After all the trouble in the footy this week,(West Ham v Millwall),i have just got to say how fantastic the fans of all clubs were yesterday.Not only the 2 teams involved but all the other fans i had a banter with yesterday,,,Wigan Saints Leeds Hull KR,FC,Bramley,and many more,and a great time in the Green Man up the hill from the stadium...On days like these it really shows us what our game is all about.Great day all round yesterday...

I would have to agree.

The coach 'car park' scuffles ruined it slightly mind after the game.

There was no need for the excessive riot vans though!

Sorrt,,,i did*nt know about that mate,,,Usually at Old trafford you see some people who had had 1 over the 8 but yesterday i thought the atmosphere outside the stadium was great...

The Grand final at Old trafford is a late game allowing people to drink through the day so there is more likely to be trouble, this is why the police have made derbies be played earlier in the day in football.

There was a lad in the gym in a Wire shirt, so being an RL fan, I felt compelled to congratulate him. Turns out he'd only got into the game a couple of months ago and was amazed by the amount of opposition shirts there and lack of trouble in the crowd.

Makes you very proud to be a part of a great sport.

Remember chatting to a mounted policeman at a test match at O/T....he said he loved rugby matches as they didnt do anything as they knew we dont cause no trouble....said if it was a footy match they would have been busy.

i will echo the OP.
I was gutted when i came out of that stadium but not 1 Wire fan taunted or goaded us in fact most of them were almost apologetic and sympathetic.

had a laugh with great bunches of fans from FC, Saints,Cas,Halifax etc and not one jot of bother or crossed words !

got to agree the wire fans didnt take the mickey out of us at all, as daz says i was gutted too, plus every other fans of loads of different teams were great just what rugby league is all about, special thanks to one quins fan who got me and 17 of mine on the right trains from kew to wembley, cheers buddy.

Yeah Ow,,Did*nt think of that,,,but still it was a great day,,thoroughly enjoyed it,,,

I must say you are putting footy fans into one bracket which is extremely unfair

east london smackheads do not represent 99% of football fans. with this in mindwould you want rugby league to expand into that area?

Ok Faxx,,,suppose it was still fresh from last week....But must say the banter yesterday was great and noticed when watching it on tv this morning that the fans were well mixed all around the ground,and i suppose in footy i don*t think that would happen...

Your generalising/stereotyping a bit yourself there mate.

If you want to chat with opposition fans in football it isn't very hard (just look for the ones that are friendly- they do exist)

Hopefully with the money they made yesterday they`ll installl more than the 3 extra porta-loos.. ... Excellent atmosphere in there though... I`ll definately call off again next year...

Walter, the idea that football fans are bad-eggs is spread by the same people who say that your avatar is offensive on racial terms