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[Football] Idiots at away games



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luppers

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Aug 10, 2008
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Unfortunatly have experienced problems with Brighton supporters myself. It was OK when I was younger but when I went to Middlesboro and Sheff Wed that is when I had problems. Unfortunatly I now have to use a stick for walking and cannot swtand up for more than 5 or 10 minutes. A lot os supporters nwere standing in front of me and refused to sit so I could see game despit me asking nicely. Eventually got told bt one at Sheffied To piss off you f------g old cripple . If that was meant has a joke I did not find it funny
 




Dorset Seagull

Dorset Seagull

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Feb 21, 2009
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Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Quite. I used to go to a lot of away games. At Barnet away in the late 90s I was made to use my numbered seat by a steward. Someone was in it. So he fannied around playing 'people rubic cube' for ten minutes.
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That reminded me of that Fast Show sketch where he is sorting out everyones change in the pub :lolol:
 


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nicko31

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Jan 7, 2010
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Shooting Star said:
OP getting a lot of stick for what we all know at heart is a very valid point. Football is not just a single man's sport and nor should it be. If I went to an Albion away game by myself or with my dad, I wouldn't mind too much not having the seat I was allocated. Yet if I were to attend with my wife, or one day in the future with my children, and was subjected to either refusal or abuse, I'd feel very differently and if we're being honest, we all know we would. It's all very well for one person to have to find a seat, it's very different if it's a family of 4-5 who have paid good money like everyone else. The same people making sarcastic comments towards the OP are probably the very same people who denounced, amongst other things, the 100-200 Palace Ultras who stormed to the front of the South Stand to set up their little den. Palace fans that night were criticising them for doing that.

And whilst swearing is part and parcel of football, I remember being at the home game against Brentford last season and being subjected to a couple of 17 year olds yelling the c word at our own players in the North Stand. It made my blood boil and I regret not having a word with the stewards. If you watch the Cov/MK Dons highlights, the average age of those who stormed the pitch after their goal was about 16 years of age. Do we really want to find ourselves justifying the actions of antisocial fans who could bring the club into disrepute, if, as I suspect, a lot of the antisocial problems at Albion games are from teenagers?

I wonder if we were allowed to select the specific seats for away games, like you can for a home game, whether this would help solve the issue. It would obviously mean those with higher loyalty points would get the cream of the crop/their choice, and thus core Albion supporters would have more of a vested interest in sitting/standing by the seat number on their ticket?
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Agree. A lot of hypocrites that want Palace fans birched for their behaviour at the Amex, but if Albion fans act like tw*ts on the road its OK. There's a some on here that are grown up but it seems never have. We don't want football to be a library but these idiots need to be rooted out and banned
 
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Bolton va va

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Nov 20, 2012
374
In The Rough said:
Sadly word for word all true and all happened to me last night.

It is something that the clubs need to look at for those travelling with elderly or children.

I would hate to have had my children subjected to the language, songs about the IRA and someone shouting YOU CAAAANT everytime we gave the ball away (Which did happen a lot)

Had there been a fire last night or need to evacuate quickly, all sorts of carnage would have occured.
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Will somebody please think of the children.
 




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goldstone

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Jul 5, 2003
7,125
Shooting Star said:
OP getting a lot of stick for what we all know at heart is a very valid point. Football is not just a single man's sport and nor should it be. If I went to an Albion away game by myself or with my dad, I wouldn't mind too much not having the seat I was allocated. Yet if I were to attend with my wife, or one day in the future with my children, and was subjected to either refusal or abuse, I'd feel very differently and if we're being honest, we all know we would. It's all very well for one person to have to find a seat, it's very different if it's a family of 4-5 who have paid good money like everyone else. The same people making sarcastic comments towards the OP are probably the very same people who denounced, amongst other things, the 100-200 Palace Ultras who stormed to the front of the South Stand to set up their little den. Palace fans that night were criticising them for doing that.

And whilst swearing is part and parcel of football, I remember being at the home game against Brentford last season and being subjected to a couple of 17 year olds yelling the c word at our own players in the North Stand. It made my blood boil and I regret not having a word with the stewards. If you watch the Cov/MK Dons highlights, the average age of those who stormed the pitch after their goal was about 16 years of age. Do we really want to find ourselves justifying the actions of antisocial fans who could bring the club into disrepute, if, as I suspect, a lot of the antisocial problems at Albion games are from teenagers?

I wonder if we were allowed to select the specific seats for away games, like you can for a home game, whether this would help solve the issue. It would obviously mean those with higher loyalty points would get the cream of the crop/their choice, and thus core Albion supporters would have more of a vested interest in sitting/standing by the seat number on their ticket?
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Quite agree with this post and the OP. Unfortunately too many of the Albion's away following are an embarrassment to the club, and probably an embarrassment to society.
 








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essexeagle

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Jul 22, 2004
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In The Rough said:
Why do away games attract the very worst of our support?

Yesterday we got to the ground at 7:40 to find a load of people already in our seats. OUR Seats. We had paid good money for them and had to stand in the aisles in what is one of the most dangerous things that can happen in a football ground.

Then when we scored the penalty, a very drunk man jumped on me and shouted "FACKING CAM ANNNNN!" in my ear. Yeah great we scored but really is there any need for this??

I went to speak to a steward at half time but they didn't want to know. What is the point in having them there?

Second half was just as bad. A constant stream of foul language from all those around, everyone standing despite me asking nicely if they wouldn't mind sitting down. I was told to **** off twice.

To top it off when Southamton scored in the second half, another man took my Dad's walking stick and threw it in frustration, meaning I had to push to the front to retrieve it.

You don't get this at the Amex, everyone sits in their seats and doesn't stand and those around me don't feel the need to use that sort of language constantly so why is it like this at away games?

I would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced similar this season as am writing to Paul Barber, Ralph Krueger at Southampton and the Head of Hampshire Police. It ruined our night out
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:lolol:
 




Scoffers

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Jan 13, 2004
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Burgess Hill
Away games are different shock. Who knew :)
 


Nixonator

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Feb 8, 2016
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In The Rough said:
Why do away games attract the very worst of our support?

Yesterday we got to the ground at 7:40 to find a load of people already in our seats. OUR Seats. We had paid good money for them and had to stand in the aisles in what is one of the most dangerous things that can happen in a football ground.

Then when we scored the penalty, a very drunk man jumped on me and shouted "FACKING CAM ANNNNN!" in my ear. Yeah great we scored but really is there any need for this??

I went to speak to a steward at half time but they didn't want to know. What is the point in having them there?

Second half was just as bad. A constant stream of foul language from all those around, everyone standing despite me asking nicely if they wouldn't mind sitting down. I was told to **** off twice.

To top it off when Southamton scored in the second half, another man took my Dad's walking stick and threw it in frustration, meaning I had to push to the front to retrieve it.

You don't get this at the Amex, everyone sits in their seats and doesn't stand and those around me don't feel the need to use that sort of language constantly so why is it like this at away games?

I would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced similar this season as am writing to Paul Barber, Ralph Krueger at Southampton and the Head of Hampshire Police. It ruined our night out
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Everything tells me you are fishing (****ing 10 pages), but just in case you aren't:

- Away games attract the best of our support.
- You rock up 5 mins before KO and expect your own seats, your error. Now you know.
- People stand in the aisles all the time and in 15+ years of following us away have avoided incident.
- People get euphoric when we score, some people work very hard all week and football is their release, spending their hard earned regularly.
- Football will always be associated with 'bad language', your future children will know most of these words by the time they are 8, football or no football.
- If you want to start following us away and your desire is to sit, go down to the front as there are always empty seats down there even when full allocations are sold.
- The walking stick incident sounds about the only legitimate grievance, hope you had words.
- Everyone doesn't sit at the Amex, most of the North stand and the 'foul' language is used in the West and South, so you're either in the family section or 1901 (even heard some choice words there).
- Write to them all you like, you will change nothing because the vast majority of fans who regularly travel away to support their sides up and down the country don't agree with a single word you just said and long may that continue.
 


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curly69

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Jan 4, 2006
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sydney
Nixonator said:
Everything tells me you are fishing (****ing 10 pages), but just in case you aren't:

- Away games attract the best of our support.
- You rock up 5 mins before KO and expect your own seats, your error. Now you know.
- People stand in the aisles all the time and in 15+ years of following us away have avoided incident.
- People get euphoric when we score, some people work very hard all week and football is their release, spending their hard earned regularly.
- Football will always be associated with 'bad language', your future children will know most of these words by the time they are 8, football or no football.
- If you want to start following us away and your desire is to sit, go down to the front as there are always empty seats down there even when full allocations are sold.
- The walking stick incident sounds about the only legitimate grievance, hope you had words.
- Everyone doesn't sit at the Amex, most of the North stand and the 'foul' language is used in the West and South, so you're either in the family section or 1901 (even heard some choice words there).
- Write to them all you like, you will change nothing because the vast majority of fans who regularly travel away to support their sides up and down the country don't agree with a single word you just said and long may that continue.
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well said sir.
 




dazzer6666

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Mar 27, 2013
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Nixonator said:
Everything tells me you are fishing (****ing 10 pages), but just in case you aren't:

- Away games attract the best of our support.
- You rock up 5 mins before KO and expect your own seats, your error. Now you know.
- People stand in the aisles all the time and in 15+ years of following us away have avoided incident.
- People get euphoric when we score, some people work very hard all week and football is their release, spending their hard earned regularly.
- Football will always be associated with 'bad language', your future children will know most of these words by the time they are 8, football or no football.
- If you want to start following us away and your desire is to sit, go down to the front as there are always empty seats down there even when full allocations are sold.
- The walking stick incident sounds about the only legitimate grievance, hope you had words.
- Everyone doesn't sit at the Amex, most of the North stand and the 'foul' language is used in the West and South, so you're either in the family section or 1901 (even heard some choice words there).
- Write to them all you like, you will change nothing because the vast majority of fans who regularly travel away to support their sides up and down the country don't agree with a single word you just said and long may that continue.
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Yup.....
 










pastafarian

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Sep 4, 2011
11,902
Sussex
Actually in fairness to the OP my mate did turn to me at one point and say, “fvck me there are loads of women here tonight. Must be a midweek thing”
I wonder if this is relevant to the alleged increase in anti social behaviour apparently witnessed at Soton.
 




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