No it was Zorro from the local asylum! http://www.independent.ie/videos/sport/warning-explicit-content-newcastle-fan-punches-police-horse-29196839.html
The weekends violence did no harm to our argument over WYP sanctions, as we have no previous to condemn us. The protest was perfectly legitimate and effective, those attending both the march and the match did more good tham harm. It seems to be a nonsense that the game was massively boycotted by both sets of fans, as it was on SKY, so many watched from home/pub and if you take into account a reduced take-up by City then a glance at previous attendances don't seem that much different. Whether the problem is mindless hooligans or numbnut police, the response should always be to support your team if that is what you would usually do.
I know the weekends events had little if any direct effect to ourselves. But we were trying to make out that football fans aren't criminals and chaos is a thing of the past, and we were trying to represent the widespread audience rather than just ourselves due to how much we encouraged other teams fans to join us. Like I said, we may have achieved something in the way of the WYP being more lenient next time we visit one of their teams, but we don't even know that yet, but the main point that football fans can be trusted to co exist in peace has got a bit lost.
If you look at attendance figures for football then arrest figures you might actually get some idea of the scale of the problem I'm not defending these people btw , just need to have some perspective
Anyone convicted of violence after this weekends game, is going to get a lifetime ban from all Newcastle United matches. Not from the courts, but from Newcastle United.
Everybody knew about the protest so it didn't look like we had ****e away support because there was a reason that there was a distinct lack of fans from both Huddersfield and Hull City. He wouldn't need to blame himself, because the job's done. We voiced our opinion and it's been heard. We've shown that Hull City fans don't fall into the same bracket as Millwall, Newcastle or Chelsea/Manchester City.
No one knew about the protest except us, it was only publicised locally. No one around here had a ****ing clue, national media didn't give a ****, and the only mention it got in the sky coverage was when the camera zoomed on the banner just before the 2nd half kicked off and the commentator said "hull city fans are upset about the way they've had to collect their tickets for this game, that's what that banners about" and that is literally it.
He was probably disoriented by the fact the copper had a West Yorkshire Police uniform on. Impressive that they don't have the resources to police West Yorkshire properly but can still find themselves involved in policing games in Burnley and Newcastle. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22186034 Ah, so the measures taken by the police weren't fit for purpose, I guess it makes West Yorkshire Police's involvement more believable now. No, but when trouble broke out they blamed it on the late kickoff letting them drink all afternoon and said they took ages to get involved because they were busy elsewhere.
