colinmk Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I would love safe standing, hate that moment when everyone sits down just before kick off. Same, always feels like an anti-climax. Also I'm a fidgety bastard at the best of times and sitting down at something with an atmosphere like a match or gig is a struggle for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Vaguely once at the SoS when it kicked off once and the mentalists started emerging when I was on the border with the mackems- mostly enjoyed that though tbh. Other than that, absolutely not. Can't be a representative survey. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I would love safe standing, hate that moment when everyone sits down just before kick off. Same, always feels like an anti-climax. Also I'm a fidgety bastard at the best of times and sitting down at something with an atmosphere like a match or gig is a struggle for me. Same, my leg vibrates for the entire match and there's not a thing I can do about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J7 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Only time ive felt 'unsafe' at a Newcastle game was Boro in the Championship. Didn't know where the police were leading us after the game, followed under the arch at the station an they all turned with their battons out. Shit myself! ha. The packed platform when the train is coming in doesn't exactly feel safe either tbf. But other than that only at Scottish games. Once went to Motherwell-Rangers before getting the plane to Zante and me an my mates were forced out of our seats by hooligans because of our English accents. Obviously thought we were Rangers fans. They were basically talking amongst themselves with threats to us and getting more and more lads to come and squeeze us out of the area. Just moved in the end as it wasn't worth the hassle. Other times were two fights watching Berwick. Clydebank fans charged through the fence once and there was a ruck at the back of the terrace next to me. Didn't really bother me and thought it was quite funny, but it wasn't really safe with Weegies going around looking for anyone to punch. A couple of times at Cowdenbeath fights have broken out too. Last one the game was stopped until the fights ended. My mate got smacked and knocked into me and we ended up rolling down the terrace. hahaha. A few times coins have been flying about all over the place too when anyone could have been hit, Arbroath and Stranraer mainly. Just made the games a bit more interesting tbh, but wasn't safe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J7 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Oh and once at Arbroath when I was about 16, it was a promotion game and fans were all over the pitch at the end. A policeman was trying to escort us away and i called him a biased cunt for some stupid reason. He threw me to the floor and thought I was going to get trampled on. My own fault really. ha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisJbarnes Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Birmingham v Aston Villa in the carling cup 2 seasons ago. I live in Aston and had to walk to St Andrews, both areas are absolutely shite. Not nearly enough policemen, dark and cold evening. You could tell it was all going to kick off before the game, and I was sat in the small section of home fans next to the away end. The villa fans were kicking down the intersection between the sets of fans and came and smashed up the toilets and started fights. Blues fans getting involved as well. We saw a Birmingham fan say "wait here" to his kid whilst he went and got involved in the fight. Stewards weren't interested in doing anything and the police couldn't organise an orgy in a whorehouse. Full scale pitch invasion at the end with flares being thrown between the sets of fans and Villa fans ripping seats up. Wall to wall scum and both sets of fans disgraced themselves. Never seen anything like it, the whole ground might as well have been a holding pen for the Jeremy Kyle show, cant have been more than 2 or 3 surnames in the crowd that night! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuneaton Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 The only time i have felt a little on edge was the derby just gone, i took the mrs and we got tickets off someone in the street in their end (just happened to be right underneath the newcastle fans) We missed our goal because of the police and fighting outside. The mrs kept taking photos of our corners/freekicks etc which gave the game away a bit! Heard one mackem behind say shes taking photos, as if cameras had only just been released. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Safe standing is an example of something that will improve the game immensely but will never happen. Money always wins. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I was grabbed and told I was going to get 'kicked the shit out of' by a drunken 30 odd Celtic fan at Shearers testimonial when I was 15 for oding squat all but walking down Barrack road. That was a bit scary but other than that I feel safe as houses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Only time ive felt 'unsafe' at a Newcastle game was Boro in the Championship. Didn't know where the police were leading us after the game, followed under the arch at the station an they all turned with their battons out. Shit myself! ha. The packed platform when the train is coming in doesn't exactly feel safe either tbf. That's one of the only matches that springs to mind for me too. Weirdly for me as well, I've always been used to being just like one of the lads when I go to football, and that was the only time in recent history I can remember the lads all sort of moving around me to keep me safer in the centre. It didn't help that someone nearby had been hit and was bleeding, and the police point blank refused to offer any assistance. I was in the home end at Sunderland once and felt ok, but it was quite a few years back and I think tbh I didn't really consider what the consequences could have been. Wouldn't be in a hurry to do it again, having seen a bit more of the rivalry since then. The only other time I can remember really thinking "oh shit" was an away game at Birmingham when I was on my own and the group I'd been chatting to on the coach picked completely the wrong pub. It almost kicked right off but thankfully we managed to avoid major trouble. I was only about 18 or 19 then and would've promptly shit a brick if the group I'd been with hadn't been so swift in getting out. At the match itself: generally always feel very safe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakka Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Football grounds have so many people you have to expect a certain amount of dickheads, can be same as nightclubs in some ways. Trouble happens but nearly always to someone else other than you, but it's always a possibility that could happen to you. I've never had a problem at a football ground. Been at a game back in the mid-90's where it very much kicked off around me and I was only 13 or 14 I think, but so many home fans were about I didn't feel trouble was going to come for me. I'd say a very high percentage of the time I feel safe. Perhaps if you go to the games with small children your perception changes and maybe many people of that ilk voted? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J7 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Only time ive felt 'unsafe' at a Newcastle game was Boro in the Championship. Didn't know where the police were leading us after the game, followed under the arch at the station an they all turned with their battons out. s*** myself! ha. The packed platform when the train is coming in doesn't exactly feel safe either tbf. That's one of the only matches that springs to mind for me too. Weirdly for me as well, I've always been used to being just like one of the lads when I go to football, and that was the only time in recent history I can remember the lads all sort of moving around me to keep me safer in the centre. It didn't help that someone nearby had been hit and was bleeding, and the police point blank refused to offer any assistance. I was in the home end at Sunderland once and felt ok, but it was quite a few years back and I think tbh I didn't really consider what the consequences could have been. Wouldn't be in a hurry to do it again, having seen a bit more of the rivalry since then. The only other time I can remember really thinking "oh s***" was an away game at Birmingham when I was on my own and the group I'd been chatting to on the coach picked completely the wrong pub. It almost kicked right off but thankfully we managed to avoid major trouble. I was only about 18 or 19 then and would've promptly s*** a brick if the group I'd been with hadn't been so swift in getting out. At the match itself: generally always feel very safe. I forgot about a derby I went to in the Mackem end actually. My Mackem mate got me an another toon fan mate a ticket in the home end. Was right next to away end and it went mental when Dabizas scored. Was probably young enough at 17 for Berwick base mackems not to notice us and know who we were if they were close in the stand. But we did get the Mackem bus there and back. All the way back I was shitting it, think folk started to suss us out. Kept getting asked my first Sunderland memory an stuff. Made up some bollocks about Terry Butcher and Phil Gray. Was chuffed when we eventually got home. Was also funny listening to mackems, "would never say this in front of a mag, but I've been to Northampton in Dvision 3, and were fuckin shit!" I just stared out the window trying to keep myself from laughing or getting lynched. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyCisse Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m275fpn1yR1qmi4yb.gif I feel safe but Sophia doesn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I always feel safe at St James' Park but I do feel a bit uneasy on any away trip I go on (new territories and new grounds/not knowing what to expect kind of thing) - I usually settle down by the time the game kicks off and I'm amongst our lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 approaching the mackems supporters coach when they were in a play off semis at palace when i was about 13, and then revealing a shearer top wasnt the smartest thing iv ever done, considering there were a shitload not on buses that saw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 All depends where you sit, I guess. There's been times I've gone to away games and felt nowt but jovial intentions from all sides. On other occasions I've been embarrassed to be there and have ended up kicking off with folk. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Can't believe some teams' fans sit at away matches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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