Malcolm,
Let me clarify this.
Initially I did not take offence at this post.
My first reply about Chelsea was in reference to their soccer team being outstandingly beaten by a lesser Barnsley in the FA Cup.
Simon's "joke" was originally written years ago ago about Essex chavs, Simon's locale, hence my second retorte eluding to the origins of chav fashion in Essex.
Simon was the first to take personal offence at these.
His response concerns me now as some people feel that they will post this rubbish without due care and expect no personal comeback.
So who has the high ground here ?
Moral or political correctness now seems to dissolve with these anonymous posts.
On that night, your rumble in Sussex was nothing but it seemed to trouble you. But you have seen fit to mention it to null my concern.
So now I will get personal and relate to you that at 3.30am on the morning of that event, I received a telephone call from a seventy-five years old widow on her own, who had been sitting in the cold street for over two hours as she was terrified to go into her home to reach her cell phone to call her daughter, my wife.
I have also lived in both Essex and Barnsley and these things had nothing to do with my original replies or the point I later tried to make.
Don't dish it out if you can't take it.