Quote:Haha I'm honestly not trying to be contrary here, but most Premier League games are what's called 'all ticket' for away fans. This means that Stoke fans would only be able to get tickets for the away game via the Stoke City ticket office, in doing so they will need to be members of the Stoke City membership club (due to high demand). All fans in the Stoke City end of the ground would have been Stoke City fans.. it's not uncommon for fans over here to sing songs that relate to the opposition teams rivals. For instance, at Southampton games, the away fans will sing pro-Portsmouth songs, just to annoy the Southampton fans, much like the Stoke City fans did with Southampton songs when they scored against Bournemouth.. does that make sense?

 

It's also not uncommon for fans to travel the length and bredth of the country for one game and not even include it as part of a vacation. Personally speaking, I've travelled to Newcastle for an away game from Southampton. We took it in turns to drive.. it took about 6 hours each way.. (it's about 340 miles).

 

This is the view from the away end at Newcastle:

 

 

Wow ... that is really cool .... and humorous if the Stoke fans were really singing the Southampton song which sounds like it must have been them.

 

I need to get out there in a few years during late august & sept to travel to some of the matches.   I use google earth right now to take vacations to the UK cities while sipping on some drinks !!   much cheaper that way too.   .... and yes, Newcastle would be a destination of interest for me along with some of the other towns up that way as well.

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