-> Wonder what the boro **** in the white shirt gets? As he seems to be more than ready to have a go and is definitely inciting it. Boro lads on a night out. It's City lads who were after the fight. -> The boro don't like it up em. Fannies. Not the way I saw it from that video. Outnumbered but more than held their own. City lot backed off, from only 2 or 3 of theirs. Then one cowards punch at the end. Lock em up. Knobheads.
Just a bunch of pissed up lads having a scrap outside a club, linking it to a football match that finished six hours earlier is just daft.
Course it's linked. Had they been just another bunch of local lads on a night out, they'd have been unnoticed. They were followed and provoked because they were Boro fans. Why deny or excuse it? As said, knobheads, lock em up.
Don't be daft. My mum had her handbag stolen at a knitting convention in London. She doesn't go round proclaiming that knitters stole her handbag, she blames some ****.
As presented by the CPSand Humberside Police, eager to get a conviction, yes. In reality who knows? Maybe the Boro fans had been gobby in another bar, in the streets etc. I refer you all to the Crown* v Hull City fans (Huddersfield Town 2004), the Crown v Hull City fans (Millwall 2009), and indeed the Crown v Hull City fans (v Borer 2002). In these 3 cases, the local police seem to have concentrated all their investigative efforts on identifying and prosecuting local fans, to almost the complete exclusion of visiting fans. In order to make the prosecution case more compelling, significant mitigating circumstances were omitted in court in order to present a somewhat skewed version of events. Namely. Middlesborough fans in 2002 travelled intent on causing trouble, Huddersfield fans made no attempt to attend the game and proceeded to randomly attack home fans on Walton St car park, and Millwall fans broke seats, threw them at home fans etc. Three games with significant trouble initiated by visiting fans, yet arrests and prosecutions of City fans well into double figures, and correct me if I'm wrong, a total of a small handful of away fans arrests. Always question Humberside Police's version of events, they are bunglers and incompetents, as their record shows year after year. I recently learned that the force is nicknamed 'Mexico' by neighbouring forces who interact with them. Clue: and it's not because they wear sombreros. (*the legal entity not the pub on Holderness Rd)
Was this a football related incident that should have resulted in banning orders? https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.yo...-s-nose-bitten-off-in-pub-fight-1-2538030/amp
Why are people bothered? A group of low life scum aren't allowed to go to football games anymore, that's a result. I don't care if it was 6 hours after the game, they don't deserve to enjoy football if they're happy to sucker punch a man from behind or kick a defenseless person on the floor. If they feel hard done by then tough ****, maybe they'll learn from it.
People are bothered because:- - do this at Beverley Races , it's 'high spirits' and possibly a court appearance - do this at an RL game, it's a paltry fine, and 'nothing to see here, move long please' - do this 6 hours after a City game , miles away from the gound and it's 'Hold the front page' and throw the book at them
I'm bothered because now we have a load more banning orders against our name, quite possibly because of non-football related matter. I don't give a **** about the ****ers who got done, I just question whether this was a football incident at all.
Throw that last punch at any of those other events and you'd be in prison too, end of. I agree, they probably got a harsher sentence because it was treated as a football incident but that's not a bad thing, they deserved what they got, we just need a bit more consistency so idiots at other events get what they deserve too.
Because at the game they didn't get caught doing anything against the law.They may have been model supporters, sitting down, politely applauding good play by both sides, not swearing or making gestures, sipping coffee from their flasks whilst covered by their tartan blankets. Hours after the game they get into a fight after drinking alcohol in pubs and clubs, perhaps it would be more appropriate to ban them from drinking and going to pubs and clubs.
