OK so here is my dilemma, when pools play Colchester utd away, I will be going with my youngun but as we live in Essex he is a Colchester fan. Now do I just get him a ticket for the away end and just make him sit there or do I let him have his own way and get tickets with the Colchester fans and I'll have to sit there quiet.

Next season when we play Blackpool, I'll be in the the HUFC and she will be in the BFC end. It's the baby that's going to cause a problem. Probably going to come to the blue side in fairness.

He's 4 so he ain't gunna sit on his own in the home end

If he's 4 I'd suggest you tell him he's a Pools fan before it's too late.

Good point crab. Why is he a Colchester fan?


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I have a son whose 4. He doesn't even know football exists. Am I doing something wrong? Should he be a Colchester fan by now?


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My three year old is more into Ipswich, a bit of a glory hunter really.

I live about 20mins drive from Colchester and work there in my job we get so many free tickets to home games there so cos he is really into football I take him to work with me when I do the football shuttle and he has just become obsessed with Colchester

Tell him he is a Poolie.

What is it with Colchester that attracts Poolies? Two of the three founders of Monkey Business fanzine were based there. Is it perhaps the blue and white stripes? And could that provide an answer to the dilemma? Most four-year olds can't read, so give him a Pools shirt, but stop short of saying it's a Colchester shirt. Thus he'll be a Poolie, but just won't have realised it yet!

A four year old who goes to matches....? Are you tellng us he even understands what's actually going on...?
Sorry, but the mistake and blame is all yours. You take him to matches of a team you don't support, what did you expect. In his world he's supporting your team, the team you take him to.
It aint exactly rocket science.

He has his own mind and I have asked him if he wanted to sit in the pools end or the Colchester end and that's what he chose to do, and yeah he does understand what's going on he can name a lot of the players. It sounds to me that you have a problem with him been a Colchester supporter. I'm not gunna force him to support a team he don't want to, he was born there and their his local team

I'm a bus driver and on match days we do a shuttle bus to the ground from the town, and the drivers get free tickets to watch the game in between running the service.

No he doesn't, I take it you force your kids to do only what you want to do or want them to do wether they want to or not. My kids can have their own minds and like I said it's his local team anyway so is that such a bad thing maybe I should try force him to pick a team he's likely to never go and watch

WHOA, you come on here with your 'dilemma' then proceed to reveal to us you haven't got a dilema at all . It might be easier all round if you start supporting Colchester, there's probably an app or conversion kit available on e bay to help you switch.

The bairn has already forced him to support Colchester.

I don't pay for the tickets when I take him there I get them free through work,
I was asking wether to just buy a ticket for the away end and make him sit there with pools fans or to let him sit with the fans of the team he supports

Junior, born and bred a Weegie, lived in Lanark for 25 years. Poolie through and through, never in doubt.. Get it sorted, it's in the blood.

I don't see the problem at all!!!!

I have really grafted hard to brainwash my two into being Poolies - I am convinced the eldest is there now after he got his first proper shirt on Saturday. I've bought him loads of training tops since the age of three, but now he's got a real strip he doesn't want to take it off. Absolutely loves match days despite expecting us to lose. Most of his mates at school are either Forest or plastic Man U/Chelsea/Man City, and next year probably Leicester, but he is more than happy to have the piss taken because he is properly proud to be a Poolie.

It really helps that virtually all Pools fans he's ever met have been really friendly and welcoming, he knows that by wearing something with the Pools badge on makes him 'one of us', and has experienced that magic of being in the away end when we've got a win several times already. I'm going to start taking my youngest to matches next season, and hopefully the same will happen with him.

If I've got any advice to Mr Jones, it would be to tell him that although he may think of himself as a Colchester fan, by blood he is a Poolie, which overrides everything. Therefore he will sit with Pools fans who presumably talk like his dad and he'll make some sort of connection. There's no way you should give in to the home end, you'll lose him forever if you do that.

What a knob you must be. I hope if you go to that fixture we don't sit anywhere near you cos I wouldn't want him to think that all pools fans are single minded and un welcoming as you seam to be

This was the sort of post I was expecting and hoping for

You will be fine, you will be sat with the colchester fans

Were you drinking yesterday chip, been a bit hard on the bloke

I do agree though, he should have tried harder and if his buy supported say Ipswich, Norwich on on of the premiership sides I'd have some sympathy but Colchester, fook me. He is only 4 though and so plenty of time to blackmail him into supporting pools

Agree a bit harsh on the bloke.

I never started supporting Pools until I was 11. My family were never much into football but I was. Supported Newcastle and even Manure before that, for my sins. Can't stand the pair of 'em now mind. Plenty of time for things to change but as people have said, get him the strips and pull all the stops out and he'll convert soon enough.

I have the solution, be a bus driver in Hartlepool, he will think it is still Colchester because of the stripes, although he will wonder why all of a sudden they are winning games and best of all, he won`t grow up in fackin Essex and talk like they do, job done

Then you came to the wrong place. Read the thread again; most posts are typical piss taking comments. Lighten up, you're subject to a joke. No-one is really attacking you.

Chip, for what it's worth, you got it spot on.

There's a slight flaw in that solution, Mr Butt. Pools don't play in stripes !!!!

New strip every year, back to stripes next year I reckon and he is four, like he would notice ffs!

I'm surprised that snowy could reading of this thread with his nose so far your arse chip

Bloody hell. I don't know exactly where Mr Jones lives but isn't it possible that his young lad might be supporting his local team?
How many times, on here, do people chunter because theres someone who lives in Hartlepool but chooses to support someone else (usually a premier team)

I live about 10miles out from Colchester, so they are his local team. He was even up this morning playing on fifa as them

Well just tell him they're shit and he should support Pools .. easy really isn't it..

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Mine is 14 now and he's lived in France since he was 7. We go to watch Toulouse but he is a Pools fan. He is a Poolie not a French gadgie. Toulouse completely pisses on Colchester but even so he couldn't resist the fully justified brain-washing.

manchester reds?

Exactly!!!!

a 4 year old on fifa?

Is he any good?

my 4 year old can barely handle crash bandicoot.

Was the plug socket needed for stevejones_number1's kids fifa box? If so that's not a dilemma, as playing with your nana in a Colchester shirt just doesn't compare.

The toastie is a fine balancing act to get right.

Not long enough inbetween the hot plates of a Breville, the toastie maker of choice, and it's a disappointing experience.

Too long and it's a health and safety issue

Correct!

You have corned beef and onion and it's a lesser risk, but the moment you bring in cheese...risk assessment time

What the f**k is this whole thread about ?
Someone has a totally ridiculous quandary about four year old attending a match and incapable of making a perfectly simple choice. Just pick an option and get on with it!
The only quandry making any sense is the Breville Option.

Do you but the butter on the outside of the toastie??

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I do, stops sticking and gets a lovely caramelisation on the outside, red leicester is the best cheese to use in a toastie due to it`s low melting point.
Those toastie bags are decent, pop in your ingredients and drop in the toaster, making sure the open end is at the top obvs

Got to be the full fat stuff though.

You start using low fat guff like I Can't Believe It's Not Butter or similar, and for me you deserve all that comes to you. Frankly it's unacceptable.

Cheese and spaghetti. I ate loads of them at uni.

Tomato, egg and onion.

Chorizo, goats cheese and red peepers that have been in a jar. Little bit of whole grain mustard in there as well. Toastie of the gods.

But what if my 4 year old wants to use all the goats cheese to make a model of Julian Clary? Do I ask if it's OK to open a tin of corned beef?