[Albion] Bit of handbags at the station

[ManOfSussex]

Was there a punch thrown anywhere?

That's a very good question. Despite the verbals and gestures I witnessed yesterday, I'm still none the wiser on whether anything was 'luzzed' or indeed if there was 'bantz.'

 

[Justice]

That's a very good question. Despite the verbals and gestures I witnessed yesterday, I'm still none the wiser on whether anything was 'luzzed' or indeed if there was 'bantz.'

 

[Eeyore]

The combination of cocaine and booze is behind much aggression now, including football attendance related. Plenty of links online from senior police and academic studies eg Uni of Kent and Uni of Stirling. When police sweep a packed train, they find an array of just discarded cocaine.

Creating average joes who think they’re Jon Jones in the moment.

Very surprised at all this bellendery- especially with Fulham fans of all clubs! I didn't see any trouble and the Fulham fans I came across were all very decent!

Being unfamiliar with the football experience nowadays there seems to be a trend among some supporters in recent times. So many folk mention this cocaine thing. I only took it once in my life and I didn't like it. It made me feel that I was some kind of aggressive authority. Thankfully I recognised it and didn't go full dickhead. It's such a dirty drug.

But as @BN41Albion says, most Fulham fans are pretty decent, as our ours. Fulham was always one of my favourite away days. My most visited ground, along with Plymouth. A nice, safe, day out. The concern of mine would be that they are among the last clubs I would expect to see this sort of thing affecting. But that's the way things are. It's still only a small number. But something has happened to create these new footballing hybrids. I guess that's a wider debate.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Being unfamiliar with the football experience nowadays there seems to be a trend among some supporters in recent times. So many folk mention this cocaine thing. I only took it once in my life and I didn't like it. It made me feel that I was some kind of aggressive authority. Thankfully I recognised it and didn't go full dickhead. It's such a dirty drug.

But as @BN41Albion says, most Fulham fans are pretty decent, as our ours. Fulham was always one of my favourite away days. My most visited ground, along with Plymouth. A nice, safe, day out. The concern of mine would be that they are among the last clubs I would expect to see this sort of thing affecting. But that's the way things are. It's still only a small number. But something has happened to create these new footballing hybrids. I guess that's a wider debate.

Yep, that's the effect.
Also, it doesn't matter if anyone takes any notice because the sound of one's own voice is so delicious.

Maybe it has a different effect on feeble inadequate weaklings

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Being unfamiliar with the football experience nowadays there seems to be a trend among some supporters in recent times. So many folk mention this cocaine thing. I only took it once in my life and I didn't like it. It made me feel that I was some kind of aggressive authority. Thankfully I recognised it and didn't go full dickhead. It's such a dirty drug.

But as @BN41Albion says, most Fulham fans are pretty decent, as our ours. Fulham was always one of my favourite away days. My most visited ground, along with Plymouth. A nice, safe, day out. The concern of mine would be that they are among the last clubs I would expect to see this sort of thing affecting. But that's the way things are. It's still only a small number. But something has happened to create these new footballing hybrids. I guess that's a wider debate.

I’d say the ante has been up now that pretty much everything is filmed and uploaded to social media, which in turn created a barometer of not “getting mugged off”

Majority of these dickheads would be highly embarrassed if shown their behaviour in a sober setting and would run a mile without a crowd.

 

[hopperfulham]

Fulham fan who was there on Saturday and just wanted to comment after seeing this thread.

Having been at the game, I'm pretty sure I know which groups of fans this could have been, they all seem around 18-20 and were coked up and causing a scene outside the ground. There were some who tried to start a homophobic chant in the game and luckily nobody joined in and it died out quickly. No place for that, especially in 2025.

By and large as fanbases go, reckon we're a pretty good one and do hope that a few coked up kids don't colour your guys perceptions of our fanbase. Can't ignore the fact it was there. Think it's something that's probably got a bit worse with PL consolidation as we're a bit more attractive a prospect than we were a few years ago.

I don't go in for the whole us vs them in football, and pleased to see a fair few well considered responses in here (as well as a few less pleasant ones). Bit of friendly rivalry in football is great, but I don't go in for the tribalism of it all.

Disappointed our hoodoo against Brighton is over, but really we were remarkably fortunate it lasted quite as long as it did!

 

[dazzer6666]

Fulham fan who was there on Saturday and just wanted to comment after seeing this thread.

Having been at the game, I'm pretty sure I know which groups of fans this could have been, they all seem around 18-20 and were coked up and causing a scene outside the ground. There were some who tried to start a homophobic chant in the game and luckily nobody joined in and it died out quickly. No place for that, especially in 2025.

By and large as fanbases go, reckon we're a pretty good one and do hope that a few coked up kids don't colour your guys perceptions of our fanbase. Can't ignore the fact it was there. Think it's something that's probably got a bit worse with PL consolidation as we're a bit more attractive a prospect than we were a few years ago.

I don't go in for the whole us vs them in football, and pleased to see a fair few well considered responses in here (as well as a few less pleasant ones). Bit of friendly rivalry in football is great, but I don't go in for the tribalism of it all.

Disappointed our hoodoo against Brighton is over, but really we were remarkably fortunate it lasted quite as long as it did!

Could have written exactly this about us too. We’ve got a small minority in the same category. See you in the Cup semi, hopefully

 

[jackalbion]

I don't need cocaine, I have a Stone Island jacket which grants me 'Special Powers'

 

[METALMICKY]

Fulham fan who was there on Saturday and just wanted to comment after seeing this thread.

Having been at the game, I'm pretty sure I know which groups of fans this could have been, they all seem around 18-20 and were coked up and causing a scene outside the ground. There were some who tried to start a homophobic chant in the game and luckily nobody joined in and it died out quickly. No place for that, especially in 2025.

By and large as fanbases go, reckon we're a pretty good one and do hope that a few coked up kids don't colour your guys perceptions of our fanbase. Can't ignore the fact it was there. Think it's something that's probably got a bit worse with PL consolidation as we're a bit more attractive a prospect than we were a few years ago.

I don't go in for the whole us vs them in football, and pleased to see a fair few well considered responses in here (as well as a few less pleasant ones). Bit of friendly rivalry in football is great, but I don't go in for the tribalism of it all.

Disappointed our hoodoo against Brighton is over, but really we were remarkably fortunate it lasted quite as long as it did!

Ironically, our 'idiot crew' seem to love an away day at your place. At one of Potter's last games in charge I had 5 absolute twats who spent most of the game beckoning outside or doing cut throat gestures in the direction of a bunch of your parents and kids. Eventually, one of my mates lost patience and suggested that maybe they ought to focus on the game and he was met with abuse and squared up to by one of them who's pupils suggested he was on the gear.

 

[jackalbion]

At one of Potter's last games in charge I had 5 absolute twats who spent most of the game beckoning outside or doing cut throat gestures in the direction of a bunch of your parents and kids.

Don't know who would do that at Fulham away, must be a very silly person...

 

[METALMICKY]

Don't know who would do that at Fulham away, must be a very silly person...

I seem to recall the arrests at that game were the ones that prompted the clamp down on passing on tickets.

 

[schmunk]

Eventually, one of my mates lost patience and suggested that maybe they ought to focus on the game and he was met with abuse and squared up to by one of them who's pupils suggested he was on the gear.

Such behaviour on a school trip...?

 

[Professor Plum]

Could have written exactly this about us too. We’ve got a small minority in the same category. See you in the Cup semi, hopefully

Agreed. I saw a handful of young Albion fans at Leicester and Nottingham who truly embarrassed me with their yobbish shouting and chanting outside the ground (about being in a ‘shithole’ etc). No idea if illicit substances were involved or just the more traditional liquid ones.

What’s even more embarrassing is the knowledge that I too behaved like a total twat on occasions like this back in my youth.

 

[hopperfulham]

Thanks for the replies all. Yeah lads with bumfluff and Stone Island up and down the country thinking they're in Green Street

Best of luck in the cup and for the rest of the season!

 

[Sirnormangall]

I don't need cocaine, I have a Stone Island jacket which grants me 'Special Powers'

Does Stone Island make yellow jackets?

 

[mrjon1976]

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[SkirlieWirlie]

Does Stone Island make yellow jackets?

They do, with some interesting pec coverage

 

[BrightonCottager]

Thanks for the replies all. Yeah lads with bumfluff and Stone Island up and down the country thinking they're in Green Street

Best of luck in the cup and for the rest of the season!

Well played @hopperfulham and welcome to NSC from a fellow *Cottager* (you'll know what I mean if you're on FoF). I didn't witness any of the handbags but I've seen some of our 'yoof' getting unnecessarily obnoxious at away games.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Well played @hopperfulham and welcome to NSC from a fellow *Cottager* (you'll know what I mean if you're on FoF). I didn't witness any of the handbags but I've seen some of our 'yoof' getting unnecessarily obnoxious at away games.

Part of me is going 'well they're only teenagers and we were all there once, with the first flush of testerone and a bit of alcohol/whatever' but there is no doubt it is really f***ing embarrassing for the other 95% of us.

At least most of us have let it go by our early twenties (not looking at any clubs in particular and certainly not yours )

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

What’s even more embarrassing is the knowledge that I too behaved like a total twat on occasions like this back in my youth.

This indeed