Away fans / tourists in home sections

jrb said:
When was the last time anyone from Ireland and Scotland shut up? They can’t stop talking and shouting very loud.
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My rag nephew (17) was confronted by a 50+ year old Rangers fan in the rag home end the other night when winner went in. The jocks son who was around the same age as my nephew, maybe slightly older, told his dad to shut the fuck up and sit down!
 
I am going to the Ireland England 6 nations rugby union game in Dublin tomorrow where no fans will be segregated. Everybody will be within touching distance of opposition supporters, not sure if policy has changed recently regarding drinking beer in your seat in Ireland, but everybody will have had a few and there will be no trouble. This badge of honour regarding violence that is attached to all football clubs really baffles and disappoints me. I have had a season ticket at City since the 60s and have seen it all over the years including the knobheads who go just for the violence. I have also watched rugby over this period and I know what supporters I would rather spend time with and it's not the one's that think violence is acceptable at a sporting event. Anyway goody two shoes is going to have a brew before getting ready to fly to the auld emerald isle and a few pints of Guinness with Jameson chasers. See you all Sunday;-)
 
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bluemanchester said:
I am going to the Ireland England 6 nations in Dublin tomorrow where no fans will be segregated. Everybody will be within touching distance of opposition supporters, not sure if policy has changed recently regarding drinking beer in your seat in Ireland, but everybody will have had a few and there will be no trouble. This badge of honour regarding violence that is attached to all football clubs really baffles and disappoints me. I have had a season ticket at City since the 60s and have seen it all over the years including the knobheads who go just for the violence. I have also watched rugby over this period and I know what supporters I would rather spend time with and it's not the one's that think violence is acceptable at a sporting event. Anyway goody two shoes is going to have a brew before getting ready to fly to the auld emerald isle and a few pints of Guinness with Jameson chasers. See you all Sunday;-)
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Apparently there has been plenty of punch ups at Rugby League matches and finals over the years.
 
jrb said:
Apparently there has been plenty of punch ups at Rugby League matches and finals over the years.
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If there has been then that's new.

Granted a lot of them involve St Helens so it wouldn't surprise me. Went to rugby league as a teenager week in week out for 6 years and the only place where there ever really felt like the potential for trouble was at Saints. And even then there really wasn't any actual trouble.
 
The official ticket tout websites are already trying to source tickets for Madrid at home, no doubt.
 
jamielowndes said:
If there has been then that's new.

Granted a lot of them involve St Helens so it wouldn't surprise me. Went to rugby league as a teenager week in week out for 6 years and the only place where there ever really felt like the potential for trouble was at Saints. And even then there really wasn't any actual trouble.
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There's been a few fights in the Grand Final at OT. Nothing major though.
 
jamielowndes said:
If there has been then that's new.

Granted a lot of them involve St Helens so it wouldn't surprise me. Went to rugby league as a teenager week in week out for 6 years and the only place where there ever really felt like the potential for trouble was at Saints. And even then there really wasn't any actual trouble.
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Watched Wigan home and away 80s and 90s only place I feared mither was Warrington, was lucky and stayed out of it. Followed Ireland RU best times ever all rugby union fans enjoy getting pissed get on together and sing each other's songs. Cricket is the strangest one seen lots of mither watching Lancy but usually rival football gangs clashing. Even get trouble at race meetings but a prevelance of beak is probably a big factor. Unfortunately young men like to fight put a lot of them in one place the result is inevitable.
 
jamielowndes said:
Having been to Villa Park in the home stands for a City game, its really not hard to go unnoticed. Hope it was worth thinking they could shout up for a bit of banter.

Just shut the fuck up and be discreet.
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I think the difference with the Glasgow clubs is they do it en masse and it automatically puts everybody a bit on edge. We've all sat in home ends and it's pretty fucking disrespectful to be cheering in a home end. I got the vibe with Celtic fans they were genuinely shocked by the reactions around the ground and they're so used to sitting in home ends in Europe in their thousands.

Ultimately the club make it far worse also, whoring out thousands of seats to the highest bidder in hospitality. That's where most of them got the tickets, but they still chuck you back in with normal supporters.
 
With both Glasgow teams the domestic league has cemented a mindset in the fan base for sure. When its a 10K seater stadium say at St Johnstone that barely sees 4k fans apart from the old firm the money counters are happy to give up half of the stadium for a full house 4 or 6 times a season. Used to turning up at away games and doing what they want. It's not right but its the norm up here.
 
Cumbie Blue said:
With both Glasgow teams the domestic league has cemented a mindset in the fan base for sure. When its a 10K seater stadium say at St Johnstone that barely sees 4k fans apart from the old firm the money counters are happy to give up half of the stadium for a full house 4 or 6 times a season. Used to turning up at away games and doing what they want. It's not right but its the norm up here.
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There’s a team down here whose fans think they can do what they want in Europe, but you’re not allowed to mention it.
 
its a Barm said:
personally dont have a problem with this ive done it countless times, just keep your gob shut and watch the game.
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That’s the thing with loads of sets of fans… they can’t keep their gobs shut and don’t act in a manner they should.

Scousers and Arsenal fans have been up celebrating and goading City fans in the home areas. Worst of the lot were Celtic fans singing IRA chants in the away section and it spreading through where they were sat in the home areas of the Etihad, and there were fights that night.

I’ve been in away grounds in their home sections, and never been clocked.
 
bluemanchester said:
I am going to the Ireland England 6 nations rugby union game in Dublin tomorrow where no fans will be segregated. Everybody will be within touching distance of opposition supporters, not sure if policy has changed recently regarding drinking beer in your seat in Ireland, but everybody will have had a few and there will be no trouble. This badge of honour regarding violence that is attached to all football clubs really baffles and disappoints me. I have had a season ticket at City since the 60s and have seen it all over the years including the knobheads who go just for the violence. I have also watched rugby over this period and I know what supporters I would rather spend time with and it's not the one's that think violence is acceptable at a sporting event. Anyway goody two shoes is going to have a brew before getting ready to fly to the auld emerald isle and a few pints of Guinness with Jameson chasers. See you all Sunday;-)
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Every single cell in my body fucking hates it when I’m sat next to someone who is clearly a fan of the opposition City are playing. I can feel the excitement coming from them when they attack or score and I despise it.

I just think that those tickets should go to City fans, not fans of the opposition.

I get it for international in sports like rugby union (which was still an amateur sport a few decades ago). Their demographic is different to football crowds (even though they’re heading in the direction of rugby union crowds, there’s still the old element in there) and especially to rugby league crowds.



You’re not going to get England fans ripping out seats and singing Rule Britannia or Ireland fans belting out pro-IRA songs in each others’ faces for the rugby union.
 
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Cumbie Blue said:
With both Glasgow teams the domestic league has cemented a mindset in the fan base for sure. When its a 10K seater stadium say at St Johnstone that barely sees 4k fans apart from the old firm the money counters are happy to give up half of the stadium for a full house 4 or 6 times a season. Used to turning up at away games and doing what they want. It's not right but its the norm up here.
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Only seen the old firm at Tynecastle, they don't take liberties
 
I think if City fans buy the tickets when released, there won’t be any to go to agencies. You want a ticket? Get a membership or join the scheme, if we don’t buy them the club will sell them…
It may be expensive but the alternative is not good.
 
Just had a look at the Arsenal game this Sunday, no problem getting a ticket straight to your mobile phone. Worryingly first site I click on is selling for the away end as well, now that's not supposed to happen. Seems so long as there is money in the pocket of a fan and an empty seat this its going to happen.1738348945842.png
 
Psychedelic Casual said:


Clubs need to learn, otherwise someday soon someone will be killed by cracking their head on steps or getting one of those once in a lifetime punches.
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I have heard today that celtic fans are banned from going to Munich after singing at Prince william about royal family
 
Cumbie Blue said:
Just had a look at the Arsenal game this Sunday, no problem getting a ticket straight to your mobile phone. Worryingly first site I click on is selling for the away end as well, now that's not supposed to happen. Seems so long as there is money in the pocket of a fan and an empty seat this its going to happen.View attachment 145040
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And yet, despite being a long term member of a supporters club nd holing a ST for longer than I could care to remember, I could not get a ticket.

Why don't the club track these tickets and start revoking ST's if people are selling them on?

Of course, that would need the club to be open on the allocation of away tickets and we know something at the club is wrong there.
 
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