Away fans / tourists in home sections

[johnnytapia]

I honestly can't see when I will go to a game again.
Apart from the ridiculous cost.
The half and half twats and tiktwat wankers filming the game makes my blood boil.
Trouble is I think its to late now

Thousands tix available for our cup game. £35 a ticket. Let us know where you’re sitting.

 

[SheliaTakeaBow]

It's not as bad now as it was in the 1970's or 1980's. Nowhere near as bad in fact.

Maybe it's the authorities' attitudes to football fans that continues to make it that way. The segregation, the netting, the lines of stewards and police, the various "don't do this and don't do that" rules.

Perhaps we should look at ourselves as fans and question our attitudes.

Home and away fans, and the intense atmosphere they generate, is one of the great things about football and makes going to watch it infinitely better than rugby, cricket etc. There is nothing like that siege mentality of being in an away end. And away ends massively add to the noise in grounds and give home fans something to bounce off.

I find it a bit alarming that this has to be explained to a former City Matters fan rep!

 

[adopted_manc]

I sit in CB3 block 328, 8 of them were sat higher up near the back. Celebrated after their goals but the 18yr old female steward who was 5 stone wet through and 4' 8" tall couldn't do anything.
It took a gang of stewards as the second half started to kick them out.
Can the club tell me how 8 seats are available together.
(I think the answer is the club give them to the reseller companies but I could be wrong, he said sarcastically)

It's a fucking disgrace.

Totally right. Eight of them in row BB in block 327. Celebrated the first goal and were not evicted until beginning of the second half. Actually, one of them who was not there when the stewards came got to stay for the second half.

Both stewards (including the blonde lass) in orange jacket totally overwhelmed and unable to do anything. Plenty of other scousers in the block hiding.

The matches against RM and the big 3 are really a shit show. Not just for the lack of atmosphere, it's becoming positively unsafe.

 

[CheshireExpat]

What happens at old toilet for these games?

I know they get tourists, I wonder what the percentage is.

I know rangers and febernache? Took over parts of the home end but is it as bad as ours.

The other question is this extension. I'm not even sure they can, but are they going to grant more to the away section?

 

[jrb]

What is the point you are trying to make?

I didn't make a point.

I posted a picture

But if you want me to make a point, because I know what you are fishing for again, and I'm not going to bite, how did he get that object into the ground and past the security checks, hot on the heels of the hair clippers inside the ground during the Chelsea game? He certainly didn't buy that at the souvenir store.

During my security check I was told to open my thin fleece. In fact, the steward tried to pull my fleece zip down further as I hadn't opened my fleece fully. That's right, stewards are once again taking it upon themselves to open people's clothing fully at the security checks without a person's permission.

Does that answer your question Marvin?

If not, do fuck off!

 

[Nevizade]

What happens at old toilet for these games?

I know they get tourists, I wonder what the percentage is.

I know rangers and febernache? Took over parts of the home end but is it as bad as ours.

The other question is this extension. I'm not even sure they can, but are they going to grant more to the away section?

To be fair there’s no united fans left by the second half

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Home and away fans, and the intense atmosphere they generate, is one of the great things about football and makes going to watch it infinitely better than football, cricket etc. There is nothing like that siege mentality of being in an away end. And away ends massively add to the noise in grounds and give home fans something to bounce off.

I find it a bit alarming that this has to be explained to a former City Matters fan rep!

I've been in plenty of away ends over the years, plus home ends at away grounds. But segregation is a relatively recent thing. It didn't exist in the 70's and there was plenty of atmosphere at games.

 

[Edghill OG]

I'm blown away at people just showing up wearing away colors

Like if you're going to buy a ticket in the home end, is it not common sense to keep your head down? Yet people are openly strutting in wearing red?

Some guy in SSL3 with a Liverpool hat on. Don't know whether he was foreign or not. Think he even asked the marshal where his seat was and nothing was said.

A number of half and half scarves with the Liverpool section being shown and the City side concealed.

Gets worse every year.

 

[Northmanc68]

I've been in plenty of away ends over the years, plus home ends at away grounds. But segregation is a relatively recent thing. It didn't exist in the 70's and there was plenty of atmosphere at games.

It was brought in around the middle of the 70’s due to the weekly violence within grounds - it has been a fixture for more than 50 years and there is no hope of that changing anytime soon

 

[Blue Mist]

Totally right. Eight of them in row BB in block 327. Celebrated the first goal and were not evicted until beginning of the second half. Actually, one of them who was not there when the stewards came got to stay for the second half.

Both stewards (including the blonde lass) in orange jacket totally overwhelmed and unable to do anything. Plenty of other scousers in the block hiding.

The matches against RM and the big 3 are really a shit show. Not just for the lack of atmosphere, it's becoming positively unsafe.

I don't blame the loan girl but why did it take 40 mins to summon enough stewards ?

 

[nmc]

93:20 was full of them today - wearing colours etc. the club doesn’t give a fuck - money is king - fuck our fans and the atmosphere.

 

[WestGorton]

It was brought in around the middle of the 70’s due to the weekly violence within grounds - it has been a fixture for more than 50 years and there is no hope of that changing anytime soon

Football is totally tribal. It's beyond sport. It will never change.

 

[jrb]

Can you imagine what it is going to be like with a 400+ room hotel to fill behind the new 'home end'.

We haven't seen anything yet.

 

[Eccles Blue]

I think that's the least of our worries.

Thankfully they held it up before it was removed by the club and GMP.

Whilst over at Anfield.

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I don’t think it is the least of our worries @jrb to me it is the thin end of the wedge.
We have endless posts about what can and cannot or what does and does not get into the ground so is a banner allowed or not allowed?

 

[Giovinco]

Can you imagine what it is going to be like with a 400+ room hotel to fill behind the new 'home end'.

We haven't seen nothing yet.

Is it too late to knock it down?

Won’t be so bad for the lesser games but these kind of fixtures it will be a recipe for disaster

 

[Rammy Blue]

It’s getting ridiculous, no idea if anyone saw the shit going on in East Stand boxes but 3 scousers all giving it large leaning over. City fan climbed over to give them some stick but soon got collared by stewards.

93.20 and Joe’s or whatever they are called are comical, full of half and half’s and they don’t even realise they shouldn’t be there because they’ve just been sold a corporate ticket and think it’s ok to celebrate a scouse goal. Mental.

 

[Blue Mist]

Everyone knows you don't go in the home end and celebrate a goal. If you do you and get a kicking don't complain.

I didn't complain when I got a kicking. I knew I had to behave especially as i was standing in the Stretford End Paddock.

But fuck me, when Dennis back heels the bastards into Division 2 you have to celebrate.

It was worth it.

 

[jrb]

I don’t think it is the least of our worries @jrb to me it is the thin end of the wedge.
We have endless posts about what can and cannot or what does and does not get into the ground so is a banner allowed or not allowed?

Obviously not, unless it's sneaked in. ;-)

There is not a chance in hell City would allow that banner into the Etihad.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

It was brought in around the middle of the 70’s due to the weekly violence within grounds - it has been a fixture for more than 50 years and there is no hope of that changing anytime soon

That's because we perpetuate the attitudes that caused it to be introduced in the first place.

 

[WestGorton]

Everyone knows you don't go in the home end and celebrate a goal. If you do you and get a kicking don't complain.

I didn't complain when I got a kicking. I knew I had to behave especially as i was standing in the Stretford End Paddock.

But fuck me, when Dennis back heels the bastards into Division 2 you have to celebrate.

It was worth it.

I have taken liberty there a few times when I was young and they never took me on BUT I would have deserved it. Thus I haven't been in a home section since the mid 90s!