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The website has been advised that regular home and away Altrincham FC supporter Pete Hughes has been attacked by his dog and has had to undergo plastic surgery in Wythenshawe Hospital. Amongst his other work for Altrincham, Pete was the instigator, this season, of the reduced rate entrance prices for the Alty v Weymouth match which attracted many England supporters en route to Old Trafford. He is seen above (background) opening a bottle of celebratory champagne after the Boxing Day win over Northwich Victoria. All at Altrincham FC wish Pete a full and speedy recovery.

Get well soon Pete

Are you going to get Rocky Robin to push you around the ground?

Four new signings according to the bbc

Carrow road, JJB,Sportsworld

My point is the stewards would not have a clue how to deal with serious crowd trouble. Altrincham fans have never been troublemakers and the club is not a target for opposing fans. I don't see why people on here are worried about this. If any of you have ever watched England away you will know that most of the trouble has been at games where foreign police have herded us together instead of letting us wander around freely. Segregation creates a pack mentality.

Stewards not noing how to cope well come and join us and tell me how its done. Since i have been chief steward i have had to deal with alot of different incidents i:e fc utd which was dealt with swiftley, Man utd anti glazier march on to the pitch shown on national tv and with are Nvq accessor at that game his words were biggar clubs would have panicked with that.. There are ways and means of dealing with different incidents.

We have offered shelter to clubs when the weather has been bad but due to some of the large away following it has not been possible.
My policy when i take charge of stewarding a match is that i want everybody to enjoy themselves but you can't please everyone on some occasions.

Northwich hospitality (!) Rant
Old Man  Tue 2-Jan-2007 09:43:10
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So, there we were, dropped off into a crappy car park (unmetalled) and directed by one of the stewards to the front of the ground (which I must admit, looked pretty impressive) to the club bar.

Two of us led the way and entered the clubhouse. What a wonderful lounge, light, airy, warm (it was bloody freezing outside, blowing a gale and throwing it down). TV was on showing the Liverpool match. "Eh, up" said I, "this looks the dogs bo**ocks, doesn't it??". "Too true" said my companion "really impressive".

Looking outside I saw most of the coachload standing around looking miserable. Why??? The answer was soon to be realised. A hulk appeared, dressed in one of those huge "look I'm a steward, HGV driver, policeman, navvy" dayglo jacket. "There's two Southport supporters just come in - can you leave". Not felt so humiliated since I stood in front of old McKintyre the head, all those years ago.

With our tails between our legs my companion and I walked to the door and followed this **** out. Off he marched and we turned to join the throng. "Hold on" I thought, "We were guided to this clubhouse by one of his compatriots - I'm going to have a chat". I caught up with hulk and proceeded to notify him in no uncertain way that we had been told where the clubhouse was. On reflection that perhaps was where the misunderstanding lay and consequently it was our fault - we didn't ask where the bar for the AWAY supporters was. WHICH CLUB HAS AN AWAY BAR, FFS?? (besides Buxton).

Anyway, with jollity still in our hearts we wandered towards the Away Bar and having paid entrance were guided to the bar. (Please, everyone who is still with me, remember that it is still blowing a gale, its pi**ing down and bloody freezing).

The "bar" was included in a little overhang underneath the stadium, chips were frying but there was no ventilation, consequently you had the choice of dying through the fumes or going outside. The girls on the till couln't count for toffee and the beer was off. There were no seats, TV or nice surroundings. To escape from the fumes most of us stood outside whereupon we were battered by wind, rain and generally froze to bloody death. We couldn't all get into the food/beer dispatch area anyway, it was way too small.

One of the enjoyable things about non-League football is the chance to mix with the opposing supporters in the surroundings of their clubhouse prior to a match - to exchange stories and match facts. It helps build better understanding, helps perpetuate the "family" tradition of non-League and reduces the amount of aggro that is seen at League matches. Coupled with the fact that it tends to consolidate the "we're all in this together" feeling. Non-League by its togetherness expands the desire to watch your team away from home, but not at Northwich.

Personally, I'm totally disgusted at the way we were treated yesterday. For a day which cost me personally around £30 I was treated like utter sh*t and so were the others. Irrespective of age or infirmity on the coldest, wettest and windiest day of the year (yes, I know its New Year, you know what I mean) we were treated no better than cattle.

I for one will not be going to Northwich again - I like to be treated with a certain amount of respect (and admiration for supporting a crap team like Southport currently is ) but I'm afraid its not going to happen at Northwich.




[edited by Old Man Tue Jan 2 09:45:11 2007]