Is celebrating an away goal among home fans ever acceptable?

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I lack empathy for those calling it on, getting what they wanted. Play on the motorway, you'll get hit by a car.

As far as I can see here, this plastic avoided anything unfortunate happening to him, while the same cannot be said for others, yet he is the one complaining about he stewards.

[joe_c]

Whiny fucking twat. It happens every year and sounds like the stewards tried to do it as nicely as they could. What definitely is not acceptable is a half and half scarf wearing day tripper, sodden with beer but trying to hide his allegiances, puking all over my fucking seat whilst I was downstairs during half time. My seat was filled with a bloody mop bucket when I came back up.

Pleased to see you've finally accepted that I wasn't the culprit.

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I don't think there are words to describe how I feel about half and half scaf wearers.

[PeterWithesShin]

I thought half and half scarves were the worst, but at the Leicester game I saw a Villa fan, in his 40, Villa coat on etc, wearing a Villa scarf that also had the badge of every other PL team on it. Why the fuck would you buy and wear a Villa scarf with 19 other club badges on it?

[amfy]

If we would like to say there is some kind an exception for away fans with children, I am sure every glory hunter without the wit to obtain a ticket in the proper area, or at their own ground, will somehow find a child to hide behind to allow them to sit wherever they like. Not rocket science.

I'm not going to hit an away fan who celebrates near me (however much I might feel like it) - but at the prices we pay, I am entitled to ask that the terms of my ticket are enforced, and that at a moment of abject misery, I don"t have to deal with the idiots next to me leaping 10 feet in the air in celebration.

[cdbearsfan]

There are plenty of non-Villa fans in Birmingham, be they glory-hunting twats, poor unfortunates who've been brought up on the wrong side of the tracks and forced to support Small Heath or those who have moved to Birmingham for work/study purposes but still have affection for the team they left behind.

You can guarantee that there are plenty of non-Villa fans in the home ends at just about every game... probably in reasonable numbers when we play Liverpool, Arsenal, etc. With our poor home form, most of them get to see their team score.

And yet... we only ever have trouble with one team, year on year. The sad day-trippers who couldn't find Manchester on a map, only go to one game a year (two if Small Heath are in the top flight) and can't resist trying to show of their "we're real fans honest" credentials by acting like twats and jumping around, trying to annoy the Villa fans.

They can fuck off.

[London Villan]

He was probably lucky he celebrated in the family stand - what would have happened to him had he hopped up and down at the back of the Holte?  He'd have probably been glad of the stewards swift action.

It's not right, but it's the law of a football stadium in England...

[cdbearsfan]

Anyway, I think I've come up with a solution to this father's problem. This is a website I'd be consulting if I had any offspring who wanted to cheer a Manure goal...

http://tinyurl.com/mbsq3cx

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I think the club are spot on. It isn't fair for the villa supporting youngsters in that stand to have to put up with people cheering a goal against us around them.

Stupid decision of the father of the kids. I'm not even getting into the violence thing. It says the area is the family section for home fans only. Pretty clear.

Maybe there could be an area reserved for a neutral area, but currently there isn't. Tough cheese

[Ger Regan]

I lack empathy for those calling it on, getting what they wanted. Play on the motorway, you'll get hit by a car.

As far as I can see here, this plastic avoided anything unfortunate happening to him, while the same cannot be said for others, yet he is the one complaining about he stewards.

You say you lack empathy for those "getting what they wanted", but would have been happy to see the guardian of two young children getting hit at the game. It was in the family stand, it wasn't like they were all wearing full united kits in the holte singing the cantona song for 90 minutes.

[cdbearsfan]

The family stand is a home stand. When I was a child attending away matches, I wouldn't have put my dad at risk by going out of my way to annoy opposition fans. They obviously haven't been brought up properly.

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They're jumping up and down in the Villa end and he cannot understand why he is being thrown out? The man is a twat.

CD has it right. Man United fans are such try hard look at me types, with their forced boisterous behaviour. "Oooh we all wear black! Yanited! Yanited".

[Ger Regan]

The family stand is a home stand. When I was a child attending away matches, I wouldn't have put my dad at risk by going out of my way to annoy opposition fans. They obviously haven't been brought up properly.

Going out of their way to annoy opposition fans? Nothing like a bit of hyperbole. One of them is 7, so I think it's fair to say that their attention span and awareness of surroundings wouldn't be too great. Whether the father was right to bring them in the first place is a different argument, but let's not try and turn their actions into something that it really isn't.

[cdbearsfan]

Then their dad should've told them. It's not exactly difficult to say "don't jump up and down if a goal goes in for Manu or we might get chucked out". A poor father blaming the club for his stupidity.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Maybe there could be an area reserved for a neutral area, but currently there isn't. Tough cheese

Like Fulham have. It always struck me as a bit naff, having a "neutral" section.