the Scousers today. COME ON YOU BLUES!

You joining today obviously brought us luck, GB!  Welcome on board!

Welcome to the site, you made the right decision

Welcome

Welcome GlasgowBlue, hope you enjoy the site! Check out the vintage section when you get a chance, loads of great tales of yesteryear on there. Thats what brought me to the site, enjoy!

Edited December 31, 201312 yr by dstoner

Welcome mate, nice to have another Scot (and Rangers fan) on board

Welcome. Do you like Haggis?

Welcome. Do you like Haggis?

Never tried it mate, can never catch one of the buggers ...

Bit of a late welcome but anyway welcome aboard

Haggis are very hard to catch...

Welcome to the site! 

 

Just moved down south after 5 years in Glasgow, loved it up there! 

Welcome to the site!

Just moved down south after 5 years in Glasgow, loved it up there!

Seriously???

Seriously???

 

Absolutely, it is an awesome place, not sure why you're so surprised? Brilliant night life, loads going on, great people, impressive architecture, awesome heritage. Plus, I managed to live in a few cracking flats for an affordable price in the City Centre and in the West-End. 

 

I was sad to leave to be honest!  

Seriously???

I get the distinct impression from my relatively short time here that you don't particularly like us Jocks.

Absolutely, it is an awesome place, not sure why you're so surprised? Brilliant night life, loads going on, great people, impressive architecture, awesome heritage. Plus, I managed to live in a few cracking flats for an affordable price in the City Centre and in the West-End. 

 

I was sad to leave to be honest!  

Edited January 10, 201412 yr by GlasgowBlue

Absolutely, it is an awesome place, not sure why you're so surprised? Brilliant night life, loads going on, great people, impressive architecture, awesome heritage. Plus, I managed to live in a few cracking flats for an affordable price in the City Centre and in the West-End. 

 

I was sad to leave to be honest!  

 

Glasgow's a cracking city if you know where to go and where not to go, like most places I suppose. I live in the Rutherglen area now, but I'm originally from the West End and spent most of my late teens/early 20's hovering around Byres Road and De Courcey's Arcade (CA Games & Lost In Music were regular haunts) as well as Ashton Lane. I used to drink in Curlers on Byres Road a lot, as well as Vodka Wodka and The Loft in Ashton Lane.

 

The sad thing about Glasgow when it comes to football is the fact football isn't about football up here anymore. It's tiresome, too many people are stuck in this boring tit for tat, point scoring nonsense and the hatred between Rangers and Celtic fans continues to boil away. I am DREADING the first time they meet again. Pick up a paper here, the 'football news' is about tax cases, land deals between Celtic and GCC, newco/sevco, fans being jailed for Twitter abuse, etc. Football won't be about football again in Glasgow for a long, long time.

 

The city itself though, much to our esteemed friend Uno's shock, is a fantastic city in terms of architecture, night life, social life, etc. The only sad thing about the city centre itself is the decline at it's 'edges'. If you stick to the 'good bit' of Argyle St and the likes of Sauchiehall St and Buchanan St then yeah, the choice of top class shops is second to none. However, go beyond Glassford St into the Trongate and it's like a third world country in places, although bafflingly the Merchant City (possibly the poshest area in terms of restaurants and clubs) is situation yards from the Trongate. Metropolitan remains one my favourite restaurants based in the Merchant City.

 

I think our good friend Uno is indeed one of these people who naively and arrogantly believes we've never heard of trousers, live in mud huts, say 'auch aye the noo' and hunt haggis.

I wouldnt say i dislike Jocks.....

I wouldnt say i dislike Jocks.....

 

Then I apologise for jumping to conclusions.

 

I know our little country north of the border isn't popular with some of our neighbours down south and I had anticipated meeting some folk on here who don't care for my support of an English club. 

 

Perhaps a little paranoia on my part.

I think its the other way around. From what i understand, most Jocks hate the English.

I think its the other way around. From what i understand, most Jocks hate the English.

 

You'd be surprised mate.

 

The whole independence farce up here just now is exactly that, a farce. The 'Yes' brigade are using what I see as nothing more than anti English feeling to try and drum up votes, but the majority of Scots don't want to split the Union. In the bigger cities, you know the ones that are civilised, there's barely any anti English feeling. The problem in that regard comes more in the rural areas which are very cliquey (even toward Glaswegians from personal experience).

 

Alex Salmond is nothing more than a modern day bigot, his one man crusade for independence is all about him and making sure his name goes down in history, rather than the good of the country. I personally work for an English company which has hundreds of offices in Scotland and who's to say my bosses wouldn't turn round and leave an independent Scotland due to tax reasons or other daft levies applied by the Scottish Government? My mortgage and family come long before any daft 'FREEEEEEDOM' nonsense (and you just know ITV Scotland will show that crap the night before the votes open).