Debut 4 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 STAY AWAY FROM THE BRIDGE OF DOOM! Had to start this thread but i`m stealing my Brother-in laws thunder. He was watching Britains Hardest Men on Bravo hosted by that `nowtee boy` Danny Dyer. He met up with a former Hobo casual, who admitted he wasn`t originally into football or a Hibby, and he took Dyer down Bothwell Street just to the bit were thousands of Hearts fans cross the bridge towards Albion Road. He went on to say that no away fans get any further and he said the only way they go(as he points) is down the sides and onto the railtrack! He actually did call it "the bridge of doom".......a wind-up for TV and his mates? or another deluded Hobo giving out another myth into the big bad world? you decide..................................... :107years: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groot Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 What a slavering fellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller Jambo 60 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 What a slavering fellow Not going cant afford an arrest end off. The place smells anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stupid Sexy Flanders Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Not going cant afford an arrest end off.The place smells anyway. Doug, I like you and I'm not having a go, but do you have to include the phrase "end off" in every single post?! It doesn't even mean anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferryjambo Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Thats it giving my ticket away to scared to go over the "bridge of doom" hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller Jambo 60 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 :107years: Doug, I like you and I'm not having a go, but do you have to include the phrase "end off" in every single post?! It doesn't even mean anything! END OFF you are like my wife:107years::107years: Sorry bud We are the Gorgie boot boys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stupid Sexy Flanders Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 :107years: END OFF you are like my wife:107years::107years: Sorry bud We are the Gorgie boot boys Ach well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! END OFF! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboJen Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Bridge of Doom - Best thing about it is hearing the Hearts songs from the flat on the corner. Clearly we have won the Battle of the Bridge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theweeyin Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 i cant remember going any other way...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawrrrrrrr Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 The bridge of doom ahaha As for doug - scared of an arrest? just pay your TV licence then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller Jambo 60 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Ach well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! END OFF! We should stop meeting like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodethejambo Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 STAY AWAY FROM THE BRIDGE OF DOOM! Had to start this thread but i`m stealing my Brother-in laws thunder. He was watching Britains Hardest Men on Bravo hosted by that `nowtee boy` Danny Dyer. He met up with a former Hobo casual, who admitted he wasn`t originally into football or a Hibby, and he took Dyer down Bothwell Street just to the bit were thousands of Hearts fans cross the bridge towards Albion Road. He went on to say that no away fans get any further and he said the only way they go(as he points) is down the sides and onto the railtrack! He actually did call it "the bridge of doom".......a wind-up for TV and his mates? or another deluded Hobo giving out another myth into the big bad world? you decide..................................... :107years: Crossed that bridge many times during the 80's/90's when the casuals were at their height and never came across any hobos never mind casuals, there was just too many of us. Bridge was always closed after the game :107years: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debut 4 Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 Crossed that bridge many times during the 80's/90's when the casuals were at their height and never came across any hobos never mind casuals, there was just too many of us. Bridge was always closed after the game :107years: Same here mate, i posted because i wanted to show how much a trumpet the guy is. We all fine well know it`s the main route for away fans and what a crock of Tam White the guy is talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanks Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 bridge of doom Cant wait to turn the tramps over on there own patch as usual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.N.T.H. Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 That's absolute BS nowadays. I obviously didn't go to games in the '80s though, so some of the older boys can tell us whether that was the case? For the record, i actually think Brad Welsh is a good lad and came over like a real family man on the programme, however neddish he may be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deek Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 My first game at Easter Road was in 1976, I was about 15. It was a 1-1 game. We were walking over the "Bridge of Doom" and were ambushed by the Hibees on the old railway track below. They were chucking bricks and bottles up at us. Well as everybody knows, what go's up must come down. Which it did at a far greater velocity than it came up. Needless to say we all passed over the bridge to the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drylaw Hearts Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Hibs don't even get anywhere near that bridge and they haven't for years - well not at the bigger games anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debut 4 Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 Myself and some mates, including relatives, were subject to an attempted ambush about 10-12 years ago walking through the back streets towards ER after drinking in the masonic club at Shrubhill. A couple of minutes after coming off Leith Walk ,4 Hobos jumped out of a land rover(not wee laddies either) and started to follow us while hurling abuse. Its not a busy street so it was quite quiet quiet with not many other fans about. What they hadn`t bargained for was that a few of the lads in our group had `been around the block` shall we say. One of the Hobos got detached from the other 3 and was `marooned` in the middle of us and **** it as one of my mates flew at him. On the whole we didn`t want bother and tried to keep a lid on it but i found it funny that this guy, who was of Dolph Lundgren proportions, seemed like a scared wee moose when his mates abandoned him. FTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfurdaley Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 That's absolute BS nowadays. I obviously didn't go to games in the '80s though, so some of the older boys can tell us whether that was the case? For the record, i actually think Brad Welsh is a good lad and came over like a real family man on the programme, however neddish he may be. Can't ever remember actually seeing any Hobos while crossing 'the bridge of doom' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewis2006 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Seen a few cars panned after the game in the "bridge of doom" region. FTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack hmfc Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 in the 80's over the bridge before the game and along albion rd after. been ambushed from the cemetry there acouple of times,bricks. ,bottles etc. the best bit was the top of easter rd looking back and seeing a sea of heeds for about 20 mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deans Jambo Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Hibs don't even get anywhere near that bridge and they haven't for years - well not at the bigger games anyway. There was bother their a few seasons back when a crowd of Hibs casuals gathered at the bridge after wandering up bothwell st unchallenge by the cops. Think they attacked a scarfer and an old boy jumped in to help (he had blood pouring from his head when we saw him whilst waiting to get in the stand). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 It's only a bridge of doom if someone farts on the way over. There's no escape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artfuldodger Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 imagine the whole hearts end singing we all crossed bradleys bridge of doom bradleys bridge of doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoes_off Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Yea i watched that "Real football factory" episode. basically just follow this rambling old Junkie who slavers on for 20 minutes about a few scraps they had back in the 80's. Absolute pish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chat Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 What a crock of sheeite. I've walked over that bridge every time I've been to the San Giro and that lot have never been anywhere near. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redm Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 I live a stone's throw away from the bridge of doom and have never seen any hibbies around on match days, they're kept well away from Bothwell Street...which is nice... The only incident I remember was a few years ago when I didn't live here but was heading to a game and some hobo arse in one of the flats started firing water (or at least, I hope that's what it was) at the jambos walking along towards the bridge. Hilarious, I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboJen Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 imagine the whole hearts end singing we all crossed bradleys bridge of doom bradleys bridge of doom To my fair lady/Lee Wallace has a gun: We all crossed the bridge of doom Bridge of doom, Bridge of doom, We all crossed the bridge of doom Where were you lot? (Or where the **** were you lot, if you prefer ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tytkyle100 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 i will still be walking down there:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo2006 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Seen a few cars panned after the game in the "bridge of doom" region. FTH My car was panned in Dickson Street before and that wasnt even durin a game mind you theres a hearts car sticker on the back window Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighusref Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 To be fair, the programme was talking to Bradley Welsh, a dude that was involved in such tomfoolery twenty years ago. At no point did it suggest that it goes on today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moriarty Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 "man or a woman, are you a man or a woman" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Kilpatrick Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 What a crock of sheeite. I've walked over that bridge every time I've been to the San Giro and that lot have never been anywhere near. Same here. As mentioned above, the Hearts song is also blasting out of a second floor window as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Meldrew Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Went over the bridge numerous times in the 80s and 90s and not a Hobo (casual or otherwise) to be seen. The only arrest I ever saw was a guy in Hearts colours who for some inexplicable reason decided to punch a flat window! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamTarts1874 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Total nonsense. I walk over the 'Bridge of Doom' for every derby at Fester Road and have never even seen any hobo's. Bring on Sunday, when we knock them out the cup MON THE JT'S! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melton58 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Beware the Bridge of Doom my a***, Looking forward to sunday to stuff it right up them. GIRUYHB:107years: going on 108 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalry Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Throughout the 80s never seen a Hibby from the ground onto London road after the game. over 10,000 Jambo army! Only when you got out of London Rd did you see some Hibs casuals but unless they had numbers of 20 -1 against you did they do anything. Once saw 20 Hibs casuals run from 6 drunken Hearts fans outside the Wimpy in 85. Even now I don't see any Hibs lads on the way to the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 the scariest thing about the 'bridge of doom' is, after having taken a couple of shandies:mw_rolleyes:, you're just about over it and the bloke in front of you sidesteps at the last minute, leaving the field open for a quick stop against the bollards using the old groin brake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maroonlegions Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 The Bridge of Doom will be remembered this Sunday when the jambo army marched proudly over it and any hobo standing in their way, BRING IT ON.:107years: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveofthegame Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Oh dear, Bridge of Doom... I've not missed an Easter Rd derby in years and can honestly say what a load of ****e. I do remember 2 seasons ago (can't remember the exact game) where 50ish of the so-called CCS met on the corner of Easter Rd and walked what i class as 'our way'- they got to the bridge, chanted like hard men as they crossed then turned left to head to their end. At that point there was a bit of shouting from us Jambo's, and they returned it but not a sign of any pavement dancing. If thats why they class it as the Bridge of Doom then they really need to get a grip... Admittedly walking up Easter Rd and along London Rd isn't always fun (the Road of Doom they've probably aptly named it...) after a derby at Fester, especially for a guy my age, had near misses on a number of occasions in recent years. Thats usually because they're bitter at failing to beat us AGAIN though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Meldrew Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Hibs fans are all total pansies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winston churchill Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 STAY AWAY FROM THE BRIDGE OF DOOM! Had to start this thread but i`m stealing my Brother-in laws thunder. He was watching Britains Hardest Men on Bravo hosted by that `nowtee boy` Danny Dyer. He met up with a former Hobo casual, who admitted he wasn`t originally into football or a Hibby, and he took Dyer down Bothwell Street just to the bit were thousands of Hearts fans cross the bridge towards Albion Road. He went on to say that no away fans get any further and he said the only way they go(as he points) is down the sides and onto the railtrack! He actually did call it "the bridge of doom".......a wind-up for TV and his mates? or another deluded Hobo giving out another myth into the big bad world? you decide..................................... :107years: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aoZHWwQGA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootboy100 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aoZHWwQGA 'People used to comment that there was no one then all of a sudden there was hundreds of us. Just like rats out a sewer!!!' You said it mate not us!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber Harris Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 'People used to comment that there was no one then all of a sudden there was hundreds of us. Just like rats out a sewer!!!' You said it mate not us!!!! beat me to it bootboy - classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Winstone Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 So Hibs were: The first to wear green The first to have floodlights and... The first to have a 'Bridge of Doom' in or around their stadium. I wish I had been brought up to be a 'Hibee' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The People's Chimp Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aoZHWwQGA ...they were like rats coming oot the sewer... How very apt. ha ha bootboy and bomber, you beat me to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogz1874 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 it was my cousin brad that was on britains hardest men, barely even goes to easter road nowadays though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewYorkJambo Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Doug, I like you and I'm not having a go, but do you have to include the phrase "end off" in every single post?! It doesn't even mean anything! Maybe he means 'end of'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leisham38 Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Who does he think he is? Indiana Jones? Have crossed that bridge on numerous occasions and excluding one occasion when a couple of stones were thrown up from the railway i have never seen a Hobo near it. I certainly have not been forced to cross the railway! The most dillusional shower of ***** on the Planet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelly Terraces Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 The 'Bridge of Doom', handily placed for the 'Stadium of Gash' (also known as 'The Crock of Sh * t'.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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