[Football] Smellhurst beam back fiasco

[carlzeiss]

https://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=106&tid=169741

Apart from the nasty scenes at the Amex there was total chaos at Selhurst for the beam back.
For some reason the powers that be found it beyond them to cope with the thousand or two supporters that turned up.
They started with one turnstile open which was right at the top of Holmesdale Road,eventually the penny dropped and they opened a couple more.
After queuing for 20 minutes I got in to see hundreds of people trying to squeeze down a narrow staircase,luckily nobody tripped over.
For some reason only the upper Holmesdale was open,the furthest distance from the screen.
Most fans didn't have binoculars so a lot of them were crammed in by the bars,watching on the small TV's.
All in all a total shambles,amateur organisation & a complete disregard for the supporters.It was easier getting in to Wembley for the cup final.
Thankfully we gained a valuable point at the end of it.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

You watched the game surrounded by those goons?

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[James Bond's body double]

You watched the game surrounded by those goons?

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Think he took this from the site.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Think he took this from the site.

Ohhhhh [emoji53]

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[Thunder Bolt]

Why doesn't that surprise me?

Have they blamed Sussex police yet?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Why doesn't that surprise me?

Have they blamed Sussex police yet?

Nope. It was the Brighton stewards, or was it Lewis Dunk?

 

[dazzer6666]

Can’t be right - says ‘luckily no one tripped over’. What about Wilf ?

 

[LlcoolJ]

After their cup final beam back disaster I'm amazed that anyone was stupid enough to go to this. Oh, hold on.....

 

[LlcoolJ]

"We are a Premiership club being run like a pub side. Surely us loyal fans deserve better?"

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[Easy 10]

So Disney is still too tight to provide those giant screens on the back of lorries that we get at the Amex, and instead expects fans to squint at that poxy little 32" Technics TV from Cash Converters, that they have hanging off the roof of Sainsburys up the other end of the ground.

How tinpot. How Palace.

 

[Bozza]

I can't be arsed to find it, but someone on these very pages posted a picture of another beamback of theirs (the Cup Final?) where the fans were at the far end of the pitch to a tiny screen. It sounds like this was exactly the same.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I can't be arsed to find it, but someone on these very pages posted a picture of another beamback of theirs (the Cup Final?) where the fans were at the far end of the pitch to a tiny screen. It sounds like this was exactly the same.

I think it was the poster above you.