South Yorkshire Police/Millwall Supporters Yesterday

[axel smeets]

Coppers all over the place yesterday, filming Blades in the Roebuck, down London Road. But when 30 odd Millwall fans spend their time taunting United fans in the South Stand, they do nowt at all.

Plus, how many times have we been kept in afterwards, such as at Forest, Leeds etc, but away fans are never kept in at the Lane.

South Yorkshire police, doing it's usual bang up job.

 

[sheffielder]

Completely agree. The police left the stewards to contend with the Millwall fans making their way to taung the south stand.
After the game they just showed what useless twats they are. The only people organised out there were Millwall who had about 250 lads running around and then instead of trying to move them back towards the station they show them up to London Road.

How the fuck were these 250 fans allowed to leave the ground before the game, were they not seen as a risk?

 

[axel smeets]

Exactly sheffielder, stewards were left to it, but the coppers could have nipped it in the bud straight away. I've seen Blades fans ejected at away matches for much less than that.

What got me was, why were they allowed to move all the way from the middle, right to the edge, without the coppers pushing them back?

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Who picks up the extra costs of additional coppers incurred yesterday?

In the current climate an invoice from SYP to Millwall FC wouldn't be amiss?

 

[axel smeets]

I've got an even better solution. It's not one that, as someone who goes away nearly every week, I like to hear myself saying, but: Ban the jellied eel eating, violence intent, knees up muvva brahn cockney bastards from Bramall Lane next time.

 

[Conroy]

Coppers all over the place yesterday, filming Blades in the Roebuck, down London Road. But when 30 odd Millwall fans spend their time taunting United fans in the South Stand, they do nowt at all.

To be fair, the SYP video man was in the BLUT corner filming them all. These though were the arm wavers and mouths...the bat and chain mob didn't even enter the ground by all accounts.

 

[JohnDenver]

Leaving the South Stand we were told to leave by the Shoreham exit due to the bother at the Bramall Lane end.

The worst scenes I've witnessed at football over the last 20 years have all involved Millwall. No amount of PR will change that, and it seems no amount of trouble will ever see them dealt with properly.

 

[Guesty]

I don't want to blame the police without knowing everything, maybe they didn't have the numbers. But as I left the Kop to go back into town, I cut through St Mary's churchyard to avoid Bramall Lane obviously. Yet there wasn't a single cop there. Result? Five blades chasing down and kicking in a Millwall fan legging it through.

It seems to me common sense that if a main road is closed or for whatever reason unavailable, then people are going to go through alternative routes. With that in mind, there should have been a copper or two in the Churchyard.

 

[sothall blade]

i blame the police,the cockney scumbags were running riot outside the lane end and up to st marys rd around the aldi store,coppers running around with fuckin cameras aint my idea of solving the problem of these neanderthal supporters,why was,nt they kept in after the game as at other grounds. i hope they dont invioce the club for that shambles,or will the FA blame SUFC for the cock up and issue a fine and a points deduction,it would,nt surprise me at all

 

[WhiteHawk]

We were talking about this in the pub last night. I've never known any set of supporters be kept in the ground after full time at Bramall Lane. We can probably expect this again when we play the seat smashers next month so why don't we avoid it by just keeping the away supporters in the ground for 20 minutes after the final whistle?

 

[ballyblade]

Police are only interested in making easy "collars"......ie: The Motorist!!

 

[sothall blade]

We were talking about this in the pub last night. I've never known any set of supporters be kept in the ground after full time at Bramall Lane. We can probably expect this again when we play the seat smashers next month so why don't we avoid it by just keeping the away supporters in the ground for 20 minutes after the final whistle?

think that would be too easy mate

 

[Jon Bon]

I know that this sort of behaviour is frowned upon on here - and rightly so as some may say - but nuff respect to Millwall for mobilising such a decent crew for a run-of-the-mill game so far away and even bigger respect to the Blades for taking it to them and showing them what for. Bring on the seat smashers, we're on a roll...

 

[alcoblade]

I know that this sort of behaviour is frowned upon on here - and rightly so as some may say - but nuff respect to Millwall for mobilising such a decent crew for a run-of-the-mill game so far away and even bigger respect to the Blades for taking it to them and showing them what for. Bring on the seat smashers, we're on a roll...

Aye, let's be all politically incorrect and honest about it. I thought the Millwall fans brought an excellent edge to the game yesterday. Fuck the poncey ice hockey style atmosphere that's spreading throughout football. Yesterday was a throwback to a day when there was real passion in football. To it's excess, it went way too far. But we've moved far too far away from the good old days.

UTB

 

[Greavsy]

I nearly ran about 5 of them over, just crossing the carriageway as though they could take on any cars in their path. The fans of Millwall yesterday just seemed to be trying to live up to their reputation over the years. Young lads with big mouths.

 

[Big Mart]

but nuff respect to Millwall for mobilising such a decent crew for a run-of-the-mill game so far away and even bigger respect to the Blades for taking it to them and showing them what for.

Think it's fair to say they more than held their own at the back of the Sportsman when they had the numbers, so let's not think we "showed them what for" because it simply wasn't that cut and dried.

 

[sitwell]

It was funny seeing some the old guys who were obviously part of an earlier age. One Monster in a crombie with wife and kids couldn't contain himself at one stage and started threatening about 6 stewards ,they didnt fancy it and chucked a youth out for making gestures instead.

 

[Jon Bon]

Think it's fair to say they more than held their own at the back of the Sportsman when they had the numbers, so let's not think we "showed them what for" because it simply wasn't that cut and dried.

Yeah like I said, fair play to 'em, most of them over 35 and definitely no mugs but they didn't get the result they expected. Maybe the phrase 'showed them what for' is a bit euphoric but we did take it to them and I marked it a winning draw for the Blades.

 

[SwissBlade]

I don't understand why the Away end lower tier didn't have nets over the seats on the edges. Millwall were never going to fill the away end so why not net off the empty seats to keep them contained?

Alternatively, why not have a line of stewards in the gangway so that the idiots couldn't just surge towards the South Stand

 

[axel smeets]

Next time, like I'd said earlier, I'd ban em. Failing that, give them 200 tickets spread across the middle 2 or 3 rows, and put netting all around them, caging them in on all sides. It would certainly make them feel like they were at home.

 

[sheffielder]

The police need to answer how they let a gang of 200 people hang around the town centre and not attend the game. They were there for simply one reason, revenge.

Police are just cowards

 

[SwissBlade]

Revenge for what, I heard that something went off at the away fixture, but don't know what

 

[axel smeets]

If that's true about 200 cockney twats hanging around town, then syp have shown their true colours. They were happy to film United fans drinking, and stood by watching whilst all the trouble kicked off. If anyone reading this board works for syp, what a set of cunts you are. Hopeless, inefficient, useless, spineless cowards.

 

[Micalijo]

The police need to answer how they let a gang of 200 people hang around the town centre and not attend the game. They were there for simply one reason, revenge.

Police are just cowards

Hang on a minute. This is UK not Egypt. Can the police stop a few lads travelling on a train and having a few beers in town during an afternoon? Can you get moved on for potentially likely to cause trouble. Of course they did and it was obvious they would but short of drafting in a thousand policemen I can't see what they could have done about that lot? Plenty of mistakes after the game but they have to apply the laws hopefully.

Loved it saturday me - brilliant stuff. Don't think a line of stewards ro some netting would have stopped the Millwall surge to the corner Swiss would it? Sloqwed it a bit I suppose but you need coppers to have any chance of stopping stuff like that and even then as proved later they couldn't. All reasonably good fun until after game imo when obviously police lost control due to sheer number of lunatics on both sides.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Police are just cowards

No they're not. The majority of them are actually quite brave and have to put up with a lot of shit off people criticising them for doing a job that 99% of the population would not dare do themselves.

 

[Micalijo]

No they're not. The majority of them are actually quite brave and have to put up with a lot of shit off people criticising them for doing a job that 99% of the population would not dare do themselves.

Hear, hear. Few bad uns and football can bring worst out of a few I suppose.

 

[sheffielder]

No they're not. The majority of them are actually quite brave and have to put up with a lot of shit off people criticising them for doing a job that 99% of the population would not dare do themselves.

Their job is to protect the public. SUFC pay them well on a Saturday afternoon for this yet this weekend Millwall ran all over them meaning innocent law abiding citizens got hurt. The police were constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time. Also when the Millwall fans surged towards the south stand they allowed the stewards to try and control them. Really? cowards

 

[axel smeets]

No they're not. The majority of them are actually quite brave and have to put up with a lot of shit off people criticising them for doing a job that 99% of the population would not dare do themselves.

To me, if you want to do a job that involves controlling people, ordering them about and generally acting like an arsehole to the general public, coppers have got pyschological issues stemming from childhood. Perhaps their fathers beat them, and their mothers deprived them of attention. Who knows?

 

[sheffielder]

And to add, you will probably see more police tomorrow night against Reading than you did on Saturday, When the police knew Millwall were bringing numbers. Everyone knew it was going to go off before the game so why were the police not prepared?

 

[TopBoy]

Simple reason it happened, Millwall's Mob were more organised than SYP. This doesn't occur that often now due to police intelligence but they certainly flew under the radar on this occasion.