UEFA used to have some daft ruLe that you had to be offered some tickets at least as good as those available to the home fans. So allocations involved two sections of away fans with one set housed without much protection bang in the middle of the home supporters. I have experienced this myself at a game in Slovenia. It can get a bit edgy, you are essentially using all the same facilities including toilets as the home fans. It suggests to me that this may have been a similar arrangement and that they used those ‘better’ seats for friends and family. Should Albion get into Europe, I would avoid those more expensive seats like the plague.
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[Football] Trouble At West Ham Match In The Netherlands
- Thread starter Eeyore
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portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,306
Great opportunity there for some of the Irons to have got their nobs out and hosed down the Ferals below them.
What a bunch of pathetic weedy looking kids, all cloned in same black hoodies and unable to take on one aging bloke barring their way. AZ must take action and ban them all, not least for the aforementioned shame. Least hardest hooligans I’ve seen since Elijah Wood was cast in Green Street!
This is interesting, I was aware of the large percentage of dickhead Max fans, but put this down to (a) unfiltered social media kiddies, (b) Drive to Survive and (c) him beating the black guy which attracted a certain type of fan.
But there have been repeated reports of some pretty obnoxious behaviour, Austria last year was rife with it. It would make a lot of sense.
Obi Wan has taught you well.
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,306
Who is more the hooligan? The hooligan? Or the hooligan that follows…?
TWOCHOICEStom
Well-known member
Disappointed he didn't lob Gimli at them.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Fast forwards to 1:50. Their coach welcome makes Liverpool look meak.
Didn’t know WHU had a cave troll, useful to have in situation like that.
nwgull
Well-known member
That description sounds familiar to a set of fans 40 miles up the A23.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I heard the AZ mobs primarily target was tracksuit 
Horses Arse
Well-known member
That is exactly what the bellends at Palace and Arsenal are celebrating and attemting to recreate here - with their clubs actively supporting this. It is a pathetic and ridiculous situation that needs to be addressed.
Anyone that excuses or supports this ultras bollocks is a bellend too.
Anyone that excuses or supports this ultras bollocks is a bellend too.
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Weird I think. Dutch people I've met have all been pretty chilled people, but they certainly have an undercurrent of violence - the Dutch ultras have rampaged across Europe last few years, in pretty large numbers, too
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Hmm….comments on here have been made about stewards in the UK …re jobsworth etc….I’d be questioning the police presence or rather lack of ..especially as has been suggested there was some trouble in the first leg
It was always going to be a very high-risk game.
Every match that West Ham play in Europe at the business end of tournaments seems to see bad incidents (Metz, 1999, Eintracht Frankfurt 2022, AZ Alkmaar 2023). Not that the Hammers should be blamed all the time.
It just feels that the continental clubs always see West Ham (and Millwall in Ferencvaros, Hungary in 2004) as the ultimate challenge after the dark days of the eighties.
Every match that West Ham play in Europe at the business end of tournaments seems to see bad incidents (Metz, 1999, Eintracht Frankfurt 2022, AZ Alkmaar 2023). Not that the Hammers should be blamed all the time.
It just feels that the continental clubs always see West Ham (and Millwall in Ferencvaros, Hungary in 2004) as the ultimate challenge after the dark days of the eighties.
Ali_rrr
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A lot of it is younger people and it's being blamed on corona. The Dutch equivalent of the BBC wrote an article on it: https://nos.nl/artikel/2467871-voetbalhooligans-zijn-steeds-jonger-wat-zit-daarachter
Where the clubs also worked with the hooligans (for example at FC Utrecht they have the fans house in the stadium within the stand) they are finding this harder to control now as there isn't much cohesion. Before, they could talk to the leader(s), now it just seems to erupt out of nowhere.
As I mentioned earlier, a lot of the younger people hear the stories of their dads and they want to be like them. They've seen Green Street and think they're hard in a group but as we saw yesterday, when reality hits and a proper hooligan from the 80s shows up, they all scuttle away.
Bill Gardner? Ran the Inter-City firm.
The final is in Prague , in a stadium that only holds 20k ( 5k official tickets each ) and has a 9pm local kick off time.
You'd think both sides will take a good 20k +
Could be an interesting couple of days