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only saw a group of guys (who probably druck a few to many)near me,who really were just in a very party mood ie trying to start a conga and hokey cokey when the music cam on.

 

What a disgrace, how dare they enjoy them selves, they must sit down at once and fill out their programmes in silence.

 

I did'nt really expect a defense for Barker as he more than likely told the young lad to spit on the Poles .

 

He is also responsible for the problems in the middle east and global warming.

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The missus and me had a good laugh with the p1ssed-up Poles mid-tier bend 4. I was waving their Gollob flag as they wore our Swindon and England hats.

Perhaps there should be more alcohol controls though.

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I accept that there were not only Polish fans being rowdy, aggresive or inconsiderate. I accept that the majority of Polish fans are decent people and that some of the English supporters can be, and are, just as bad and I accept that my 'Polish free zones' comment may have been ott BUT I was angry. It is our one, really special day of the year, just me and him, without his sisters and yet he doesn't want to go next year because he was scared and didn't like the aggresion shown to me.

Don't get me wrong, I am a doorman, 6,3" and 18 stone and deal with drunken morons every week, but when I am working, Idon't have to worry about the safety (physically and mentally) of my 6 year old Son. I've never taken my boy to a pro football game because of loutish behaviour and always thought we would be free of this at Speedway, but it would seem not so I won't be going again and will use the money to take him somewhere else next year, somewhere we will both feel safe.

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Argh - just replied to loads of quotes but lost it.

 

Summary -

Ben Barker isnt innocent but he certainly wasn't as bad as everyone makes out.

One day though he will also be a 'has-been' or maybe Bird, he will just be another 'never made-it!!!' :wink::lol:

 

Seb was there Bird - I dragged him back for Pizza!!

 

Alcohol - I am normally duty driver but Cardiff weekend - the car is parked and I enjoy a tipple or two. So Im happy that there was beer in the stadium.

As for the wet clothing and programmes (sorry to those it happened too) but surely pints of lemonade and coke would have made them just as wet!

 

other bits I may remember later!

 

 

Edit - Horse - will you be putting some photos on facebook - I havent seen it yet!!!! :lol:

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I was just thinking the same, I spoke to him at the hotel and he gave his version of events, a forum members name was mentioned so maybe if they could post their version of events then this could clear Bens name :wink: When I told him what I heard had happened he said oh great my name is going to be all over the forum tomorrow for this.

 

Could be worse Ben you could be getting slated for calling certain ex-riders "Has Beens"

I cannot believe you spoke to him and are now defending him! :blink:

 

Come off it shazzy; that's a very selective version of what Ben said back at the hotel. :blink:

 

If what he said what true then he deserves everything that he gets. I wasn't going to post anything about this, but I'm not having you make out that he was a saint when quite clearly he wasn't. :rolleyes:

 

We were sat close enough to see the whole thing kick off and how he seemed to constantly wind others up! We had our own "eagle eye" that misses nothing!

 

 

 

 

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Ben Barker isnt innocent

Quoted for future reference! :approve:

 

Although FWIW I don't believe the rumours circulating in our hotel this morning that he was also involved in Jacko's untimely demise on Thursday. B)

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We also had some supporters behind us who were absolutely bladdered. However, they were British. They were stumbling aroind and kept coming along the row and trying to talk to us and pat us on the head, one in particular made quite a nuisance of himself. Although I know they were only drunk, I did feel very uncomfortable with them there, I didn't know what they were gonna do next. My son, who is 20, told one of them to p off. We were right at the top and there were plenty of seats and we moved a couple of times to get away from them, but they still bugged us. Made me laugh though, they were a constant nuisance to us and others all through the meeting, stumbling around and spilling beer everywhere, then one of them decides to light a cigarette, and then an army of security guards came up, shouting and being very aggressive towards them, threatening to kick them out of the stadium. As I said there was plenty of spare seats all around us and them having a cigarette wouldn't have affected anyone, but the heavies come charging in for that and forget about the constant drunken disruption to others. Before anyone says anything I know smoking is forbidden in the Stadium and it was wrong of them to light up, but it just seems so stupid to let them get away with the rest of it, but cause trouble over a cigarette that wasn't gonna hurt anyone.

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Ben Barker isnt innocent but he certainly wasn't as bad as everyone makes out.

One day though he will also be a 'has-been' or maybe Bird, he will just be another 'never made-it!!!'

 

Seb was there Bird - I dragged him back for Pizza!!

 

Ben Barker certainly isn't innocent but if SilverBee can confirm his "Story" it might go in his defence :wink:

Sandie not sure what words Ben was looking for when he was talking out his butt calling ex-riders "Has beens" when he gets his head together maybe he could let me know and I might forgive him :wink:

 

 

I cannot believe you spoke to him and are now defending him! :blink:

 

Not defending him as such especially after his comments earlier in the evening, maybe something else happened before anyone saw the rest :wink:

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the reason that i could see for people carrying 3/4 pint carriers was probably the shocking bar and food queues ! :blink:

i missed 4 races when queing,so decided to get 2 rounds in at once.

a steward told me that the top seats only had two bars, one on each straight.

so this might not of helped, as buying 1-2-3 rounds at once is just silly.mind you still does'nt make loutish behaviour ok !

if you can't handle it - don't drink it.

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Guess I got lucky. I was in the top tier surrounded by Poles, a few Danes, and a large family from some Eastern European country that I couldn't work out what it was.

 

The Poles in particular were drinking pint after pint all night (including the women), yet none of them seemed to get drunk at all. Apart from cheering their favourites loudly, the only thing they did was to spend the meeting swapping scarves and passing cameras back and forth to take pictures of each other.

 

Pretty much our experience too. Hard to work out if you and we were just lucky or whether that was the general experience and the ones who had problems were in the minority.

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