the only fan in enfield or a funny thing happened to me in a pub

[enfieldblue]

went down my local pub sunday night for a jam session wearing my southend shirt. sitting behind the drums when raised voices of "he's wearing a southend shirt" come from the pub n low and behold i meet another southend fan in enfield. so that's me, my teenage son n now, keith. so 0.05%ish sufc fans live in enfield.

just thought you'd like to know

 

[Billy is the best]

Towards the end of last year i was browsing the sport section in WH Smiths East Grinstead when i came accross 100 Greats Southend United FC. Generally speaking SUFC are largely overlooked in Sussex. I stopped the sales assistant and explained to her what a marvelous book this was and that they really should stock more.
The following week i noticed 2 copies on the shelves, which remained unsold for many weeks before disapearing. Oh well, spread the word!

 

[SUFCFANS]

My father in law is from Enfield. I have taken him to a few games this year including Barnet away. He's almost converted!

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

not Enfield related but nevertheless quite a coincidence for me. My wife is Scottish and we go up every year to Dundee to see the relatives. One year I saw PS standing at the corner of Peddie Street (where they live) and Hawkhill just before he moved to Plymouth. I was going to stop the car to talk to him but we were on our way to Crail (which is quite near Methil btw and a very picturesque fishing village) with the in laws in tow and I was vetoed.
last year i arranged to go to a pub called Mennie's in the Hawkhill in Dundee. Now if anyone knows Dundee they will know there are loads of pubs to keep the locals in a perpetual state of inebriation. So we were in Mennies and a guy sitting at the next table said "are you anything to do with SUFC". Incidentally I was not wearing anything to do with the club. I said I was a fan and then in walked his brother with the drinks, none other than Steve Connelly who used to write in WTSSG as Steve Deltasix. I had actually met his brother years before. He also wrote a regualr feature as a Scottish exile. My old mate from uni was well unimpressed that we then spent an hour talking about good old SUFC.

 

[DistantBlue]

Nothing to do with Enfield either.But....
It's 2003 - The Open Golf Chanpionship - Sandwich.Kent.Final Day -teatime
Ben Curtis has just won and 110,000 people are all trying to leave at the same time through one large portal.
Massive queues joining massive queues-nobody really going anywhere.
I find myself standing face to face with a tall guy like me,he's wearing a blue baseball cap with the initials S.U.F.C. sewn into the front.
I say to him "You're not a Sheffield Utd fan are you?"
He says - "No mate - Southend"
We shake hands - admit to a life of inexplicable obsession and gradually move in opposite directions never to meet again.
Don't you just love being a Blue?

 

[ShrimperOT]

In addition to supporting SUFC I have an interest in all things natural history and particularly moths. A couple of years after moving to Basingstoke I attended a public moth trapping event where i met the local expert on moths who not also lived in Basingstoke but supported SUFC. Now there are probably few Moth enthusiasts in Basingstoke and even fewer SUFC fans therefore the likelihood that there are 2 people that tick both boxes must be extremely high!

 

[ShrimperOT]

I mean extremely low!

 

[Uncle Leo]

Working out of our Madrid office this week, I met a bloke from Westcliff. But he supports Liverpool so **** him.

 

[Harold Bishop Killer]

A hostel in Jeffrey's bay, South Africa. I just arrived in a 4 bed dorm when i noticed on the bed above me something blue hanging off one of the railings. Low and behold a telewest southend united shirt with Tilson on the back. I then ventured out in to the night and upon my return the bed was empty with southend shirt in tow. I never knew who is was, where he come from or where he was going but we will forever share a secret bond.

 

[Bluegoose]

I was in a bar one Saturday couple of years ago for the football in Amman, Jordan when 2 guys came in, 1 was in a SUFC shirt. We had a long chat on what was a relegation season.

 

[shallowshrimper]

Still no enfield connection but on holiday in callao salvaje tenerife a couple of years ago wearing the shirt and suddenly heard " come on you blues" couple of guys with other halves from eastwood. Nice chat till their women folk dragged them away.

 

[Strykr]

I do lectures for parts of the year at Uni in east sussex, and was delighted iast time to find a couple of students from southend!
first question, do you support the blues?
answer - no Man U.

it reflected on there grades :whistling:

 

[DTS]

When I was about ten I went on a school trip to the American Adventure Theme Park in Derbyshire. The park dosent exist now sadly but it was a cowboy themed park.

Anyway I was just about to board the coach when I got a tap on the shoulder from a guy and he was there like me in his Firlholm shirt. We had a good chat until my teacher concerned that this SUFC might be a charlie made me get on the coach. As I went the guy told his mate and four of them clapped the coach as we left.

Even more amazing the driver of the coach that day once drove to Enfield. Its a funny world.

 

[discord]

i met mark Gower in a hallway and he ignored me :nope:

 

[davewebbsbrain]

When I was on honeymoon in Malta, me and the wife got chatting to a gay couple and mentioned football and that I supported Southend. About 3 days later, they came over to us at the hotel and handed over a Southend badge, saying they had found it at some market they had visited and thought I would like it....neither of them came from Enfield tho.

 

[Winkle]

When I ran the 2005 marathon, at the finish barely able to beat scooby doo across the line (He beat me by a laaaarge nose) I bent down on my haunches to untie my transponder thingy from my trainers and the guy infront of me was wearing a southend shirt. He then proceeded to nearly faint , falling back on yours truly who was in no fit state to lift anything up when a couple of first aiders grabbed him and helped him recover. Often wondered what happened to him!

 

[Firestorm]

I may have posted this is before.

I was in a moari village in Rotorua in my SUFC shirt when a bloke came up and said "Southend ? I was best man to one of your goalkeepers do you remember Derek Bellotti ? We then had a 15 minute conversation only to be interrupted by someone else coming up and saying that he had overheard us talking about Southend and told us he was born in Gordon Road. He hadn't moved to Enfield though

 

[chadded]

I was in Kenya and the locals would do engravings on wood, mainly of military cap badges, or football teams. The shop/shack I was in had a load of Man U, Liverpool's etc, and the young lad asked who I supported. I told him he wouldn't know them, but he insisted that he would. Next thing I know, he pulls out his folder and has the club crest in front of me. Bloke was Kenyan though, so might have been from Enfield. Not sure.

Met a chef from Southend in the cookhouse in the Falkland Islands. Then went on an excursion to Sea Lion Island, and someone from Southchurch noticed my SUFC T shirt. There were about 15 people on the entire Island at the time. I'm fairly sure none were from Enfield.

When I was in the Stan in 2006, someone on the camp I was on initiated one of those posts where people get a bit of wood and write 'London 3000 miles' etc, when a Southend /Roots Hall, can't remember which appeared. Never found out who it was though, so wouldn't be able to tell you if he/she was really from Enfield.

 

[canveyshrimper]

When I was about ten I went on a school trip to the American Adventure Theme Park in Derbyshire. The park dosent exist now sadly but it was a cowboy themed park.

Anyway I was just about to board the coach when I got a tap on the shoulder from a guy and he was there like me in his Firlholm shirt. We had a good chat until my teacher concerned that this SUFC might be a charlie made me get on the coach. As I went the guy told his mate and four of them clapped the coach as we left.

Even more amazing the driver of the coach that day once drove to Enfield. Its a funny world.

Was he a plumber with a strange sense of humour? :smile:

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

I may have posted this is before.

I was in a moari village in Rotorua in my SUFC shirt when a bloke came up and said "Southend ? I was best man to one of your goalkeepers do you remember Derek Bellotti ? We then had a 15 minute conversation only to be interrupted by someone else coming up and saying that he had overheard us talking about Southend and told us he was born in Gordon Road. He hadn't moved to Enfield though

My Cousin who was born & raised in Rotorua saw us play Newcastle away opening day of the season 1992 he also came with me when we played West Ham in the Anglo Italian cup the same season. We however did not go to the away friendly against Enfield in 1985.

Found this gem on SUFC Database about a Southend FA Cup tie at Enfield in 1910 - Only 10 Southend players turned up for this match, but fortunately a Blues amateur, Louis Parke, was watching the game and was asked to play. He joined the match 10 minutes into the game