You must have been sat near me mate. Left of goal looking at pitch. Guy behind us was non stop from kick off to final whistle.
There was a lad sat in front of me in the first half at Lincoln. His mates were sat behind him, next to me. He spent the entirety of the first half turned around, talking to them. He occasionally glanced at the pitch, but not for any more than a few seconds. The first time he spent any time looking at the field, Cosgrove gave a foul away, he said to his mate "he's **** that Cosgrove, he'll never score another goal for us", at which point his mate pointed out he'd got the opening goal. He genuinely had no idea.
The Blackpool game has put me off away games for a long time. I’m only going to Old Trafford because of the novelty of it but I’d be surprised if I do an away league game this season. I only normally do about 5 a season so I imagine a fair chunk of the ones behaving like idiots are ‘better’ away fans than me but I can do without that kind of negativity & all the abuse I heard even at 0-0.
I always maintain the same stance during and after a game. You can’t get carried away with a win or a defeat as you’re only as good as your next game
For anyone who doesn't appreciate the worst excesses of our moronic element, the Blackpool away fixture is always the absolute worst and should be the first date crossed off the calendar. Blackpool away in the cup a few years ago put me right off away games. I now only go to a small handful and try to choose those where the home team will be small and friendly and where our idiots may not be in full attendance.
Had to smile before the game yesterday. Was stood hanging around the away turnstiles around 2.20pm as the coaches were arriving. One was reversing down the road and there was a moron banging on the back window and being lairy, to no-one in particular. Bloke next to me just said "fk-ing state of that, Jesus, how does he manage to get through life"
I suppose no decent thinking person, football matches or normal life, wants to be on the same planet as people like this. I know I don’t
I genuinely wonder how some of the absolute mutants who follow Barnsley away get by in decent society.