Just wondering if the opposition club will sell tickets direct to Brighton fans, as AEK ATHENS did when some of us sat in block 8? My only issue would be being sat with a few brainless BHA fans again, too pissed and/or stupid to realise cheering loudly in the home end isn't a good idea🤦🏼.
I'd simply be happy for a cover over the bus queue at the Amex so I don't get drenched. Admittedly can wait in the stadium for a bit but then you're resigning yourself to the back of the line
We went. Agreed, on the outside it's rather dishevelled, but inside it actually scrubbed up quite well and we thought would provide an amazing intimate atmosphere. The playing surface also looked nice, better than AEK's, where I saw the ball bobble up at least twice during the match.
It was an incredibly memorable experience. God knows where in Athens we would have watched the match if we didn't get the tickets.
The noise was like nothing I've heard before. To be in the middle of so many passionate fans was magical, quite intoxicating. I felt like joining in a couple of...
Yeah, I get that.
I also feel incredibly grateful and lucky that AEK welcomed us into their home stand and as such I felt like we should behave how they and their fans expected us to. Without their help we wouldn't have been able to watch the match.
If nothing else it was culturally...
Exactly that, Lucky. If things had turned sour there was definitely nowhere to go and absolutely no help at hand. Maybe they thought that paying 120 euros for the ticket entitled them to act the way they did.
We were in block 8, along with approximately 30/40 others. It was an incredible, if slightly intimidating atmosphere. It would have been fine but there were a few idiotic/naive/p1ssed/unempathetic Brighton fans you obliviously cheered and chanted much to the increasing anger from the many AEK...