Gutted

[Matt_B]

Steve Wonder could have told you that.

At work this morning, approx 9am.

A work colleague asks me 'Is your banning order came through yet?'
Besumed I say 'what you mean?'
'I saw you at City on Saturday.'
'What you going on about?'
'When you ran down 3 flights of stairs at that handball f'ing and blinding'
'Oh yes. ' :icon_lol:

He was a few rows above me and noticed me at this exact moment - looking angry and annoyed. Hopefully it was a bit more scary than my Alan Carr impression at Cheltenham.

I'd probably have been bemused myself.

 

[spionfox]

It has never happened to me either but that doesn't stop me from seeing the shortcomings of the Police. :icon_conf

Don't pull that face at me Steven

I wasn't suggesting it didn't happen, I was saying that it had never happened to me and I was wondering why. It was only partly a rhetorical question because I suspect I know the answer to that one.

 

[Redditch Fox]

Totally agree. I'm inclined to believe that titheads can certainly get out of hand on occasion, but I think a lot og the time the way you conduct yourself affects the type of day you have. That's the reason I'm teetotal :icon_wink

In general, I think that the police react to how people look and how they behave. They don't tend to make fine judgements so sometimes people can get roughly treated on the basis of association. And being rowdy soccer supporters represents that sort of association to many police. To be fair some football supporters take on the behaviour of being like members of an invading army e.g. chanting their battle cries as they disembark at railway stations etc.

Soccer fans can be a bit of a law to themselves. A friend of mine who is a fanatical supporter of a west midlands soccer club was invited into the directors box of a second tier rugby union club and tells the story (which I'm sure is entirely apocryphal) of how he and a fellow minded soccer fanatic mate were gobsmacked to see supporters of both sides happily mixing on the terraces and in the stands. So (he claims unlikely) they started chanting at a cluster of visiting supporters - "You're going home in a f---ing ambulance!" The visitors just looked back bemused.

The point I am making is that for all the talk of 'prawn sandwiches' and soccer being so expensive that it is now for the middle classes - the Police and others will still see elements of tribal behaviour by soccer supporters as a potentially law breaking situation which needs stamping on before it gets out of hand.

 

[Steven]

Don't pull that face at me Steven

I wasn't suggesting it didn't happen, I was saying that it had never happened to me and I was wondering why. It was only partly a rhetorical question because I suspect I know the answer to that one.

I was pulling that face because you seem to be suggesting that as your collar had not been felt then anyone whose collar had been felt was guilty just for that fact. :icon_conf :icon_bigg :icon_wink

 

[spionfox]

you seem to be suggesting that as your collar had not been felt then anyone whose collar had been felt was guilty just for that fact.

Oh come on. It's not as if the police make mistakes is it? :icon_lol:

 

[Blue Maniac]

Oh come on. It's not as if the police make mistakes is it? :icon_lol:

Nope, not ever. That's how, on the night after my 18th birthday, I ended up spending the night in Hamilton with my mates despite the arresting officer actually seeing me several yards away, oblivious, looking in the opposite direction and as sober as he was while two of my mates made the decision to pull some poor sod's car to bits.

I'll pay for my own taxi, don't worry about it. Your mistake, but it's no problem. (Actually, to my recollection, my twatt of a mate paid for me to get home. I certainly didn't.)

 

[spionfox]

I ended up spending the night in Hamilton with my mates despite the arresting officer actually seeing me several yards away, oblivious, looking in the opposite direction and as sober as he was while two of my mates made the decision to pull some poor sod's car to bits.

Come on, what did you expect the copper to do. You were obviously the lookout for your mates! The fact that you did a bad job and didn't see the old bill coming is irrelevant :icon_wink

 

[Blue Maniac]

Come on, what did you expect the copper to do. You were obviously the lookout for your mates! The fact that you did a bad job and didn't see the old bill coming is irrelevant :icon_wink

Ha, not funny. I was walking home! Not that I want to make a complaint at all, Deputy Chief Constable. It was 2(x-4) years ago.