[lindave]

Watched this programme on channell 4 at 9pm, 1st in series. It follows match days with the cops 2 of the grounds were at Crewe and Scunny last year.it highlighted the growing concern of 12 to 18yr old chavs causing problems at matches. I hope our return to the EFL doesn't bring trouble back to our travelling.its an interesting sight to what the cops do such as Adam Smith at our place. On again next week.

[JonB]

Watched an episode after the England game last night at 10pm where they covered Coventry v Sunderland, Liverpool v Man City and Ipswich v Wycombe, all from not this season just done but season before. The Ipswich one was understandably a fairly low key game with the main issue the fact they had some new turnstiles in action that could fail.

Other two had a bit more about them partly due to the numbers involved and also the rivalry. City game they had issues, apparently quite common, with young scousers rolling up to games with no tickets trying to get in and when they dont causing issues on top of the pre and post game antics. Also the coppers had to babysit the 14yr old son of a City fan who was arrested for cocaine possession and had to wait for his mum to come and pick him up! Cov v Sunderland has a bit of history from years ago after Cov stayed up at their expense. Cov were playing Bristol City who could also go down if one of them lost and Sunderland won at home to Everton. Both games should have kicked off at the same time but then Cov chairman Jimmy Hill engineered a delayed kick off meaning once they found out Sunderland hadnt won Cov and Bristol City played out the last 15mins to a draw they kept both up.

Was interesting seeing how the DFO from each club work together, how well they know who to keep an eye out for and how they deal with the idiots looking to cause issues. Think in general it wont be much different to how its always been, will be the odd game where you may need to be a bit more careful but in the main the vast majority of football fans are decent enough and if you dont go looking for trouble you wont find it.

[RN Blue]

Sometimes trouble has a way of finding you even if you don't go looking for it.

[moondog]

lindave, on 04 June 2024 - 10:31 AM, said:

Watched this programme on channell 4 at 9pm, 1st in series. It follows match days with the cops 2 of the grounds were at Crewe and Scunny last year.it highlighted the growing concern of 12 to 18yr old chavs causing problems at matches. I hope our return to the EFL doesn't bring trouble back to our travelling.its an interesting sight to what the cops do such as Adam Smith at our place. On again next week.

You mean Adam Collins 🙂