How do you prepare for a derby?

Fresh Prince of Belle Val · October 3, 2015

I get myself psyched up and any Kopite that gets in my way feels my brute force.

Spocks-a-Blue · October 3, 2015

ilikecheese said:
Bay Area

As a fellow Bay Area resident, weekend match days are started with the alarm clock! If nerves need calming it's usually accomplished via Abbé de Leffe and/or Anchor Steam; beverages of choice in the Spock household.

WA Toffee · October 3, 2015

I'll finish work about 5, back to my room for a shower, grab some dinner, crack open a couple of beers and watch us pump them into oblivion.
Found out in the last couple of days that a couple of my colleagues are kopites, so they will be hearing all about it on Monday morning.

zandvoort blue · October 3, 2015

Read GOT at 3 am cos I'm awake because of it ffs

ilikecheese · October 3, 2015

Spocks-a-Blue said:
As a fellow Bay Area resident, weekend match days are started with the alarm clock! If nerves need calming it's usually accomplished via Abbé de Leffe and/or Anchor Steam; beverages of choice in the Spock household.

Where in the Bay are you? There's a few of us.

riddick · October 3, 2015

typically? cry. its a lot easier to deal with the result when you start crying beforehand..

Igrok · October 3, 2015

Wear red socks, then cut them to shreds....

Bluemick30 · October 3, 2015

I wake up earlier so I can hate them more. Not my words, but I'm passing on that wisdom as its a good saying

LAToffee · October 3, 2015

I'll wake up at 7. Find out we lost and have the worst Sunday until the next time they beat us.

Tigger · October 3, 2015

Fresh Prince of Belle Val said:
I get myself psyched up and any Kopite that gets in my way feels my brute force.

evo1878 · October 3, 2015

Spend all week speaking with my father in law (a sensible Red in his mid-70s and goes every week with my wife). He's already very worried about this game. Reverse psychology. Hate it. We always stop speaking 24 hours before kickoff with his words "remember son its not gonna change your life or mine". We always start speaking again 24 hours after the match.

Missus and I have 5 mins bragging rights. Last few years have been tough but in my heart I still haven't stopped smiling since the Danny Gosling Derby (actually have we played a Derby since then cos I've blotted every single one of them out with the exception of Jags at The Devils PlayPit last season)???

Kiwi · October 3, 2015

I am getting very drunk right now and so will have a massive hangover in the lead up so I won't have to worry about the game.
I did the last two derby lead ups without alcohol and couldn't hack the nervousness.

GoatJR · October 3, 2015

Just say to my self, we will batter these.

Moggers · October 3, 2015

Normally go for a long drive with the windows up, listening to a CD at full blast with me phone off for a few hours... But me missus's due date is rapidly approaching so 'hopefully' might be very distracted tomorrow... So I look forward to the arrival of baby Romelu Arouna Gerard Ross Gareth James Brendan Seamus John Phil Tim on Monday morning after our 4-0 revenge on our dear neighbours!

(I Actually put Naismiths first name before Deulofeu's there originally but then realised what it wrote! He's still haunting my derbies even though he's thousands of miles away!!!)

magicjuan · October 3, 2015

I tend to walk around in full Stevie G-la rig out with highly polished brown brogues with a flappy right sole, randomly slapping children and pensioners while proudly holding aloft my cartoon Rafatollah...it reminds others of how kopites have scaled the heights of bellendery and gives me an insight into the reason why I fkin hate them.

I really fkin hate them, not sure if any of you know, but I do, I fkin hate them...