John Campbell27 said:It’s all very touching and wonderful, seeing everyone congregating in the North Stand against Inter... but... where are the fans from the rest of the stadium? This club is dead.
Well, I am one of those people from the other stands, so why don't you tell me exactly what I'm supposed to be doing at the stadium? I want a headline: football is an absolute disaster, they rob both white and blue teams, half the matches end in a 0-0 stalemate against some bottom-tier squad followed by a random penalty, and nobody from the team even bothers to show up; I show up, sit there like a dog, and wonder why I even bothered coming.
Over the last two years, I’ve made it to about six or seven games. One time, I show up and the riot police intercept me near the East Stand, questioning my sanity and asking how I even got in or what I'm doing there; I told them I just came to watch the game and I have my ticket, but they just turned on me and kicked me out, and when I went to the box office to demand a refund, the window was closed. Another time, they simply refused to sell me a ticket—this was back when the paid actors were occupying the North Stand—they told me I could go to the North for free, but when I said I wanted to sit in the East, they wouldn't sell it to me. Twice I arrived twenty or thirty minutes late despite getting there fifteen minutes early specifically to grab a ticket, and there were barely fifteen hundred people in the entire stadium. Once, I headed to the North Stand during some sort of comeback attempt and ended up getting hit with batons and tear gas because they cordoned off the section, even though I had a perfectly valid ticket; the crowd started pushing against the line, I got pinned against the fence and the riot police, and somehow, I ended up climbing up into the upper North tier.
And eventually, I ended up on that major blacklist despite never actually doing anything wrong; it happened at a game maybe two or three years ago—I can't recall the exact timing or the match—when I was in the North Stand while crowds were thin, and they were filming us one by one with cameras and checking IDs, so I'm assuming that's how they landed me on that list.
