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[Albion] Pub landlord banned from football matches after Athens punch-up
- Thread starter Jo Wadsworth
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Peacehaven Wild Kids
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BluesRockDJ
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- Jan 24, 2020
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So many beer guts in replica shirts....easily identifiable by the one he was wearing 
Ike and Tina Burner
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- Mar 22, 2019
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We were having a discussion about the behaviour of our young fans and their drinking. You're response was something like "it's amazing to think people used to go to the football to watch the match and not to get drunk". You understand how that sounds like you're blaming young fans for introducing heavy drinking right? Given we were discussing the difference between older and younger supporters, how else can it be interpreted?
Whether or not drinking has increased recently I can't say. But if it has I don't see younger fans drinking more than anyone else. I'll also say everybody is far better behaved these days. So even if it has increased, so what? I can't help but think these threads are people who engaged in serious misbehavior in the 70s and 80s complaining that a group of mates want to stand together.
And thanks for the vocabulary lesson btw!
I remember going to watch Palarse v Leeds at Shitehole with some Leeds supporting pals and we managed 4 pints at lunchtime before KO. No idea if we were pissed - I was too drunk to remember. That was in 1976 or 77.
My Liverpool supporting pal tells me the Kop ran with piss during games in the 60s and 70s. Not due to excessive consumption of Ribena.
Like you I feel that behaviour and sobriety are far better than in the past.
But the outrage threshold is lower. Which is a good thing. But the tendency for people to confabulate* is immutable*.
*Enjoy that?
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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I think you are correct but it seems to reflect what's happening in society as a whole , it's not a generation thing either just an expansion of entitled knobheads across age ranges. Last week my car broke down, had to get it recovered, the recovery driver was attacked because a 45 year old (?) knobhead wanted him to move immediately and when he was asked to wait a minute or two (or take a simple turn which would get him to same place) the angry driver attacked the recovery man. Same as the two knobheads sitting next to me who feel their opinion is the only one that which matters.. Funnily enough one of those is a coach as well.
I used to have four pints in The Stadium before every home match. But that was four pints of 3.4% ale.I remember going to watch Palarse v Leeds at Shitehole with some Leeds supporting pals and we managed 4 pints at lunchtime before KO. No idea if we were pissed - I was too drunk to remember. That was in 1976 or 77.
My Liverpool supporting pal tells me the Kop ran with piss during games in the 60s and 70s. Not due to excessive consumption of Ribena.
Like you I feel that behaviour and sobriety are far better than in the past.
But the outrage threshold is lower. Which is a good thing. But the tendency for people to confabulate* is immutable*.
*Enjoy that?
Now it all seems to be a bit stronger - 4 pints of 5% stuff gets you a lot staggerier than back in the days.
I'm given to understand that pop/rock concerts in the 60s used to run with rivers of piss.I remember going to watch Palarse v Leeds at Shitehole with some Leeds supporting pals and we managed 4 pints at lunchtime before KO. No idea if we were pissed - I was too drunk to remember. That was in 1976 or 77.
My Liverpool supporting pal tells me the Kop ran with piss during games in the 60s and 70s. Not due to excessive consumption of Ribena.
Like you I feel that behaviour and sobriety are far better than in the past.
But the outrage threshold is lower. Which is a good thing. But the tendency for people to confabulate* is immutable*.
*Enjoy that?
Maybe people just had less control in those days?
God knows, there must be some advantages to living in the end of days. Perhaps we've finally learnt the art of bladder control, just in time for society to collapse entirely.
Good lord. Looking like that is he sure he didn’t induce the heart attack?
Wrong-Direction
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70s and 80s? I moan about young lads and I was one of them 10 years ago..
PascalGroß Tips
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Six men issued with Football Banning Orders
…and the youngest is 29
mile oak
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- May 21, 2023
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guy in red top? quite a bit kicking off all over hard see whats what but what i notice is the Athens fans attacking Albion fans on upper section and stewards just stand back watching when they couldve easily stopped single attackers. I wonder if the ban had any mitigating circumstances taken into account.
LeTiss
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I was there and the stewarding & policing of the away section was poor and should have prevented confrontation.
Instead of loads of police located in the away section doing absolutely nothing they should have been deployed in the aisle Athens fan side of the away section. Simple.
Instead of loads of police located in the away section doing absolutely nothing they should have been deployed in the aisle Athens fan side of the away section. Simple.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Sorry but some of these comments regarding the stewards and old bill sound a bit naive to me.
I don’t think the events will be perceived by local people as a particularly big deal.
The OB just generally wait for a massive brawl so they can get stuck in, and if they support one of the rival clubs they’ll happily stick the baton on the home fans, I’ve seen it in Italy and Hungary as well. Our safety wouldn’t be number one on the agenda.
I don’t think the events will be perceived by local people as a particularly big deal.
The OB just generally wait for a massive brawl so they can get stuck in, and if they support one of the rival clubs they’ll happily stick the baton on the home fans, I’ve seen it in Italy and Hungary as well. Our safety wouldn’t be number one on the agenda.
Comments made by people that probably haven’t been to a game overseas before.
That chap fighting the Roma fans must have been easy pickings for our OB to film and then get him to court.
Superphil
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People in the Brighton part of the upper tier on the right side started it. People on the Athens side responded eventually after I guess they got fed up with the tedious behaviour of the numbskulls in our stand.
Superphil
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Good.