Horses Arse
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I can see me! Not anything to do with flying beer though.From the Dogma piece...
My friend throws his beer (keeps hold of the cup) . I throw mine, not paying any attention to where it ends up.About 70th minute or so stewards come up and take someone down a few rows next to us. I said to my mates the stewards keep looking at us. Then a minute later they come up, ask me to go with them.In the concourse they then tell me I’m getting kicked for throwing a beer,1. He suggests he threw his beer, cup and all, due to how he highlights his friend retained his cup. This is backed up in the last sentence "throwing a beer", not "throwing some beer".
2. The stewards only take the author of the statement, not his friend. It seems they were able to differentiate between liquid being thrown and a cup with beer in it being thrown.
In the now-deleted Albion "limbs" video, there was clearly a cup-with-beer that was thrown from the Albion fans in the upper tier that went over the screen and ledge into the Ajax fans below. I know this because, yesterday, I tried to find a good still from that video to share to FB linking to this thread. The still is at the bottom of this post - it's not very good. But in trying to find a still I was able to easily track that beer all the way down.
Obviously, I have no idea if the Dogma statement came from the chucker of that beer and, since he doesn't know where his beer went, he won't know that either.
As I said earlier in this thread, at the end of the game I saw a lot of cups-with-beer thrown because I was at the far left of the Albion fans next to the screen with Ajax fans beyond. As such I heard many large thumps as cups smashed into the screen and saw a few Albion fans hit by the cups that made it over. I have no doubt that even the flimsiest of plastic cups could seriously hurt someone when containing only a relatively small amount of liquid. We've even had an Albion fan on this thread tell us they were cut by a cup thrown at the game.
If Albion stewards saw opposing fans throw things at home fans at the Amex, and reported them to their own club, I would fully expect that club to take appropriate action. As such, based on Ajax reporting fan(s), I am not surprised Albion have acted. It's what Ajax and UEFA will expect. Do people think Ajax are making it up?
As it is, we know we were warned by Ajax over the PA. It is highly likely that we will be reported to UEFA and we may find in future games, no beer is available to us at all. When Ajax visited us, they were not allowed to buy beer by instruction of UEFA.
Of course, I have massive sympathy with an Albion fan who got carried away on what was a fantastic night, and will have to miss games, but the Albion have a duty to act when fans are reported in this way.
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