Originally Posted by Graham_Brera
We had a great time. What you all need to remember is that it was a small minority of people that were causing the trouble. The officials have now said, there was in excess of 170,000 fans in Manchester last night. 99% of them were just there for the party, and what a party it was. Manchester put on a great show!
Glad to hear it. There has been talk of up to 200,000 being here.
However, I've been a bit disappointed to hear so many Rangers fans on radio bleating about it all being Manchester's and/or the Police's fault that there was some violence, and a lot of cars and windows smashed up.
Apparently, it is all the city's fault for not having enough (FREE) facilities, not being made welcome (b011ocks
), deliberately turning off the screen in Piccadilly Gardens (so why not all the others?
)
About double the numbers their own people said would travel actually turned up and they moan we couldn't cope when they got bevvied up and violent when the free telly broke!
Local news even showed them fighting among themselves FFS!
OK, so a big screen failed. They were upset - understandable. But what is with all this whining that Manchester didn't lay on more screens or a fleet of coaches to get 30,000 of them from Piccadilly to the Velodrome 15 mins drive away? The other one at Albert Square five minutes' walk away was fine but the area was chocka block.
Some of them proved that the legendary Scottish fans' behaviour is perhaps not quite the ideal they like to portray at every big campaign.
FINALLY (sorry I got ranting), WTF is all this talk by Gordon Brown about them putting at risk the World Cup bid for
England?
They are SCOTTISH fans who came here for a game against a RUSSIAN team and it was a small percentage of the SCOTTISH fans who were a disgrace to their nation, their club and society.
Sorry - rant over....
