shurlock Posted 9 April, 2019 Share Posted 9 April, 2019 Away fans in home areas happens at every game, obviously with the clubs with the largest fan base will have more. In contrast i was at Twickenham on Saturday for the Rugby Premier League Game between Bath and Bristol (local rivals), 62,000 fans absolutely no segregation and no trouble. The West Car park is one huge party with both sets of fans drinking together before and after the match. I await the middle class jibes from those who have never been to a first class rugby match. Both Bath and Bristol supporter base is founded in the working class of those cities, of Baths 9 Junior Clubs, 4 are State School Old Boys Clubs, 1 is all that is left of Baths biggest heavy industry company, Stothert and Pitt, 3 represent specific districts and the final one is a Public School Old Boys. The same is true of the many Bristol Junior Clubs. It is not that the people are different it is that the cultures of the two games produces a different mind set even in the same people. I love both games, and if i could only choose one to watch it would be football, but I would miss the friendliness and social aspects of big rugby games. Think you're confusing things. It's not so much that football fans are less friendly or sociable than rugby fans (christ a scouser even shared a drink and some crisps on the train down the game). It's that there is an expectation, even convention that as an away fan you show some respect if you happen to be in the home end. Anger arises when people are flagrantly flouting this convention. It's not one that exists in rugby or other sports as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 9 April, 2019 Share Posted 9 April, 2019 Yes my father (96) remembers this well, football changed for the worse in the sixties. I sometimes went to Bournemouth in the mid-late '70s when Saints were away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 10 April, 2019 Share Posted 10 April, 2019 I sometimes went to Bournemouth in the mid-late '70s when Saints were away The fixtures used to be arranged so that both teams would not be at home on the same day. Many people had season tickets for both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 10 April, 2019 Share Posted 10 April, 2019 Yes my father (96) remembers this well, football changed for the worse in the sixties. When did your old man go to his first Saints match? He must have seen Ted Bates play! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonraker Posted 11 April, 2019 Share Posted 11 April, 2019 When did your old man go to his first Saints match? He must have seen Ted Bates play! Early thirties, he left Southampton in 1948, after that only manages a couple of games a season. Last game at St Mary’s 2014. He did Ted Bates his boyhood hero was Ted Drake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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