Fighting At Todays Game

[liampie]

i had to walk past a group rowdy blade fans earlier, who shouted abuse at me. all grown men at least 20 years older than myself! at one point two of them started following me but a fight broke up between some of the other group.

how thuggish are their fans?

i noticed an elderly man in his late 50's to mid 60's with blood pouring down his face!

a cop told me to walk a longer way around to ml because supposedly trouble had broke out. i cant see anything about this at all online, did anyone else see things like this?

[Chris]

I avoided walking to the ground today for this reason but I was also running late, so a bus seemed to be easier. I didn't really fancy walking with my two eldest children, especially after an experience myself and Jake had.

I didn't notice any fighting, also no trouble from their fans.

However, I was walking to KOP and noticed a bloke who was bleeding from his head. It looked quite serious, police was alongside him also but I just kept walking.

[upthepies]

You will always find a few idiots from any club, including ours.

I have not heard anything, Yet I'm surprised to be honest. I would have thought the game was well policed, this said their fans are well known trouble causers.

[Super_Danny_Allsopp]

Didn't notice anything before the game, but I too was running quite late so parked at Meadow Lane.

I did notice after the game there was a bit of a tense atmosphere between some Notts' fans and Sheffield fans, all youngish around their late teens. A middle age Notts fan (probably one of their dads) manage to diffuse the situation by telling the younger Notts fan to "shut his gob and keep walking".

It seemed Sheffield fans had initiated the confrontation, but can't be sure.

[Fan of Big Tone]

I considered taking my grandson who is 5 to the match but decided against in case there was any trouble, having said that I walked out of the Pavis on to Meadow Lane and there was a mixture of Notts and Utd fans walking to the embankment to retrieve their cars but I didn't see any trouble at all. The Utd fans I saw were mainly families and listening to their conversations they were bemoaning the fact that the ref was very poor in their opinion.

 

As @upthepies says all clubs have their element of obnoxious fans and ours is no exception, I think these sort of fans tend to seek out the fans of the opposition who are up for causing trouble, most decent fans will keep well away if anything starts, unfortunately sometimes innocent decent fans get caught up in it through no fault of their own.

[upthepies]

Very true Tony.

Barnsley is a team which comes to mind, some very vulgar fans but I once noticed some get into trouble for defending themselves. There is still matters from the 80's which have not be addressed properly. That is football for you, hopefully nobody was seriously hurt.

[weymouthPIE]

I walked down behind the Sirrel Stand after the game and the atmosphere was a bit tense. Outside the exit gates to the Kop a couple of middle aged, probably drunken thugs from both sides had a go but the Police soon moved in and broke it up. I was queuing up to get a drink from the burger van on the corner and one of our fans was having a go at a group of away fans shouting "I'll effin flatten you quicker than effin Maggie Thatcher flattened your effin mines".

 

Every club has its troublemakers unfortunatly. Think the media try and make any trouble out to be more serious these days though. Idon't think anyone can say it's as bad as it was in the 70s and 80s but some, former hooligans I suppose are still hanging onto that era and still go in search of trouble.

 

Thankfully the majority of fans seemed well behaved. United's fans didn't seem the friendliest bunch, normally you can end up chatting to opposition fans if you try but not that lot.

 

What can I say? 1-0, and they messed it up

[Ancientpie]

 

I walked down behind the Sirrel Stand after the game and the atmosphere was a bit tense. Outside the exit gates to the Kop a couple of middle aged, probably drunken thugs from both sides had a go but the Police soon moved in and broke it up. I was queuing up to get a drink from the burger van on the corner and one of our fans was having a go at a group of away fans shouting "I'll effin flatten you quicker than effin Maggie Thatcher flattened your effin mines".

 

Every club has its troublemakers unfortunatly. Think the media try and make any trouble out to be more serious these days though. Idon't think anyone can say it's as bad as it was in the 70s and 80s but some, former hooligans I suppose are still hanging onto that era and still go in search of trouble.

 

Thankfully the majority of fans seemed well behaved. United's fans didn't seem the friendliest bunch, normally you can end up chatting to opposition fans if you try but not that lot.

 

What can I say? 1-0, and they messed it up

 

 

As others have said every club has them I attended the away fixture last season & found the home fans very friendly & chatty but was embarrassed by some of our louts ( strangely they all seemed to be of my generation rather than youngsters) sadly I don't believe that the hooligan problem will ever completely disappear, but as most people who attended games in the 70s/80s know a little common sense & wariness can normally keep you safe.  

[magpiejue]

In the Nav yesterday, one of the doors was closed and they weren't letting away fans in, and also had extra security on the door, apparently after we'd left on New Years Day, there was some bother with Bradford fans.

[magpiejue]

Oh and if Sheff United fans thought that ref was poor, roll on when they get Charles Breaksphere or whatever his name was, Bristol City. Give em something to moan about he would, What!

[weymouthPIE]

Now they know how we felt about referee Keith Stroud on the opening day! Not that I thought yesterday's ref was particularly poor. He gave both sides some dodgy decisions but on the whole I felt he refereed the match well

[PTID1862]

Thinking back, the last time I had any trouble at a game was away at Sheffield United. I was living in York at the time and had caught the train. On the walk back to the station, I had been talking to a couple of their fans without any trouble, but out of nowhere I received a punch to the back of the head, only to find out I had been keyed.

 

Thankfully the damage wasn't much, and the fans I had been talking to came to the rescue. IMO it is much more of a minority now that continue to look for, or cause trouble. Others have quite rightly said, every club has them.

[super_ram]

One of the first times I encountered football hooliganism was at a midweek away match in August 1968 at ....Bramall Lane. Sheffield United had been relegated the previous season.The Rams lost 2-0(but ended the season as champions)We stood behind one goal,a mix of both sets of fans and no trouble although an old woman in front of us seemed to take exception to the fact that Derby were by no means being dominated by her side.She made a comment about them just being REGULATED. When the match ended we made our way out of the ground-me and 3 mates,2 with there girlfriends.Outside ,in the streets ,there were hordes of United fans causing mayhem and looking for Rams fans.It was quite scary All of a sudden, from nowhere, a Policeman on horseback appeared along with many more police and we were eventually escorted back to our bus.That wasn't the end of it though as bricks and stones continued to bombard the car park .Not very pleasant!

[Harrys_Mummy]

This is part of the reason I have stopped taking my son to the games. We had a run in with some fans when he was a few months old in our travel system. It was when we still had Hughsey...we had thrashed them and when walking to get a bus home some of their fans came up to us yelling abuse. Asking if we were going to raise our baby as a murderer too....seriously why bring a baby into it. As a new Mum i

I was upset by it and felt threatened. But thankfully there were some more home fans and my husband to tell them to bugger off and pick on someone their own size.

[super_pie]

It wasn't nice seeing the person with blood on his face, fighting is stupid.

[liampie]

its not nice @super_pie but dont worry about it. i agree fighting is pointless, it was one of the best games for football reason and not for mindless thugs.

[Ancientpie]

One of the first times I encountered football hooliganism was at a midweek away match in August 1968 at ....Bramall Lane. Sheffield United had been relegated the previous season.The Rams lost 2-0(but ended the season as champions)We stood behind one goal,a mix of both sets of fans and no trouble although an old woman in front of us seemed to take exception to the fact that Derby were by no means being dominated by her side.She made a comment about them just being REGULATED. When the match ended we made our way out of the ground-me and 3 mates,2 with there girlfriends.Outside ,in the streets ,there were hordes of United fans causing mayhem and looking for Rams fans.It was quite scary All of a sudden, from nowhere, a Policeman on horseback appeared along with many more police and we were eventually escorted back to our bus.That wasn't the end of it though as bricks and stones continued to bombard the car park .Not very pleasant!

Travelling in the late 60s/70s & early 80s was to say the least risky & I myself took a kicking at Bramall in the 70s,we had gone by train & as often happened our youngsters arrived & led the procession to the ground my mate & I were happily chatting away in the middle of the 200 or so Notts fans when I looked up to find that everyone was legging it from even more Sheff United fans, I was slow & took a kicking but it taught me a lesson that I have never forgot,ALWAYS BE AWARE,