Crowd Trouble

[D.boy]

I can see there being an away fan ban for our games at the sty for the safety of our fans. They really are the lowest of the low.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

Just got back.

Before we get all high and mighty about that shower of shit, some of our lot are equally as bad.

Before the game we walked to the ground from the island by McDonalds, there was a heavy police prescence there and by the away end. Between the two we saw about 25 Blose 'lads' looking for Villa fans - with a copper nowhere near them. When we arrived at the away end some of Villa coaches arrived and the goading from Villa fans loud, this despite the fact one of the coaches had had a window put through. We went straight into the sty and nothing really of note happened until our first attack when part of blue plastic seat landed infront of me from the tier above. During the remainder of the first half I gained 63p in coins and three cigarette lighters.

At half time there was a hell of a lot of banging from the segregation panel in the tunnel underneath the stand as they were trying to get at us, or maybe even vice versa.

As soon as the game finished and they invaded the pitch and ran over to us we left and headed for the exits. As we reached the bit where their corner looks over the away fans we got more coins and spit upon us as the riot police ran by again.  We were able to leave the cesspit immediately and did so with relative ease and walk back to the city centre.

I have to agree with the comment above about giving up football, I wasn't looking for trouble, i went to watch my team, but the morons from both sides are making this game worse and worse. I know the police get some stick from people but policing it must be a nightmare - especially at that place as segregation is so hard to do properly.   

[PeterWithe]

I dunno where the 500 coppers were by the way, there must be a doughnut shop near the Sty.

[The Situation]

I hope we never have to play those cretins in a cup game or night game ever again so we can avoid what happened tonight. All other derbies in this country seem to be very civil compared to what goes on in the Birmingham derby, why is it this derby attracts so many morons? There's lots of morons in every fanbase... but why do people feel the need to completely out-of-order... those fans who ran on the pitch seriously have something then a bit more than a chip on their shoulders when it comes to Villa fans, it's mentally disturbing?

If you wanna fight, go and join the fucking Army and go out to Afghanistan where you'll wake up everyday knowing you could be potentially have an RPG launched at your tank, be shot by one of the Taliban in cross fires, being burnt all over after being in a suicide road bomb, having your limbs being blown off or even being shot by one of your own in friendly fire. Don't be a lowlife scumbag who will never achieve anything in life who runs illegally onto a football pitch when there was no reason and bopping up and down like you're at a 50 Cent concert.

[vilan461]

everytime we go to this cesspit coins and worse are thrown down from that top tier-----why the F**K dont they give it all to  Villa or close it???--when opposing fans occupy The North Stand top tier,the first 4/5 rows are closed off!!
   still i guess it merely reflects the official scum attitude to Villa fans,

[D.boy]

I couldn't understand why they put blose fans above Villa fans. Surely they must realise its asking for trouble.
A pitch invasion at the end of a quarter final purely to hide behind a single file police line and goad the villa fans shows their mentality. Those that reacted by throwing missiles are no better either.

[itbrvilla]

everytime we go to this cesspit coins and worse are thrown down from that top tier-----why the F**K dont they give it all to  Villa or close it???--when opposing fans occupy The North Stand top tier,the first 4/5 rows are closed off!!
   still i guess it merely reflects the official scum attitude to Villa fans,

could that be an issue to take up with the FSF (Football Supporters Federation)

[dave.woodhall]

But let's not forget those seats didn't break themselves, the toilets didn't suddenly flood and only one set of supporters sang about a murderer.

[itbrvilla]

But let's not forget those seats didn't break themselves, the toilets didn't suddenly flood and only one set of supporters sang about a murderer.

The others just have a big banner supporting a murderer.

[K3Villa]

I've just got back home. Despite the obvious aggro, I've got home in one piece and didn't encounter any immediate threat to myself. Keep your head down and you'll be ok.

[taylorsworkrate]

Every club has their share of mindless cretins. Including ours as tonight has shown.

However the percentage of small heaths support that are mindless cretins is very high. 

Tonight is absolutely no suprise.  They have dragged the name of our city through the mud for decades.

[Brend'Watkins]

Isn't there a ban of sorts looming over Blues from the 1992 Blues Versus Stoke game due to a pitch invasion?  Maybe there's another one besides that too, you can never tell with that lot.

Something has to be done about this, kick them out of the competition, whatever..give West Ham a bye.  They, as a club need to sort their fans.

[DeKuip]

Something has to be done about this, kick them out of the competition, whatever..give West Ham a bye.  They, as a club need to sort their fans.

Give West Ham a bye? The way West Ham and Millwall played up in the League Cup last season was ten times worse than tonight.

[tauntonvilla]

Just arrived home. Can honestly say i didn't have any trouble all day. Thought the invasion at the end was pretty much of nothingness, a load of youngsters goading from behind a line of police. I sat a few rows back, and at no time felt as if it was "about to go".

Good game, better team lost, story of our season.

[AV82EC]

Got back  few hours ago.

Night started in the Aston Social with a couple of scoops and then a nice bloke offered us a lift to the ground.  Accepted and we set off and made good progress until the bellended retards who'd decided to walk en-masse from Aston were having to be sheperded up towards the McDonalds Island.  This seemed to involve a battalion of coppers, closing every road possible and having every police van from the surroundin six counties in one place.  WMP couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.  We were going to miss kick off so jumped out of the blokes car and legged it up the road and we were now a good 200 yards  in front of the "kettled" mass.  On getting towards McD's island a small group of coppers had formed a line and weren't letting some goading blues fans down towards the Villa, we just strode confidently past until 5 seconds later said group of coppers went legging it past us forcing the Blues fans back up the road with a full pelt barton charge smacking everyhting in their path including one poor bloke who happened to be crossing the road at the time!!  We walked past the Blues/Zulus who were chanting for a regroup, oprobably about 80-100 of them and carried up the road towards the away end where we went past another line of coppers with about 300-400 Lulu's all chanting and doing the Hoolie bounce.  Despite being in amongst all this nonsense not one person paid me and my colleagues the blindest bit of attention.  I assume the police kept baton charging them up the road until they all fucked off in the ground.

I left after about 3 mins of injury time knowing what was probably to come and we caught a taxi down by the Ibis with not a comment or word spoken to us and we were back down to the Aston Social in one piece.

There are complete bellends on both sides of the fence in our rivalry which means I won't be going back.  Unfortunately our dominance in the city in the late 80's and 90's has meant we've attracted a right band of bellend supporters ourselves who should be ashamed of their behaviour.