Blues Away Fans - here's to you

I was the opposite end to you with a few West Ham mates (bloody hard not to go nuts when we went 3 up just before half time).

The big screen over u lot worked for the whole match?

Fantastic noise from our lot, compared to the ooccasional burst of "irons, irons" from hammers around me.

Shambles trying to get home as 50k fans carnt fit into one station at the same time but luckily some bars were still open after the match!
 
Bluenobby said:
Ah poor you ... couldn't you get a ticket for the Rags away? Well I apologise for following City since 1968 and having more of those lovely loyalty points than you ... Remind me to hand a few back in so you can come next time ;) Ps ... I don't suppose you bothered with that midweek League cup trip to Swansea earlier in the season eh?! ;)
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Exactly the response I would expect from a middle aged, middle class male.
 
Good trip, but I personally was very underwhelmed by the "London Stadium" experience. The large gap between the 2 tiers is just odd, splits the away support and makes it difficult to really get the songs going. That presumably applies to the home fans too. The West Ham fans were great as per usual and had nothing but praise for the City Friday night turnout. Strangely, a young West Ham fan walked into our hotel (Premier at Westfield) with Sagna's match shirt, given to him as he walked off the pitch. The only happy hammer I met after the game..

The only issues were with fellow City fans. There was an absolute knobhead in 219 with his West Ham supporting bird who did nothing but wind everyone one up and it very nearly came to blows on a few occasions, so much so that the Police had to step in, by which time he'd vanished. There was also another absolute nutter at half time who was just walking round City fans offering them out. Completely spangled and off his nut, talking complete jibberish. How he didn't get sparked out I'll never know.

Great to see the Poznan back, and according to the Hammers fans I spoke to after the match, fans of other clubs seem to miss it too..
 
Dodge said:
Good trip, but I personally was very underwhelmed by the "London Stadium" experience. The large gap between the 2 tiers is just odd, splits the away support and makes it difficult to really get the songs going. That presumably applies to the home fans too. The West Ham fans were great as per usual and had nothing but praise for the City Friday night turnout. Strangely, a young West Ham fan walked into our hotel (Premier at Westfield) with Sagna's match shirt, given to him as he walked off the pitch. The only happy hammer I met after the game..

The only issues were with fellow City fans. There was an absolute knobhead in 219 with his West Ham supporting bird who did nothing but wind everyone one up and it very nearly came to blows on a few occasions, so much so that the Police had to step in, by which time he'd vanished. There was also another absolute nutter at half time who was just walking round City fans offering them out. Completely spangled and off his nut, talking complete jibberish. How he didn't get sparked out I'll never know.

Great to see the Poznan back, and according to the Hammers fans I spoke to after the match, fans of other clubs seem to miss it too..
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Stop making lies up mate, all of our fans are saints.
 
All I can say is well done to everyone who went down. That was one of those games where I thought we'd genuinely take less then 1,000 (given the KO date/time and being on BBC1). They should do something where every fan who went is assured first dibs on tickets to Wembley should we get there.
 
Dodge said:
Good trip, but I personally was very underwhelmed by the "London Stadium" experience. The large gap between the 2 tiers is just odd, splits the away support and makes it difficult to really get the songs going. That presumably applies to the home fans too. The West Ham fans were great as per usual and had nothing but praise for the City Friday night turnout. Strangely, a young West Ham fan walked into our hotel (Premier at Westfield) with Sagna's match shirt, given to him as he walked off the pitch. The only happy hammer I met after the game..

The only issues were with fellow City fans. There was an absolute knobhead in 219 with his West Ham supporting bird who did nothing but wind everyone one up and it very nearly came to blows on a few occasions, so much so that the Police had to step in, by which time he'd vanished. There was also another absolute nutter at half time who was just walking round City fans offering them out. Completely spangled and off his nut, talking complete jibberish. How he didn't get sparked out I'll never know.

Great to see the Poznan back, and according to the Hammers fans I spoke to after the match, fans of other clubs seem to miss it too..
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Haha, we have some absolute idiots following us. I remember some City fan offering me out when we won the FA cup 2011, i was cheering and singing with everyone else after we won and he started giving me a lecture about how it means fucks all and we are nowhere near the levels of United. I explained that we had just won our first trophy in years and told him to enjoy it, he took his top of started pointing at his city tattoos and swung for me. Really bizzare.
 
Manchester33 said:
All I can say is well done to everyone who went down. That was one of those games where I thought we'd genuinely take less then 1,000 (given the KO date/time and being on BBC1). They should do something where every fan who went is assured first dibs on tickets to Wembley should we get there.
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Nice sentiment but as a season ticket holder on the cup scheme and been to almost every other cup match for about a decade I'd have a few issues if I missed out on Wembley because I didn't go to West Ham!!
 
I really didn't expect much of a turnout & huge credit to those who went.

The comments re the stadium just confirm what I thought when I first saw it on tv.

I like West Ham & I fear for them a bit because of this move. Perhaps they will find a way to make it work, but right now they have the same problem we have, creating the right 'feel' in a difficult environment, but much much worse as they don't have the big players to play in the big stadium.

They really could do with a takeover & some big money coming in.
 
mcfcphil said:
Nice sentiment but as a season ticket holder on the cup scheme and been to almost every other cup match for about a decade I'd have a few issues if I missed out on Wembley because I didn't go to West Ham!!
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I'm in the same boat as you really. I'm going to Everton next week and will get the same amount of 'ticket points' as those who went to West Ham. Maybe it's time they started categorizing away games and giving more points for the really unattractive fixtures. You'd get 50 points for West Ham away as opposed to, say, 20 for Everton away.
 
Manchester33 said:
I'm in the same boat as you really. I'm going to Everton next week and will get the same amount of 'ticket points' as those who went to West Ham. Maybe it's time they started categorizing away games and giving more points for the really unattractive fixtures. You'd get 50 points for West Ham away as opposed to, say, 20 for Everton away.
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Spot on. The only tweak required to the current system.
 
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