Originally Posted by glasgow guy (Post 577955)

the first pic you have supplied is that of one of the fan zones - which that particular one held 10,000 fans - all caged in with no bins and no toilets (who's great idea was that?) - any fan in the cage/fan zone that needed the toilet had to walk their way through the 10,000 fans - only to be met by 24 port a loos 10 minutes down the street, now when you went into the fan zone you were not allowed to take bottles so 99% of people had cans and food all carried in plastic bags, now whenever some food and drink were finished and you looked about for a bin and you realise there wasnt any what were you to do? stick it in your pocket till you got home? or put it in your plastic bag and place it at your feet? which is what we done.. now obviously not everyone done this and the first pic is the end result of 10,000 people in a cage with no bins..

the second picture is that of a street with obviously more rubbish strewn about, and given that there were bins there people either didnt use them and/or the bins were full - which I saw alot of.

there are alot of questions and answers to be taken from all of this, mine would be :
why wasnt there any toilets in the fan zones?
why wasnt there any bins in the fan zones ?
why only have 3 fan zones that could hold a total of 35,000 fans?when they knew that the amount travelling would be closer to 150,000
why not open the velodrome for a fan zone?- far bigger alround
why lift the drinks ban for street drinking?
why let fans take drink into the fan zones?

and it has also been mentioned today that GMP knew the screen wouldnt be getting switched on incase picadilly gardens got trashed if rangers got beat - the decision not to switch it on was made at 2pm, now why wait till kick off to tell the fans this?
this information has came from both strathclyde police who were also on duty there in manchester and also a steward who was on duty at picadilly gardens - this is how they managed to bus 99% of the fans to the quickly opened velodrome inside 15 mins - they had the buses waiting because they knew the screen wouldnt be going on.

at the end of the day this could rumble on for ages and ages but the truth of the matter is some so called rangers fans acted like scum in attacking police, cars etc, the vast majority of the 150,000 fans behaved fine and were in good spirits ( which has been overshadowed by the thugs ) and that manchester itself was nowhere near prepared for that game nor the amount of fans.

Originally Posted by yerself (Post 578002)

The City of Manchester Stadium has a capacity of 48,000. Rangers were allocated approximately 13,000 seats. Why on earth did upwards of 150,000 Rangers fans turn up in Manchester on Wednesday night?

Originally Posted by glasgow guy

it was local as in the north west of england

Originally Posted by glasgow guy (Post 577959)

cos it would be the closest you would get to a euro final given rovers wont ever be there..:D - have you ever made the group stages of europe before ? and the inter toto cup doesnt count..

Originally Posted by yerself (Post 578011)

Glasgow's 220 miles away from Manchester, hardly local.
I also live in Clayton. If Mrs. Glasgow guy had hidden your remote you could have given me a shout, got a few cans and come and watched it at my place.

Originally Posted by cmonstanley (Post 578063)

ohh and i didnt go in i was outside buying a pizza next door...

Originally Posted by BLACKBURN RAVER (Post 578104)

so how do you know it was FULL of drug dealers selling hard drugs !!!!

jeeeeeez you really do amaze me with your cock n bull storys...:hehetable

Originally Posted by cmonstanley (Post 578146)

.i remember going to watch rovers when bobby saxton was manager there was about 4,000 there singing saxton out.