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Atherstone Town V Barrow - FA Cup

PaulCAFC
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/fa-cup/10375231/FA-Cup-third-round-qualifying-tie-between-Atherstone-Town-and-Barrow-erupts-in-crowd-violence.html

What the hell is this about? Yesterdays FA Cup qualifier - a non-league Midlands team against a non-league team from Cumbria. Very odd!
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  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,605
    Nutters!
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Non league is more active than you think
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    The thing is mate on international week you get people attending who wouldn't normally

    The one thing I notice going rd non league with enfield is that if you wanted to its pretty much game on as there is no stewarding or ob to speak of just club officals and kids

    You can drink all game and swap ends at halftime
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,070
    edited October 2013
    No real surprise. The idiots have never gone away, they have just found themselves at the less policed/stewarded end of the football ladder. This, and the fact that they're from Cumbria!!

    Shouldn't be hard to find from those photos (they probably didn't expect decent cameramen either). A couple look like were struggling to get across the pitch anyway!
  • Super_horns
    Super_horns Posts: 1,299
    I read in the report on arrests in football that Nuneaton had 47 in a season!

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,941
    TelMc32 said:

    This, and the fact that they're from Cumbria!!

    It was the other lot calling it on.
  • PaulCAFC
    PaulCAFC Posts: 857
    edited October 2013
    The trend setter in the flat cap and hoodie - wasn't he the Millwall fan at Bournemouth last week...?..!
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,605
    Off_it said:

    TelMc32 said:

    This, and the fact that they're from Cumbria!!

    It was the other lot calling it on.
    Thanks Offy I was wondering about my geography for a minute
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,070
    Off_it said:

    TelMc32 said:

    This, and the fact that they're from Cumbria!!

    It was the other lot calling it on.
    My mistake...Brummies...just as bad!! ;-)
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,641
    nth london addick said:



    You can drink all game and swap ends at halftime

    Sounds like a lesbians sex life.

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  • SE9
    SE9 Posts: 809
    edited October 2013
    nth london addick said:

    The thing is mate on international week you get people attending who wouldn't normally

    The one thing I notice going rd non league with enfield is that if you wanted to its pretty much game on as there is no stewarding or ob to speak of just club officals and kids

    You can drink all game and swap ends at halftime

    TelMc32 said:

    No real surprise. The idiots have never gone away, they have just found themselves at the less policed/stewarded end of the football ladder.


    No need to call NLA an Idiot though .... ;-)

  • sunbury-addick
    sunbury-addick Posts: 1,931
    Spent a few nights in Atherstone, staying over on business, does not surprise me at all, what an absolute hole that place is
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    edited October 2013
    I don't mind mate there's some old skool spuds faces over enfield town so its a good laugh most games

    Been called worse lol
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,070
    SE9 said:

    nth london addick said:

    The thing is mate on international week you get people attending who wouldn't normally

    The one thing I notice going rd non league with enfield is that if you wanted to its pretty much game on as there is no stewarding or ob to speak of just club officals and kids

    You can drink all game and swap ends at halftime

    TelMc32 said:

    No real surprise. The idiots have never gone away, they have just found themselves at the less policed/stewarded end of the football ladder.


    No need to call NLA an Idiot though .... ;-)

    Wouldn't dare...he's got bigger balls than all of us!! ;-)

  • MickeyBennett
    MickeyBennett Posts: 681
    Can't get over flat cap\grey trackie bottom combo.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,937
    Very ultra. Flares and a loud hailer in the crowd.
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,334
    Wealdstone are a feckin nightmare, I reckon they are all on banning orders.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,416
    northstandsteve said:

    Wealdstone are a feckin nightmare, I reckon they are all on banning orders.

    Some people would do anything to stay out of Wealdstone...
  • Sparrows Lane Lion
    Sparrows Lane Lion Posts: 2,797
    TelMc32 said:

    No real surprise. The idiots have never gone away, they have just found themselves at the less policed/stewarded end of the football ladder. This, and the fact that they're from Cumbria!!

    Shouldn't be hard to find from those photos (they probably didn't expect decent cameramen either). A couple look like were struggling to get across the pitch anyway!

    So you're saying none of them are Atherstone fans, they're all Birmingham City, Coventry City and Nuneaton fans who now follow Atherstone for a row?
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    I would say like most non league fans Sparrows there's a contingent on banning orders from other clubs in the vicinity

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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,135
    Sparrows Lane Lion said:

    TelMc32 said:

    No real surprise. The idiots have never gone away, they have just found themselves at the less policed/stewarded end of the football ladder. This, and the fact that they're from Cumbria!!

    Shouldn't be hard to find from those photos (they probably didn't expect decent cameramen either). A couple look like were struggling to get across the pitch anyway!

    So you're saying none of them are Atherstone fans, they're all Birmingham City, Coventry City and Nuneaton fans who now follow Atherstone for a row?

    I don't think it's that far fetched to assume that because some of the bigger midlands clubs weren't playing on saturday that a few went along to the Atherstone game. What league are they even in? Probably get crowds of about 100 normally.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,035
    If it wasnt international weekend, then i doubt it would have kicked off. Attendance would have been a quarter of what it was probably.
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    Non league clubs are more than capable of pulling their own lads although the numbers can be swelled as per the above posts.

    Re Wealdstone, they played up down Maidstone this season. They were not so cocky outside after when it came on top for the bullies.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,686
    Sparrows Lane Lion said:

    TelMc32 said:

    No real surprise. The idiots have never gone away, they have just found themselves at the less policed/stewarded end of the football ladder. This, and the fact that they're from Cumbria!!

    Shouldn't be hard to find from those photos (they probably didn't expect decent cameramen either). A couple look like were struggling to get across the pitch anyway!

    So you're saying none of them are Atherstone fans, they're all Birmingham City, Coventry City and Nuneaton fans who now follow Atherstone for a row?
    It's never the Millwall fans who cause trouble so why not?

    :-)
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,941
    The Organiser said:

    Non league clubs are more than capable of pulling their own lads although the numbers can be swelled as per the above posts.

    Re Wealdstone, they played up down Maidstone this season. They were not so cocky outside after when it came on top for the bullies.

    Blimey, I didn't realise Danny Dyer posted on here!
    ;o)
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,921
    http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent_messenger/news/crowd-trouble-after-maidstone-united-4558/
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,135
    AFKABartram said:

    http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent_messenger/news/crowd-trouble-after-maidstone-united-4558/


    I love the fact that they've chosen a crowd shot of predominantly OAPs including an old dear at least 70 years old standing there with her hand bag!
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,941
    "Maidstone United’s first game on their return to the Ryman League Premier Division ended with crowd trouble."

    "There had been some verbal altercations but no crimes were reported and no arrests made.”

    Both of these statements cannot be true, unless the definition of "crowd trouble" now includes "verbal altercations" - in which case there is crowd trouble at just about every game.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,035
    edited October 2013
    Why would a club like Maidstone, attracting around 2,000 per game, not have seggregation?

    They've got a weird bunch of supporters as well. Dunno what goes on the otherside of that Medway river.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Eh eh eh watch it Towie

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