It's not like them I know, but there was an idea mooted on the Guardian website today about using the DW stadium as a venue for Rangers fans to watch the match/use as a stopover.

 

Surely BWFC has better transport links, on both rail and road than Wigan and could be a nice little earner.

 

Thoughts?

There are plenty of parks in and around Manchester so one of them could have been used. An ideal location would have been Old Trafford I suppose or some other arena. Otherwise they should have just used Piccadilly, limited the number of people entering the gardens and opened up three or four other fanzones in the centre rather than just the one at Piccadilly and the one near Victoria. I know it would have taken alot to police but if you want to host an event like that then that's what you've got to do, besides I'd rather spend more money on police to control a drunken crowd than spend it on trying to stop a riot and cleaning up afterwards. I hope the guys at Fifa don't pay too much attention to what happended because it does not bode well for a World Cup bid. Although, why would they? The Scots arn't gona be there (although we may have to deal with 100,000 pissed Irishmen).

(although we may have to deal with 100,000 pissed Irishmen).

Every other weekend in Manchester, that.

 

Not a problem.

And Paul McGrath don't forget.

I thought there was a screen in the town hall square? I passed that just after the match finished and I was surprised at how orderly and well behaved it all was, I didn't know at the time that it was kicking off in picadilly and apparently outside printworks as well. I think most citys would have struggled with 100,000 piss heads losing a cup final. The monumental cock up was the tv screen going out and then the rangers fans throwing bottles at people trying to fix it so it stayed broke. Manchester itself looked and smelt terrible the next mornin, Boltons bad enough without that treatment..

I thought there was a screen in the town hall square? I passed that just after the match finished and I was surprised at how orderly and well behaved it all was, I didn't know at the time that it was kicking off in picadilly and apparently outside printworks as well. I think most citys would have struggled with 100,000 piss heads losing a cup final. The monumental cock up was the tv screen going out and then the rangers fans throwing bottles at people trying to fix it so it stayed broke. Manchester itself looked and smelt terrible the next mornin, Boltons bad enough without that treatment..

 

IIRC there were a few screens showing the game.

 

was the one on the side of the triangle not showing it too?

 

according to this there were 5 screens showing the game

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7402858.stm

Edited September 3, 201015 yr by frank_spencer

IIRC there were a few screens showing the game.

 

was the one on the side of the triangle not showing it too?

 

Yes it was.

 

When the 2nd went in, a barrage of bottles were thrown at the screen. Aspecto's windows got smashed

 

High jinks really, just added to the party.

I ain't having it that the TVs, which for most of the day had thousands of p?ssed jocks in the vacinity, didn't just break

 

the clue for me was the barrage of sh?t a bloke who tried fixing it got, who in turn, refused to fix it as a result