It was a bit lively. Some of it an inevitable consequence of City only selling us about half as many tickets as you could fit in the away end, leading to Leeds fans inevitably being in the wrong bits of the ground.
After our first goal, there were a couple of spots of aggro (behind their goal and at the far end of the stand to our right) that looked like City fans reacting to celebrating Leeds fans. The one to our right looked quite nasty and took the police a fair while to sort out. But at this point nothing really happened to our left. Then about 10 mins later when nothing much was happening there was a bit of a ruckus to our left in the City bit closest to us and a couple of Leeds fans were dragged out by the stewards. One of them took exception to this and kicked off and it took a few police to drag him out. This made a few locals jump up and down and in turn led to a bit of a surge from our end towards that corner. A few Leeds lads then jumped out of the their end, ran across the corner of the pitch and jumped into our end. Robocop police arrived (not sure why they werent there in the first place) and put themselves between 2 sets of fans, but it didnt really calm down. It was quite a narrow gap (where we'd come in) and a bit of a crush occured with Leeds fans pushing forward towards City fans and police pushing them back. A few batons appeared but in reality no-one was going anywhere - there was still a wall and the side of the stand between the fans. So far nothing particularly out of the ordinary - but the odd bit was it just went on and on - lasted 15-20 minutes virtually to h-t. A bit of to and fro - the odd baton a few punches but no-one really moving. It had just about petered out when we got to h-t, then you had the surreal bit of loads of Leeds fans trying to get to the bog, but police not letting them through the narrow gap. Leeds fans pushing again - police on radio asking for reinforcements 'they're pushing us back' and Leeds fans saying 'we just want a wee'. All quiet in 2nd half though and amazingly they let us straight out at the end - a bit tense out on the streets for a bit. The police then seemed to let the coaches go, then stopped us, then tried to escort us but lost us in traffic after about 100 yards. Dread to think what its like when they play Cardiff. Oh and we won 2-0, Snoddy and greedy Gradel superb, new right back looked good. Should have had another on the break but quite glad Kasper and the bar saved us from a nervous last ten minutes Matt --- On Sat, 12/2/11, Richard Walker <richleed...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: Richard Walker <richleed...@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [LU] update To: barbaravi...@gmail.com, leedslist@gn.apc.org Date: Saturday, 12 February, 2011, 16:59 I'll give you a few thoughts later - I hope someone who went can give a better match report and also tell us what happened off the pitch. I heard Leeds had tickets in their end and also there was a bit of needle with City after a few Leeds got hijacked by a coachload of City when we were playing Rovers down there. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org MARCHING ON TOGETHER
