Topic: Our fantastic away support

[Rudolph the red nose griffin]

https://youtu.be/N-x9Rw76tak?si=vXMjjYma3d53MKSM

The INSIDE video has some nice shots of the away end, including the red inflatable 7-0. 

Enjoy.

[Sven can I open my pressie]

Brilliant effort from our fans today. It was a joy to hear. Ye drowned out any Palace songs and made it sound like Anfield in the good old days. Well done all involved.

[Stevo79]

Brilliant effort from our fans today. It was a joy to hear. Ye drowned out any Palace songs and made it sound like Anfield in the good old days. Well done all involved.

Agree with this, sounded a great one to be a part of.

[Sprouts of Spion]

Brilliant effort from our fans today. It was a joy to hear. Ye drowned out any Palace songs and made it sound like Anfield in the good old days. Well done all involved.

Bu.. but the Palace 'Ultras'. 

I had a Palace fan online the other day saying how Anfield has a dead atmosphere while their fans are supposedly fantastic and sing all the time.

Well done to the travelling Reds.

[Ratboy3G]

Bu.. but the Palace 'Ultras'. 

I had a Palace fan online the other day saying how Anfield has a dead atmosphere while their fans are supposedly fantastic and sing all the time.

Well done to the travelling Reds.

No one does faux-ultra better than Palace fans, it's awful

[Rudolph the red nose griffin]

Barely heard a peep out of the Palace fans second half.

[9 kemlyn road]

Barely heard a peep out of the Palace fans second half.

Barely a peep out of them after the 9th minute after jota scored.

Contrived forced atmosphere.

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

Convinced we've told Palace that every ticket is a blag ticket or the holder is trying to blag them - the amount of checks, second checks, third checks is comical really, for such a little club.

[stevienash]

Convinced we've told Palace that every ticket is a blag ticket or the holder is trying to blag them - the amount of checks, second checks, third checks is comical really, for such a little club.

yes that did seem a bit over the top, even when coming back in for the 2nd half they were still at it!

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

Sloshed on 2.9% lager. What is our end coming to.

Ourselves aside, that is what a match experience should be like and how fans should be treated, not as cattle.

Germany proving again it’s the best place to watch and experience football.

[Lisan Al Gaib]

Mad respect to the fan who probably paid for his entire trip by collecting used drink containers after the game. Think someone said he got 170 Euros from them.

[kevlumley]

Sloshed on 2.9% lager. What is our end coming to.

Ourselves aside, that is what a match experience should be like and how fans should be treated, not as cattle.

Germany proving again it’s the best place to watch and experience football.

Hear hear, a nice positive word Polizei

[ABJ]

Mad respect to the fan who probably paid for his entire trip by collecting used drink containers after the game. Think someone said he got 170 Euros from them.

171 cups @ €1.20 each, he did very well! Did similar in Prague after he lost his phone which helped him pay for the trip. He’s a good lad despite getting dogs abuse on Twitter by those that are offended 🙄

[ABJ]

Sloshed on 2.9% lager. What is our end coming to.

Ourselves aside, that is what a match experience should be like and how fans should be treated, not as cattle.

Germany proving again it’s the best place to watch and experience football.

Yeah it was bang on as per usual. Comfortably the best country to watch football in, puts numerous other countries to shame.

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

Xenophobic edge here, but why the fuck is it always Spain, Italy and more often than not, Portugal, where the bizzies are consistently shite, overbearing and generally a shower of c*nts.

[Red_Mist]

Xenophobic edge here, but why the fuck is it always Spain, Italy and more often than not, Portugal, where the bizzies are consistently shite, overbearing and generally a shower of c*nts.

In Spain, (Franco’s) Guardia Civil don’t need the excuse of a football match to act like twats.

[Red_Mist]

Great to hear Germany is still brilliant for watching the reds. Only done three and they were all fantastic. Barely remember any policing at all. Leverkusen the locals just wanted us to join them in getting drunk in the beer tents outside the ground. What a cracking place!

[Yorkykopite]

Xenophobic edge here, but why the fuck is it always Spain, Italy and more often than not, Portugal, where the bizzies are consistently shite, overbearing and generally a shower of c*nts.

Yet to have the reckoning with their Fascist pasts that Germany has so clearly done with hers?

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

Yet to have the reckoning with their Fascist pasts that Germany has so clearly done with hers?

Valking across the Marketplatz Leipzif, the Trio of us, agreed where're in the old Da Da Da-DDR, Ich lieb' dicht, du liebs mich nicht, aha! Da dar dar......

And they've moved on, great bunch of lads, the Germans

[Samie]

https://xcancel.com/spiritofshankly/status/1850566047553757533

#StopExploitingLoyalty banner held up by Liverpool & Arsenal fans outside the Emirates

[newterp]

We sat above the traveling supporters - they were AWESOME. so so loud - made the Arsenal supporter look bad with their boring Are-senal chant.

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

In the main I support as a fan, what the FSA and this supposed government over arching football governance body are striving to achieve - but if you truly go, and I mean truly go home and away, you’ll know the ticket prices are absolutely not, the biggest issue - the price of transport and accommodation and the inflated prices that ensue, are the biggest drain on a home and away fans pocket and spirit.

Hows this new regulatory body going to deal with the likes of an EasyJet, Ryanair, premier Inn, Best Western et al?

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

PS, I was fucking ace yesterday.


And modest!


How did we get on?

[SamLad]

Hows this new regulatory body going to deal with the likes of an EasyJet, Ryanair, premier Inn, Best Western et al?

how can airlines and hotels possibly be within their remit?

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

how can airlines and hotels possibly be within their remit?

Fazakerley!


And they are meant to be doing this for football fans!

Just another non understanding opinion of what those who have no fucking clue, what hurts football fans.

[Fromola]

We sat above the traveling supporters - they were AWESOME. so so loud - made the Arsenal supporter look bad with their boring Are-senal chant.

Looked a top end. Had the sound down mostly because of Neville and the constant Arsenal whinging at every decision. Could see the away end was well up for it.

[SamLad]

Fazakerley!


And they are meant to be doing this for football fans!

Just another non understanding opinion of what those who have no fucking clue, what hurts football fans.

I haven't paid much attention to the regulator stuff, but AFAI they're not charged with making the game easier on fans' wallets are they? 

edit:  no they're not, at all ....
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/football-governance-bill-supporting-documents/fact-sheet-the-independent-football-regulator-ifr
The IFR will have 3 primary objectives. They are:

Club financial soundness - to protect and promote financial sustainability of individual clubs, ensuring that clubs take sensible financial decisions and consider the long-term when taking risks

 
Systemic financial resilience - to protect and promote the financial resilience of English football as a whole, ensuring that systemic risks and structural issues like the distribution of revenue through the pyramid are managed appropriately

Heritage - to safeguard the traditional features of English football that matter most to the fans and local communities of clubs

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

I haven't paid much attention to the regulator stuff, but AFAI they're not charged with making the game easier on fans' wallets are they? 

edit:  no they're not, at all ....
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/football-governance-bill-supporting-documents/fact-sheet-the-independent-football-regulator-ifr
The IFR will have 3 primary objectives. They are:

Club financial soundness - to protect and promote financial sustainability of individual clubs, ensuring that clubs take sensible financial decisions and consider the long-term when taking risks

 
Systemic financial resilience - to protect and promote the financial resilience of English football as a whole, ensuring that systemic risks and structural issues like the distribution of revenue through the pyramid are managed appropriately

Heritage - to safeguard the traditional features of English football that matter most to the fans and local communities of clubs

So nothing much bar heritage, that heritage being?…. Over policing, being treated like cattle, aggressive ejection from football matches, empowering private security companies to police away ends with strong arm tactics and polices constriction of civil liberties - the list goes on.

You have to experience this on almost a weekly basis to know it, and work around it. Not all away ends ate like this and not all police officers are like this - but make no mistakes, your above 3 points are to preserve the cash cow and not make it focused on those who truly are the heartbeat of football, the match going fan.

[SamLad]

So nothing much bar heritage, that heritage being?…. Over policing, being treated like cattle, aggressive ejection from football matches, empowering private security companies to police away ends with strong arm tactics and polices constriction of civil liberties - the list goes on.

You have to experience this on almost a weekly basis to know it, and work around it. Not all away ends ate like this and not all police officers are like this - but make no mistakes, your above 3 points are to preserve the cash cow and not make it focused on those who truly are the heartbeat of football, the match going fan.

no argument from me mate, their not "my" points 

[Never liked a girl well enough to give her 12 sharp knives]

The Proclaimers

[kavah's christmas Cava palava]

MOTM. Great tonight

[Terrys chocolate orange]

Superb as always.

[Rudolph the red nose griffin]

Came through loud and clear on TV right from the off

[DangerScouse]

Enjoyed hearing that ding dong in the first half with the Brighton fans.

[Jm55]

Was a good end last night especially considering a lot of ours didn’t arrive until about 7-20/30 due to delays on the motorway.

[Nick110581]

Was a good end last night especially considering a lot of ours didn’t arrive until about 7-20/30 due to delays on the motorway.

Think there were issues with trains to ground too. We got there early but loads of seats empty by us.

Some young lad about 8/9 jumped the barrier when Gakpo got the second and their steward was a jobsworth and did he wasn’t allowed back in and his Dad was arguing saying he was silly, etc. Luckily, it didn’t cause a scene.

[Lisan Al Gaib]

Think there were issues with trains to ground too. We got there early but loads of seats empty by us.

Brighton train station was fucking horrific last night, I got there about an 75/80 minutes before kick off and missed the first 10 minutes. There were still loads behind as well and we were getting absolutely no information at all from police or station staff. The train I was on that left about 10 minutes before kick off delayed boarding for so long that when the train doors eventually lit up people pushed the barriers over and caused a stampede towards the train. They're lucky no one was hurt.

[Nick110581]

Brighton train station was fucking horrific last night, I got there about an 75/80 minutes before kick off and missed the first 10 minutes. There were still loads behind as well and we were getting absolutely no information at all from police or station staff. The train I was on that left about 10 minutes before kick off delayed boarding for so long that when the train doors eventually lit up people pushed the barriers over and caused a stampede towards the train. They're lucky no one was hurt.

It’s really dangerous going both ways and I called this out last season.

The queue after the game is a disaster waiting to happen as it’s on an incline and only needs a few people at the back to push to cause huge issues.

For everything that’s good about Brighton, the ground is a fucker to get too and from!

[Jm55]

It’s really dangerous going both ways and I called this out last season.

The queue after the game is a disaster waiting to happen as it’s on an incline and only needs a few people at the back to push to cause huge issues.

For everything that’s good about Brighton, the ground is a fucker to get too and from!

The park and ride on the other hand is so well organised.

I was in a massive queue for it after full time and they had me on a bus within about 10 minutes.

Assume that’s the difference between a  system run by the club and trains etc run by private operators who don’t give a fuck. The whole train system in this country is ridiculous really, id have gone by train last night if it was possible but absolutely no chance, they always push people to use public transport for emissions etc but then make no effort to provide services for events such as football matches beyond the usual train times.

[Nick110581]

The park and ride on the other hand is so well organised.

I was in a massive queue for it after full time and they had me on a bus within about 10 minutes.

Assume that’s the difference between a  system run by the club and trains etc run by private operators who don’t give a fuck. The whole train system in this country is ridiculous really, id have gone by train last night if it was possible but absolutely no chance, they always push people to use public transport for emissions etc but then make no effort to provide services for events such as football matches beyond the usual train times.

The Mill Road one?

A lot of my mates are season ticket holders there and go early / come back late for home matches but not every one can do that.