Liverpool fans are planning a hostile – and illegal – welcome to the Manchester City team coach.
The two teams meet at Anfield on April 4 in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final.
And one Liverpool fans group is trying to organise a hot reception for the Blues as they roll through the streets outside the stadium.
A poster circulating on social media is urging Liverpool fans to gather more than two hours before kick off for a “coach greeting", and line the streets for a quarter of a mile before the City team coach reaches the ground.
“We're going to show them exactly what money can't buy," declares the poster.
It also says 'Bring your flares and flags. Banners and bangers. Pints and Pyro. There will be thousands of scouse voices ready to scare em back to Mancland with their tails between their legs before the match even starts.'
Giving visiting teams a hostile reception for big games has become something of a hostile tradition – Youtube footage (below) shows the Villarreal bus being greeted by flares, smoke bombs and missiles before their Europa League semi-final nearly two years ago.
That video shows Liverpool fans booing and chanting as the Villarreal coach pulls up to the Anfield stadium, with some fans scaling nearby scaffolding and others hurling cans and other missiles at the bus as it slowly drives up, with a police escort.
But the call for fans to bring pyrotechnics to the ground appears to be in contravention of the Sporting Events Act.
That makes it an offence to 'attempt to enter' grounds with smoke bombs and flares – and the Football Supporters Federation has warned in the past that being in possession of a pyrotechnic device in the vicinity of the ground, and having a match ticket, has brought arrests.
It is also illegal to let off a firework, flare or smoke bomb in a public place, although Merseyside Police appear to have turned a blind eye in the past.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-fans-coach-greeting-city-14431221
Sad Dippers
posted on 22/3/18
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posted on 22/3/18
I never alluded to hilsborough don’t play that victim card that’s total bulshit.
Typical Liverpool fan trying to use that to ignore other posts about Liverpool fans behaviour.
That’s poor that even by your standards.
posted on 22/3/18
Youth teams and supporters coaches bricked it even states that in the men article
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Yeah? There was one minibus that was damaged and it wasn't anywhere near the route of the welcoming.
Ffs, do you have the name and number of the minibus company?
No .. because try as you might you don't give a crap really.
Above poster is right, despite city's recent achievements we don't really care much about city. Our greatest rivals are Man Utd and then Everton.
Ta-ra LQ, you boring git
posted on 22/3/18
comment by LQ (U6305)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnnieRd (U18971)
posted 5 minutes ago
Loz
Which other teams have a bad reputation?
Millwall, Leeds, Cardiff, Chelsea, West Ham. There’s probably more.
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No I said which fans had the reputation that Liverpool fans do.
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No Loz you m0ng. You said;
“lfc fans so have a bad reputation and there’s examples of extreme bad behaviour”
Followed by;
“You don’t see this behaviour in any other set of fans why is this?”
Mamba said you do see this behaviour in other fans. Fans of clubs with a bad reputation.
Proper thick aren’t you lad.
posted on 22/3/18
The paper said the coaches were attacked the club reported it.
But let me guess being the tenacious investigative scouser you are you looked into it and it never happened 😂
How very Liverpool.
City must have made it up.
posted on 22/3/18
comment by LQ (U6305)
posted 53 seconds ago
I never alluded to hilsborough don’t play that victim card that’s total bulshit.
Typical Liverpool fan trying to use that to ignore other posts about Liverpool fans behaviour.
That’s poor that even by your standards.
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Whatever you say mate, you know what you are, you left out Hysel in your denial.
Great, enjoy those points you scored. I bet they give you great pride in knowing that people you don't know give a crap about nor feature in any part of your life who died allowed you to have a dig at Liverpool fans.
You're pathetic.
posted on 22/3/18
comment by LQ (U6305)
posted 42 seconds ago
The paper said the coaches were attacked the club reported it.
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Ok blaming the paper.. if you want to cite the paper fee free to do so.
posted on 22/3/18
comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by LQ (U6305)
posted 42 seconds ago
The paper said the coaches were attacked the club reported it.
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Ok blaming the paper.. if you want to cite the paper fee free to do so.
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Blaming the paper for what exactly? Reporting what the club has said.
There’s no blame just a reporting of what has happened.
posted on 22/3/18
comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by LQ (U6305)
posted 53 seconds ago
I never alluded to hilsborough don’t play that victim card that’s total bulshit.
Typical Liverpool fan trying to use that to ignore other posts about Liverpool fans behaviour.
That’s poor that even by your standards.
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Whatever you say mate, you know what you are, you left out Hysel in your denial.
Great, enjoy those points you scored. I bet they give you great pride in knowing that people you don't know give a crap about nor feature in any part of your life who died allowed you to have a dig at Liverpool fans.
You're pathetic.
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Yeah I’m pathetic right any of those incidents have anything to do with me.
Run along boy.
posted on 22/3/18
Yeah I’m pathetic right
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Absolutely..
So, enjoy the points you aimed to score, bookmark this page, even print it and frame it for posterity. You can feel proud every day looking at it.
As that's what it's all about to you.
Ta-ra LQ.