Leeds fans in east upper

Sat next to my son on the family enclosure. Great

 

It was the same laat season, our ticket office would sell to any bugger without asking questions.

 

Not even got kids with them, two lads early twenties, not doing much other than celebrate their goals but intimidating my lad just by being there.

 

Summats gone on their then because the box office check there’s a child seat booked with the tickets and if not they get moved out prior to the game by the box office staff. Witnessed them doing it whilst in the ticket office before. Perhaps they had booked a kids ticket too to get in. Stewards don’t challenge anything in that area though.

 

The stewards were told about it, fella sat in front of me was telling him when I went down for a pee at half time. I mentioned they were sat next to me, and I was asked to tell his supervisor where they were sitting.

The supervisor came up to look, he has a red high vis rather than yellow so he must be a big cheese (!), and proceeded to do the square root of **** all.

The lad wouldn’t have enjoyed today anyway but he shouldn’t have had to sit next to two blokes cheering the opposition and singing their songs - under their breath but audibly to us. They didn’t do anything untoward don’t get me wrong, there to see the game, not cause trouble. But they shouldn’t be in home areas at all, never mind the family enclosure. That’s not on.

On a different note, Adie Moses was a few rows in front of us today. Hardly aged, think I was fourteen when he scored the OG at Elland Road and he looks younger than me now.

 

Probably one of the people pretending to be German so that someone would buy them a ticket.

 

Smash em in face

 

So what?

 

A Barnsley fan did the same, Guess what?

 

Try taking this issue up with the club. They should be able to see who bought the ticket and ban them from buying tickets in the future. If it's a season ticket holder then revoke the ticket.
Doubt the club will do anything in reality but would at least try.

 

Yes well the point should be that if everyone behaves like a sensible rational human being then segregation should be a thing of the past.

It's a game we're watching.

Which means that it is not the end of the world if your team wins or loses.

It means that I should be able to watch a match with my mate who supports a different team to me, but we don't do anything other than demonstrate our prejudices in a reasonable way.

But no - according to this post you take issue with having someone who wants a different result next to you.

Great.

 

I agree I take my 10 year old son we don't sit in the family stand and I would not want to sit at the side of 2 leeds fans. There is a higher potential for trouble and a child should not be put in that position, if they were older or with children themselves then I wouldn't mind and would be interesting to make conversation but they would need to show respect to the people around them. It's all about assessing the risk.

 

Should've chucked them down into all those seats that Barnsley supporters were made to give up. Only ground in Britain that inconveniences its own fans.

 

Same happened last season when we beat Leeds 3-2. After woods opened the scoring two Leeds fans were in the east stand lower near the dimenensions box a reds fans at side of them overheard their convo and got up and said are you a Leeds lovely person. The stewards then had to intervene and eject the Leeds fans then half the bottom of the ponty wanted to get to them. Other barnsley fans tried to stop people attacking them and fighting broke out this lead to reds fans been banned. Box office sort it out never learn.

 

The point is that people don’t always behave like reasonable people do they?

I had no massive issue with them. I said they weren’t doing anything massively untoward.

However my young son, possibly due to their reputation and what he’s seen from some of their fans in the past, was uncomfortable. He had a bad experience in Wembley Park tube with a pillock from millwall so is wary. If the match was sold mixed allocation then fair enough, it wasn’t.

The point here is that games are advertised and sold as segregated. If I went to the rugby league big weekend, you expect to have fans of all sides everywhere. It’s fine. If all football fans generally behaved like reasonable human beings, there would be no issue.

But quite a few don’t. So don’t get on your flaming high horse with me Toby. I haven’t created the tribal culture in football nor do I crave or condone it. Other sports and walks of life have friendly banter. In football it seems accepted to be territorial and nasty.

I work in Leeds with a fair few Leeds fans. A few came, more couldn’t get tickets and warned me that some of their more interesting regulars were bragging about getting ‘in their end again - they can get ready’. I didnt create that. Something kicked off at the bottom of the ponty again at one point though I didn’t see what.

Your point about sensible rational humans has merit but don’t tar me with it, the issue is the culture of a lot of football supporters, being stuck in a bygone time.

On a different note a completely mixed crowd wouldn’t do much for atmospheres, it’s quiet enough when our fans are together

 

In future Just do what I do with Leeds fans, boil their heads In acid.

 

Your original post took issue with the fact that you were sat next to some Leeds fans. They could have been the nicest people in the world, but because they supported the other team, you were complaining.

So, if I'd got a ticket for my Leeds fan mate and he was sat in between you and me, that would apparently ruin your day -by virtue of the simple fact that he prefers a different result to you.

Great.

 

I don't want to sit next to opposition fans.

If I wanted to sit with Leeds supporters, I'd buy a Leeds season ticket and support Leeds.

I don't want to see them get their heads caved in (one was knocked out in the Ponty last season when Leeds went in front and he celebrated) but if there are any near me, I will try to get them kicked out.

 

I know what you mean about sitting near em people shouldn' buy for their Leeds fan mates. But I don' think one did get knocked out last season most of the scrapping was between reds fans and police and stewards in that corner trying to get 2 Leeds fans out of the ground who were sat in the east stand lower near the dimensions box. So I heard anyway

 

I honestly don't know why visiting fans try and buy tickets in the home ends, as it hardly ever ends well.

They either celebrate when their teams score and get either thrown out or a kicking, or their teams don't score and they go home unhappy.

Worst I think I ever saw, was when Sunderland had already won promotion and brought a huge following. A small group of their fans had seats in the Ponty and decided to jump up an celebrate wildly when they scored. The stewards got to them and escorted them out, but decided to take them up through the stands, which resulted in loads of folk taking pop shots at them as they walked up the stairs. Then when they got into the concourse, loads of our fans went in the next gangway along and jumped them. Left a few in a really bad condition if I remember right.

Watching a football match in the other teams stands isn't worth the risk for me...