Hey, fellow oldtimers, let's put our stories here!

Anyone remember a member called David Gallo ? Something like that anyway. His avatar was a picture of himself in a milan top. He was great and always posted informative stuff ... then he just disappeared.

Maybe MM has it's own Bermuda triangle type of thing that sucks members up into it and they get lost in the void for years ... until they come out the other side of course

Can you tell i'm quite bored ?

David Gallo....didn't he live in Paris? Or maybe I am thinking of someone else?

I think so Midori, i'm not entirely sure.

I remember David Gallo, Italian guy... can't remember about Paris thou but it's ringing correct... in his avatar he looked like Gattuso's twin!

That's him Inferno ... spot on

One of the things i remember about you Inferno is that you were always on about Cisse

At least i'm pretty sure it was you ...

Ha ha ha, It was me. I remember when I Joined Kris got me barred b/c of that... all I was on was Weah-Cisse Weah-Cisse... I should have got a ban realy

Lucky us that you weren't I remember you on out about Cisse, and I could never have any qualms about someone going on about King George.

So RIO, or Koeke, is koeke a bakery? Or a cake?

Well good to see that i am remembered ........hmph!!!!!

Anyway on to my story for those of u that still care about me....which seems few at present ... ( where are carlos and kris when u need them )

Anyway....been a milan lover since the first time i saw them play back in the 87/88 season......the fact that they had 2 black guys with dreads on their team was what first caught my eye...then after watching game after game , i began to realize that i was watching the best team in the world game in and game out.....

So i let go of my likeness for liverpool (,,,,,yes i used to like liverpool with barnes , beardsley and aldridge.........i know i know...i already asked god for forgivness) i was now all milan and it has been that way since...

I joined this site some years later....like this year will be 7 years i believe....and well the rest is history....known debs from when she was just a mod.....and the rest of us oldtimers were considered new members......alot have gone, some came back , but the spirit is still here....and it will always be

Originally Posted by Bodat

My name is Michael.
I am still young, at least younger than Debs!
Born in 70s...
For now, live in Jakarta, Indonesia.

In late 90s, I was active in forza milan bulletin board. At that place, I read an advertisement from Jan, the founder of this forum, about this lovely milanmania. I joined this forum at May 1999 with username Milanindo (but too bad, few months ago, our beloved admin deleted all usernames, included so many usernames I had, who havent been active...) and after that, every month I registered so many nicknames in order to make our member lists seemed to be full of people!
Being an super active poster in this forum with so many meaningless posts , and I believe it irritated so many people around MM, then Jan asked Debs about what to do with me...
Jan came with idea to ban me, while the wise Debs came with idea to make me as moderator so I could learn from others how to make a responsible post and in the same time be ashamed to make a meaningless posts...
As always, Debs won and Jan lost!!

That's why you dont have to wonder why after all this long time, we, the old timers, look so close one to another...
And I hope I can be that close too with you all the newer generation, not only because we all here have a same interest with AC Milan, but also because I believe the members of the newer generation have the same quality and the same beauty with the old generation!

That's all I can say for now...
Dont ask me whether the story I put up there is true or not! I am afraid the name I mentioned would be mad at me!

Oh brother.... ..the history of MM thru the eyes of Bodat!! Well, you are right, my friend, Jan always lost when it came to decisions here on the forums! OK, OK, just kidding! But now you've explained why we had 5,000 members before someone looked into it and saw that we had alot of people who registered and never posted!! They were all YOU!!! Clever, clever boy!

People are bringing up names from the past...I have one, I've been thinking of him on and off for the past couple of weeks. Does anyone remember Pablo? From Australia? He and I used to chat alot, then it got more sporadic...and then he just kind of vanished about 2 years ago. I miss him, and I miss Wenji too...it's been ages! And yeah, I remember David Gallo too...

I hope newer members of the forums are having fun reading as we old farts reminisce while we sit in our rocking chairs on the front porch of the old folks home!

Originally Posted by Debs

I hope newer members of the forums are having fun reading as we old farts reminisce while we sit in our rocking chairs on the front porch of the old folks home!

Oo yes .. this theard is starting to be interesting ..
great storie Bodat , i liked your frankness : when you told that you where loged in here with many usernames

It would be nice if someone else (user who been in MM for years) now come at tell us another history of MM "through his eyes" as Debs sad

Originally Posted by triniman

Well good to see that i am remembered ........hmph!!!!!

Anyway on to my story for those of u that still care about me....which seems few at present ... ( where are carlos and kris when u need them )

Anyway....been a milan lover since the first time i saw them play back in the 87/88 season......the fact that they had 2 black guys with dreads on their team was what first caught my eye...then after watching game after game , i began to realize that i was watching the best team in the world game in and game out.....

So i let go of my likeness for liverpool (,,,,,yes i used to like liverpool with barnes , beardsley and aldridge.........i know i know...i already asked god for forgivness) i was now all milan and it has been that way since...

I joined this site some years later....like this year will be 7 years i believe....and well the rest is history....known debs from when she was just a mod.....and the rest of us oldtimers were considered new members......alot have gone, some came back , but the spirit is still here....and it will always be

hahahahaha ... of course we care about you Curtis and miss you It's just that we all knew you were coming back It's not the same place without you mate

Anyway, enough with the male bonding ... i think you're one of the few people who can answer the question of where Carlos is ... he's disappeared into the internet void too.

Of course nice to see you Curtis Yes, and it would be nice to find out where Carlos has disappeared to.

Some other names off the top of my head.....Shevchenko-7 (name change maybe?), Yuri, aim, Helena, Giovanni, Aboody, Peive.....

Argo, Lorenzo, Sandra ...

Giovanni is around but not posting, i'm not sure when or if he's coming back. Although it won't be right now as i think he's in Malta for a week ... getting drunk and chasing girls with Franco

carlos graduated school and now lives in miami...i'm guessing he's just about settling in ...or went home on vacation...so by the beginning of the season he should be around and more active than before.....

David Gallo....wow...what a name to remember...lol...he was cool...and yes he has not been around in years...

Pablo and I used to PM each other alot...but that all stopped about 2 years ago also...and now i never hear from him at all....

Lorenzo...well we have to ask Ariel about that....she would know best....

Sandra moved to italy a while ago , not sure ifit was permanent or not...but that was the last i heard from her.....

I can go on and on about old timers....i feel like i have been here forever...

Uh oh, I believe I'm one of those oldtimers so I figure I better inject myself into the conversation here.

My story...well, lemme see...I'm an American and I've been a Milan fan since the early '90s. I've never played a game of football in my life but growing up I watched and supported some close friends who played the game. And I must say, I actually enjoyed myself.

But moving forward...a girlfriend I was briefly with in college was a huge fan of the team. Funny, she wasn't really that attractive to me but she was fun and I really dug that sick, twisted sense of humor she had. Looking back, I remember the first time I really laid eyes on her in a lustful way was when she was wearing this catchy, red and black striped shirt with the huge white letters OPEL on the front. Was the attraction more towards her or was it the shirt grabbing my attention?

Anyway, in case you the shirt description confused you she was a Milan fan. Which of course, if I had to stay in her good graces, made me a Milan fan.

But eventually I literally got sick of the girlfriend's sick humor but the admiration for the team remained. So at this time I would to take this opportunity to thank you, Rachel , for introducing me to the world of AC Milan. And thanks for the other fun moments. But moving on...

My first professional match I ever saw in the flesh was the Italian Super Cup, featuring Milan and Torino. In order to promote the game before USA 1994, the Super Cup was played at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. The game was a snoozefest 1-0 scoreline, but I was pleased because if you can recall, Milan won that trophy.

My support was on and off because back then TV coverage of football here in America stayed nil, despite the success of the WC. But, when I moved out to Arizona in October 1998, my Milan support really exploded. Cable channels specializing in the beautiful game were starting to ramp up, FSC which was called Fox Sports World back then played regular Serie A games, the International Channel showed a game every Sunday, GOL TV started up......

But of course this cool thing called the Internet, or as President Bush calls it - the Internets - made supporting AC Milan almost a full time job. I remember back in the early 1999 looking for anything and everything related to the team. Milan at that time was near the top of the table, grinding out 1-0 victories under new manager Alberto Zaccheroni. It was an exciting time for me. My team was back on top after a couple of forgettable seasons and being able to use these new things called message boards to express my raw thoughts and feelings to fellow fans all over the world and to get responses from them almost instantaneously... The Internet proved to be a really, really powerful communication device and source of information. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah....Moving forward...

One message board I visited often, what was it called? Hold on a second the name escapes me... Oh yes, It comes back to me now...it was called Milanmania. Really cool. I recall the message board there was more user friendly and intuitive than the other Milan board I was logging in to. I eventually stayed away from that other board because the posters there were mainly yakking about transfers. "We need this guy", "this guy on our team sucks and we should buy that guy" was all I was reading. Geez folks it's March, we're almost in a dead heat with Lazio and all you guys want to talk about is transfers?! Of course, all they could say to me was to go somewhere.

Anyway, isn't it funny how some things never change?

Thankfully I wasn't alone in speaking out against this year long buzz of transfer talk. Her screen name was Debs. Boy did she have some opinions. She really went at some people, like a pit bull. She guaranteed a Scudetto, no she didn't actually say that, I'm kidding...but she was a great cheerleader and she said that Milan would shock Italy with a Scudetto even though at that time Lazio were the better team. Her posts were passionate and they revealed a very strong personality. I literally hung on every word typed by her.

You remember those days Debs? What did you say, I was like your twin because we agreed on almost anything? Wow, what a time that was. We eventually won the Scudetto, everyone was friendly and the conversation was great. It was like back in the 70s when skateboarders first discovered they can skate in empty pools. It was like we had carte blanche and we could paint this place in whatever way came to us.

Of course we had the intense flame war when Terim suddenly got sacked. Then there was the awful disaster here when Milan got kicked out of Europe by Galatasaray. Just to name a couple of dark periods. Mean and nasty or light and friendly, this place has seen it all and grown up and matured.

Seven years, folks. Do you believe it? This place has been my home for seven freaking years. You can't say that about other fan sites. Are there other Milan fan sites out there that have been out longer? None that I know of, nor do I care. Milanmania is home.

Anyway Debs, I know you're going through some stressful times here, but if I could give you the world to keep this place going forever, I would.

Uh oh, old timer here is getting too sentimental. Better move on...