City fan suffers broken leg after being attacked at Leeds game

There’s a section of City fans who I’ve seen post stuff along the lines of having no issue with both sets of fans sitting together.
They live in cloud fucking cuckoo land and will often be found holding hands around the campfire singing Kumbaya my lord..
This has been on the cards for a while and is basically the club putting profit before safety.
There’s no excuse, anybody attempting to offer one is a halfwit.
 
Axel Freed said:
I understand your point but for me Khaldoon isn’t in the wrong. As Chairman he’s correctly identified the need to raise match day revenues. He's delegated responsibility to doing so to Soriano and can reasonably expect a man of his calibre to be able to see that merely selling tickets to the highest bidder creates problems in other areas and to deal with those problems when they first arise before the situation turns into the shitshow it is now
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Khaldoon decides policy. Soriano's job is to increase revenue with respect to nothing. Khaldoon's job as his boss is to listen to all his executives and decide the correct decision taking a more holistic and long term view.

If Soriano comes up with something and Khaldoon disagrees then it doesn't get done. Every single policy decision at the club is Khaldoon, people are just too cowardly to point the finger at him and Soriano is an easy target
 
jrb said:
This is what happens when the club uses 9 ticket touting partners, can't sell out home matches, makes it harder for genuine City fans to buy and transfers tickets, etc.

You end up with the club giving away tickets or selling them at a reduced price to school parties, who then begin waving their mobile phone lights on the 3rd tiers of the Colin Bell stand and the East stand.

To angry chants of.... You can stick your fucking torches up your arse from SSL1.

Colin Bell, L3.

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East Stand, L3.

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I hope whoever got injured is recovering and wish them well. We had a football team of 20 odd teenagers and their teachers turn up 15 minutes after kick off, they couldn’t find their seats, kept changing seats and some sat on the stairs between the blocks, they didn’t really watch the game. I think if they’re freebies, they just see it as an afternoon out, a bit like going to the pictures or the shopping complex on a Saturday afternoon.

When the phone torches went off in the Colin Bell, they copied them waving their phones about in the air. It did stop them from filming the game and playing with them for a short while though so small mercies I suppose.

A couple of seasons ago, a friend of mine stopped to talk to me on his way down to the concourse and he was asked to move by the steward and not to block the stairs. A couple of these lads sat on them for most of the game and the stewards wouldn’t go near them, turning back down the stairs before getting anywhere near them. I did ask one steward on my way out if I can sit on the stairs at the next game but I don’t think he understood me, he asked me what I had said and when I repeated it, he sniggered uncomfortably.

I get different groups near me most games, mostly on comps or freebies. Sometimes they are away fans and if they score, they don’t hide the fact that they support the away side and nothing ever happens, nobody challenges them, it has become accepted. The stewarding in the ground is piss poor and I’m surprised there isn’t more trouble to be honest.
 
bluwes said:
Started because a Leeds fan got relocated instead of being thrown out. Was in the 93:20 bar at HT. confronted my mate who he thought had fingered him as an away supporter and head butted him out of nowhere. All hell broke loose
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That's a stupid f*cking decision by the steward who relocated the Leeds fan. Needs sacking.
 
Damocles said:
Khaldoon decides policy. Soriano's job is to increase revenue with respect to nothing. Khaldoon's job as his boss is to listen to all his executives and decide the correct decision taking a more holistic and long term view.

If Soriano comes up with something and Khaldoon disagrees then it doesn't get done. Every single policy decision at the club is Khaldoon, people are just too cowardly to point the finger at him and Soriano is an easy target
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Khaldoon’s job isn’t to micro manage every problem that arises from the course Soriano takes. His role is to leave him to it and trust him and maybe to step in at such a time as he can see that Soriano is going down the wrong path

He can surely have reasonably expected a competent CEO to be able to raise revenue in a booming sector without alienating huge chunks of the business’ customer base and creating situations where we’re one unlucky fall away from having the ground shut down. Guys in Soriano’s role should be sensitive to a whole myriad of scenarios that develop when tickets are sold via third party websites.

Maybe I’m wrong, maybe Khaldoon is as much about only the bottom line as Soriano evidently is.
 
.db. said:
Doesn’t surprise me.

The same people operating cameras who pin-pointed these Blues, couldn't spot Liverpool fans throwing cups full of coins down to the City fans below in the same stand a few years ago, hospitalising a child. Yet they were able to zoom in to see the freckles on the faces of City fans who invaded the pitch against Villa and sent those images to the Police to get them arrested and to the MEN to put on their website.
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Why weren't they dragging the Leeds yobs involved in this incident out of their seats ??

If they can scan cctv to identify city fans, they must be able to identify the Leeds yobs too.
 
Damocles said:
Khaldoon decides policy. Soriano's job is to increase revenue with respect to nothing. Khaldoon's job as his boss is to listen to all his executives and decide the correct decision taking a more holistic and long term view.

If Soriano comes up with something and Khaldoon disagrees then it doesn't get done. Every single policy decision at the club is Khaldoon, people are just too cowardly to point the finger at him and Soriano is an easy target
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Agreed, I despise Sorriano and want him bombed out of our club at the first opportunity. However, we as fans let Khaldoon off the hook since he says nice things in his club-scripted interview.
He is full of shit.
 
I sit in 93:20 and saw all of this today.

There seemed to be 3 Leeds fans - 2 younger ones and an older bloke. The younger one got kicked out of the terraces on about 35 mins and escorted to the concourse by a steward. I went down for a piss on 40 mins and went into the 93:20 bar. He was in the bar being spoken to by a 93:20 staff member, almost interviewed. I heard him say “I’ve paid £300 to be here today”…where he’s got his ticket from I don’t know…!!

Anyway, then he and his two mates (the other younger one and the older one) sat down at a table. Over the next 5-10 mins the bar got busier as the half time whistle went. Next thing I knew, there 3 people were all scrapping with City fans. All in all about 10 people involved, 3 of them were Leeds. The older Leeds bloke was covered in blood by the end of.
A city fan ended up on the floor getting his face pummled by one of the younger Leeds fans.

Eventually ( not quickly!, say about 90 seconds), stewards and staff came steaming in and broke it all up. The three Leeds were taken out of the bar to the first aid station on the concourse opposite 110.

I went down for another piss (!!) on 70 mins and they weee still there, the older bloke who was covered in blood still receiving treatment from paramedics. When I came back from the bogs the coppers were with them and putting them in cuffs, I think (didn’t actually see the cuffs go on but looked like it)
 
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