When Athletic traveled to Newcastle in 1994 to face the team coached by Kevin Keegan, the English police recommended that the red and white fans focus on a series of specific points before the game. Unlike the move years later to Manchester, where the meeting place was common for all fans of the Bilbao team, in other English cities there was a greater dispersion caused by the characteristics of the area.
In one of Newcastle’s squares there are at least half a dozen bars. In one of them they put a sign in the window forbidding access to anyone wearing a t-shirt or any other football-related clothing. They did not specify, however, that it was Athletic’s. The owners of the establishment, apparently, are aware of the habits of local hooligans.
In healthy harmony
Some tried to enter the bar in red and white and were rudely dismissed. With the surrounding establishments increasingly crowded, good vibes prevailed, so soon those in the bar who exercised their right of entry removed the prohibitory sign and even urged the journalists present to invite people in. the Athletic fans who gradually began to fill the square.
This long preamble serves to emphasize the fact that red and white fans know how to travel, stay and spend. He loves good vibes with opposing fans who are on duty, singing, joking, hesitating. There are also the different experiences of the different ‘Athletic Hiriak’ of the last Cup finals. In Valencia even Barça people left them to go to Bilbao.
What happened on Thursday around and in some doors of San Mamés had nothing to do with Athletic fans. The thing about violent people both inside and outside the stadium is another war. War that ends in payment for sinners. Hau ez da gure stylea!
Source: La Verdad
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