Europa League 2017/2018

[ViD]

Red Star won't even have 5k away fans, come on now

 

[Cassano]

Perfectly normal guys. German football culture.

 

[Live in the Now]

Source?

We'll also be able to see how many Koln fans are there once this match starts.

How does the away team get that many people in the stadium if they didn't buy tickets from people who bought them from the home team? Obviously they can't.

 

[ViD]

Feels weird when German fans are the worst in Europe this year - first Nazi chants then this

 

[Shrimper]

A secondary issue to chuck on the pile.

 

[Live in the Now]

Pretty clear they had tickets and the stewards got upset.

 

[Bon Esprit]

Perfectly normal guys. German football culture.

This crap has nothing to do with German football culture.

 

[ScottishCanuck]

Horribly mismanaged my Arsenal.

 

[Shrimper]

Arsenal fans selling as much to blame as those without tickets then.

 

[Bon Esprit]

Cancel this game and give the points to Arsenal, ban Köln from international competiton for 5 years. Freakshow.

 

[gnr25]

Evilo, are there many Turkish fans in Marseille for the Konyaspor game today?

Clearly Koln fans bought tickets immediately when they went on sale or bought from Arsenal fans and scalpers.
There weren't any problems when Bayern, Dortmund and Schalke visited Arsenal in recent years right?

 

[Vipers31]

Pretty clear they had tickets and the stewards got upset.

Thanks. Exactly what I've been saying.

The vast majority of the 10k+ people that followed Cologne over to London are just big time fans celebrating the return of their club to European football after decades. They have no problem spending a couple hundred quid to spend the game outside the stadium, or pay a few hundred more for an expensive Arsenal shirt souvenir if that means they can witness that inside. There's a couple dozen troublemakers among them, without any question, and throwing fences isn't something that needs to be tolerated, but it shouldn't be blown out of proportion, either.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Pretty clear they had tickets and the stewards got upset.

How does Koln fans being everywhere square with your assertion that ticket-wielding supporters weren't allowed in?

 

[Cassano]

Wenger going with the 3-2-2-2-1 formation.

 

[Evilo]

Cancel this game and give the points to Arsenal, ban Köln from international competiton for 5 years. Freakshow.

Erh, again, last time in lyon, both teams are threatenned of european ban for 2 years.

Evilo, are there many Turkish fans in Marseille for the Konyaspor game today?

Can't tell you since I live far, but haven't heard of anything special yet.

 

[Live in the Now]

How does Koln fans being everywhere square with your assertion that ticket-wielding supporters weren't allowed in?

Stewards don't exactly want to let people wearing away team scarves in with everyone else.

 

[Vipers31]

Cancel this game and give the points to Arsenal, ban Köln from international competiton for 5 years. Freakshow.

Pretty laughable, and you know that. What's your precedent for that? Do you get emotional like that every time you see a fence falling or a few guys getting into light brawls with stewarts? There's a lot of 5-year-bans around the footballing world, I imagine.

 

[Vipers31]

How does Koln fans being everywhere square with your assertion that ticket-wielding supporters weren't allowed in?

We have BILD reporting that, as well. Denied entry because the sections weren't dedicated to away fans. They're probably technically right, because I'm sure that's somewhere in the fine print, but it's understandable that causes tension.

 

[Shrimper]

Stewards don't exactly want to let people wearing away team scarves in with everyone else.

It's basically asking for trouble if they let them in. I don't see how the game can go ahead if there are Koln fans with the Arsenal ones.

 

[Live in the Now]

Red Star won't even have 5k away fans, come on now

I think you'll be surprised about that.

Any team with lots of supporters that doesn't get to play in Europe very often is going to do anything to get to a game against a big club.

 

[Live in the Now]

It's basically asking for trouble if they let them in. I don't see how the game can go ahead if there are Koln fans with the Arsenal ones.

That would probably be massively worse.

They shouldn't have been sold the tickets and the people who sold them to them should have went to the game instead. I do not remember any other English team in the Europa League having these problems at home.

 

[Cassano]

It'll be nice seeing this type of energy at the Emirates though. Much better than the prawn sandwich crowd we're used to.

 

[Live in the Now]

There are a TON of away fans there. Arsenal immediately getting loudly whistled when they have the ball.

 

[Vipers31]

It's basically asking for trouble if they let them in. I don't see how the game can go ahead if there are Koln fans with the Arsenal ones.

I'm going to guess it won't be any trouble. Those guys, especially those guys with random tickets outside the away section aren't hooligans. They aren't there to fight anyone.

There'll probably be a bunch of minor brawls today, partially because of the stories about illegal Germans getting in for free and punching friendly stewarts for no reason.

 

[phisherman]

A secondary issue to chuck on the pile.

Wait a minute. Arsenal made the Koln fans buy Arsenal jerseys to get in? Wow Kroenke really wants to nickel and dime everyone.

Pretty smart tactic tbh.