I agree 100%Correct!
Cheesy try-hards with shit songs and annoying drums, all clapping like it’s “Radio Gaga” at Wembley in ’86 and daft “I’m too sexy for my shirt” moments.
Our atmosphere was shit the other night but give me our good atmospheres over the Europop Ultras nonsense every fucking day of the week!
UEFA and GMP are to blame but City are to blame too. I posted on here weeks ago “The Balkans fans are the most active hooligans in Europe”. I know what it was going to be like the moment we drew them. City and GMP, like you say, prepared for a crowd like it was a pop concert at the MEN. They had their heads up their arses and are out of touch with fan culture in other countries.
There weren’t Zagreb fans dotted about the home end last night but three or four times in my block over the years it’s been very very close to breaking out into a brawl, a mass brawl when it was Celtic, because UEFA tell City they want seats in prime positions in the home end.
City should tell them “we are sorry, but NO, this is not safe, so we will not fulfil this demand”!
Against Celtic, me and another lad had been moved further down our block that night but my normal seat was actually empty. Other lads we sit with were left in their normal seats and they had Celtic fans behind them and next to them on the other side who were shouting stuff at them to intimidate them, so me and the other lad who’d been moved went up and sat with them in the second half and had a word with the Celtic fans and told them to wind their necks in. The ones around us did, but most further back in the block didn’t.
The Celtic fans spend 35 minutes in the second half singing IRA songs and that included fans in the back of our block. There were City fans kicking off with them all half and City fans were coming from other blocks to come and fight them.
How it didn’t become a serious situation I’ll never know. Probably the fear of being on security cameras just stops that, but something really bad could have happened that night.
In these areas of the stadium where pockets of away fans are it’s been edgy a number of times and kicked off a few times (Bayern, Moscow, Plzen of all sets of fans, Celtic), yet there is no segregation, no extra stewarding, and not a single fucking Police officer in sight in these areas.
There has also been two Napoli fans smoking in their seats, a Roma fans smoking a cigar in his seat in our block before. Nothing major I know but if that had been City fans they’d have been kicked out.
But for fuck’s sake GMP and City, know your audience and prepare for games properly. Those Police in riot gear should have been across the two divides from the start of the game the other night and arrests should have been made. If we acted like they did the other night anywhere in Europe, we’d be truncheoned to fuck by the Police.
Atalanta will be interesting, not sure what sort of numbers they travel in though.I agree with every word that you have written. You, me and thousands of other Blues can forsee the problems at CL games, so why can't City, UEFA and GMP? You, me and thousands of other Blues suggest the same workable solutions, so why aren't they implemented by City, UEFA and GMP? I'm convinced that it isn't the monetary cost why our solutions aren't implemented, so it is either incompetence or indifference. The next time an Eastern European team visit, or Celtic, or Napoli, or countless others, the same problems will surface, only next time there could be serious injuries suffered by the innocents caught up in it.
Atalanta will be interesting, not sure what sort of numbers they travel in though.
Bets that City's fine for this is the bigger than Zagreb's.
UEFA and GMP are to blame but City are to blame too. I posted on here weeks ago “The Balkans fans are the most active hooligans in Europe”. I know what it was going to be like the moment we drew them. City and GMP, like you say, prepared for a crowd like it was a pop concert at the MEN. They had their heads up their arses and are out of touch with fan culture in other countries.
There weren’t Zagreb fans dotted about the home end last night but three or four times in my block over the years it’s been very very close to breaking out into a brawl, a mass brawl when it was Celtic, because UEFA tell City they want seats in prime positions in the home end.
City should tell them “we are sorry, but NO, this is not safe, so we will not fulfil this demand”!
Against Celtic, me and another lad had been moved further down our block that night but my normal seat was actually empty. Other lads we sit with were left in their normal seats and they had Celtic fans behind them and next to them on the other side who were shouting stuff at them to intimidate them, so me and the other lad who’d been moved went up and sat with them in the second half and had a word with the Celtic fans and told them to wind their necks in. The ones around us did, but most further back in the block didn’t.
The Celtic fans spend 35 minutes in the second half singing IRA songs and that included fans in the back of our block. There were City fans kicking off with them all half and City fans were coming from other blocks to come and fight them.
How it didn’t become a serious situation I’ll never know. Probably the fear of being on security cameras just stops that, but something really bad could have happened that night.
In these areas of the stadium where pockets of away fans are it’s been edgy a number of times and kicked off a few times (Bayern, Moscow, Plzen of all sets of fans, Celtic), yet there is no segregation, no extra stewarding, and not a single fucking Police officer in sight in these areas.
There has also been two Napoli fans smoking in their seats, a Roma fans smoking a cigar in his seat in our block before. Nothing major I know but if that had been City fans they’d have been kicked out.
But for fuck’s sake GMP and City, know your audience and prepare for games properly. Those Police in riot gear should have been across the two divides from the start of the game the other night and arrests should have been made. If we acted like they did the other night anywhere in Europe, we’d be truncheoned to fuck by the Police.
Whoaaaa Edin Dzeko mate. Have to say he's a real good looking Bosniak and as much as I hate to say it Pjanic at Juve too.Nope, it's not political. it's their ex president and still the main guy in the club, though the runaway from the law, so not on the paper, Zdravko Mamic.
Very nice and interesting little island, well worth a visit.