Re: Afternoon all Gashead in peace
Posted: 10 Apr 2013, 10:50
If a father and son went Gloster and one supported Torquay and one supported Rovers then fine, get your tickets ( as everyone can in plenty of time ) and go in the pop. If Rovers score or win or anything explosive happens in the game itself which may cause Rovers a problem then the individual supporting Rovers keeps his facking mouth shut and his arms by his side. If it were me then i'd do it out of respect for the home side plus i wouldn't want to get my face stoved in outside the ground afterwards. I think ANYONE with any sense at all would observe the same protocols as me.
I know how hard it is as i went in the Aston Villa home end when they played Rapid Vienna a few years ago in the Europa League. I went with a mate and they wouldn't let us in the Rapid end so i kicked off at the ticket manager and then the operations manager because i had phoned the club twice and had it confirmed to me that we could go in the away end. I explained about the weird Austrian connection and that everytime an Austrian club plays a British team and i can get to it, i go and support them and go in with the Austrians. I was told it was ok by 2 different people so when we got there and were told we couldn't go in then sh*t hit the fan!!!!
Anyway, Rapid knocked out Villa that night and the Rapid fans were rocking and my total disappointment at not being a part of that was obvious and keeping the delight to yourself when you are sat in the home end and following the away team who do well is a difficult thing to do. Had no such problems at Blackburn a few years back when they played Salzburg, we just turned up with Austria flags tied around our waists and went straight in! I think it was perhaps that Rapid have a large hooligan element and a much, much larger away fanbase whereas Salzburg are pretty low key and have small support in European away games.
I know how hard it is as i went in the Aston Villa home end when they played Rapid Vienna a few years ago in the Europa League. I went with a mate and they wouldn't let us in the Rapid end so i kicked off at the ticket manager and then the operations manager because i had phoned the club twice and had it confirmed to me that we could go in the away end. I explained about the weird Austrian connection and that everytime an Austrian club plays a British team and i can get to it, i go and support them and go in with the Austrians. I was told it was ok by 2 different people so when we got there and were told we couldn't go in then sh*t hit the fan!!!!
Anyway, Rapid knocked out Villa that night and the Rapid fans were rocking and my total disappointment at not being a part of that was obvious and keeping the delight to yourself when you are sat in the home end and following the away team who do well is a difficult thing to do. Had no such problems at Blackburn a few years back when they played Salzburg, we just turned up with Austria flags tied around our waists and went straight in! I think it was perhaps that Rapid have a large hooligan element and a much, much larger away fanbase whereas Salzburg are pretty low key and have small support in European away games.