Villa fans during the minutes silence at Palace

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I find the self righteous indignation of Crystal Palace fans far more nauseating than a few pissed up morons, momentarily forgetting themselves. Especially as it's now widely known, that these 'salts of the earth' had plenty of knuckle scrapers of their own.   

Agreed.

The idiot who squealed shut up from across the other side of the pitch was more embarrassing than anything else. It was coming from the concourse, which is half open air and so easily sounds into the stand.

[UK Redsox]

I spoke with a steward at half time who did say that we were the worst behaved fans for abuse, alcohol and general shit they had welcomed to the ground all season .

We do have a segment of support (as every club probably has) who are more interested in drinking and/or hurling abuse at the opposition supporters than in watching the game. There were plenty of these around on Saturday.

I've said before that, as a latecomer to football, I really don't understand the way that some people behave at games.

As for the "silence", from where I was stood I was aware of one person who was chanting as he entered the seating area. He stopped as soon as he realised what was happening.

The only other noise was from people in, was passed for, the concourse/food area.

[brian green]

The point about my brother's funeral being quiet was more or less true. My bro had no truck with religion and it was a humanist ceremony with plenty of humour and Villa jokes.  Last week was not the funeral of the 96 it was a mass gathering at a sporting event and people are people, some good some bad and some in-between.  What really bothers me about this incident is the media stirring anti football fan hysteria just like they  did in the immediate aftermath of Hillsborough.  The  Croydon Advertiser is plugging into the largely home counties stereotypical prejudice that football fans are scum.  In these pages you have no better eye witness than Ads who is clearly an intelligent and truthful man.  If he says the noise came from the concourse that is good enough for me. 

[aev]

Well like many things in society the minority get the attantion that the majority really deserve.

There was a story I read about some Liverpool fans lobbing bricks through a Man City supporters coach on the way to the ground on Sunday.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've heard from a few people that our away support was a strange one on Saturday.

As for the Citeh coach at Klanfield, while not condoning it in any way or saying it was the case in this instance, selling on Witton Lane most games I see the away fan coaches arrive. The goading some of them do to home fans, it doesn't surprise me that they they will do it to the wrong group and something like that happens. I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often.

[aev]

I've heard from a few people that our away support was a strange one on Saturday.

As for the Citeh coach at Klanfield, while not condoning it in any way or saying it was the case in this instance, selling on Witton Lane most games I see the away fan coaches arrive. The goading some of them do to home fans, it doesn't surprise me that they they will do it to the wrong group and something like that happens. I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often.

I just find it pretty sad that on a highly emotional day for Liverpool some of their fans would chuck bricks at a coach.

[aev]

I've heard from a few people that our away support was a strange one on Saturday.

As for the Citeh coach at Klanfield, while not condoning it in any way or saying it was the case in this instance, selling on Witton Lane most games I see the away fan coaches arrive. The goading some of them do to home fans, it doesn't surprise me that they they will do it to the wrong group and something like that happens. I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often.

I just find it pretty sad that on a highly emotional day for Liverpool some of their fans would chuck bricks at a coach. Some people just can't help themselves.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've heard from a few people that our away support was a strange one on Saturday.

As for the Citeh coach at Klanfield, while not condoning it in any way or saying it was the case in this instance, selling on Witton Lane most games I see the away fan coaches arrive. The goading some of them do to home fans, it doesn't surprise me that they they will do it to the wrong group and something like that happens. I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often.

I just find it pretty sad that on a highly emotional day for Liverpool some of their fans would chuck bricks at a coach.

Pure conjecture, but maybe because it was an emotional day they reacted to being goaded in a way they wouldn't normally.

[aev]

Maybe - it wouldn't justify the action though.

[garyfouroaks]

I am not a fan of one minute silences, and thought that the league wide silence was over the top.

For a game involving LFC, fair enough, but not beyond.

Some bereaved also would rather now forget.

[IFWaters]

Why dont we have a minutes silence for all Minutes' silences ?

If people want to remember those who have passed for whatever reason it should be voluntary and private. If you want to go to a memorial service you can choose to do so.

The whole thing has become a charade for the sanctimonious and holier than thou brigade to score points.

[rob_bridge]

Minute's silence for anything other Rememberance Sunday are a nonsense IMO.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Some 'Yippee Eye Yay, Yippee Eye Yo' chanting that sounded like it was coming from the back of the stand (by late arriving Villa fans I assumed).

I did think that upon being told to shit up by other Villa fans some were deliberately shouting "OI" and such like, just to be funny (unbelievably stupid twats in other words).

[PeterWithesShin]

I've never been told to shit up, minute silence or not.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I've never been told to shit up, minute silence or not.

I thought you could only do that under gravity free atmospheric conditions.