| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans 15:10 - Sep 23 with 11938 views | sotonsuperhoop |
On Saturday we left the New Forest at 10am and arrived at Yeovil Junction just on 12.40am after a good journey joining the train from London at Salisbury. As expected the train was full of Rangers the majority of which had drunk their fill by the time we got on but all in good spirits.
Our prearranged taxi at YJ was waiting and off to the Airfield Tavern we went. Never knew so many of our fans are called Mark, more than six taxi drivers all looking for Mark!! The pub was disappointing , not very busy but still a long wait to get served and the atmosphere subdued which only livened up when some guy walked through the bar in a Chelsea shirt and got what he deserved!
We walked up to the stadium arriving around 2.30pm and found nowhere to have a beer, no kiosk etc so tried our luck at the Yeovil beer tent just behind the main stand. Queued for two to three mins as by then it was one in, one out. Had to show our tickets only to be asked if we were local lads to which I replied ‘yes’ in my broadest Somerset accent. In we went and sank a few more pints before kick off, at £2.50 a pint, it would have been rude not to!
It was my lad’s first experience of terracing and he loved it, although I remember things were a lot more crowded back in the day, plenty of room yesterday.
The game as everyone by now will know was pretty dire from a Rangers point of view so I won’t go into that. I have a great video of the penalty from behind the goal that I’ll try to load up later.
After the game we made our way to The Arrow and found it to be welcoming with fans from both teams mixing and talking well and not too long a wait to get served. Good atmosphere with the odd chant and rendition of ‘we’re top of the league’ etc
Again our pre-arranged taxi picked us up dead on time at 6pm to take us back to YJ. Traffic was horrendous and we only just made it in time only for me to realise I’d left my phone in the cab. I ran back down the stairs and out of the station to find the taxi long gone. Phoned Radio cabs, on my son’s phone, and whilst waiting on the line their controller contacted the driver who confirmed he had it and would return to the station. We missed the train but got the phone back, so thanks to Radio Cabs.
By this time we had 35 mins to wait for the 7.30pm train and sat down and reflected on what a great time we’d had despite the footy being shi+te. Good craic in the pubs, especially after the game, and during the match. Where we stood the atmosphere was pretty good, we sang and had great friendly banter with the stewards and ourselves, a few ‘old school’ chants and of course plenty of ‘Dunne, Dunne, Dunne, Dunne, Richard Dunne, etc’
But this is when things turned a bit sour.
Whilst waiting on the platform we witnessed what I can only describe as my lowest point ever as a Rangers fan. I can put up with bad performances and results but not the kind of behaviour we saw yesterday by some of our so called loyal fans.
A female member of the station staff was abused to such an extent that she walked away from the situation only for one ‘fan’ to run after her to ‘have it out with her’ as he put it. Shouting abuse and swearing at a woman is bad enough but to publically verbally assault her sexually was outrageous and something I have never come across in all my 48 years. It made me ashamed to be associated with such people or should I say ‘fans’. Others in his party just watched, laughing at his antics and the situation.
My son, for what it’s worth, had the balls to confront him, only to be barraged with yet more abusive language, he stayed so calm and spoke so well without swearing, that this guy was left humiliated and deflated wandering off back to his mates with his tail between his legs. I didn’t need to step in before any of you ask, as I had faith in my son and his ability to handle the situation.
We seem to have a culture at QPR that when fans travel away it is of the utmost importance to get as pissed as possible to the extent that fans do not know what they are doing or how they are behaving. Travelling fans represent the clubs reputation and yesterday I was ashamed to be a QPR fan.
I am not a prude, I enjoy a drink with the best of them, but I know what my limit is and how far I can go before things could get out of hand. Sadly many of our travelling faithful do not. I witnessed Men who are old enough to know better, urinating in the street on the way to the ground, abusing staff and stewards at the stadium. With the fan at the station there were two or three youngsters in his party, what kind of example are we setting them? Not just as football fans but as people?
This kind of incident is not new to QPR, over my many years of following our team I had witnessed terrible behaviour not just directed to opposing fans but to our own supporters. Fighting before games between QPR fans is not new, I witnessed two fans getting stabbed inside Wembley at the Milk Cup final when Rangers fans turned on themselves. I thought I’d seen it all until yesterday
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Sooner or later we may find ourselves with reduced away allocations and you wouldn’t blame clubs for doing so
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To add to it all, whilst waiting on the platform just having got off the London bound train at Salisbury station, I heard a young lad say to his dad ‘why has that man on the train got a straw up his nose?’ That same man then went on to rub white powder across his upper teeth and gums in full view of everyone.
Is it a Rangers thing or do all clubs have fans like this?
Shame it was a bad end to a great day out, it won’t put me off following my team across the country, but I think it’s time some fans take a good hard look at themselves.
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 15:18 - Sep 23 with 9281 views | Juzzie |
Sorry to hear of your experiences but don't let it put you off. I've been to quite a few away games the last 30 years and have generally had good experiences. Though I tend to travel by motorbike/car and rarely go to pubs, usually straight to the ground so don't encounter football + alcohol related incidents.
No, I don't think it's a QPR thing. It seems to me people behave differently when it's football, alcohol can make it worse. Would they behave like this if not at a football match? Probably not I reckon.
Conversely, I hear many people saying "xxx person did such a great thing and this is why I love QPR because we have such a unique set of fans." Sorry, can't agree with that either. I'm sure many fans of many other clubs also do great things for their own fans and other people too.
Also, it really annoys me that after a game, hordes of people think it's perfectly OK to walk down the middle of the road when there is plenty of room on the pavement because 'it's a football match'.
No, it's not OK and get out of the fking road, you wouldn't do that at any other time so why now?
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 15:25 - Sep 23 with 9247 views | RblockPrior |
sorry you had to experience that mate, your right that is unacceptable and brings a bad name to our club. Dont get me wrong getting on the drink on away days is all part and parcel and always will be but every1 needs to know there limit. Every club has these fans some more than others but doesnt make it right [Post edited 23 Sep 2013 15:26]
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 15:27 - Sep 23 with 9237 views | enfieldargh |
the 18:29 calcutta express was crammed so full but everyone (in our coach at least) were very well behaved. BT police high presence but there were no calls about aggro in the other TWO coaches so guess all was well. The Emergency stop handle only got pulled once allthough many more plonkers got pulled...
Shame about the element on your train, we do have our fair share of scrotes thankfully they are an extreme minority. |  |
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 15:29 - Sep 23 with 9227 views | Lambourn |
wouldnt say its alcohol related more white powder that seems to make a weasel arrogant and brave. |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 15:38 - Sep 23 with 9187 views | Northernr |
Absolutely nothing wrong with being pissd at the football. It's how you behave on it. |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 15:52 - Sep 23 with 9137 views | daveB |
I was on the 1929 train as well, more than a few coked up QPR fans but thats the same at every away game these days, always seems to be lads in their early 20's,. We had one screaming abuse at us on the train and banging the toilet door over and over again like a demented monkey before he realised we were all QPR then he wanted to be our best friend. We managed to lose him when the train split and found some new seats where it was more of a laugh |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 16:13 - Sep 23 with 9066 views | robith |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 15:52 - Sep 23 by daveB |
I was on the 1929 train as well, more than a few coked up QPR fans but thats the same at every away game these days, always seems to be lads in their early 20's,. We had one screaming abuse at us on the train and banging the toilet door over and over again like a demented monkey before he realised we were all QPR then he wanted to be our best friend. We managed to lose him when the train split and found some new seats where it was more of a laugh |
I think we encountered the same fella, couldn't tell where he was battered or mentally ill.
Kept kicking off that we weren't singing loud enough. When invited to sing us a song, the surrealist masterpiece that is "we're queens park rangers, we rob your nan's pond".
Sarcasm just didn't seem to land in his brain at all and jokey comments were met with threats of violence.
He was harassing these two girls who couldn't have been more than 15. I told him to lay off and he called me a "f@ggot" and started trying to take my glasses off. Got my anger up a lot, but I've got better things to do in my life than get into rucks with strangers on a train so bit my tongue.
Until he poured beer all down my back. Thankfully that was when the train split and I went and sat in first thinking I'd take the cost hit, but no one came round so sat in first for free, and managed to lose him.
Quite the specimen. Was wearing a jumper about 5 sizes too big with his jeans hanging round his rolf harris |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 16:24 - Sep 23 with 9020 views | daveB |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 16:13 - Sep 23 by robith |
I think we encountered the same fella, couldn't tell where he was battered or mentally ill.
Kept kicking off that we weren't singing loud enough. When invited to sing us a song, the surrealist masterpiece that is "we're queens park rangers, we rob your nan's pond".
Sarcasm just didn't seem to land in his brain at all and jokey comments were met with threats of violence.
He was harassing these two girls who couldn't have been more than 15. I told him to lay off and he called me a "f@ggot" and started trying to take my glasses off. Got my anger up a lot, but I've got better things to do in my life than get into rucks with strangers on a train so bit my tongue.
Until he poured beer all down my back. Thankfully that was when the train split and I went and sat in first thinking I'd take the cost hit, but no one came round so sat in first for free, and managed to lose him.
Quite the specimen. Was wearing a jumper about 5 sizes too big with his jeans hanging round his rolf harris |
That sounds like the fella, We were all hoping he didn't realise the train split and ended up in Bristol | | | |
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 16:28 - Sep 23 with 9003 views | stowmarketrange |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 16:24 - Sep 23 by daveB |
That sounds like the fella, We were all hoping he didn't realise the train split and ended up in Bristol |
I thought we had it bad on the 18.29.That sounds like a picnic compared to the trip some people had.
It got a bit stupid at Waterloo,with about 4 or 5 blokes abusing a couple of old Chelsea fans getting on as we got off. |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 16:42 - Sep 23 with 8954 views | daveB |
it was only one idiot really, once we moved seats we had a good laugh, plenty of old songs about Gallen, Furlong etc and a good laugh | | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 19:19 - Sep 23 with 8719 views | FredManRave |
I've read elsewhere that there were plenty of Transport Police on the trains so why didn't they get involved with the out of control idiots? |  |
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 22:28 - Sep 23 with 8547 views | stowmarketrange |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 19:19 - Sep 23 by FredManRave |
I've read elsewhere that there were plenty of Transport Police on the trains so why didn't they get involved with the out of control idiots? |
They couldn't get through the carriages as they were too crowded.Even the guard gave up with checking tickets. | | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 22:36 - Sep 23 with 8530 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 16:42 - Sep 23 by daveB |
it was only one idiot really, once we moved seats we had a good laugh, plenty of old songs about Gallen, Furlong etc and a good laugh |
Impressive really, the way one dickhead can screw things up for so many other people.
Might try posting that in the "Kenya" thread, now I think about it. |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 00:45 - Sep 24 with 8431 views | Brightonhoop |
Well done to your son for taking issue.
Why didn't someone just deck the knut? It's all they understand. |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 08:56 - Sep 24 with 8292 views | WokingR |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 15:38 - Sep 23 by Northernr |
Absolutely nothing wrong with being pissd at the football. It's how you behave on it. |
The problem with getting pissd at football though is that some people then simply haven't got a clue how they are behaving.
It is simply about them having a good time and they couldn't care less how many other peoples day they ruin in the process. |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:19 - Sep 24 with 8188 views | toboboly |
It seems to be more and more of our lot behaving like cnts. Loads on drugs, flares, generally behaving like cnts. Danny Dyer wannabe's. |  |
| Sexy Asian dwarves wanted. |
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:28 - Sep 24 with 8177 views | isawqpratwcity |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:19 - Sep 24 by toboboly |
It seems to be more and more of our lot behaving like cnts. Loads on drugs, flares, generally behaving like cnts. Danny Dyer wannabe's. |
Flare tossers, I called them on the match report. But is this the future, the changing of the guard?
How do we show we're better than this? |  |
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:32 - Sep 24 with 8164 views | loftus_upper |
I thought some of the supporters really let themselves down. It ruined the day for me.
Flares, drunks, mouthing off and fighting stewards. It was horrible to see. |  | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:32 - Sep 24 with 8164 views | Rangersw12 |
If some youngsters want to bring smoke bombs into the ground why does it bother people so much ? | | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:41 - Sep 24 with 8153 views | Northernr |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:32 - Sep 24 by Rangersw12 |
If some youngsters want to bring smoke bombs into the ground why does it bother people so much ? |
1 - Delays the game
2 - Potentially unsafe
3 - Most importantly, makes us look like absolute two bob mug cnts. QPR, who used to beat the big boys regularly and were beating Liverpool and Chelsea even a year ago, throwing flares around and giving it the big un at Yeovil Town. Jesus. | | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:49 - Sep 24 with 8129 views | smegma |
The bellends you described will be doing their best Marcel Marceau impersonations when we go to Millwall. | | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 12:05 - Sep 24 with 8099 views | isawqpratwcity |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:32 - Sep 24 by Rangersw12 |
If some youngsters want to bring smoke bombs into the ground why does it bother people so much ? |
Where would you draw the line, you idiotically un-self-aware tw*t? | |
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| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 12:09 - Sep 24 with 8085 views | Rangersw12 |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 12:05 - Sep 24 by isawqpratwcity |
Where would you draw the line, you idiotically un-self-aware tw*t? |
Don't start getting abusive on the net fella it's not big or clever how about trying to have an adult conversation or this that too difficult | | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 12:10 - Sep 24 with 8076 views | Rangersw12 |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 11:41 - Sep 24 by Northernr |
1 - Delays the game
2 - Potentially unsafe
3 - Most importantly, makes us look like absolute two bob mug cnts. QPR, who used to beat the big boys regularly and were beating Liverpool and Chelsea even a year ago, throwing flares around and giving it the big un at Yeovil Town. Jesus. |
It seems to be the new fad and every club is doing it so don't really see an issue myself it will soon pass and then you can moan about something else eh | | | |
| Pubs, clubs and travelling fans on 12:13 - Sep 24 with 8064 views | RblockPrior |
although a lil annoying doesnt cause any harm really, like mentioned just a lil phase that is going on | |
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