Watford FC v Aston Villa (R) - Post Shambles Thread

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Sky Sports (No News Is Good) News:

The Football Association is investigating Aston Villa's Jordan Ayew and Idrissa Gueye over an alleged incident at Watford on Saturday, Sky Sports News HQ understands.

Ayew - who scored one of Villa's goals in the 3-2 defeat - and Gueye reportedly entered the Elton John Stand at Vicarage Road and confronted Watford fans who had been taunting them.

The FA are aware of the incident and are waiting to see the match officials' report.

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Sky Sports (No News Is Good) News:

The Football Association is investigating Aston Villa's Jordan Ayew and Idrissa Gueye over an alleged incident at Watford on Saturday, Sky Sports News HQ understands.

Ayew - who scored one of Villa's goals in the 3-2 defeat - and Gueye reportedly entered the Elton John Stand at Vicarage Road and confronted Watford fans who had been taunting them.

The FA are aware of the incident and are waiting to see the match officials' report.

I worried at first that they'd confronted Villa fans, which would have been absolutely gutting considering Ayew has been one of the few players who appears to care and is reasonably popular.
That said if true this is silly and yet more needless behaviour.

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I just hope it's not race related

[Duncan Shaw]

I would imagine that the problems won't be so much at the likes of Leeds and Millwall, but, regrettably, rather at places where certain sections of our support will rock up and act both hard and like they're slumming it.

Yeah I was thinking that. There shouldn't be any Billy big bollocks behaviour. Turn up in our droves to support the lads and remember were playing at those grounds because we (the team anyway) deserve it.

I'm quite worried that our moron element with big allocations will be all "what a fucking shithole" etc next season.  Hope I'm wrong.

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You'd rather 4000 Villa pretended Huddersfield was the South of France?

I hope we're boorish, on your pitch, fill your shoebox ground, arrogant types for 23 away games where the league are glad to see us go back up. We deserve to be here, but we dont belong here.

[cdbearsfan]

So you want us to act like Man U fans do at Villa Park?

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Yeah. But with less jibbing. They've been the best away fans year in year at Villa Park. Noisy and numbers. the antheisis of their chums up the East Lancs.

We'd not be so try hard obviously as we've got nothing to prove about our credentials.

[Chico Hamilton III]

 

There is no safer ground than the New Den. Avoid Tower Bridge and the pavement dancers and you'll only see half a dozen cap ends offering you out from the second tier of a stand.

You might get penned in on  the school playground while the hard of thought are pushed on, but that's about it. I wasn't around in the 70s, but I doubt that it was anything like the other year. The was trouble before that game bet you won't have seen it.

All grounds are safe these days, that's not really the issue with Millwall. No pubs anywhere near the ground are safe, there are mobs of 'Wall fans checking out the pubs near London Bridge station ( which I think is what you meant when you said Tower Bridge) for away fans and the only way to the ground on public transport is via London Bridge station, which is invariably crawling with their fans. The journey from there to South Bermondsey is no fun either. When we played there, I think there were about 5 of us on a train absolutely packed with moody Millwall fans. The locals refer to the covered walkway for the away fans as "Cowards' Way". And away coaches driving back up the Old Kent Road usually make great target practice. Their lunatic-to-fan ratio is unrivalled. I know it's nothing like as bad as the 80s but anyone who thinks that Millwall is just another away game is completely wrong.   

[Richard E]

When I went to the old Den (it was the game where Kevin Gage got totalled in the first few minutes by an agricultural tackle that would be a nailed-on straight red now) we were kept in the ground for that long after the game that the Villa players were showered, suited and getting on the coach by the time they let us out.