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Wrong-Direction

Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,644
Can see us getting a hiding, but going anyway..

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Spiros

Spiros

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
2,376
Too far from the sun
Goring-by-Seagull said:
I made my "never again" promise after the freezing 3-0 defeat in 2012. Broke that last year, but from now on, never again!
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Having been there a few times and seen some wins, some defeats I promised never to go again after the infamous 5-0. Being kettled all the way to the wrong station and witnessing one of our perfectly respectable fans being batoned to the ground by the Met's finest for politely asking if he could leave the group to walk to his car told me that this fixture is just not worth the hassle any more. Why fork out £30 to go to that hovel of a ground and to be treated as if you're a criminal just because you want to watch a game of football?
 




spence

spence

British and Proud
Oct 15, 2014
9,953
Crawley
Spiros said:
Having been there a few times and seen some wins, some defeats I promised never to go again after the infamous 5-0. Being kettled all the way to the wrong station and witnessing one of our perfectly respectable fans being batoned to the ground by the Met's finest for politely asking if he could leave the group to walk to his car told me that this fixture is just not worth the hassle any more. Why fork out £30 to go to that hovel of a ground and to be treated as if you're a criminal just because you want to watch a game of football?
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Was that the young kid covered in blood from being whacked over the head ?
 


Spiros

Spiros

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
2,376
Too far from the sun
spence said:
Was that the young kid covered in blood from being whacked over the head ?
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No, it was a guy late 40's or early 50's. Didn't see a lot of blood but the copper concerned made sure he was knocked to the floor. Someone else told the copper to stop and got a whack round the head for their trouble before a sergeant intervened. Although it was quite a few years ago it's always stuck with me as being nothing other than an unprovoked assault by a copper (who I had no way of identifying) on a normal member of the public who's 'crime' was to go to a game. I did hear about other incidents from people on the train though so I don't think what I witnessed was isolated by any means
 


Mr Banana

Mr Banana

Tedious chump
Aug 8, 2005
5,491
Standing in the way of control
Spiros said:
Having been there a few times and seen some wins, some defeats I promised never to go again after the infamous 5-0. Being kettled all the way to the wrong station and witnessing one of our perfectly respectable fans being batoned to the ground by the Met's finest for politely asking if he could leave the group to walk to his car told me that this fixture is just not worth the hassle any more. Why fork out £30 to go to that hovel of a ground and to be treated as if you're a criminal just because you want to watch a game of football?
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Tempting fate here but it wasn't intimidatingly horrible last year. Probably because Palace knew they were gonna win by the time they'd had 15 minutes to experience Albion's collective attitude and approach to marking. The wait to get in and out was a pain, and I resented giving Palace loads of money for beers while we were held in the ground, but at least they had the bars open, and having the West Stand stewards to chat with was a welcome novelty.

Having to stand in the pub in silence and mutually pretend we hadn't recognised Taxman was also quite funny and a reasonable compromise for cheap beers, in hindsight.
 


























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