What people aren't really understanding is the volume of fans in our end, especially south stand where they all congregated near to their own fans. It's not the same as 1-2 in the wrong end that you often get. They can be dealt with and thrown out if they don't keep quiet. Literally 100's in the same block can't be dealt with, at least not with the pitiful amount of police present.
They basically took over the entire 114 block, a lot of them were under the impression it was an away end. The steward i talked to at the barrier said many of the Gladbach fans questioned if mixed areas were common in England, a lot of them didn't seem to realise they were in the home end and so acted as if they were in the away end. Gladbach fans weren't to blame, even the few nobhead City fans that were kicking off and throwing things weren't really to blame, the blame lies with the club, for allowing the tickets to get into the hands of thousands of away fans, the stewards for even letting them in the home end and generally doing bugger all and the police for completely failing to deal with the situation.