HillmortonBlade
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Don't think I saw a copper at MK Plastics and only a couple at Notts County, as a starter.
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Don't think I saw a copper at MK Plastics and only a couple at Notts County, as a starter.
metalblade
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We can't be too harsh on the Police commissioner after all he is only taking half of his £85,000 p.a salary.
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Because Doncaster isn't a kestrel worrying deedar hating shithole full of imbeciles sparking clogs?
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Way to propagate the stereotype the Police like to believe about football fans there...
William Large
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Bit of a sweeping generalisation isn't it? Bit like saying that all football fans are mindless drunken hooligans, hell bent on causing trouble at every game. Clearly they are not, on both counts.
2ndtenorblade
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Shit, we went in Joseph Bramah and had large breakfasts a pints of beer.
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I'm not sure it stopped anyone drinking. There were lots of people passing cans around on Sheffield station platform, not to mention all the pubs packed out.
It is time the whole drinking at football policy was revisited, there is absolutely no reason at all why they shouldn't serve drinks to fans to take into the stadium in this day and age.
True story; I went to the Crucible recently to watch something with the kids (totally not their thing, but never mind). I'm an uncultured, working class oik, so WTF do I know about going to the theater? At "half time" (or whatever they call it) the kids want a Coke so I get a pint in. After a bit everyone starts heading in, so I down my pint as quick as possible and turn to head in, "another?" asks the bartender. "ANOTHER?? Can't you see the 2nd half is about to kick off, you buffoon?" I think to myself, before noticing everyone else in the building is just walking into the theater with their (alcoholic) drinks. Throughout the whole of the 2nd half I felt incredibly self-unconscious whenever I had a drink, like I was about to be found out and ejected from the building. It's the mindset of a (UK) football fan!
It makes you realise how incredibly stupid the whole thing is. Over a million people across the country are proactively policed twice a week to "prevent" the actions of a few thousand (and we all know it prevents nothing! Those who want to cause trouble and need a drink are going to drink a gallon whether the bar is open or not! We know this, the police know this, I'm sure even those higher up the food chain know this, even those in the media know this, so who are we all kidding??).
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Although it was a tongue in cheek comment, there is some truth in it. Barnsley has never been a nice place to go if they know you are from Sheffield.
grafikhaus
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Oh that's easy! You've got to be uber-PC, possess the ability to cover your own back and spout claptrap like this below - more suited to a 6th form debating society or a useless social worker.
WhiteHawk
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I went to watch Stocksbridge Park Steels yesterday. It's strange to be sat there watching the game with a pint in hand. It wasn't even from a kiosk, it was from the club and you can take your drinks outside with you!
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http://www.theguardian.com/football...ll-fans-drinking-alcohol-unfair-rugby-cricket
They'd have to start serving better than the watered down pish they serve currently though.
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stringjunior
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I don't believe it. Is that really a Class D 5793 diesel electric coupled by the now defunct U-Bend doofachat and in London South Easterly Westerly livery?
Or is it just a bald bloke?
Greenwich Blade
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It won't surprise you to know that I got a little agitated over the handling of the crowd outside the station on Saturday. I finally boarded a train at 4 o'clock, just under two hours after the final whistle.
My biggest beef was with the train company for not making any provision whatsoever for the large amounts of people (paying customers) who would be using their service that day.
However, two other things finally drove me to having a few words with the officers on duty outside. Firstly, their demand, after we'd waited 90 minutes, to move back to the pavement up against the wall; why they couldn't get us to do this an hour-and-a-half earlier is beyond me - as mentioned above, they certainly had the resources to achieve this.
And secondly, after the first surge towards the door, from which I had removed myself before it happened, I heard one of the chief coppers referring to those at the front as "idiots". I suggested that the idiots were actually inside making decisions. I also pointed out that they'd not learned a right lot from Hillsborough, which was a little unfair as we were being overseen by Durham's finest on Saturday, but still relevant nevertheless.
The lack of presence from the train company was appalling, and the scarcity of information from the police shocking. The whole thing took me back to the bad old days of the Four Mile Exclusion Zone around Stonehenge in the1980s and 1990s.
Meanwhile, fear not, I hear that Northern Rail have responded to our criticism and have planned ahead for next season.
My biggest beef was with the train company for not making any provision whatsoever for the large amounts of people (paying customers) who would be using their service that day.
However, two other things finally drove me to having a few words with the officers on duty outside. Firstly, their demand, after we'd waited 90 minutes, to move back to the pavement up against the wall; why they couldn't get us to do this an hour-and-a-half earlier is beyond me - as mentioned above, they certainly had the resources to achieve this.
And secondly, after the first surge towards the door, from which I had removed myself before it happened, I heard one of the chief coppers referring to those at the front as "idiots". I suggested that the idiots were actually inside making decisions. I also pointed out that they'd not learned a right lot from Hillsborough, which was a little unfair as we were being overseen by Durham's finest on Saturday, but still relevant nevertheless.
The lack of presence from the train company was appalling, and the scarcity of information from the police shocking. The whole thing took me back to the bad old days of the Four Mile Exclusion Zone around Stonehenge in the1980s and 1990s.
Meanwhile, fear not, I hear that Northern Rail have responded to our criticism and have planned ahead for next season.
I'm so glad i chose against going on the train now, i decided to go on the coach instead as late as Friday which in hindsight seems to be a great decision and i don't normally make many of them. Wombwell is where our coach ended up and that had about 4 riot vans worth of the Durham constabulary which i thought was a lot for just after 9 ish, they were very laid back and didn't give a flying fuck about anything, i suppose they wouldn't with the wedge they were getting, the atmosphere was great and vociferous but they really didn't give a shit about what was happening and they were just smiling away.
GRUMPY BLADE
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The suggestion that it should be policed locally leaves me with an image of a steel wall in front of the bar preventing us from receiving poor service, all for our own good.
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