Rangers fans last night in Manchester. Causing chaos and riots everywhere, this isnt an anti rangers post but the scenes were shocking and if there was ever a cause to ban a team from uefa competetions this is it This first video shows them charging at cops and eventually trapping one cop and beating the crap out of him http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7402858.stm This video show them totally wrecking a car http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7402905.stm Disgusting behaviour
i agree that those scenes were terrible but i dont think banning rangers would be the answer.only a minority caused trouble so that means the majority will be punished with their team not in europe.alot of the time its those who are not football fanatics who cause the trouble.
in my Opinion Showing the Game on Big Screens was a big Mistake. as soon as Zenit were Confirmed as Finalists and had Returned 4,000 of their Tkt Allocation UEFA should've Cancelled any Plans to do it. an awful lot of "Fans" wouldn't have Travelled if that had happened...
Was in manchester last night with a few other lads from here, i done support an scottish team by thwe way but i think it would be unfair to punish rangers because of the actions of a minority of thier support, the city was absolutely packed with rangers fans and the majority were very well behaved ! On a side note The whole sectarian side of the way rangers and celtic fans go on is absolutely disgusting, i think its laughable how obsessed they are with each other ! Full marks to the zennith fans for how they supported thier team they were vastly outnumbered but they were the ones that stood.sang,bounced, and got behind thier team Rangers fans were very poor in thier support, too quick to sit down and didnt create any noise to help thier team! After been in instanbul and athens it was a pleasure to see how a tournament should be organised !
Drinking will be banned on the streets of the city and there will be no big screens for fans to watch the match on. thats what russian authorities say will happen in moscow next week.i doubt there will be much chance of the no drinking part with two english teams in the final.
Im sick to death of hearing this "minority of fans" b.s. from certain people.I have been to a Celtic Rangers game when i played youth football and i can tell you right now it's not a minority of there fans,neither celtic or rangers.I hear all this stuff about the special atmosphere at these games,what special atmosphere.50,000 idiots on one side shouting abuse and secterian rubbish at the other 2000 in the ground? The away support been spat on going to and from the ground? Even human excrement been put on the seats of away supports before kick off at ibrox by the ground staff has been raised before on various soccer forums. Is there good hearted supporters from boths sides of this divide? Sure there is, but lets not get into a whole small minority debate about this trouble last night. It was anything but.
There were probably 1000 fans tops involved last night (most likely nowhere near that). Thats 1% of the Rangers fans in Manchester. If thats not a small minority what is??
i was Reading this on The Liverpool Way earlier.... The Rangers trouble-What really happened. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ive just got back from Manchester now. The firm i have just joined where doing event security for the game. Until we arrived this afternoon, we didnt realise that we where actually working on the fan parks in the city centre. We got given high vis jackets then I was posted with 6 others to one of the gates at Picadilly Square Fan Park at around half 5. The crowds where unbelieveable, reminicent of Tacksim and Syntagma square for us, except in a much smaller area. Our job was to stop people entering with glass bottles. Bearing in mind this was my first ever shift, it was quite daunting. Alot of the people who i had to challenge for bottles where sound, had no objections because we provided plastic cups for them to enter their bottles in to. But there was alot of scum aswell, ****ed out of their faces who had none of it. I asked one big feller to empty his bottle in to a cup, very politely, and i was told to **** off. I then went over to him again, and he twatted me in the chest, i asked him again with a plastic cup in my hand for him and he threw me in to a fence. **** this, i dont get paid enough for this shite so i left him. It was clear by then the sqaure was becoming dangerously overcrowded. Our gate was getting crushed, and we where pulled away by police for our own safety. We where moved further up to the entrance of the square, where barriers where accross preventing people from entering because it was too full. A lot of lads tried to get through, and the vast majority where sound about it and good natured with me. I had many a conversation with jocks when they noticed my scouse accent and realised i wasnt a manc. My advice to them was to find a pub before the rush, which went against what we where told to tell them which was to head for the fan park at the ground. I knew theyd have shit there so i didnt tell them that. No problems whatsoever at this point. Then about 20mins before kick off, an older scots feller came over to me and said hoow dangerously crowded it was in the square, he said "someone was going to get killed", and thats why he left. He also said to me "mark my words, there will be a riot in there". I had those suspicions myself. From my experience of Istanbul and Athens, you can tell when something is not right, and i definately sensed that then. We then hit quarter to 8, and the square is rammed with Rangers fans, singing and watching the big screen for the adverts to end and the game to start. By 5 to 8, still no game. Then a supervisor gets it over his radio that they werent showing it. I couldnt believe it. My words to him where "there will be absolute ****in murder here, its ****in suicide". Jocks where coming over asking us what was going on, and we had to tell them. They where understandabely ****in fumin. I tried to tell them that i totally agreed with them, and that it was a ****in disgrace. Some where sound with me, recognising it wasnt our fault as event stewards. But then as people started to twig on what was going on, it started getting nasty. There was about 15 of us on this gate with a few police near by, and the scots where fuming with us. Coming over, pushing us, screaming in our faces. What could we do? I agreed with every word they said, id be ****in fuming aswell, but it had **** all to do with us. Then it got quite serious, bottles where being thrown, passing just past my face and lads where getting really aggresive with us. It was then when our head office told us to pull out, and the police moved us down a side street. We where getting dogs abuse, bottles thrown down at us, everything. Obviously the fact we where in uniform attracted it. Then our supervisor said they had to try and move us in to one of the portacabins back in the middle of the sqaure. We walked through as a group, through thousands of scots who where going crazy, throwing all kinds, screaming in our faces. We eventually had to take our jackets off and run. When we made it to this portacabin, all hell was going off around us. Riot police where coming from everywhere, and hundreds of rangers fans where charging them. Bus shelter where ripped down, and metal and wooden poles used as weapons to charge the police. The place was totally trashed. A bottle landed right next to me which had been thrown from someone. This went on for 3hours solid until 11 oclock. We had to take off all jackets and ties, and when it quietened down about half 11 we where able to make way to our coach at the GMex. Back at the coach we heard a Russian had been stabbed aswell. People have said that the big screen in our square had a technical fault and thats why the match wasnt shown. I know for a fact that is bollocks. It wasnt shown because of the shear numbers in the sqaure. The reasoning was that if Rangers scored, there would be bedlam. But whichever thick ****s makes these decisions obviously didnt realise the implications of not showing the game. If they wherent going to show it, they shouldve informed everyone at 6 o clock and give people time to fine somewhere else, not at ****in kick off. Its an absolute disgrace, and so typical of UEFA event. I couldve organised it better, it was a sham. They totally underestimated the amount of scots that would travel. Logical thing to do would be to put a big screen in old Trafford and let people watch it there, then there wouldve been no bother. 2 ****in shitty fan parks was never going to be enough. I could see it, everyone else could, why cant the ****in organisers of these events? Useless ****s, heads should ****in role after tonight. Ive spoke to my dad and others who've said that the news have reported it as small disturbances with a hand full of Rangers fans clashing with the police. Thats absolute bullshit, total bollocks. There where ****in hundreds, if not more, and this went on for hours right in front of my eyes. To be fair, the amount of Scots lads who made the effort to come over and speak to us while this was going on, simply saying "sorry" was amazing. I spoke to a feller who made the effort to come over to us when he seen us having all kinds thrown in our direction, and he just apologised on behalf of Rangers fans, and said what a disgrace and embarrasment it was. I know from experience that its always a minority who are scum, and tar everyone with the same brush. But thats what happened, anything you hear otherwise is crap, i ****in seen it with my own eyes. Rangers fans had every right to be pissed with what happened in that square, but the actions of some afterwards, the rioting for 2 hours, was inexcusable. And it wasnt a "handfull" either.
avid i read that on raotl too.i think murf(or murph)posted a thing on raotl a couple days back about the moscow police having two big pens for both sets of fans,no food no beer no wandering about.it was a link to the bbc site anyway.basically they get off the plane bussed to this pen,bussed to the game,bussed back to the airport
Every street you turned in yesterday it was packed with rangers fans the local press in mancland say between 100 and 200 thousand people were on the streets so with less than 50 arrests and only around one or two hundred people involved i would say yes that was a minority , you choose to ignore the facts if you like ! We seen first hand how many people were involved As for the sectarian shit well i would say there is a much higher percentage of people involved and there is no excuse for it on either side !