Away fans / tourists in home sections

I can't imagine there are many older City fans on here who have not sat amongst home fans when needs must. In the pre-all-seater stadium days', I always tried to stand at the halfway line in whatever paddock they might have had. Good experience at Watford, Oldham, Wolves and your friends in Salford. If you're lucky enough to stand with reasonable people, the banter added to the experience.
I would add that we made the mistake of doing it at Millwall in the mid '70s and kept very, very quiet.
Can honestly say we never experienced any unpleasantness with the exception of Bury and, from what I hear from my West Didsbury & Chorlton friends, that hasn't changed since their reemergence in the NWCFL.
 
I went to Klanfield in the 90's and sat in the home end and fully intended behaving myself but got in a couple of minutes late and as I sat down Carl Griffiths scored and instinct kicked in and I immediately bounced back up, much to the disappointment of the fine lads and lassies sat near me.

Managed to not get filled in but glad I had a hood up, as a few people around me seemed to have heavy colds and had to spit catarrh throughout the game in my direction. Could have just been them speaking of course!!!!

Didn't make the jumping up mistake again when sat in the Shithole and Goodison home ends but then again, City didn't make the mistake of scoring there either!!!
 
I just think it’s plain disrespectful over anything else. I wouldn’t even do it in a home pub watching City somewhere.

The CL match against Celtic years back was horrendous. They were everywhere and acting like utter shithouses.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
And how do you do that? They don't ring up the ticket office and say "Hello. I'm an Arsenal fan and I can't get a ticket in the away end so can I buy one in the home end please?".
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Don’t speak to me like that, please.

Stagger Citycard sales through loyalty points as it’s unlikely Arsenal fans would have 100 unless they’re very keen to go.

We’re talking blindly as we don’t know how they obtained them. A group of four or so together is quite strange.
 
BlueKolarovWorker said:
I went to Klanfield in the 90's and sat in the home end and fully intended behaving myself but got in a couple of minutes late and as I sat down Carl Griffiths scored and instinct kicked in and I immediately bounced back up, much to the disappointment of the fine lads and lassies sat near me.

Managed to not get filled in but glad I had a hood up, as a few people around me seemed to have heavy colds and had to spit catarrh throughout the game in my direction. Could have just been them speaking of course!!!!

Didn't make the jumping up mistake again when sat in the Shithole and Goodison home ends but then again, City didn't make the mistake of scoring there either!!!
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I had a similar experience at Anfield also. I actually did behave myself. Got found out when I didn't jump up and cheer when they were awarded a penalty and scored it. Five minutes later I was escorted out by two stewards, who told me "it was for my own good". Had to walk around the ground and got booted out via the Shankly gates.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
And how do you do that? They don't ring up the ticket office and say "Hello. I'm an Arsenal fan and I can't get a ticket in the away end so can I buy one in the home end please?".
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Surely purchase history, and for these big games having to have attended numerous fixtures, not just one or two? Although that wouldn’t stop people buying from third party sites?
 
Big Joe Corrigan said:
Surely purchase history, and for these big games having to have attended numerous fixtures, not just one or two? Although that wouldn’t stop people buying from third party sites?
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Well Arsenal tickets went on sale and sold out in the restricted match day sale to those with purchase history ,can’t quite remember what the criteria was now.
 
City are selling tickets to every tom dick and harry, why do you think that all of a sudden a number of tickets appeared near the weekend for the Arsenal game, it's because the packages havn't sold out, so who do they turn to, oh yes, the people who actually support the club, anyone who thinks the club are not complicit in this are very naive
 
The worst of it is that anyone who gives the away fans in our end a bit of physical advice is liable to get a lifetime ban, shouldn’t be put in that position in our end
 
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blueparrot said:
Well Arsenal tickets went on sale and sold out in the restricted match day sale to those with purchase history ,can’t quite remember what the criteria was now.
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It was five premier league games over the last 2 seasons
 
Impossible to stop completely to be honest with any game. If they sit on their hands no problem. If they don't. Problem.
 
If you look at the Celtic game a few years ago there were lots in there. You can’t stop it. I’ve done it before myself years ago.

What the club can do though is to instruct stewards to throw them out and that doesn’t happen often enough in my opinion.

I’ve seen stewards telling fans of opposing teams just to do their coats up to cover their shirt. That isn’t good enough for me, they should be refused entry into the home end.
 
MCFC Wirral said:
I just think it’s plain disrespectful over anything else. I wouldn’t even do it in a home pub watching City somewhere.

The CL match against Celtic years back was horrendous. They were everywhere and acting like utter shithouses.
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Yes, I persuaded one to leave.
 
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David White said:
If you look at the Celtic game a few years ago there were lots in there. You can’t stop it. I’ve done it before myself years ago.

What the club can do though is to instruct stewards to throw them out and that doesn’t happen often enough in my opinion.

I’ve seen stewards telling fans of opposing teams just to do their coats up to cover their shirt. That isn’t good enough for me, they should be refused entry into the home end.
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It should be in the terms and conditions if is not.
 
WestGorton said:
It should be in the terms and conditions if is not.
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I would expect it is. But I’ve seen it against Munich and again last week against Inter.

There was also a red twat at the chairty shield a few weeks ago. I told the city steward that was there but they have no authority at Wembley and the Wembley steward again told him to cover up his top. I outed him though and he disappeared
 
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