We're also top of the League....
....for Banning Orders!
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/football-arrests-0708
1st: Us with 152
2nd: Cardiff 136
3rd: Millwall 117
Scum 78
MK Dons & Accrington Stanley, omly ones with 0!
As the lad who has stood next to us for years has just had a 3 year ban
imposed for swearing at a copper at Tranmere this year I'm surprised the
figure isn't even higher!
I don't know the full details of exactly what happened but in the ten years
or so Rick has been standing next to us he's always been the most mild
mannered of men. The only time I've ever seen him do anything that could be
construed as being milldly agressive has been an occasional rant at Beckford
after Beckford had tried one of his silly Brazilian-type flicks and caused
an attack to break down. This has usually been followed by Beckford scoring
a brilliant goal, causing Rick much embarrassment and us much amusement.
We're are going to miss him a lot.
I would like to know what the copper did to provoke him and exactly what
Rick said to cause the sensitive flower from the Merseyside police to be
offended enough to arrest him.
I'd like to know the figures for Leeds fans having their season tickets
taken off them for persistant standing - or do the stewards just "bollock"
them?
I can only speak for our part of the Kop but we stand about five rows from
the back and on a level with the left hand goalpost as you look at the pitch
and the stewards seem to have given up on bothering us about standing from
the middle of last season onwards.
They occasionally have a go if people drift into the aisles and make us keep
them clear, which is probably fair enough, but haven't tried to make us sit
down at all.
I have only been to a few away matches but the away stewards at any of those
games have never tried to make us sit down, not even at Huddersfield where
they made a great fuss before the game about them losing their licence if us
bastards didn't behave.
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