I am 16 years old, and have consistently travelled to away games with the "Singing section." I Travelled up to Pittodrie yesterday and paid £17 to get in. Upon celebrating the first goal with the usual, singing, bouncing, cheering, and HARMLESS atmosphere 2 or 3 stewards moved into the section. They began to tell individuals to sit, some did others kept celebrating with the rest of the energetic support, A friend a year younger than myself was then dragged off to the side and ejected from the grounds, for what a Steward later explained to him as being the first to kick off the trouble (this "trouble" was standing and singing) Of course at this point I had began filming as did another 20-30 odd lads in an attempt to make sure everything was caught on camera, in case of over-zealous force, And yet again another one of my friends was ejected for asking a Steward why he wasn't allowed to Celebrate, for the next 10 minutes, I watched as stewards and police ran about in the section grabbing anyone questioning there motives or "not listening to what they're were being TOLD to do" I stood at the end of my row, phone in hand as I had been for the last 10 minutes, Steward number 0389 approached me, shouted sit down and grabbed my phone, I pulled my hand away, to which he then made several attempts to grab my wrist and phone, then he grabbed the back of my neck and put his arm around my arms and dragged me down the stairs through the gate onto trackside, I was ridiculed as several onlooking Aberdeen fans chanted AT me, on shouting back, a nearby officer also ran onto trackside and helped the Steward escort me ( A skinny lad under 6 foot) out of the grounds, to Which I was forced to spend the remaining 80 odd minutes in a foreign city. Luckily I phoned a fewother friends whom decided to leave or where themselves ejected, and we sat on our supporters bus waiting for the game to end.
£17 pound to be unfairly, victimised. Heavy Hands - Empty Stands
Dr Pangloss - "By all means, continue what you're doing if you're having fun, but please don't come on here and make out you're being victimised."
Im offended.
