Istanbul CL Final chaos | City Matters statement (p 133)

[JOGAMIGMOG]

These are two WhatsApps to mates back home the day after the match, one about 9:30 and one about 2pm, so they are a pretty close immediate reaction to what we went through and without discussing with other fans. Reading through this thread, the same words crop up..chaos, carnage, no organisation, dehydrated, unfinished surface, war zone. As much as I loath that kind of shit, I'd like to see a 'word cloud' of all our accounts...

Shithole

 

[levets]

I’ve done 5 beach holidays in Turkey. One was a 5* all inclusive so no need to leave the hotel. The others were Marmaris twice and Ovacik (near Olu Deniz) twice. Ate and drank out at loads of places and never any issues. On one of the Ovacik holidays, we did a Jeep safari day trip and it was one of the best day trips I’ve ever done while on holiday. Obviously, I can’t make any 100% guarantees but I’m pretty sure you’ll be fine.

Ovacik/Hisaronu is great been twice. Loved Olu Deniz too.

 

[Vic]

It's a pity if that was your experience but the vast majority of city fans had a wonderful time in Istanbul. No reason why turkey shouldn't look at having the euros, had our game been played at Besiktas or Galatasaray would have been easy travel options, the problem was playing at the ataturk stadium. The coastal resorts such as those near antalya are much like many others in the Mediterranean.

A wonderful hour from the 68th minute to leaving the stadium.

For people who spent a total of nearly half a day waiting for a bus, travelling on one with no water, or wondering where to find one, I'm really not sure that "wonderful" is the right word.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

A wonderful hour from the 68th minute to leaving the stadium.

For people who spent a total of nearly half a day waiting for a bus, travelling on one with no water, or wondering where to find one, I'm really not that "wonderful" is the right word.

Like we said 'it was fantastic night cos we won.'
'It would have been a ******* nightmare had we lost.'

Convinced there'd have been loads of trouble, on those buses, had we lost.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Like we said 'it was fantastic night cos we won.'
'It would have been a ******* nightmare had we lost.'

Convinced there'd have been loads of trouble, on those buses, had we lost.

I raised this as a point to Sportsworld mentioning I saw a poor young woman holding one of their signs getting harassed and overwhelmed by numbers. We asked a question to her but before she could answer in full there was a group building around us and we got pushed aside. Could have been a different story if tempers were raised. Their staff were put at serious risk I thought.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

City Matters published a report. Received by email. Recommendations are a bit... make your own opinion.

 

[LongsightM13]

In Porto there were hundreds of club staff posted all over the place, inside and outside the stadium, pre and post match, and directing people to pre-assigned buses, which had free food and drink packs when you boarded
Wonder why it was so different for people this time?
Were the club not allowed to bring their own security staff?
Or did they try and cheap it out by contracting to Sportsworld who themselves did it on the even cheaper?
I got the metro there and back, best decision we ever made - even though we were strictly told beforehand and especially afterwards by UEFA not to use it - but still interested in the club’s own potential involvement in this fiasco for so many

 

[Blue Maverick]

In Porto there were hundreds of club staff posted all over the place, inside and outside the stadium, pre and post match, and directing people to pre-assigned buses, which had free food and drink packs when you boarded
Wonder why it was so different for people this time?
Were the club not allowed to bring their own security staff?
Or did they try and cheap it out by contracting to Sportsworld who themselves did it on the even cheaper?
I got the metro there and back, best decision we ever made - even though we were strictly told beforehand and especially afterwards by UEFA not to use it - but still interested in the club’s own potential involvement in this fiasco for so many

Thing is now if we ever do it again no fucker will take a blind bit of notice of what uefa say or do

 

[LongsightM13]

Thing is now if we ever do it again no fucker will take a blind bit of notice of what uefa say or do

That was my policy and turned out the best thing I ever did

 

[Blue Maverick]

That was my policy and turned out the best thing I ever did

I was so tempTed to walk round to the metro, but as soon as the trophy was lifted we went thinking we’d beat the rush in the buses, oh how wrong we were!