Trouble in the North Stand second tier vs United

[East Level 2]

Agreed but the club will ban anybody involved too.

Hopefully that will include the source of the ticket.

 

[paulchapo]

Hopefully that will include the source of the ticket.

Not if the club sold it themselves on ticket exchange.

 

[HibbertStreetKid]

Shame really, the poor bastard would think by buying a half and half scarf he'd be okay. People have to give tourists a bit of a pass, someone just needs to explain the situation to them.

Stewards could advise them on their way in and suggest they put them out of site. If they then choose to have them on show that is their choice but they have been warned.

Shame really, the poor bastard would think by buying a half and half scarf he'd be okay. People have to give tourists a bit of a pass, someone just needs to explain the situation to them.

 

[mexico1970]

Not if the club sold it themselves on ticket exchange.

That is what I was thinking, the club are hypocrites if they chase the seller of the ticket when they are doing it.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Not if the club sold it themselves on ticket exchange.

I thought that for the really big matches (United, Liverpool) you had to have attended five home matches to purchase an exchange ticket.

 

[East Level 2]

Not if the club sold it themselves on ticket exchange.

The club should make the buyer aware it is in the home section and was intended for home fans only.

 

[blueparrot]

Should be taken off them at the turnstiles. No different to wearing a opposing teams shirt / colours.

The scarf wasn’t the issue though nobody from what I’ve read was bothered by it.It was the celebration which would have happened scarf or no scarf.
I don’t really get the half and half scarf, but it isn’t just tourists that buy them. Stand outside for a run of the mill game like Luton at home and there will be sellers with arm fulls, they must sell a fair few. I have seen families with City scarves and their kids with half and half, maybe their first game and want a momento , don’t know, but nobody bothers them just for having the scarf.
Remember last season Bayern game when the Bayern fans ( hardcore fans I’d guess) marched up the road, loads of them were stopping to buy half and half scarves.

 

[jimharri]

....Remember last season Bayern game when the Bayern fans ( hardcore fans I’d guess) marched up the road, loads of them were stopping to buy half and half scarves.

Surprised they didn't annex Ashton New Road!

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Used to go in with the home sides fans a lot watching City over the years, i did try to get tickets in their Grandstand or where the dearer tickets were......richer, older fans in them, less likely to get a kicking anyway.

Took my American missus then girlfriend to a City match at Chelsea in the '80s and went in the "posh" seats for safety, or so we thought. Right after kick-off City almost scored and I jumped up, as you do. Next minute a middle-aged Chelsea Neanderthal with a National Front tattoo lurched along the seats and warned "oy, you do that agen and you're both feckin' dead." Near the end of the match with City losing heavily a police inspector came over and said for your own safety either leave now or stay behind till the animals have cleared out.

I think there are countries where it's sort of tolerated. May be wrong, but I don't think you get into fisticuffs in the States if you're at a baseball or American football match and you do that.

NY Yankees fans in the bleachers won't tolerate anyone else., especially not NY Mets or Boston. From my own experience supporting the Mets at the old Shea Stadium (R.I.P) a loudmouth St. Louis fan who had been giving it large all afternoon went to the bar and came back to his seat with a cardboard box loaded with beers & hotdogs. Coming down the steps to his row it must have been hard to see where he was going over the box and his belly, certainly he didn't see the foot stretched out in the aisle that the dumbass tripped over. To his credit, I suppose, he went back and got more beers and hotdogs rather than try to retrieve them from the floor.

 

[bluechippie]

There was a bloke selling half and half scarfs as people were coming off the tram yesterday, a couple of lads were taking the piss out of him. I think the club should ban the sale of these scarfs as they do cause flash points especially on derby day.