Some of the rules have got carried away. Why can't they have seating on the sides and standing behind the goals (at least on lower tiers) with home and away fans at opposite ends? The away fans can be led away from the ground through a sterile area with various exits from this sterile area to avoid large groups of home fans gathering by exits that can easily be avoided. The main problem is that most of the law makers are not football fans.
So nobody is arguing then? In Europe and South America there needs to be segregation at football matches and also at some football world cup matches.
It wasnt really meant to be an arguement in the first place I been to sporting events mixingvwith other fans and found the banter more enjoyable Should have known better though
I still don't understand what you are trying to get at. Most sports have the fans mixing but rarely in top class football. You'll just have to learn to live with it.
You aren't making sense there. If you don't see a problem with not being able to sit with an opposition fan you are saying segregation is acceptable. Do you mean you can't see why there is a problem sitting with opposition fans? Sorry, but try sitting with opposition fans in most of the major footballing countries in Europe and South America and you would soon why there is a problem with this. In an ideal world that would be possible but, unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world.
No i see the problem of certain teams and games being a problem that i dont dispute But for me personally it aint a problem
Amazing, the sporting events where trouble can erupt. A swimming competition in Athens was called off due to rioting. Full scale fights, reminiscent of football terrace battles of days gone by, are commonplace at basketball matches in Turkey, Greece, Serbia and Balkan countries Then to cap it all, there is this one.
A funny situation over there and in Greece and the Balkan countries. The clubs run teams in lots of sports and of course the lunatics have a go at their rivals in any of the sports. They are basically partisan hooligans whose first allegiance is through the football club as that is where the biggest numbers are and it continues in all sections of the club.
It's ridiculous that the current situation continues. Tolerated standing in seating areas is the worse of all world's. In the event of an incident, the authorities will be pilloried far worse than when we had terracing, or if we had standing areas. It seems that nobody dare put their name to a change to standing for fear of the potential litigation.
We played them in a pre-season "friendly" sometime around 82- 83 ish, there were shenanigans aplenty in the west stand before kick off and before OB arrived, it'd be fair to say they got "run" that day. On the thread subject, I've never had a problem with away fans being in home ends if the main reason for this is just to watch the game. Through my time supporting City I've relatively often had to stand on opposing teams terraces to watch City, (usually when its been all-ticket and we've sold all our allocation), otherwise I would have missed out on these games, as long as you don't try too hard to rub peoples noses in it, I don't see it as a problem, me and a couple of others even watched City from the gelderd end in 88-ish, we were even having some banter with those around us, no problems whatsoever. I'd sooner be sat next to an away fan who'd come to watch the match rather than sit next to a City fan who was prepared to grass him up.
That was when Boro fans, who had been told they couldn't hire coaches for a football match arrived dressed up as they had booked them for a supposed wedding. I recall them piling onto the pitch. I don't recall them getting run though.
