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I took my lad who was 13 on Friday to the Blackpool game. We sat in the Main Stand in the row just behind the Directors Box. My lad had a can of Diet Coke and was drinking it when a steward came in and told him cans weren't allowed in the ground and confiscated it ? rules are rules, I suppose, so fair does ? I didn't have a problem with that.

Anyway 2 - 0 up at half-time, a great first half. Just after half-time, I got a tap on my shoulder from a bloke sitting behind us ? he passed over a pint of coke and a big bag of crisps to my boy, saying "Here you are, mate, that's to replace what you had to give up ? it took me bloody ages in the queue to get that!"

My lad was made up as I was and thought it was a great gesture from a fellow blue to my boy who shook the bloke's hand and thanked him for his generosity. Cheers mate it was very much appreciated and proves what I have been telling everyone that we most certainly are the best fans in the world.

John Kelly, Wirral Posted 19/02/2012 at 08:20:34

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Barry Rathbone
010 Posted 19/02/2012 at 17:07:46

Well done all round, you for respecting the rules without fuss (they'd be printing T-Shirts at Anfield) and of course the fellow blue making your lad's day with such great generousity.

Great story.

Mark Riding
012 Posted 19/02/2012 at 17:13:36

Great story.. If I could add another.. struggling to get a decent photo at the Man Utd semi at Wembley of myself and my lad ( 7 at the time ) a fellow Blue came up and offered to take one of us both with Wembley in the background.. its a cracking pic and it started an awesome day for us both.. heres hoping for another trip and making a few more memories...

Chris Duncan
016 Posted 19/02/2012 at 18:10:52

Great post!

Steve O'Malley
085 Posted 19/02/2012 at 21:14:00

Bit disappointing he never asked what you were drinking. Only joking, whoever the mystery man is you win MOM

Tony McNulty
087 Posted 19/02/2012 at 21:28:44

At analfield you'd have been offered sour grapes

Lee Courtliff
107 Posted 19/02/2012 at 22:55:40

Good stuff. I remember the Wimbledon game in '94 when i cried almost the whole way through(I was only a kid).

At the final whistle when we were safe a Liverpool fan who was sat behind us gave me a pat on the shoulder and said it was a pleasure to watch a game in my company.

He said he was there because if we went down he would really miss the derby games so he was made up we had survived. A really decent,sincere bloke.

My Dad replied "if it was the other way around I would fuckin' love you lot to go down". He said it with a smile so no offence was taken.

He was serious though.

Steve Cotton
115 Posted 19/02/2012 at 23:42:17

Lee, that red was there to see us go down, 3 reds I knew had arranged a party to celebrate us going down, it was a pleasure to disappoint them...

Jenny W, you know who you are ... and you call us blues bitter.

Ernie Baywood
118 Posted 19/02/2012 at 23:41:23

When I saw the first line I was thinking "you're seriously going to whine about a can of coke?!?"

But that's a great story. Gave me a little tingle remembering going to the game with my Dad all those years ago. Blokes making a fuss of you in the pub and in the ground.

James Cadwaladr
172 Posted 20/02/2012 at 10:10:18

Everton, best fans in the world

Dan McKie
182 Posted 20/02/2012 at 10:56:56

Still sounds a nob of a steward though. A kid next to me on saturday had a can, and the steward there brought over a plastic cup and asked the kid to drink it from that instead, then took the can away.

Andy Callan
203 Posted 20/02/2012 at 12:44:29

Shame the steward never took £10 of you mate; the fella sittin' behind ya might have given ya lad a monkey.....!!!!!!!!!

Warms my heart knowning the there are still good people out there and not everyone is just out to please themselves....

Let's stuff the Mackems and all have another day out to Wembley........

That's something to warm the heart too.

Onwards - NSNO

Kev Lacey
216 Posted 20/02/2012 at 13:26:24

Stewards on Saturday were sharpish to move a group of young teens to their seats when they standing in the lower Bullens, less so when it was a group of fellas in their thirties who were allowed to stand in the aisle all the second half

Kev Lacey
217 Posted 20/02/2012 at 13:29:27

Meant to add what a top fella the bloke behind you was.

I went to the first ever game at Goodison in Feb for my 13 birthday too...3 months later we won the FA cup!! Hope its the same again for your lad!

Mark Stone
245 Posted 20/02/2012 at 15:49:16

When I was about 13 (can't remember exactly) I got a smack round the chops for politely asking the filthy old woman behind me who was trackied up to the nines and kept spitting like a llama to stop calling Earl Barrett a word that is only ok in Uruguay! Stewards kicked her out, not for the language but for hitting a kid! I think she prob got arrested.

Nice story (yours - not mine!) it was probably Tony Marsh. I heard a rumour after six games unbeaten he's like Doddy on prozak.

Shaun Brennan
250 Posted 20/02/2012 at 16:16:46

Change of subject, but if stewards are going to confiscate containers with drinks in them. Atleast provide some plastic glasses.

Peter Mills
511 Posted 21/02/2012 at 21:07:09

This is a rather belated "thanks mates". At the FA Cup quarter final in 1968 at Old Trafford, we had just won by a bundled goal by Big Joe. I was 12, in the paddock on my own, and was making my way out to meet my Dad, when a United fan nicked my scarf from around my neck. He was instantly surrounded by 5 large men, who persuaded him in very broad and graphic scouse that he should return the garment and apologise to me. He did so, very quickly.

So, thank you gents, for doing something that has made me smile to myself every time I've attended or driven past Old Trafford ever since.

Peter Mills
516 Posted 21/02/2012 at 21:44:24

Excuse the date, it was 1969.

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