Ever had to stand/sit in opposing fans' area?

Leeds, Spion kop, late 70's, got lost and ended up in there. There were 3 or 4 of us all speaking in stupid made up Yorkshire accents,sort of taking the piss but mainly to prevent our heads getting caved in.Players came on the pitch and the quiet one of our lot erupted with the flicking of Vs and all the usual effing and jeefing,I can even remembering him foaming at the mouth as he would normally do on the Kippax,except he'd forgotten he wasn't there this time. The rest of us just left him to it and dropped to the floor and crawled down to the touchline for an escort into our end. My mate was OK although Christ know how or why.
 
Leicester, Boro, & Sunderland.

Leicester in 03/04 was tough to keep stum, relegation a real possibility, the penalty save. etc. Thought I'd done well to avoid giving myself away except when the final whistle went a few wished me a save journey home and said they hoped we'd stay up.

Sunderland in 11/12, when they scored in injury time, I left my seat headed to the exits only to be nearly trampled to death by their fans returning from the concourses. It was fairly obvious I didn't share their joy but I don't think they were that bothered.

Also found myself in the wrong end at Brammall Lane in 72. Followed a group of City fans in thinking it was the away end before I realised they were a group of nutters intent on mayhem. They couldn't understand why I was following them. Managed to make it to the away end whilst only being bottled once.
 
Surprised the Blackburn 4-1 promotion game hasn't had a mention.

I was in main stand for that and we must have had 4000 or more in their end that day.

Have also done Everton twice and Blackburn when Anelka scored winner.
 
I was in with the Reading fans at their old stadium, the week after we beat Huddersfield 10-1. Paul Stewart scored two and we won 2-0, but I managed not to celebrate when either goal went in even though I could see the City fans at the other end going crazy. The funny thing was, after the 10-1, their fans were relieved we'd only won by 2 against them, so they were in pretty good spirits despite the defeat, and I might have got away with admitting my allegiance!
 
everton x3
liverpool x3
bolton x2
blackpool
leeds
rags too many times
spudsx2
wba
birmingham
villa
leicester
halifax
newcastle
middlesboro
stoke
norwich
real madrd
fc twente
plus a few i cant remember friendlys that dont really count.

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forgot blackburn
bradford
 
Bradford away for Morleys late equaliser to get promoted was one I remember the most ( loads of blues all in bottom right hand side behind the goal.


Also did it for Liverpool away 1st game of season the following season....we got beat 3 - 1 but I still got smacked as I had forgotten where I was and jumped up when we equalised n stroke of half time !


Done it also at Blackburn ( day of hillsbrough ) and notts county in the cup.


In fact I don't think I have ever seen City win when I have not been in the right end !
 
Me and my cousin sat in with the Sunderland fans when Ji Dong Won scored in the last minute to win 1-0. They cottoned out quite quickly that we were city fans but after letting them know we were season ticket holders who missed out on away tickets they seemed to be alright with us. They have millions of empty seats anyway so if things did get a bit 'nawty' then we could have easily moved
 
I can beat all of you and this story is completely true.

Last match of the season 1968.
My dad wouldn't let me go to Newcastle, and those were the days and culture when disobeying your dad got you aright kicking. A mate of mine had a ticket for Utd versus Sunderland in the Stretford End.
I went.
Imagine trying to keep quiet as Sunderland scored twice in beating the scum.
Imagine then having to try to keep shtum as the announcer gave the score from Newcastle.
Its the only time in my life I was shitting myself and screaming inside with pleasure simultaneously.
 
Tuearts right boot said:
Leeds, Spion kop, late 70's, got lost and ended up in there. There were 3 or 4 of us all speaking in stupid made up Yorkshire accents,sort of taking the piss but mainly to prevent our heads getting caved in.Players came on the pitch and the quiet one of our lot erupted with the flicking of Vs and all the usual effing and jeefing,I can even remembering him foaming at the mouth as he would normally do on the Kippax,except he'd forgotten he wasn't there this time. The rest of us just left him to it and dropped to the floor and crawled down to the touchline for an escort into our end. My mate was OK although Christ know how or why.
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Me and a mate Leeds away 1980,Allisons last game I think.

Kiev in Europa,pissed up and went in wrong end but escorted through to ours.
 
Swamp paddock twice. Once when Ian Brightwell equalised with a 25 yard screamer which counted as our goal of the month (or was it season?) entry on motd at the expense of a better goal we had previously scored that year but I can't quite remember. (Could it have been 89 then? As that would make me think it was the Hinchcliffe header which was one of very best I've ever seen. Like watching FIFA it was that good.)

Second was again in paddock but watching rags v Forest. Only went cos my rag mate's dad was taking us all to the newly arrived Maccie D's after for his b'day and we were about 10 so it was a big thing (McD's). Didn't stop me cheering Forest - got a little bit of stick, nothing serious and I probably deserved it. Especially when I responded matter of factly to one bloke giving me a bit of gentle banter back: 'Doesn't matter. I don't even support Forest. I'm a city fan.'

Pmsl when I think about it now.
 
A few, some better than others...

Behind the benches at the Swamp when Brightwell scored - that was a highlight

A few times at Goodison, never any problems, same Anfield

That first game of the season at Highbury when Uwe got sent off, was in the new North Bank and my dad and I were strangely impressed that even the urinals had an Arsenal badge on them

Bolton a few years back when we lost towards the end of the season, they were fine, we were sat with mates in their normal seats and they just told the regulars that we were OK.

West Brom when we won with Anelka scoring under Keegan, though we missed half the game as my wife was chasing stewards to complain about the racist abuse Sun Jihai was getting

Worst was in the directors' box at Ipswich the night we went down under Joe Royle, ended up as guests of the Man of the Match sponsor - so after watching us go down we then had to smile nicely for photos with Matt Holland holding the ball that relegated us
 
Some great examples here. Mine are a bit pants in comparison.

Maine Road. When the Kippax or North Stand were full we watched loads of games from the Platt Lane as it was cheaper than the Maine Stand. The only time we had any grief was being locked in with Leeds fans after they started smashing the place up.

Villareal. Walked in off the street, sat down, watched game, no bother.
 
Burnley at Turf Moor 4 years or so ago. In the stand with the nutters. We were 5-0 up after about 30 mins. They were going mental, they hated their manager anyway. Brian Laws I think.

Ended up 6-1. Just kept my head down.
 
A fair few times, back when tickets in the away end we're harder to come by (for which read when we weren't shit).

Can remember being sat in the North Stand for a game at your place circa 93/94 think we got beat 2-1 and remember my mam saying you will need to be quiet if Newcastle score. We went one up and being a little impulsive lad i jumped up as did a few others cant recall a game where so many away fans were sat in the home end (though it's possible this memory has been distorted by the passage of time)

Also in the North Stand for the 3-3 game about 2 rows from the front right where Tino and Keith Curle had their disagreement. I can confirm without any bias nothing untoward happened and the ref was right not to send off Asrillia :)
 
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