I was offered £400 for my ticket outside wembley station, was tempted got to admit, its a lot of money for me that, think if it had been £500 plus travel i might of had my head turned, but I said no, and glad i never, it was the most emotional game iv seen live in 35 years of watching City
Fairly sure I got a bollocking on here for 'wondering' whether some of the tickets sold to City fans would be flogged on.... In the spastic seats there were a fair few Gooners in camouflage; actually wearing City shirts, new ones, who started jumping and cheering when the 3rd was scored! Guess it's always going to happen and can't see how it will ever be stopped without the club stopping new supporters joining the congregation? On the Brightside at least we lost....Premier League, European football and a FA Cup victory would've turned City into the kind of club I grew up being thankful Hull weren't - if we get much more successful we'll start attracting the glory seeking types that follow Arsenal now
Filey, Was you wearing a moroon coloured Harrington style jacket yesterday with your customary ox blood docs?
Having just watched it back on ITV, this was blatantly obvious. Clive Tyldsely screaming "down and off the post and IT'S INNNNNNN" brought a tear to my eye. Amazing to relive that.
There was a group of 4 or 5 (no colours on) just in front of me at the turnstile and a steward asked if they were Arsenal fans and asked them to wait at one side. I don't know if they were going to throw them out or reseat them at the Arsenal end, but I don't think they let them in the Hull end.
As I was entering Turnstiles E in the next turnstile were a bloke and a woman dressed in Arsenal gear, shirts, scarves the full-monty. In they stepped as happy as Larry, oblivious to the fact that it was the CITY end. My mate went ballistic and called over to steward who promptly stopped them going any further. Honestly who sold them the tickets? I did feel a bit sorry for the woman who looked as if she was attending her first ever game, though you would have thought they would have questioned the source of the tickets. Not sure if they were led out or what happened to them, but suffice to say I never saw them again...
Judging by what I saw they were led outside and told to go on their way. The lad I saw looked devesated.
Bloke in a Southampton shirt of all things leaving my block at full time, escorted by chants of "Play up Pompey, Pompey play up". And one Arsenal teenage oik in a Carzola shirt, getting grief up the escalator in the way. Seemed to make it through though.
There is a group of Arsenal "fans" in Driffield area who go to their games. Though the organiser is original from London I believe. Difficult for City to filter any of them out with their postcode. We are attracting some of those types now. Turn up when we play. The big clubs, applauding the other teams' players, taking photos of them. Can't find £20 for a home quarter final game but can afford travel costs to go to London twice and pay vastly more for tickets twice. If we ever do extend the stadium will have even more of them.
I was in 522 and saw the incident in 524. Seemed to go on for a while with a few punches being thrown. Disgraceful but that was the only blemish on what I thought was a pretty decent atmosphere overall.
You could probably cut down on these sorts of incidents however, by allocating more tickets to the actual fans of the clubs involved. Rather than giving almost half of them to corporate hospitality and all that bullshit. Yes, there will always be a need for some tickets to be allocated neutrally at big events - but 40,000???
Agreed - and although I find it hard to have sympathy for Arsenal's supporters, especially those sitting in the Hull allocation, 25, 000 tickets for the FA Cup final for a club who probably have more than that number of season ticket holders is a joke and the root of the problem. If it was the other way round how many of us would do the same to watch our club in a final? Obviously we'd all have a little more grace and decency than the twats we had to put up with yesterday....
There were a few to the right side of 120, hadn't noticed them until the 3rd went in, some little **** started turning round & cheering until someone must have said something & he sat down very quick. Also when I was walking in I heard 2 guys talking, one said to the other," I bet you'd be more excited if this was Newcastle." I wasn't going to bother wasting my time with them. Overall the Arsenal fans were quite pleasant after the game, had we won I don't know if it would have been the same.
Disgraceful that there were punches thrown? Or disgraceful that they had got tickets in the City end. I wish the West Stand lot would hand out a few slaps to the scumbags from Hull who end up in there supporting Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea etc instead of having a go at any City fans who object to this breech of ground regulations being ignored by our cowardly stewards.
Same here, I moved from 236 to 219 and was surrounded by them. Generally okay but had words with a South Africian who constantly squeaked in my ear: lots off bairns though and they were just fine.
Used to be worse. When the old Wembley held 100,000 the clubs only got 23,000 each. I was going to say it would be better getting to the League Cup Final but as you get 35,000 but we couldn't shift 32,000 for the semi-final.
Yes with red braces and a blue / green check Ben Sherman, Levi jeans Though one of the junior tigers I was with nicked my Harrington for a while . She wants a Harrington jacket now
