Just got back

[Lawnmower]

Perfect first away game. Day out with many of ‘the usual suspects’ , few hours in the local pubs, great performance and result from the mighty Bluebirds,bit of karaoke and nice long nap on the way hone.

[life on mars]

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Brilliant 👏

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Perfect first away game. Day out with many of ‘the usual suspects’ , few hours in the local pubs, great performance and result from the mighty Bluebirds,bit of karaoke and nice long nap on the way hone.

👍

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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Jealous of everyone that was there. Sounded amazing!

[stan butler]

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Perfect first away game. Day out with many of ‘the usual suspects’ , few hours in the local pubs, great performance and result from the mighty Bluebirds,bit of karaoke and nice long nap on the way hone.

I'm still here having a pint and a nice sunday lunch soon.
Speaking to a few locals they reckon there was trouble after the game.
A few hundred Blackpool fans came down a side street from their main watering hole and started fighting with around a hundred Cardiff who were staying up here.
I didn't see or hear anything though.

[IanD]

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No idea of the numbers involved but there was a bit of afters outside the main Blackpool pub by the ground, as reported by one of the guys on our coach. The police drone was up and would have caught it all on film.

[Lawnmower]

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I'm still here having a pint and a nice sunday lunch soon.
Speaking to a few locals they reckon there was trouble after the game.
A few hundred Blackpool fans came down a side street from their main watering hole and started fighting with around a hundred Cardiff who were staying up here.
I didn't see or hear anything though.

I don’t think there was anything of this level otherwise it’d be big news. A few reported that groups of Blackpool fans were picking on small numbers of City fans, not sure if it game to anything

[stan butler]

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No idea of the numbers involved but there was a bit of afters outside the main Blackpool pub by the ground, as reported by one of the guys on our coach. The police drone was up and would have caught it all on film.

Going by what the locals in the pub were saying most away fans turn right to where the coaches are waiting. Smaller groups of away fans who are staying in Blackpool usually turn left so it's a regular thing for the home fans to gather at the pub waiting to attack the smaller groups of away fans who pass.
One old fella who saw what happened said there were hundreds outside the pub and not many welsh but you taffs are tough buggers

[goats]

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I don’t think there was anything of this level otherwise it’d be big news. A few reported that groups of Blackpool fans were picking on small numbers of City fans, not sure if it game to anything

Blackpool don’t have that type of fan do they?

[stan butler]

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Blackpool don’t have that type of fan do they?

I've seen a few pissed up groups of blackpool/locals looking for trouble after the game and not just with Cardiff.
Down near the pleasure beach a group of them were looking for trouble for ages then started on a few scots lads for no reason and thankfully came off second best..

[Lawnmower]

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Blackpool don’t have that type of fan do they?

All clubs do

[Mr Soul '68]

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Blackpool don’t have that type of fan do they?

Blackpool brought a tidy 'firm' down with them for 2001 Football League Third Division play-off Final at the Mill Stad.

(R) Soul Crew turned up and were hanging around outside the Duke of Wellington at the top of Caroline Street, waiting for them. Within minutes they were surrounded and being filmed by the old bill

[AfricanBluebird]

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If you look at the Blackpool messageboards they are reporting some trouble but mainly blame the police for it.

Apparently they are pissed off city fans were let onto Bloomfield road at the same time as the home fans and that, differently to usually, the police led city fans right past the pub Blackpool fans usually congregate after the game.

Both sides giving a bit of lip to each other and it spilled over a bit.

One fan commented "it's like the police were goading both sets of supporters to have a go, I think the police missed having a fight and did everything to make sure there was one".

[IanD]

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If you look at the Blackpool messageboards they are reporting some trouble but mainly blame the police for it.

Apparently they are pissed off city fans were let onto Bloomfield road at the same time as the home fans and that, differently to usually, the police led city fans right past the pub Blackpool fans usually congregate after the game.

Both sides giving a bit of lip to each other and it spilled over a bit.

One fan commented "it's like the police were goading both sets of supporters to have a go, I think the police missed having a fight and did everything to make sure there was one".

There might be something in that. Our coach seemed to be led by a police van on a very circuitous route through the centre of Blackpool, along the sea front and then right passed the Blackpool pub inland to the ground. Three sides of a square. No need to go passed that pub at all.

[mrbluejay]

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We were drinking with a few Blackpool boys last night, no dramas. Where did it kick off, we didn’t see anything and we stayed in the travelodge opposite the ground?