Yes, I remember that Friday night game. That was also the night when a kid craftily smoking a cig in his seat near me, was set upon by approx 6 stewards to haul/drag him out with four more nearby on hand to make sure he 'complied' with his ejection. What a great use of cctv. The very first league game at the KC was against Hartlepool in 2002, and they had a busful turned away that day. Presumably the OB could not handle 60 merry monkey hangers in a state of the art new stadium and a 20,000 plus crowd.
Chris Betts and a few other members of parliament have got interested and the HTSA are keeping up the pressure. http://www.htsa-online.co.uk/2013/02/freedom-of-information-requests-to-wyp-kmc/
I remember that, our plod are useless at policing games too, though I think your two coaches and one Cardiff coach are the only ones ever sent back ahead of a game(at least in recent history). The Cardiff one was deserved, they trashed a pub in a village on the way in.
Well if the Cardiff lot had wrecked a village pub on route then that is a reasonable excuse to not allow them anywhere near the ground. In the case of our coaches the Police were looking for any excuse to turn them back, when they found they had no excuse(not a single ring pull from a can or a dropped roach) they conspired with 3 or 4 other police forces to escort these coaches back to London. My brother and a good few mates were on them coaches and it was fortunate for me that i asked my brother to post my ticket for the game up the week before as i couldn't be sure what time they were to arrive given that the traffic on a Friday is a nightmare.
Well as with away direct got the Palace and Burnley tickets a while ago and the next one due is Huddersfield. It will be interesting to see what happens. Dr Allam said last night on sportstalk that he had been briefed by Nick Thompson and that things were looking much better for Hull City fans now. But no confirmed details. Ive never thought that WYP - especially Supt Richard Head-McManus would ever get away with there draconian actions anyways.
Forgot about Away Direct! ALL City fans must threaten to boycott this game if we have any hope of WYP changing their stance
*Clive Betts, Sheffield mp and season ticket holder for the pigs(wednesdayite). Diane Johnson mp has brought this up in the house and there is an outside chance this will go to judicial review. WYP have made there final offer and it looks like the arrangements announced tonight will be set in stone, WYP will take a chance on a judicial review because basically they have already lost. By this I mean they have lost the case with farmer Bates and it is the appeal on this one which is vital to them, more so than this one off event. A prominent civil liberties lawyer (QC) is offering to lead if Louis Cooper(age 15) decides to push on with his case. Details are sketchy on the finance side but the tiger nation may have to do some fund raising here. All for now, much more to come. Let me know how your "Barmies" get on tomorrow and good luck with taking three points from the "champions of europe".
