Celtic game - strict security measures announced (page 34)

Steve Punter said:
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Kicked off in 105 and people were coming over from 106-107 to have a go. A few Celtic fans left, one got chucked out. Stewards didn't have a clue or didn't care, they were nowhere to be seen.

They were goading City fans when they scored and when our goal was disallowed. What did they expect to happen?
Spoke to the steward in 105. He said there was nothing he could do. The 40 or 50 Celtic fans in there were 'friends of UEFA' and presumably are therefore entitled to behave like arseholes.

I'm in 104, close to 105, and the 'friends of UEFA' for the Gladbach game happened to be German and for Barca, Spanish. It's an absolute farce and last night was very unpleasant. Just glad I didn't take the kids. Two or three Celtic fans were extremely aggressive in their posturing. Standing up, staring menacingly at anyone they fancied singling out, making cutting throat gestures etc. I'd like to see what (if any) checks there are on what these so called 'friends of UEFA' are doing with their allocation because they're clearly selling the tickets on for every game.
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Infuriating to hear as I get turfed out of my seat for CL group games.
 
Eds said:
Can we put this numbers nonsense to bed. At most they had 1500 - 2,000 dotted around the stadium in the home ends and most although they cheered the goal behaved themselves. I was in the CB level 2 in my usual seat next to their so called executive fans. Apart from one who kept jumping up and down every time they crossed half way the rest were fine.
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I too was surprised at how few were in the home sections,I was expecting far more.
 
bennyboy said:
Everybody knows Roberts is one of our own.
Apart from that I agree with you.
All it needs though is one clown to spoil it for others.
I was in 239 by the way.
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I was in 240 and that incident was behind me. Yes they jumped up, no they should not have but by the same score the people, or person, around did not have to be so angry about it. In every CL game we have away fans or fans that are not following either team. I embrace it. (NB Unless we play United). I had them sat all round me and they were all fine, we had good chat about football and we shook hands on the way out.

It's not like we've never done it. Blackburn springs to mind. I've done it at Huddersfield and WHU off the top of my head.
 
BigBluey said:
Went to the game and relocated to the family stand 2nd tier to be with my sons and grandson. There were 4 celtic fans behind us but didn't realise that until they scored. I overheard one say to the others "we agreed to calm it down so keep quiet"
After that I barely heard them. Had a good chat to them at half time and they were very impressed with the Stadium and facilities and wished City good luck for the rest of the season.

I've no problem with away supporters in our end as long as they show some respect. Turns out that these lads behind us were decent normal fans who just wanted to watch their team sat in seats that some other city fans had sold on
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That's about right but i'm telling you now we are lining ourselves up the way things are going to get United one year and the violence in the stands will see us banned from Europe. You can just see it happening!
 
I've sat in the home end at a few matches but the one that always sticks in my mind is a cup game at Bolton one season and I was the only person for about 10 rows and there were so few fans that if I had jumped up when we (inevitably) scored it would have taken 5 minutes for anyone to get to me!! I was polite though and sat on my hands when we scored and just gazed longingly at the away supporter stand (which was full) and wished I was with them all!!
 
GortonBlue62 said:
Missed getting my Burnley ticket so I went online, using a Manchester postcode, registered as a 'Claret' and watched the game from the Burnley end.

Here's an email I received from Burnley, reminding me of their policy re away fans in the home end.

Dear Football Supporters,
Thank you for registering as a ‘Claret’ with Burnley Football Club and thank you for purchasing tickets for the forthcoming fixture against Manchester City.
You have bought your tickets in areas where dedicated Burnley fans are situated. Please be mindful of that if you are a ‘neutral supporter’.
Please be aware that if your allegiance is towards Manchester City, our policy is to remove from the ground any ‘visiting team’ supporter who is wearing the visiting team colours or openly demonstrates their support of the opposition.
The visiting team ticket allocation is sold out so there will be no transfers into the area of the visiting supporters.
We look forward to seeing you at the fixtures throughout the rest of the season and trust you have an enjoyable time at Turf Moor.

All very sensible and I'm sure it's City's policy too.

Despite wanting to rip their fucking heads off when they were abusing Sterling, I kept my mouth shut and behaved impeccably; nobody around me would have known I was an away supporter.

That's the way it should be.

Anyone trying to excuse the behaviour of the Celtic fans last night is trying to defend the indefensible.
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City's policy is (or was when i read it and emailed the club with it) that only home supporters could sit in the home stands
 
Imagine them or anyone else coming in the kippax or north stand back in the day it just wouldn't happen they would of got absolutely mullered fuck this I don't mind them in our end etc they shouldn't be there end of let them fuck off back up to Scotland and take there shit IRA songs with them.
 
manchester blue said:
I was in 240 and that incident was behind me. Yes they jumped up, no they should not have but by the same score the people, or person, around did not have to be so angry about it. In every CL game we have away fans or fans that are not following either team. I embrace it. (NB Unless we play United). I had them sat all round me and they were all fine, we had good chat about football and we shook hands on the way out.

It's not like we've never done it. Blackburn springs to mind. I've done it at Huddersfield and WHU off the top of my head.
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It amazes me how angry people get. It was a meaningless game and still people are spoiling for a fight. They must see it like a random bloke touching up those missus in a pub or something.
 
I see GMP have tweeted "time to go home" as Celtic fans are still causing mither in the city centre at 11am this morning
 
manchester blue said:
I was in 240 and that incident was behind me. Yes they jumped up, no they should not have but by the same score the people, or person, around did not have to be so angry about it. In every CL game we have away fans or fans that are not following either team. I embrace it. (NB Unless we play United). I had them sat all round me and they were all fine, we had good chat about football and we shook hands on the way out.

It's not like we've never done it. Blackburn springs to mind. I've done it at Huddersfield and WHU off the top of my head.
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No issues at all with away fans that behave in our end.
What concerned me was the way this fan acted in the family stand with children near him.
Caused a lot of distress to one young fan in particular.Sad to see,could put them off going to football for ever.
 
Indaparkside said:
Imagine them or anyone else coming in the kippax or north stand back in the day it just wouldn't happen they would of got absolutely mullered fuck this I don't mind them in our end etc they shouldn't be there end of let them fuck off back up to Scotland and take there shit IRA songs with them.
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Most Scots don't want their shite IRA songs either.
 
Indaparkside said:
Been singing them long enough though and from what I heared in manchester before the game seemed most were joining in with them
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It's only a small section of a football club in one Scottish city. There's more people in Glasgow that don't regularly attend football games than do and the majority of Glaswegians probably won't want anything to do with the IRA.

I know you weren't generalising all of Scotland though mate.
 
chaddblue said:
I see GMP have tweeted "time to go home" as Celtic fans are still causing mither in the city centre at 11am this morning
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That'll sort them out.

Re fans in the ground I was sat 3 rows in front of the CSKA fans in I think 115 when there was a ban in them being there.

Stewards and Cops a waste of time and that was with only about 15 away fans.

Pisses me off that I run the risk of getting a ban for being passionate at a normal game....one rule for us one for them, whatever people's views on away fans in home areas the club has a responsibility to treat everyone equally and fairly under their rules & regs. That patently doesn't happen.

Hang your heads men in suits.
 
Ban-jani said:
It's only a small section of a football club in one Scottish city. There's more people in Glasgow that don't regularly attend football games than do and the majority of Glaswegians probably won't want anything to do with the IRA.

I know you weren't generalising all of Scotland though mate.
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No, he was talking about the scum bag Celtic fans that do attend games and do sing the pro IRA songs.

Can't think why you're introducing the non football attending Glaswegians into this discussion on this thread on this website.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
In 109 soon after kick off there was some trouble down at the front. I'm near the back so couldn't see what was happening but soon after a steward walked past escorting a Celtic fan. Then to our amazement about 25 more were led out who all must have been in a group. They were taken into the away fans area from what we could see. Then when they lit their phones, I couldn't believe how many there were. You expect a few but there were Celtic fans in just about every part of the ground.

Ferran Soriano & Danny Wilson should be sacked for what happened last night. It was utterly inept but, more importantly, potentially put our fans in danger. For once, I'm completely on UEFA's side on this.
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I know a lady who will not go to our home games in this competition after being caught up in a melee involving city fans and away supporters who had been allocated tickets slap bang in the middle of 105. This at previous champions league games. She wrote into to the club to complain And did not even get a response.

Fast forward to last night, in exactly the same block, you have exactly the same situation. It is indefensible and The club cannot say they do not know about this problem.

I would like to ask the club what exactly the role of the steward is in maintaining supporters safety/what the stewards are being briefed about before games like this. Is sitting there hands in pockets allowing away fans to stand up in the home end, arms out, bellowing out songs acceptable? According to our stewards, it is.
 
GortonBlue62 said:
Missed getting my Burnley ticket so I went online, using a Manchester postcode, registered as a 'Claret' and watched the game from the Burnley end.

Here's an email I received from Burnley, reminding me of their policy re away fans in the home end.

Dear Football Supporters,
Thank you for registering as a ‘Claret’ with Burnley Football Club and thank you for purchasing tickets for the forthcoming fixture against Manchester City.
You have bought your tickets in areas where dedicated Burnley fans are situated. Please be mindful of that if you are a ‘neutral supporter’.
Please be aware that if your allegiance is towards Manchester City, our policy is to remove from the ground any ‘visiting team’ supporter who is wearing the visiting team colours or openly demonstrates their support of the opposition.
The visiting team ticket allocation is sold out so there will be no transfers into the area of the visiting supporters.
We look forward to seeing you at the fixtures throughout the rest of the season and trust you have an enjoyable time at Turf Moor.

All very sensible and I'm sure it's City's policy too.

Despite wanting to rip their fucking heads off when they were abusing Sterling, I kept my mouth shut and behaved impeccably; nobody around me would have known I was an away supporter.

That's the way it should be.

Anyone trying to excuse the behaviour of the Celtic fans last night is trying to defend the indefensible.
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I did exactly the same, received same e-mail, behaved myself like the impeccable fans we are. The lad next to me turns to me after their goal and says "You're here with City aren't you". I owned up and spent the rest of the game chatting with him and his family, no problem, shook hands at the end.
 
Ban-jani said:
It's only a small section of a football club in one Scottish city. There's more people in Glasgow that don't regularly attend football games than do and the majority of Glaswegians probably won't want anything to do with the IRA.

I know you weren't generalising all of Scotland though mate.
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Small section = 90% of them and their support is in every town/City in scotland , not just one...250,000 Rangers fans invade Manchester ...39 arrests..... 4,000 Septic fans... 40 arrests and counting.......You do the math(s).
 
warpig said:
I know a lady who will not go to our home games in this competition after being caught up in a melee involving city fans and away supporters who had been allocated tickets slap bang in the middle of 105. This at previous champions league games. She wrote into to the club to complain And did not even get a response.

Fast forward to last night, in exactly the same block, you have exactly the same situation. It is indefensible and The club cannot say they do not know about this problem.

I would like to ask the club what exactly the role of the steward is in maintaining supporters safety/what the stewards are being briefed about before games like this. Is sitting there hands in pockets allowing away fans to stand up in the home end, arms out, bellowing out songs acceptable? According to our stewards, it is.
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Whether they paid big money or whether they were there on a corporate freebee they should still have to behave.

When they scored there wasn't a steward in sight.

When I eventually did speak to one (about 15 minutes later) he was unable to help because the policy is that he can't touch the friends of UEFA.

There needs to be a proper police presence in 105 if these UEFA arseholes are to be allowed to behave in a way the average fan cannot.
 
which stewards are expected to get involved, if it is the ones who show people to their seats then i think that is a very big ask, many of them are either old, female, or probably students earning a few quid, near us, the young steward was getting berated by irate City fans for not moving the celtic fans out, i think for 7.20 an hour, people are expecting a bit too much, if i was him, i would have said here's your flourescent jacket, i'm off home, i don't need this shit.
 
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