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Burnley fans on Carley Road


Right , this is what I saw.
Coming out and walking past the away coaches . Walking in I had noticed they were parked on the different side of the road, meaning the Burnley fans would ( should) not be in direct confrontstion with the Sunderland fans.
Anyway, coming out, me, my son and his girlfriend.
All appeared fairly civilised , Burnley happy and singing Sunderland shrugging and generally with a fair enough attitude.
Then, started by what I can only describe as The Milky Bar kid, it all exploded.

It kicked off fairly heavy. I wont go blow for blow but the 2 groups were aged 16 to 19.
Sunderland are getting on top, but (and I kid you not) one Burnley youth getting howked runs behind the coaches yelling Dad, Dad !. From behind the coach Burnley Dad appears , and he ends up getting a clump off the Milky Bar Kid.
Next thing Burnley elder element (40 -50 year old ) gather, and to give them their due , they charge the Sunderland Youth and push them back. No blows in this incident , just a charge. I think it was more about keeping the area around the coaches safe for their fans. They charged the Sunderland Youth mob, and werent aggresive to regular fans.

The general view going up the road was ( unless they had been provoked earlier ?) It was Sunderland youth "at fault".
 
joebolton said:
Right , this is what I saw.
Coming out and walking past the away coaches . Walking in I had noticed they were parked on the different side of the road, meaning the Burnley fans would ( should) not be in direct confrontstion with the Sunderland fans.
Anyway, coming out, me, my son and his girlfriend.
All appeared fairly civilised , Burnley happy and singing Sunderland shrugging and generally with a fair enough attitude.
Then, started by what I can only describe as The Milky Bar kid, it all exploded.

It kicked off fairly heavy. I wont go blow for blow but the 2 groups were aged 16 to 19.
Sunderland are getting on top, but (and I kid you not) one Burnley youth getting howked runs behind the coaches yelling Dad, Dad !. From behind the coach Burnley Dad appears , and he ends up getting a clump off the Milky Bar Kid.
Next thing Burnley elder element (40 -50 year old ) gather, and to give them their due , they charge the Sunderland Youth and push them back. No blows in this incident , just a charge. I think it was more about keeping the area around the coaches safe for their fans. They charged the Sunderland Youth mob, and werent aggresive to regular fans.

The general view going up the road was ( unless they had been provoked earlier ?) It was Sunderland youth "at fault".
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I walked past the away busses just after full time. There was a group of youngish lads, I thought probably Sunderland, gathering by the entrance to the beacon car park. It looked like it was likely to kick off, didn't notice any bother though.
 
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Eric gates hair said:
Who won?

I got the park and ride back with a few of them , they were sound .

Also said they have a few arsehole s following them and are embarrassed by it.
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All clubs have their share of arseholes.
Stands to reason, as in a cross section of society, you're gonna get your share of morons.
Hulkenburger said:
Never been to an away game vs Boro. If it happened to you then it was unacceptable.
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Doesn't particularly bother me tbh, but just pointing out that a fair few of Sunderland fans sing stuff like that at Boro.
Not that I'm saying Boro fans are all little innocents - far from it, we have our fair share of morons
 
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Eric gates hair said:
Who won?

I got the park and ride back with a few of them , they were sound .

Also said they have a few arsehole s following them and are embarrassed by it.
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All decent football fans are embarrassed by the arseholes that attach themselves to our clubs. It’s a pity they can’t get into a boxing ring and fight each other while the decent fans can enjoy the game in peace.
 
seahamstar said:
All clubs have their share of arseholes.
Stands to reason, as in a cross section of society, you're gonna get your share of morons.

Doesn't particularly bother me tbh, but just pointing out that a fair few of Sunderland fans sing stuff like that at Boro.
Not that I'm saying Boro fans are all little innocents - far from it, we have our fair share of morons
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Social media and coke. There's loads of them trying to video for it for Twitter or Facebook.
 
Quench said:
I walked past the away busses just after full time. There was a group of youngish lads, I thought probably Sunderland, gathering by the entrance to the beacon car park. It looked like it was likely to kick off, didn't notice any bother though.
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That would sound right. They obviously gathered, then went and mingled in with the younger Burnley element . Hence there seemed to be no defined charge as you
would see in the 80s, or the bouncing around of the 2000s , more pockets of blows going in all over the place.
As there was no colours on you couldnt tell who was who, but they obviously new as they gathered in a group again to face the older Burnley lads.

I mean, they looked like bairns, and its a snidey trick , but you have to say a clever method of getting what they wanted.
If I had walked past one in the street I would say they couldnt fill in a form, but they were game as badgers.
 
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