please log in to view this image Hull City and Stadium Management Company are looking to address an increase in fan anti-social behaviour which is affecting clubs up and down the country with the launch of our 'Is This Your Game?' campaign. The campaign is intended to highlight that the vast majority of Tigers fans come to matches to support the club in a positive and enjoyable way, but some of their experiences get negaitvely affected by the behaviour of a disruptive few. Is This Your Game? has been launched in conjunction with Humberside Police, Safety Advisory Group (SAG) and with input from supporters to ensure that fan safety and behaviour does not take away from the enjoyment of watching football. Fans will see the Is This Your Game? branding around the stadium on matchdays including on the big screens and fan-facing LED boards reminding all supporters to think about their actions and how they might affect the enjoyment of the game for others. Assets for the campaign have also been made available to other clubs in the UK to use. Head of Operations at the MKM Stadium, Paul Woodford, said at the launch of the campaign: “It’s really important we don’t get lost in headlines and phrases like ‘football violence going back to the eighties’, because frankly that’s not true. We have a very small minority of so-called supporters who use football as a way to cause trouble. “These people get drawn into this behaviour as a way of belonging; they feel it gives them an identity. But importantly, the majority of proper fans are as keen to kick this out of the game as we are. “Supporting your club is not goading away supporters during the match, setting smoke grenades off at the end of the game, throwing objects or bringing drugs into the stadium. “Supporting your club is getting behind the team – vocally, visually, and representing your club and your city in a positive light, whether that’s at home or away matches. “Long-standing fans have told us they don’t come to matches anymore because they don’t feel safe. That must stop, now. So our focus is on these people – showing them that we mean business, reassuring them that we will get on top of this anti-social behaviour, and gaining their support for the work we’re doing on the ground. This is their game.” SMC and Hull City would like to thank the vast majority of supporters for the way they have conducted themselves and got behind the team since fans have been allowed back into the MKM Stadium for the 2021/22 season. https://www.wearehullcity.co.uk/club/is-this-your-game/
sounds like that's the end of 'you're getting mauled by the Tigers' then - too upsetting for the more nervous supporter
They could start by ensuring the police and stewards treat away fans in the same manner as home fans. From what I have seen this season it seems they’re happy for away fans to goad the home end but the other way round is unacceptable. Lost count of the amount of times during matches where the focus is on those in the home end - some who have then been removed - when the away fans are doing the same if not worse and get away scot-free. If they want to achieve anything with this it has to be a level playing field, rather than the easy option which has been used for the last few years of blaming our fans. And let’s be honest - “goading away fans” isn’t even an issue that should be discussed here, it’s part and parcel of football.
I find the part about long-standing supporters not feeling safe hard to swallow? I wasn’t around in the seventies / eighties but weren’t most games a running battle? This all seems a right load of bollocks .
I can't speak for anyone else on here who may or may not have been involved in running battles in the 80's. My experience for home games was usually being astounded by the reports of trouble on the car park. The same car park we had just crossed and saw nothing untoward. Similar reports made for away games, again that we saw nothing of. I am not saying there were no fights, scuffles, handbags, call these altercations what you will, but they were pre arranged to involve just a small group. Pre Internet, the phone call must have been a bizarre listen. I got more grief from the local constabulary for simply wanting to watch a game of football than any sole or group of opposition supporters. Stood in an orderly queue I was barged by a police horse. A polite "is that really necessary" was met by further provocation as the plod rider readied his mates for an arrest. Cue, smile sweetly, and say nothing, and decide there and then, that's it, there is only one winner and it won't be you lad. End of away games. Not because of supporter trouble. Because the police were trying to provoke it. The introduction of the Football Supporters Act, this time of day I'm not going to Google the correct act, a brutal piece of legislation killed off any thought of travelling once and for all. Well, that is, until the Huddersfield bubble. No ****er tells me where I can or cannot go, or how. In that regard, I was far far from being alone.
I’m probably a bit younger than you my Fortnite and PlayStation was in the streets on a night and City on a Saturday in the 70’s that was my adrenalin kick - not excusing it - it was if the time . There were pre and post battles in and out of grounds but only with the biggish teams who brought enough fans to ‘ invade ‘ your ‘turf’ . Away was often a tough one two coaches maybe most of who were scarfers who would get targeted too . I slowly grew away from that - responsibilities etc. I got sick in my 40’s - 50’s being filmed - even on a summers day at Donny in a pre season friendly !! Then at Luton when not many went Curtis Davies was young prospect of theirs I think. I hate the fact our fans get targeted and the visitors can do what they want. Police won’t pursue visiting fans too costly too time consuming . Walked out if east stand at the KC and there’s some West Ham or Millwall fans offering people out - a few years back , what do you do on your own no stewards no police . I don’t blame the police for not being there I just get sick of the over zealous stewarding and policing for next to nothing in the ground . I want a boisterous goading raucous atmosphere that players respond too , but not violence that affects other fans . But fans who sit in areas where fans swear should just move Before the Allams closed the upper stand most fans sat where they happy and ‘ fitted’ it’s been like a library in the East near me until Acun came along I can’t sit and clap if we score I’m 64 and still go mad and sing and shout and encourage I won’t stop
I’ve read through the opening statement regarding the campaign and I cannot see anything in there that isn’t absolutely reasonable. It’s just a polite ask for fans to consider how their own behaviour may affect other people’s experience at a game. Don’t understand why this needs turning around onto the police. Is anyone saying that there is no anti-social behaviour from fans and it’s all caused by the policing of games? Not sure that is credible. Yes there are issues with how games are policed, but remember that police can be damned if they do, and damned if they don’t when it comes to intervening in trouble. Easy to criticise policing in hindsight. Can we not just accept the opening statement in the spirit it’s intended and agree that fans have to be responsible for their own behaviour. If there’s a feeling that policing is a problem, let’s start that under a different thread.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/37/contents This piece of legislation is draconian. No other groups of people are subject to these regulations. I am not saying the policing at football grounds is a problem, but this act does give them a nice easy simple nick nick, guilty as charged. What??? Yes, you were at, on way to, or discussing in the pub afterwards, a football match.
