[Albion] Away fans in the home stands

[luge]

Seeing as I do it quite alot at away games, I don't/can't have a problem with it at the amex - provided fans are being respectful. I end up in the big wall thing at Spurs every year as i have a load of mates who usually have a spare ticket. Was very hard the last two games - both for opposing reasons.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Personally, I think it ruins the atmosphere to have people quietly sitting on their hands, and not getting up for a goal etc. (I don’t sit in 1901)

You obviously aren't a proper supporter who attends games because if you were you would know that nobody can celebrate a goal these days because of VAR, which has taken all the excitement out of football and completely ruined it. The bastards.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Which is as it should be. We’ve all (well, nearly all!) been in the home end as an away fan during our football watching days. A bit of respect, sit on your hands when we score, and make that broad grin when we win look like a grimace. There, job done!

Having been in the Millwall family enclosure when Forster scored the winner for us some years ago, I can highly recommend tutting.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Oddly, I sat in the away end for a Newcastle match at the Amex once. I’d wanted to experience the match from an away perspective and my Geordie pal had got me a ticket. It was an FA Cup victory when they were EPL and we were Championship.

I pretended to be annoyed when we scored but they’d already clocked me long before. A group of them were trying to have a conversation with me, to our my southern accent I imagine. In my best Geordie accent, I said something like ‘alreet son’, and they just looked at me, laughed and shook their heads, I may have even got a cheeky little pat on the back

 

[The Grockle]

No they’re not, this grown man was simply instructed to do his jacket up at the entrance to the East (the Newcastle match, obviously)View attachment 167856

That's ridiculous!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Having been in the Millwall family enclosure when Forster scored the winner for us some years ago, I can highly recommend tutting.

I went in the family enclosure at Millwall, I got there very early, their fans started to come in after a while, they looked a right rough lot, shaved heads, scars, tattoos on their hands……then the parents came in.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

I went in the family enclosure at Millwall, I got there very early, their fans started to come in after a while, they looked a right rough lot, shaved heads, scars, tattoos on their hands……then the parents came in.

Very good

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

I went in the family enclosure at Millwall, I got there very early, their fans started to come in after a while, they looked a right rough lot, shaved heads, scars, tattoos on their hands……then the parents came in.

You missed an open goal there! The punchline should have been... Then the blokes came in.

 

[Bodian]

Oddly, I sat in the away end for a Newcastle match at the Amex once. I’d wanted to experience the match from an away perspective and my Geordie pal had got me a ticket. It was an FA Cup victory when they were EPL and we were Championship.

I pretended to be annoyed when we scored but they’d already clocked me long before. A group of them were trying to have a conversation with me, to our my southern accent I imagine. In my best Geordie accent, I said something like ‘alreet son’, and they just looked at me, laughed and shook their heads, I may have even got a cheeky little pat on the back

Yes - but they had probably already sussed you weren't one of them, as you were fully dressed and not bare-chested.

 

[BN9 BHA]

You missed a open goal there! The punchline should have been... Then the blokes came in.

Yes agree, I have used that punchline before when just mentioning going to Millwall Thought I was being clever because it was the family stand.

 

[smillie's garden]

We saw a guy with a Liverpool shirt and his two sons in BHA shirts, made me want to be sick, SHAMEFUL. I think it's poor, a lot of the people around us today got fed up of seeing a couple in front of us in the North Stand, but they seemed harmless so I left them to it, but we agreed that these matches should be for those with purchase history only to minimise this from happening.

Don’t really see the problem with this: much better than the other way around - THAT would be bad parenting.

 

[Simster]

I can't get that pissed off with away fans in the home end regardless of what they wear - as long as they're not complete gobshites. That's the line for me, and I think it's a reasonable one.

The only caveat to this is that they shouldn't be blatantly depriving home fans tickets, but if there are enough tix to go round then I don't mind. And the exception to that is that if you're an adult away fan escorting young home fans, then that's actually fair enough too.

 

[grubbyhands]

I would suggest this was an artistic flight of fantasy. And I approve.

I can't even begin to understand that!

 

[The Pilsbury Echo]

And you knew he was from Guildford how exactly? I'm from Godalming, where are you from?

He was wearing a hoodie with I love Guildford and I'm from Hamamatsu Just east of Mid Sussex

 

[Horses Arse]

I was in with the Palace fans for the play off semi when Murray did his acl.

Strange bunch for sure.

 

[amexer]

i do 4/5 away games. Always in home end with business contacts who are ST holders and just pass me on friends ticket. Unable to now be able to return the favour. I therefore have no objection to sitting near away supporters at the Amex which I often have and always decent people . However asking for trouble if more than a couple and certainly should not be allowed in with Opposition shirt.

 

[Justice]

This is the type of hooliganism I can get behind.

What’s the dress code though a Trespass jacket?

 

[AstroSloth]

No they’re not, this grown man was simply instructed to do his jacket up at the entrance to the East (the Newcastle match, obviously)View attachment 167856

Depends on the turnstiles then. I quite often work before games as part of the Here to Help team and in the west they tend to turn away obvious away fans.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Sitting in the home end is fine by me just - like everything in life - don't be a bellend. I've sat on my hands at many a ground as we all know that's the price you pay ( and you don't get 15 loyalty points either). I've no sympathy for the celebratory types though. They deserve a good ribbing at the very least.

 

[Milano]

I’ve done this before because it was the only way to see the match, however it’s a shit way to watch the Albion. Now with streams meaning you can watch any game live I’m far less inclined.