Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
The vast majority of them just wanted to watch their first game in Europe for 25 years. It was a cup final for them. I gather that mixed crowd sections are not unusual in Germany, so getting hold of tickets and memberships to get seats anywhere, would not seem wrong to them. They have been guilty perhaps of cultural insensitivity, not understanding that we expect fans to be segregated.
Hmmm. This seems to me to suggest that these poor Cologne fans were too child-like and dim to understand the concepts of ticket allocations, crowd safety and crowd segregation. It's very kind of you to be so forgiving, but unless they've magically managed to miss every English football match for the last 25 years, this seems unlikely to me.