Fans who just stay in the bar..... (1 Viewer)

Fergusons_Beard · Feb 22, 2020

Honestly don’t get it.

These are fans who pay for a ticket, travel to an away game and spend the entire time drinking in the underbelly of the away end. Never once coming out to watch the match!!

All those videos of them with flares and pints flying in the air. Looks brilliant-until you realise that there’s a fuckin match going on!

They’re singing City songs whilst choosing to not watch them, literally 10 yards away.

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Deleted member 2477 · Feb 22, 2020

Fergusons_Beard said:
Honestly don’t get it.

These are fans who pay for a ticket, travel to an away game and spend the entire time drinking in the underbelly of the away end. Never once coming out to watch the match!!

All those videos of them with flares and pints flying in the air. Looks brilliant-until you realise that there’s a fuckin match going on!

They’re singing City songs whilst choosing to not watch them, literally 10 yards away.

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Saw the same at wembley for the play off final. A friend asked me to get two tickets for her husband and mate.
I bought the seats next to us and never saw them all game as they went to the bar two minutes after kick off and spent the whole game in there.

absolute jokers

clint van damme · Feb 22, 2020

Hero's to a man (and woman).
The discipline involved to not walk that extra 10 yards to cheer on your heroes but to remain in the breeze block concourse drinking over priced pissy lager and risking soiling the garishly coloured Stone Island over shirt their mum and dad bought for Christmas with flying beer and condiments is incredible. Should be an Olympic event. Got nothing but admiration.

skybluetony176 · Feb 22, 2020

Up to them really.

The one I don’t get is the odd person who sits as near as they can to the away end and then spend the whole game not watching the game instead choosing to spend the game facing the away crowd shouting abuse at them and making hand gestures. Why?

fatso · Feb 22, 2020

clint van damme said:
Hero's to a man (and woman).
The discipline involved to not walk that extra 10 yards to cheer on your heroes but to remain in the breeze block concourse drinking over priced pissy lager and risking soiling the garishly coloured Stone Island over shirt their mum and dad bought for Christmas with flying beer and condiments is incredible. Should be an Olympic event. Got nothing but admiration.

Pmsl, that's a very long winded way of calling them cunts, but far more imaginative!

Samo · Feb 22, 2020

Fergusons_Beard said:
Honestly don’t get it.

These are fans who pay for a ticket, travel to an away game and spend the entire time drinking in the underbelly of the away end. Never once coming out to watch the match!!

All those videos of them with flares and pints flying in the air. Looks brilliant-until you realise that there’s a fuckin match going on!

They’re singing City songs whilst choosing to not watch them, literally 10 yards away.

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These are what we call Drinkers!

Ring Of Steel · Feb 22, 2020

I have been guilty of this a few times, albeit never at a ‘big’ game let alone Wembley and never away from home- normally due to the fact that I’ve got absolutely plastered beforehand and the thought of continuing the drinking & having a laugh has somehow become more important at that time than watching an inevitable 0-1 defeat, justified by the warped logic that “they’ve got my season ticket money already and I’m putting money in by buying beer in here”

The stewards by Jimmys Bar used to have a hell of a job trying to stop 20 or 30 steaming blokes sprinting up the steps if there was the roar of a goal from up above..

cc84cov · Feb 22, 2020

Ring Of Steel said:
I have been guilty of this a few times, albeit never at a ‘big’ game let alone Wembley and never away from home- normally due to the fact that I’ve got absolutely plastered beforehand and the thought of continuing the drinking & having a laugh has somehow become more important at that time than watching an inevitable 0-1 defeat, justified by the warped logic that “they’ve got my season ticket money already and I’m putting money in by buying beer in here”

The stewards by Jimmys Bar used to have a hell of a job trying to stop 20 or 30 steaming blokes sprinting up the steps if there was the roar of a goal from up above..

At least your honest mate,one of my pals does it every week lol

Evo1883 · Feb 22, 2020

Just let them enjoy their day as they please, as odd as it seems to us all it's just something that's happened for as long as I can remember

Ring Of Steel · Feb 22, 2020

cc84cov said:
At least your honest mate,one of my pals does it every week lol

Oh I know it’s stupid and pointless, but there have been times when I’ve been utterly legless and just never made it past the bar... never did that away though, that’s just a waste.

SkyBlueDom26 · Feb 22, 2020

People can do what they want lol

clint van damme · Feb 22, 2020

fatso said:
Pmsl, that's a very long winded way of calling them cunts, but far more imaginative!

To be honest mate I know it goes on at every club and I don't really have too much of a problem with it but when people can't get tickets to watch the football and there are people who have and stay in the bar all game it's a bit of a piss take.

hill83 · Feb 22, 2020

I don't understand massive nerds who get there an hour early with a flask and a packed lunch. Then buy a program and sit on their phone posting on here during the match and actually think they know more about football than the professionals who are paid to know.

Ring Of Steel · Feb 22, 2020

The only time it happened at an away game was Burnley in 2005 where I sat in a pub by the ground surrounded by troglodytes, but in my defence that was only because I got ejected.

hill83 · Feb 22, 2020

I've missed the last 5 of the first half and the first 10 or so of the second a few times but never the whole match.

Saying that I was back on the coach just after the second half started against Rotherham this season and the coach was almost full.

Ring Of Steel · Feb 22, 2020

hill83 said:
I don't understand massive nerds who get there an hour early with a flask and a packed lunch. Then buy a program and sit on their phone posting on here during the match and actually think they know more about football than the professionals who are paid to know.

I do miss the days when you had to get in there an hour beforehand in order to get a decent place, this stuff with 99% of the crowd getting to their seats about 3 minutes before kickoff has massively sucked the atmosphere out of matches.

Ring Of Steel · Feb 22, 2020

hill83 said:
I've missed the last 5 of the first half and the first 10 or so of the second a few times but never the whole match.

Went to Old Trafford once on some kind of work thing and I’d say 30% of the entire area I was in saw about half the match as they were queuing to get to the bar.

clint van damme · Feb 22, 2020

hill83 said:
I don't understand massive nerds who get there an hour early with a flask and a packed lunch. Then buy a program and sit on their phone posting on here during the match and actually think they know more about football than the professionals who are paid to know.

No need to start on me mate

theferret · Feb 22, 2020

I went for a pee around 70 mins and there were only a handful down there tbf. Although driving away from the ground I did see a group of about 50 City fans walking from the town back to the ground, so they'd obviously given the game a swerve.

slyblue57 · Feb 22, 2020

Been to many England away games and know a few who having travelled got tickets, give them away or sell them for peanuts and just go on the piss . Crazy .

David O'Day · Feb 22, 2020

I was finishing a pint when Willis scored in the play off final

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Evo1883 · Feb 22, 2020

David O'Day said:
I was finishing a pint when Willis scored in the play off final

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The last few swigs went down a treat

pusbccfc · Feb 22, 2020

Atmosphere downstairs was good at half time, great even. Much quieter in the stands...

itsabuzzard · Feb 22, 2020

clint van damme said:
Hero's to a man (and woman).
The discipline involved to not walk that extra 10 yards to cheer on your heroes but to remain in the breeze block concourse drinking over priced pissy lager and risking soiling the garishly coloured Stone Island over shirt their mum and dad bought for Christmas with flying beer and condiments is incredible. Should be an Olympic event. Got nothing but admiration.

Heroes.

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clint van damme · Feb 22, 2020

itsabuzzard said:
Heroes.

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Londonccfcfan · Feb 22, 2020

Fergusons_Beard said:
Honestly don’t get it.

These are fans who pay for a ticket, travel to an away game and spend the entire time drinking in the underbelly of the away end. Never once coming out to watch the match!!

All those videos of them with flares and pints flying in the air. Looks brilliant-until you realise that there’s a fuckin match going on!

They’re singing City songs whilst choosing to not watch them, literally 10 yards away.

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Excellent post. Great point.

Mind you did this only once at Wembley play off final. I missed both the first 2 goals way too stressed.

But I'm not sure these lads were.

Somerset Sky Blue · Feb 22, 2020

I'm a stickler for staying until the final whistle. Maybe it is being a bit tight and wanting full value - or just don't want to miss a goal / incident.
I know some go just before 90 minutes to beat the traffic/congestion...though this hasn't been bad recently!

rob9872 · Feb 22, 2020

We always wait and clap them off regardless of result. Mutual show of appreciation, particularly after a long travel.

Ring Of Steel · Feb 22, 2020

Somerset Sky Blue said:
I'm a stickler for staying until the final whistle. Maybe it is being a bit tight and wanting full value - or just don't want to miss a goal / incident.
I know some go just before 90 minutes to beat the traffic/congestion...though this hasn't been bad recently!

Yes I am with you on this one, I’ve never left early and never could.

Covstu · Feb 22, 2020

Only not come back up at half time once against Crystal Palace we were 3 down at half time. To be fair I generally don’t make 2nd half kick off as I can’t drink a pint and go for a piss in circa 10 mins

Ring Of Steel · Feb 22, 2020

Covstu said:
Only not come back up at half time once against Crystal Palace we were 3 down at half time. To be fair I generally don’t make 2nd half kick off as I can’t drink a pint and go for a piss in circa 10 mins

Was that at the Ricoh when we did one of our legendary “let’s encourage loads of new fans” routines by doing a ticket offer, and as per usual put on a monstrously poor performance

matesx · Feb 22, 2020

David O'Day said:
I was finishing a pint when Willis scored in the play off final

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Same

hill83 · Feb 22, 2020

David O'Day said:
I was finishing a pint when Willis scored in the play off final

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Luckily I was already flagging from going out the night before and starting early on the day so bottled having a beer at half time.

Covstu · Feb 22, 2020

Ring Of Steel said:
Was that at the Ricoh when we did one of our legendary “let’s encourage loads of new fans” routines by doing a ticket offer, and as per usual put on a monstrously poor performance

One of many fella

larry_david · Feb 22, 2020

I'm glad the ridiculous Sunderland get battered song only appeared once today. I find it utterly embarrassing to be honest.

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