Crowd Trouble

[sheldon nose]

Why did they run on the pitch and start baiting our fans? You've just won and all you can think of is running onto the pitch amd baiting our fans? Imagine what it'd of been like if they'd lost...

beause they aint got a brain cell in there heads...both sets....

[Diablo]

Man United fans spoilt Man City's Blue Moon sing along during the League Cup semi final last year. Man City dimmed the house lights, cue a Blue Moon light show, only to go to all that effort and have it spoilt by some nasty red flares.

Interesting, didn't realise that had happened. There are some aspects of football on the Continent (the prices in places like Germany, terracing, the relatively young demographic that goes to games) that I would love to see replicated in the British game, but pyrotechnics are definitely not in that category.

Hahaha! Fair enough. I agree lobbing flares at each other and opposing fans ain't my idea of a good time - but I'm with Ads in that "I quite like flares to be honest"

[pauliewalnuts]

This fixture brings out the worst in us, no doubt about that.

A couple of pubs turned over in Digbeth and Small Heath run all over the shop after the game too.

You're a bright chap, so why on earth use Danny Dyeresque terms like "run all over the shop"?

It sounds like you're actually proud of it. It's slightly grubby, pathetic stuff which belongs in the 1980s, in my opinion.

[Ads]

This fixture brings out the worst in us, no doubt about that.

A couple of pubs turned over in Digbeth and Small Heath run all over the shop after the game too.

You're a bright chap, so why on earth use Danny Dyeresque terms like "run all over the shop"?

It sounds like you're actually proud of it. It's slightly grubby, pathetic stuff which belongs in the 1980s, in my opinion.

I often use the phrase "something-something ... all over the shop". As far as I know, its a Yam-Yam phrase and not a Cocker-ney one.

There was fighting in Digbeth, I'll use the lexis of my choosing to comment and describe it.

[PeterWithe]

I overheard a conversation on the train home involving a lad who said he had just finished a shift behind the bar of a digbeth pub, he was saying that there were knives and axes being flashed about prior to the game. I took it with a pinch of salt but reading a few posts on VT regarding the after match stuff I'm not so sure now.

[pauliewalnuts]

This fixture brings out the worst in us, no doubt about that.

A couple of pubs turned over in Digbeth and Small Heath run all over the shop after the game too.

You're a bright chap, so why on earth use Danny Dyeresque terms like "run all over the shop"?

It sounds like you're actually proud of it. It's slightly grubby, pathetic stuff which belongs in the 1980s, in my opinion.

I often use the phrase "something-something ... all over the shop". As far as I know, its a Yam-Yam phrase and not a Cocker-ney one.

There was fighting in Digbeth, I'll use the lexis of my choosing to comment and describe it.

I was referring to the "run" bit as much as the "all over the shop".

[Drummond]

I'm amazed the players came away unscathed.

I think getting rid of away fans at these games would not be the right thing to do; why penalise the good fans for something they didn't do?

[Kingthing]

Did anyone get bleach thrown at them yesterday? Three of us realised when we got back to the coach, there's spots of it all over my coat and jeans.

[nodge]

On that video that Paulie posted I'm sure a steward hugs one of the noses on the pitch at about 2:58 in, bottom right of the clip.  That's a new way of crowd control, cuddle them back to their seats.

[lennythekad]

Did anyone get bleach thrown at them yesterday? Three of us realised when we got back to the coach, there's spots of it all over my coat and jeans.

Don't know about bleach mate, but my trainers and jeans are covered in some sort of pink dye!

I was on one of Steve Goughs coaches, that had its window put through. We came round McD's island and up the hill, when some big black bloke at the back of the footpath hurled a huge brick at my window. Luckily, I saw it coming and put my hand up. The window shattered and all the glass plus the brick fell into the coach. My mate in front got a nasty gash on his wrist that needed four stitches!

[myf]

This fixture brings out the worst in us, no doubt about that.

A couple of pubs turned over in Digbeth and Small Heath run all over the shop after the game too.

Which pubs?  I love drinking in Digbeth even though it is Nose territory.

[Kingthing]

Did anyone get bleach thrown at them yesterday? Three of us realised when we got back to the coach, there's spots of it all over my coat and jeans.

Don't know about bleach mate, but my trainers and jeans are covered in some sort of pink dye!

I was on one of Steve Goughs coaches, that had its window put through. We came round McD's island and up the hill, when some big black bloke at the back of the footpath hurled a huge brick at my window. Luckily, I saw it coming and put my hand up. The window shattered and all the glass plus the brick fell into the coach. My mate in front got a nasty gash on his wrist that needed four stitches!

Hi mate,

Good to see you last night!! The stuff I had on my coat turned a rusty colour but funnily enough when I got half way back to London at a petrol station I noticed I had pink dye all over my trainers but I put them in the wash and it was ok. The coat and a brand new pair of jeans are fucked. New level of stupidity throwing bleach.

[Percy McCarthy]

On that video that Paulie posted I'm sure a steward hugs one of the noses on the pitch at about 2:58 in, bottom right of the clip.  That's a new way of crowd control, cuddle them back to their seats.

Yeah, that was Cuddles.

[Darlo Dave]

On that video that Paulie posted I'm sure a steward hugs one of the noses on the pitch at about 2:58 in, bottom right of the clip.  That's a new way of crowd control, cuddle them back to their seats.

Yeah, that was Cuddles.

Bravo! 

[Lee]

Just to clear something up, the flares were definitely from Villa Fans and were thrown prior to the match too. Do they not search people at The Sty these days?

Also, the Pitch Invasion was planned on Monday if they were to knock us out of the Cup