I was told by a steward last night that BMG had requested a much larger allocation than the 3,000 to begin with so City must have realised that there was a good chance of BMG fans getting into home sections.Probably at the time they thought we would sell out no problem
I don't ever want football to become a sport where rival fans sit together and have 'banter'. Fuck that. Once the whistle goes I want to be with my own fans and not have to worry about a group in front of me buzzing because my teams getting beat.Go to croke park for a gaa match and the fans sit amongst each other, it's called "atmosphere".
Said it before, rivalry shouldn't ever go past banter.
Must have been some right knobs who decide enough enough and time to wade in! Grow up.
From two weeks ago ...Speaking of someone who has been to dozens of German football league games over the last few years, what their fans did last night is considered normal behaviour over there. If the away allocation sells out, at any venue where there are still seats left in the home end, the away fans are perfectly entitled to buy tickets in the home end and they usually buy them in a block near to their own fans, as per 211 last night.
Not only is it considered normal to sit in with the home ends, it’s also perfectly acceptable to wear your colours and cheer as loudly as you would stood amongst your own fans when your own team scores. Nobody takes offence, nobody beats you up. In fact, sharing a beer with supporters of other clubs is a regular occurrence
The mistake these Gladbach fans made last night was to believe that English football fans can behave in a similar adult fashion. As soon as I saw a number of their fans in our end I knew there would be kerfuffle because there are far too many moronic cretins who turn into a frothing lunatic when they see someone in a ground cheering for the opposition. The best bit is, it’s probably these same cretins who think it’s fantastic when City go over there and there are thousands in the home end; that it’s proof of how great our supporters are. They are probably the same people who went in the home ends at Blackburn and started jumping all over the home supporters when we scored four there to get promoted. It’s doubtless that the hypocrisy will be lost on all of them.
None of those fans came for any bother. In a civilised country they should be allowed to cheer for who they want, where they want. That’s why going to a match over there is a treat. You don’t have to fear for your life supporting your club in the ‘wrong’ area of the ground. People tolerate and welcome the diversity.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of idiots we have at our grounds here. When you get a bloke screaming his head off at a middle aged bloke and a young teenage girl, calling them ‘German scum’ and virtually man-handling a steward as he barked at him to throw them out, it really does make you thoroughly embarrassed of what we have become like over here.
If any Monchengladbach fan is reading this, I’d like to offer my apologies on behalf of the decent ones amongst us. We’re not all like that, but that is the impression their fantastic set of supporters are going to have of us, I’m afraid.
Didnt come for trouble? Haha!Speaking of someone who has been to dozens of German football league games over the last few years, what their fans did last night is considered normal behaviour over there. If the away allocation sells out, at any venue where there are still seats left in the home end, the away fans are perfectly entitled to buy tickets in the home end and they usually buy them in a block near to their own fans, as per 211 last night.
Not only is it considered normal to sit in with the home ends, it’s also perfectly acceptable to wear your colours and cheer as loudly as you would stood amongst your own fans when your own team scores. Nobody takes offence, nobody beats you up. In fact, sharing a beer with supporters of other clubs is a regular occurrence
The mistake these Gladbach fans made last night was to believe that English football fans can behave in a similar adult fashion. As soon as I saw a number of their fans in our end I knew there would be kerfuffle because there are far too many moronic cretins who turn into a frothing lunatic when they see someone in a ground cheering for the opposition. The best bit is, it’s probably these same cretins who think it’s fantastic when City go over there and there are thousands in the home end; that it’s proof of how great our supporters are. They are probably the same people who went in the home ends at Blackburn and started jumping all over the home supporters when we scored four there to get promoted. It’s doubtless that the hypocrisy will be lost on all of them.
None of those fans came for any bother. In a civilised country they should be allowed to cheer for who they want, where they want. That’s why going to a match over there is a treat. You don’t have to fear for your life supporting your club in the ‘wrong’ area of the ground. People tolerate and welcome the diversity.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of idiots we have at our grounds here. When you get a bloke screaming his head off at a middle aged bloke and a young teenage girl, calling them ‘German scum’ and virtually man-handling a steward as he barked at him to throw them out, it really does make you thoroughly embarrassed of what we have become like over here.
If any Monchengladbach fan is reading this, I’d like to offer my apologies on behalf of the decent ones amongst us. We’re not all like that, but that is the impression their fantastic set of supporters are going to have of us, I’m afraid.