Barca away

[TonyWant]

I’m going to barca with tickets I got from viagogo in the home end. I’m anxious about them checking ID to get into the home end as I’ve seen there is champions league regulations about Uk fans going to see a Uk team in the nou camp home end. Does anyone know how strict they are with the home fans?

Do not wear visible Spurs supporter clothing
Don’t look or behave like a rabid fan at least until the final whistle or until the post match celebration in Placa Reial
They will check your name on the ticket against an identification document like a passport that you can show them. A photo on your phone of the passport main page will do. I doubt if they will bother you if you are quiet and they are busy. Speak in broken English if you have to like Manuel in Fawlty Towers. He was from Barcelona of course
I have a non UK passport I use but they did not look beyond checking my name the last time I did this
Good luck

 

[Lilbaz]

Flying out tomorrow morning. Any ideas on a good bar to meet up the night before or what area? Not been barca before.

 

[Lilbaz]

You know your freinds are wankers when the only time they give you free cocaine is when you have an early flight the next morning.

 

[spursdon1]

Anyone about for Copa Libertadores this evening?

 

[Lilbaz]

Anyone about for Copa Libertadores this evening?

Sorry mate just saw this. Was in an irish pub near jaume metro. Nice pub and guiness is about €5. Probably pop in there again tonight. Cracking game last night.

 

[Monkey boy]

Sorry mate just saw this. Was in an irish pub near jaume metro. Nice pub and guiness is about €5. Probably pop in there again tonight. Cracking game last night.

You can take a Brit out of Britain but not the Britain out of a Brit or something like that.

 

[worcestersauce]

You can take a Brit out of Britain but not the Britain out of a Brit or something like that.

You can take the Irish pub out of Britain but you can't take the Brit out of an Irish pub.

 

[NickHSpurs]

You can take a Brit out of Britain but not the Britain out of a Brit or something like that.

My first night here (Saturday) went to Irish bar, last night went for an Indian

 

[carpediem991]

So whats up tonight guys?

We will later probably head to a karaoke bar lol

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

Anyone know what hotel the team are staying at ?

 

[Monkey boy]

Anyone know what hotel the team are staying at ?

We usually stay at the Mandarin Oriental when warm weather training in Barcelona. Pretty much on Las Ramblas and has a great roof top terrace.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

We usually stay at the Mandarin Oriental when warm weather training in Barcelona. Pretty much on Las Ramblas and has a great roof top terrace.

Funny. I can definitely tell you they aren’t staying there ?

 

[Lilbaz]

Did they set up beer tents in plaza catalunya? Do we know the main meeting point tomorrow?

Anyway had a great night, going to bed. Love barcelona. Why hasn't anyone called a pub bar celona? Missing a beat.


Yes i am drunk.

 

[smithym]

Did they set up beer tents in plaza catalunya? Do we know the main meeting point tomorrow?

Anyway had a great night, going to bed. Love barcelona. Why hasn't anyone called a pub bar celona? Missing a beat.


Yes i am drunk.

Actually there was a place called Bar Celona in Bristol, closed down due to it being the sort of place where they drug search you to make sure you had some.

 

['O Zio]

Anyway had a great night, going to bed. Love barcelona. Why hasn't anyone called a pub bar celona? Missing a beat.

There are 5 according to Google Maps, you're obviously just not looking hard enough

 

['O Zio]

Actually there was a place called Bar Celona in Bristol, closed down due to it being the sort of place where they drug search you to make sure you had some.

Back in the day Motion was a bit like that. If you weren't off your head on something you were in the minority, pretty sure all the staff were on all sorts as well. Haven't been for years though so maybe they've cleaned up their act. I would assume not.

Conversely I went to the Bristol O2 once and it was like airport security getting in. Bag scanner/X-ray, frisks, metal detectors. You got the full works. They even took everyone's wallets out and rifled around in all the compartments to see if you had anything. Then during the night every 10 mins or so somebody would come into the toilets and peer over the top into all the cubicles to double check nobody was up to any shenanigans.

 

[smithym]

Back in the day Motion was a bit like that. If you weren't off your head on something you were in the minority, pretty sure all the staff were on all sorts as well. Haven't been for years though so maybe they've cleaned up their act. I would assume not.

Conversely I went to the Bristol O2 once and it was like airport security getting in. They even took everyone's wallets out and rifled around in their to see if you had anything. Then during the night every 10 mins or so somebody would come into the toilets and peer over the top into all the cubicles to double check nobody was up to any shenanigans.

Motion is very ‘strict’ on their drug policy nowadays.
That being said, you can still smell the mkat from the M32.

Is anyone out and about at the moment? I’m heading over the placa reial or however you spell it.

 

[NickHSpurs]

I’ve gotta say, as much as we don’t like Wembley and getting out, it’s safe. These European clubs can learn a lot from our stewarding and Policing.

Getting in last night was a fucking disgrace, Barcelona are lucky more people didn’t get hurt. Funnelled thousands of fans down a path no more than 3 people wide whilst they lined the road and blocked it with barricades. Completely unacceptable but nothing will be done again.

 

['O Zio]

I’ve gotta say, as much as we don’t like Wembley and getting out, it’s safe. These European clubs can learn a lot from our stewarding and Policing.

Getting in last night was a fucking disgrace, Barcelona are lucky more people didn’t get hurt. Funnelled thousands of fans down a path no more than 3 people wide whilst they lined the road and blocked it with barricades. Completely unacceptable but nothing will be done again.

From my experience of living on the continent, for some reason people there still see English fans as hooligans and films like Green Street and Football Factory only reinforced that. The amount of conversations I've had with people on the continent asking about what it's like to go to a game in ENgland with all the hooligans is just ridiculous. They don't believe me when I tell them how non-existant the atmosphere is at most games nowadays.

It's a disgrace that we're treated like that whenever we go abroad when there's been virtually no trouble whatsoever from our fans for decades. Certainly not enough to warrant the kinds of heavy-handed outdated policing tactics we're subjected to.

On top of that, Spain doesn't really have much of a culture of travelling fans domestically so their police/stewards aren't as used to having thousands of away fans to manage as our police are. So I think it's a bit of a perfect storm between the two things that make being an away fan in Spain quite unpleasant.

 

[Spurs 1961]

From my experience of living on the continent, for some reason people there still see English fans as hooligans and films like Green Street and Football Factory only reinforced that. The amount of conversations I've had with people on the continent asking about what it's like to go to a game in ENgland with all the hooligans is just ridiculous. They don't believe me when I tell them how non-existant the atmosphere is at most games nowadays.

It's a disgrace that we're treated like that whenever we go abroad when there's been virtually no trouble whatsoever from our fans for decades. Certainly not enough to warrant the kinds of heavy-handed outdated policing tactics we're subjected to.

On top of that, Spain doesn't really have much of a culture of travelling fans domestically so their police/stewards aren't as used to having thousands of away fans to manage as our police are. So I think it's a bit of a perfect storm between the two things that make being an away fan in Spain quite unpleasant.

Reputations are hard to break. The British have a bad one anyway as guests in other countries mostly seen as drunken louts. Even stayed in family hotels in the Med where they prefer not to have Brits as they don't have any control over their children etc, etc.