law74 said:
bluemoonste said:
Saw a young city fan of about 10 with blood streaming from his head - got hit by a brummie missile - hope he's ok.
Feel sorry for the kid, but why take a child that age near to where it could kick off?
At an away game you dont know the "lie of the land too well" but at a home game any blue knows where if there is going to be any mither where it will happen (apart from the rags), so why have a child of this age in that area after a game?
I'm sorry but I have to take it issue with you on this.
I saw what happened and what happened was this. A fairly large group of Birmingham fans swarmed out of the away end and onto Ashton New Road - a tactic as wise as the Charge of the Light Brigade, given what I saw, heard and read on here when their so-called Zulus more than met their match the last time they came here.
They were forced back into the away fans' holding area by the police. A small group of five or six broke away and made their way towards the fence close to where the B of the Bang used to be - a long way from where any away fans have ever been or would normally be expected to be.
Safe behind a fence they were content to abuse home fans and, apart from making a lot of noise and puffing their chests out a lot, they were generally considered to be as amusing as their team and so they were generally laughed at and rightly IMO abused.
Mounting a heroic last stand, some of these 'brave' Birmingham lads scrabbled around in the dirt, flinging anything they could lay their hands on in the general directions of City fans, the vast majority of whom were law-abiding citizens happily making their way home after supporting their team.
Before long, however, a minority of City fans took exception and took it upon themselves to take the Birmingham cowards up on their faux bravado. The fence went down and a posse of City fans gave chase. I have never seen half a dozen people shift so quickly in all my life, including one portly Brummie who, given the considerable weight/speed ratio, must have been the fastest form of life on the planet for several seconds. Having beaten a hasty retreat the brave Birmingham lads melted into the background from which they should never have emerged - or been allowed by the police to emerge - from in the first place.
Sadly, for a club who come from England's supposedly second city, their support is as laughable as the team they watch. The game was over at half-time and yet midway through the second half, a small number of them gravitated towards City's fans. What did they think they were going to do? Come to think of it, what were Arsenal's fans going to do had they got past the stewards after Adebayor's infamous celebration? The answer, of course, in both cases is nothing.
Had they wanted to do something they would have done; it's all about posturing, looking the part, making a show etc. etc. and then bigging themselves up to their mates when they get home. Every club has a minority who, from time to time, resort to this ridiculous posturing, who want to kick it off because their team's lost. We've all seen our team lose and, on occasion lose badly. We've all been unhappy or upset at times, but I expect very few of us have indiscriminately thrown bricks and stones into a crowd of people in a fit of pique, and so no reasonable person would have expected this kind of idiotic behaviour on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the 21st century, whether they go to every game and know the "lie of the land" or whether they were taking a child to their first ever game and perhaps didn't. We don't know the circumstances but it shouldn't matter in this day and age.
Sadly, for some Birmingham fans it will always be a grey afternoon in the 1970s and thus they act accordingly, meaning they are incapable of moving on.
