Fighting at Wembley in Block 534



‘Blue on Blue
Heartache for mardies
Black and blue
Now that they are through’
 
The amount we spend on Wembley tickets and yet they employ stewards who couldn’t sort out a fight at a vicars tea party, it’s never a massive surprise that arguments escalate rather than get nipped in the bud
 
Mike S said:
I didn’t see any trouble in 536 yesterday but there were more than a few at Uxbridge CC who were staggering back to the coaches at about 1pm who were going to struggle to get through the rest of the day. You hope they don’t end up next to you in the stadium !

I was happy with just the 4 pints but I’m nearly an FOC …..

That said we did see blue on blue at the League Cup final. That argument yet again started over standing up. Sad …..
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Just when do you become nearly a FOC ? Intrigued as I’m only 62 Am I one or not ? Hope so , tee hee hee
 
roj said:
I had the seat next to stand up man in the stand up sit down battle of 126/7. Nice bloke, with his son. Had all the City chats with him and stuff about the game as it happened. He wasn't pissed or on anything. He was stood up no more than anyone else in that area; I don't remember ever being sat down while he stood. Sit down man on the other hand - while I can't say whether/how much he'd drank/sniffed, I can say that I've never seen anyone that angry - like tears of rage angry. Some on here joking about barm vs muffin, but yesterday this man would definitely have fought you over what bread's called. Regardless of what he may have drank/taken, I reckon there was something not right in his head - a few loose screws.
Anyway, having said nothing all game (as far as I know), he just exploded on my guy - 'If you don't effin sit down I'm gonna effin rip your...etc'. You could hear in his voice that he was on the edge of crying. Stand up man thought it best to wind him up a bit more and a low punch-count melee began. Sit down man's mates got involved and a couple of random plonkers made a journey over to get involved. Then a Lot of stewards (no police) came and removed sit down man (with a tiny bit of blood on his mouth) and a few of his mates + plonkers.
The battle was won by stand up and his son.
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I'm glad stand up won

CHAMPIONS AGAIN!
 
A few years ago I was in the lower section at Wembley for the FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal (that we inexplicably lost). Everybody, pretty much, decided to stand up at kick-off. I was right on the aisle, so I swapped my seat with a very elderly lady who was in the middle of the row and was clearly going to see nothing of the match (even if she had stood right through it, which she was clearly not going to be able to do). I think she had some difficulty in understanding why I was swapping seats with her, and was a bit reluctant at first.
I discovered that I don't, any more, really want to stand 90 minutes and then some, unless I've got a rail to lean on (or the shoulders of a shorter bloke than me…). Those Kippax days are way, way in the past. And I was only in my mid-sixties at that point. I think, though, that if you get a seat in a safe standing area you've got to take on board the idea that you may have to stand, even if you don't particularly like it.

(It's funny because I came out of retirement to do some teaching, and I literally never teach a class sitting down. And I never have done, through nearly fifty years of it, except on the rare occasions when I had truly terrible sciatica. Even then I had to discipline myself to stay sat down. I just can't do it. The difference is you can move around, a bit the way stand-up comedians do — no taking the piss, please — like Kevin Bridges, for instance. Standing on the same spot for one and a half hours just becomes deeply uncomfortable. Unless the football is so good that it takes your mind off it).
 
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Gesario said:
Just when do you become nearly a FOC ? Intrigued as I’m only 62 Am I one or not ? Hope so , tee hee hee
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Are FOC's allowed to use things like tee hee hee?

I'd have thought that there were strict rules on just how miserable you have to come across.

Maybe you're still a youngster really mate and are yet to fully develop into a full fledged FOC. Or a late developer? ;)
 
pretty much bang on summary of what went on , i was directly infront but a few rows down to see it all unfold .... certainly made the 2nd half go fast lol

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this was supposed to be a specific post but im fucked if i know what im doing on my computer at the best of times! .... it was roj post that i was trying to quote if anyone is interested lol
 
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