Orlando City v New York City

you think not many fans would be that excited about their first European games a little over a decade after being in the bottom division? The scramble for tickets says the fans were excited - my mate camped outside the ticket office all night to get Lokeren away tickets - but the in-ground atmosphere was ****e.

 

Did it sell out?

Got tix with ease as I recall it.

 

Why have you changed your name castro ? Did you lose a bet ?

 

My enduring memory from the final is our fans drowning out the Arsenal 'support' as they celebrated their winning goal - that and the grinning **** Probert giving Arsenal a corner when it was blatantly a goal kick. Not that I'm bitter or 'owt.

 

No. Castro is an ex dictator, he has ceased to exist...
After all the comments about Barcelona I though I would use a name I have used before. It was in honour of when the first bar was allowed to have drinkers sat outside in Hull centre. Naturally the police and licensing authority demanded a cordon around it, plastic glasses and only to be used at certain times. A deluded councillor told the HDM that looking down the street on a sunny day you could almost think you were in Barcelona.No you couldn't.

 

Facts. So inconvenient.

 

I think the players would rather have a quiet ferry and bars before the game and a raucous noise in the ground.

 

That's just your opinion.

 

Would it have prevented McGregor's faux pas?

 

Facts are inconvenient for the person whose assertions are proved to be wrong.

 

No.

I can point out numerous occasions managers have appealed for the fans to make a cauldron of noise and create a hostile atmosphere.
Have you any where managers have asked the crowd to maintain a respectful silence so the players can concentrate better on the game?

 

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I wouldn't know.

 

Tbh, I don't hold such a database of manager quotes.
Managers talk rubbish on a weekly basis in the media.
FACT.

 

So you have never heard a manager appealing for support? Really?

Tell you what, see if anybody can give an exampke of when a manager has ever asked the fans to keep quiet as that would help the players.

Alternatively, just admit you are wrong.

 

Well your assertions on the availability of tickets was wrong.

 

I was right.
I got one . No queue lunchtime on the day I bought them.
I made no assertion about whether it was a sell out or not.

 

I did not say I had never heard a manager make such an appeal (or not).
Try reading what people write rather than what you hope they have written.
You need to take a step back on some topics. These include:-
- atmosphere at games
-licensing laws
-Humberside Police
- urban population versus match attendance

 

I think it may have been quiet in the ground because we all got pissed singing til 1 a.m. on the Hull to Zebrugge ferry then drinking 4 Euro Belgian Stella pre match in the square for 6 hours, then the 2 mile walk to the ground whilst singing our heads off which finally ****ed us up.

Or was that just me