Going to a game in couple weeks, and I’m an away fan but there was no tickets left so I’ve bought home tickets. Is this allowed?? Could I get kicked out?
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It is a bit brazen and home fans don’t like it. I’m guessing that OP is a big six fan that ‘only lives round the corner’ and wouldn’t have a hope in hell of getting an away ticket without points or even a season ticket to put them on.
Perverting the system is what pisses people off, especially when the majority of away fans generated their points by going to Carling cup matches away at Scunthorpe in '92. I joke, but if you have to sit in silence and not enjoy the atmosphere with like minded people, is there really any point being there? It’s Elitist, but unfortunately that’s the way it is.
I mean why would you do this anyway? Never made sense to me. You miss out on so much of the match day experience by not being with your fans and having to put on an act. Just watch it on TV and save yourself the money and aggro.
It’s my chance to finally see them in person, I know it’ll suck not Being able to cheer but I am so excited to see them live anyway
You could also get punched in the face
If you display your allegiance to the away side whilst being in the home end, expect to get ejected and take a few smacks on the way out if you’re being especially obnoxious. If you sit down, shut up and don’t raise any attention you’ll be able to watch the game just fine.
As a Chelsea fan who has lived up north; I’ve sat in and amongst the City/United fans on multiple occasions. It’s just a shit experience. lol.
Keep your mouth shut and don’t wear colours. You’ll need to act like a home fan. Not worth the aggro unless it’s a big game you just can’t miss IMO.
You can, I’ve done it as a Bournemouth fan in the Saints home end… but I didn’t celebrate when we scored (more than once) and I feigned clapping when Saints scored, it’s fine because you get to watch the game but it’s not at all as fun!
What would be the best clubs to do this for? Surely most of the Premier League clubs are selling tickets to their own paid members way before the games kick-off.
I have read here on Reddit about people coming over from Ireland for a weekend in Liverpool having already bought LFC tickets for a game on a Saturday evening. They managed to buy City tickets for the midday game on the off chance they were available on the day and just sat in the home stands as neutrals.
I can’t imagine many PL clubs where you can just log-on as a non-member (or sign up on the day maybe), buy tickets and attend the game on the same day.
City and West Ham would be my guesses for where you might get PL tickets on general sale.
I’d take the advice being dished out on this post, although just for fun, I must mention that I faced nothing of the sort when I tried something similar. I was at the Etihad a few years ago, rooting for Real Madrid against Manchester City in the Champions League, while being seated amidst the home fans, and everyone around was happy to let me cheer for Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale and Benzema without any issues. It was a fantastic experience, all thanks to the great Manchester City fans. 😊
People on here will say premier league stadiums are simultaneously filled with tourists and violent aggressive home fans. It can’t be both in my head
I’m sure we are all capable of sitting through a game in any premier league stadium with any team.
My section at Spurs is! It makes for an interesting atmosphere with young South Korean women fangirling Son and a ST holder of 20 years yelling Fuck Matty Cash (example from this weekend).
There was a Liverpool fan in our section at the September fixture, and it got very ugly for them and needed a lot of security to get them out.
I’d rather go and watch a neutral match than watch spurs play away sat amongst the home fans.
Yeah it can - the likelihood is you’ll probably be fine if you’re supporting the other team, I’ve seen people around me at Selhurst who definitely weren’t palace fans. But you only need one idiot who takes it a bit too seriously to completely ruin your day, it’s not worth the risk
Meh. Shouldn’t be an issue for most but I wouldn’t wear an away kit. Just sit and enjoy the match and have a dampened celebration of your team scores.
I’ve done it a few times before. It’s absolutely fine, just don’t be a dick. Just be respectful to the opposition that game and enjoy the experience.
Being a Chelsea fan, sat in the Arsenal home end, was a unique experience for me, got on well enough with the people I was sat next to. I just didn’t broadcast that I was a Chelsea fan. You won’t get beat up (unless you’re being a twat and asking for it), but you would get thrown out.
Was in the upper Holte end at home to utd in the fa cup in 2004. 3 utd fans caught out and kicked out. While being lead down into the concourse by stewards one of them took an almighty punch to the face
Went to 2009 Carling cup final. Could only get tickets for the man utd end through a mate. As a villa fan it was very hard not to cheer when they went 1 up.
Even worse was the random beside me hugging me twice when man utd went on to win.
Hopefully you’ve bought tickets for a non-hooligan area of the stand