Southampton fans coming out today

[East Level 2]

Liverpool feeder club too

Fan and players.

 

[paulchapo]

Thanks I appreciate that kind message.

I am by no means a fighter I’ve had one fight in my life and lost it badly. But I can’t help but feel guilty even today I didn’t confront them.

But my 10 and 6 year old wouldn’t have appreciated seeing their dad get filled in so I keep telling myself I did the right thing even if I don’t believe it deep down.

Just a horrible experience as we where just minding our business.

I have adhd and autism so I tend to over analyse things and I can be over sensitive Perrhaps I’m being too harsh on myself but I just can’t shake the feeling of guilt.

Your first priority was the safety of your wife and kids and you achieved that aim. I can't believe not one of them had the decency to tell the gobbiest ones to leave it out. Absolute shitehouses.

 

[East Level 2]

Saw a group of angry you lads shouting "dirty northern bastards" on the way out, trying to goad city fans but everyone was ignoring them. Seen a Facebook video of a pillock in yellow trying to start a fight and getting arrested.

Be funny if they win the play-offs and he's banned for it.

 

[Norbert D]

Thanks I appreciate that kind message.

I am by no means a fighter I’ve had one fight in my life and lost it badly. But I can’t help but feel guilty even today I didn’t confront them.

But my 10 and 6 year old wouldn’t have appreciated seeing their dad get filled in so I keep telling myself I did the right thing even if I don’t believe it deep down.

Just a horrible experience as we where just minding our business.

I have adhd and autism so I tend to over analyse things and I can be over sensitive Perrhaps I’m being too harsh on myself but I just can’t shake the feeling of guilt.

You did the right thing 100%, scenario 1 you twat one and the others fuck off, you walk away feeling like a thug especially in front of your kids and wonder if it’s been caught on CCTV AND the old bill could come knocking, scenario 2, you get beat up in front of your kids and your wife joins in and gets thumped as well. Scenario 3, take it on the chin and laugh it off. You’ll see scenarios 1 and 2 are shit, you took the right option not just for you, but your wife and kids.

 

[cleavers]

Yeah first thing I noticed on the box, lower tier about the 18 yard line quite a few groups of empty seats in their end, guess they didn’t sell out after all. If they got about 36000 tickets and sold 35000 who were the other 35000? Looked like City probably had at least 30000 and that’s pushing the neutral number past a credible 5000.

Our end had a whole swathe of empty blocks opposite where I was (523-526), and the two blocks next to the one I was in (506) were pretty sparse (more expensive than the block I was in). The club wembley seats were probably less than 50% full.

 

[cleavers]

View attachment 190419Plastic fans, they say? Quick recce suggests St Mary’s capacity about 30-31K. How many of them struggled to make a Saturday 3pm kick off in February in the 4th round?

One team town, easy walk from city centre. Inexcusable, Brian.

3000 of them were probably Leicester too.

 

[kippax_blueboy]

Had a nice chat with Southampton fans on Wembley way after the game and on the tube. They were all good humoured and well behaved.

 

[Sofiablu]

Had a horrible experience in a McDonald’s about 10 miles from Wembley.

Was just my wife, 2 young boys and myself and about 8 stone island wearing Southampton fans came in starting talking about how shit city fans are etc and just being unpleasant.

I did bite back unfortunately and said would you lot take 30k twice a year to old Trafford at £70 a pop and how it was city’s 33rd visit.

Ended up calling my wife fat and telling her to fuck off. Regrettably I didn’t hear them say that until I got back to the car but decided against going back in. Feel bad/guilty about the whole thing tbh. Ruined a lovely day

No point trying to take on 8 nobheads when you’re on your own. If there were 30 blues with you do you think they’d have been so cocky? No they wouldn’t. You did the right thing so be proud of yourself.

 

[franksinatra]

Thanks I appreciate that kind message.

I am by no means a fighter I’ve had one fight in my life and lost it badly. But I can’t help but feel guilty even today I didn’t confront them.

But my 10 and 6 year old wouldn’t have appreciated seeing their dad get filled in so I keep telling myself I did the right thing even if I don’t believe it deep down.

Just a horrible experience as we where just minding our business.

I have adhd and autism so I tend to over analyse things and I can be over sensitive Perrhaps I’m being too harsh on myself but I just can’t shake the feeling of guilt.

Difficult mate but don’t give it a second thought. You have got nothing to prove and you got home safely with your family etc.

People like that, who behave in such a way, typically have wider issues/unhappiness. Once the hangover wears off they have got to face that stuff day after day.

 

[southamptonblue]

It’s actually quite a rough town, certainly by Home Counties’ standards. Not as rough as Portsmouth though.

Lol.....no it's not.

 

[paulchapo]

Difficult mate but don’t give it a second thought. You have got nothing to prove and you got home safely with your family etc.

People like that, who behave in such a way, typically have wider issues/unhappiness. Once the hangover wears off they have got to face that stuff day after day.

Yes they can't exactly go down the pub the next day can they and boast, "We really sorted that bloke, his wife and two little kids out didn't we?"

 

[Dodge]

I didn't see a single incident all day. There were loads of different groups of fans at Euston with Pompey coming off a train when Southampton were on the concourse. Arsenal and Newcastle were there too. Lots of songs going around but no trouble.

For me, they're the best moments of any trip to Wembley. If it's mid-season I'd always check what teams are in town and look forward to the regional rivalries and accompanied bants. It's when you wear your Mancunian heart with immense pride, sharpen the one-liners and take it to the scousers/geordies/yonners/yamyams/chavs/loiners (delete as appropriate). We stand our ground (no runners) as we've always done, our unique sense of self-deprecating humour gives us the upper hand in any verbals and when it goes down you know your back is covered.

Threads like this (whilst I sympathise with any wives and kids getting cowardly nonsense) would've been a thousand pages long, back in the pre-social media day. It really isn't much of an issue if some cockernee wannabee gets jumpy or if some poxy dipper gets in your face. You can guarantee that one of theirs is getting similar off Blues at the other end.

It's footy, it's tribal and you know what, we represent Manchester City better than any giddy Brummie or any bitter scummer will represent their one-horse towns.

Up the fucking Blues (sorry Sheila).

 

[Mike Godfrey]

Was outside baker street pre match , barely any city there , they were singing yellows and whatever , started singing some blues songs on my own , all good apart from 1 idiot .... told me to shut up as I was spoiling they're fun ... absolute bellend ... I cracked on with it

 

[southamptonblue]

Worked there for a while about 12 years ago, everybody sounded like a farmer. They all sounded like Cockerneys yesterday

Must have been a very short while.....a Cockney accent is as different as Scottish, Welsh or Irish to anyone in Hampshire .

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Who cares what they think.

Is the correct answer!

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Apparently a bit of fighting amongst themselves in the Green Man. A combination of sunshine, coke and the jerk chicken no doubt.

God help them today if they had the jerk chicken in the Green Man!

 

[yeseye]

Unfortunately this country is infested with rags and dippers, haven’t the balls to support their local club.

The very worst of society these fuckwits.

 

[Corky]

Must have been a very short while.....a Cockney accent is as different as Scottish, Welsh or Irish to anyone in Hampshire .

A lot of youngsters have adopted a version of estuary english down the A3 60 miles away.

 

[surprisedbygrass]

Really sad to read this. I'd like to apologise on behalf of our idiot brigade. We've never really been that sort of club in my time going but there's definitely been an increase over the past 5 years or so with the rise of nippers who can't handle their beer and pervert powder.

Please don't tar us all with the same brush as most of us are embarrassed by this sort of behaviour. Bet hardly any of the cunts will be at Preston next Saturday.

And good to see Mick Channon at half time . Never really took off at Maine Road but I loved the way he glided past players .

 

[citysince88]

I was expecting a bit more from them.Given what a big day it was for them.
Unimpressive.