There’s strikes by the French Air Traffic Control today. Got an message about it last night and was told to expect delays and cancellations. Not like the French to be on strike, eh?
On the way to the airport now. Great trip extremely grateful to the Rapid fan who gave me a ticket for the price of a beer.
oooohhh my aching head, dragging myself back to Vienna airport and aside from the disappointing result, what a trip. There will be a few Bears with sore heids this morning for sure, I've been following since 1969 all over Europe and aside from minor incidents (and I mean MINOR) this has to go down as one of the best (Barcelona 72 included).
Much of the credit must go to the Austrians, People and Police, what a welcome, friendly and helpful, very accommodating allowing us to virtually take over large parts of the city, mess it up a little and be shall we say 'boisterous' through the wee small hours. Many Plod including our own, could learn from these guys.....just want to say THANK YOU VIENNA, YOU WERE AWESOME!
We arrived at the sector 1-5 entrance as advised by the police around an hour before kick off. Crushing was getting bad whilst we waited for them to let rangers fans in. I think they were letting rapid fans in first.
If they had checked tickets 100m up tome road it would have been fine, lot of people there with no tickets, not sure whether they managed to blag their way in.
Randomly in sector 5 I went for a piss just before half time, took an age to get down to the toilets and when I went to go back up they told me the sector was full and I should go to sector 8...Thankfully just ignored them so I could get back to mates.
There was loads of space up top of sector 5, stewards should have been doing more to move folk there.
Absolutely mate - sickened me last night the amount of guys with fakes. It's not on !! Really hope the majority of them didn't get in.Boy behind me in the queue into the ground openly admitting he had a fake ticket. Not sure if he got in, hopefully not.
Absolute scum whoever is making them and costing other bears getting into the ground.
That's brutal mate,sorry i never seen you on this trip just about to leave for Bratislava.That was a complete shambles trying to get into the ground last night. Rapid should be held to account. Only two 'turnstiles' for 2,000 fans was never going to work. Thankfully not aware of any serious injuries but certainly could have been.
Ahh and now I know who you areJust realised who you are haha.
Stroke of luck last night for you.
On the runway.... just got stung 28 euro with wizz air for not checking in the bag I paid extra for. Cheek of it was I had to carry it out to the plane anyway for them to Chuck it in the hold.
Get him telt!On the runway the now at Vienna, had a brilliant time.
Austrians were very friendly and they were all very organised and prepared for us.
Bears were excellent and I loved the UB march to the stadium. Only negative was the gates not being open when we arrived at the stadium causing a bit of chaos.
Oh and Rob Mclean has just got on our flight
The crushing last night was an utter disgrace and yet again, Rangers security were no where to be seen.
A woman infront of me collapsed due ti the crushing, I’m actually surprised no one was seriously injured. 2 turnstiles for 2,000 folk - when the UB march and TC busses were turning up at the same time - was never going to work
Strange I got there - Sektor 7 - 26mins before KO and there was a single file queue of circa 100... everyone must have been inside by then.
Some prick standing in my seat space though.
Wouldn’t move, beefed up by his bolshy mate suggesting *I* was in the wrong...
That's brutal mate,sorry i never seen you on this trip just about to leave for Bratislava.
My mates did leave the queue and went to the pub as they were in fear of injuries.The situation last night was an absolute disgrace, it really was. No ticket checks, no cordon, no clear signs to tell anybody where they should go. As soon as I got the stadium I approached the police and tried to explain how many people were on their way and that there would be crushing because there were no cordons or ticket checks. They just shrugged their shoulders.
At one point we seriously considered just getting out the queue and watching the game in a boozer.
I agree, I was there as the gate was opened from the Main Street down to the stadium , the guy opening it almost got knocked over in the crush, lot of arseholes without tickets openly saying we will go down with the rest and try squeeze in thru the turnstile which led to crushing , there was a young boy near the front with his dad getting crushed. Only downside of a great trip.The situation last night was an absolute disgrace, it really was. No ticket checks, no cordon, no clear signs to tell anybody where they should go. As soon as I got the stadium I approached the police and tried to explain how many people were on their way and that there would be crushing because there were no cordons or ticket checks. They just shrugged their shoulders.
At one point we seriously considered just getting out the queue and watching the game in a boozer.
The situation last night was an absolute disgrace, it really was. No ticket checks, no cordon, no clear signs to tell anybody where they should go. As soon as I got the stadium I approached the police and tried to explain how many people were on their way and that there would be crushing because there were no cordons or ticket checks. They just shrugged their shoulders.
At one point we seriously considered just getting out the queue and watching the game in a boozer.
Boy in front of me didn’t get in because his ticket barcode had already been scanned.Boy behind me in the queue into the ground openly admitting he had a fake ticket. Not sure if he got in, hopefully not.
Absolute scum whoever is making them and costing other bears getting into the ground.
Has everyone’s point been added? Was on the day trip and mines hasn’t as of yet?
Still in Vienna plenty bears still going about , ready for another good night.Anyone got a good video of the bouncy outside the bermuda from last night? Was f*ckin chaos
Give them a day or two to do it.The indys were credited a couple of weeks ago.Has everyone’s point been added? Was on the day trip and mines hasn’t as of yet?
The situation last night was an absolute disgrace, it really was. No ticket checks, no cordon, no clear signs to tell anybody where they should go. As soon as I got the stadium I approached the police and tried to explain how many people were on their way and that there would be crushing because there were no cordons or ticket checks. They just shrugged their shoulders.
At one point we seriously considered just getting out the queue and watching the game in a boozer.
Has everyone’s point been added? Was on the day trip and mines hasn’t as of yet?
Calm doon?? Only asking a question clownYou’ve got nearly 7 months for it to be added. Calm doon