28-02-13, 09:09 PM
Indeed, over here in the Netherlands the away fans are separated from the home fans as much as possible. In the stadiums the section for the away fans is separated from the home sections with fences or safety glass (sometimes in combination with nets). In some stadiums you even have a net in front of the away section, to prevent that things are thrown onto the pitch. Like Vortec said, most of the stadiums have special parking lots for the away fans.
The canals to prevent people going onto the pitch is something that most Dutch stadiums that are built in the 1990s have. Most of the older stadiums don't have these canals, but just have high fences. There are also some stadiums that don't have canals or (high) fences for the home sections.
The matches are classified in different "risk levels". The way you can travel to these matches depends on the risk level of a match. The matches in the highest risk level can only be visited with a bus (buscombi), and you're not allowed to drink alcohol underway.
It can happen that the police take the bus off the road to check that there's no alcohol onboard. If they find something the bus will be send back. Drinking alcohol after the match is allowed, so beer in the luggage room of the bus is allowed.
By these buscombi matches the last 10/ 15 km you'll get a police escort to the stadium. When we play a derby we'll get a police escort from our own stadium to the stadium of our rivals.
Sometimes there's an autocombi, that means that you can travel in your own car, bur that you have to stop at your own stadium first to trade your sign up form for another form, and you have to stop a second time underway to trade the second form for the match ticket.
There are also matches without any risk, offcourse you're free to travel the way and time you want to these matches.
Shame that all these rules are needed, but there are always some cunts that ruïn it for the rest of the supporters.
The canals to prevent people going onto the pitch is something that most Dutch stadiums that are built in the 1990s have. Most of the older stadiums don't have these canals, but just have high fences. There are also some stadiums that don't have canals or (high) fences for the home sections.
The matches are classified in different "risk levels". The way you can travel to these matches depends on the risk level of a match. The matches in the highest risk level can only be visited with a bus (buscombi), and you're not allowed to drink alcohol underway.
It can happen that the police take the bus off the road to check that there's no alcohol onboard. If they find something the bus will be send back. Drinking alcohol after the match is allowed, so beer in the luggage room of the bus is allowed.
By these buscombi matches the last 10/ 15 km you'll get a police escort to the stadium. When we play a derby we'll get a police escort from our own stadium to the stadium of our rivals.
Sometimes there's an autocombi, that means that you can travel in your own car, bur that you have to stop at your own stadium first to trade your sign up form for another form, and you have to stop a second time underway to trade the second form for the match ticket.
There are also matches without any risk, offcourse you're free to travel the way and time you want to these matches.
Shame that all these rules are needed, but there are always some cunts that ruïn it for the rest of the supporters.
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