I thought the West Yorkshire Police did well in the end... it may have got a bit out of hand had another 2000 of us been there. I think most of the arrests made were our lot... -Flares going off when we scored -Smoke Bombs going off when we scored -Seats ripped out and chucked on the pitch -A snooker ball chucked into the Leeds end -Trouble in Leeds city centre and Leeds train station before the game -34 people were either ejected from the ground or denied access into the ground http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footba...d=18915&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Guy right in front of me threw about two flares. All landed right in front of the stewards at the bottom, but he went unnoticed.
Shame about the snooker ball etc. but all in all I was fearing a lot worse and I thought both sets of fans created a great atmosphere. Let's do this more often.
Ha ha, Remember stoning the Leeds fans in 84 at the Bridge after they smashed up the scoreboard. We exacted justice for smashing up our lovely scoreboard which read 5-0
That's a lot better EC although you could do with trimming it down further. I find if you have more than one sentence, the point gets lost as people don't want to read a load of waffle. Pick out one good line and you're onto a winner there. Perhaps trimming down the username would be a good idea too? We have a lad who used to call himself "and the ball goes wide to Dave Thomas" until he reduced it to just "Dave Thomas" and he's since reduced it further still to simply "DT". You have him quoted in your Sig actually! Fair play to ye EC, best of luck against Sparta.
Arrests will have been for the train station antics, I'd have thought. White Rose pub there tends to be the epicentre of it, but impossible to escape Police and CCTV so won't have been hard to arrest those 11. Was a lot more tame than I'd anticipated pre- and post-match; Chelsea fans got bussed in very early and round the back of Elland Road I think? So would have been out of sight for the lynch-mob outside the South Stand. Plus it was pissing rain. Anything go off in Wakey, or was that purely a ticket exchange?
There was no trouble at all at Wakefield station... we got bussed into the ground really early which was a bit annoying... About 85 mins before kick off and there were hardly any Leeds fans there... only a few. We went around the back and literally just outside the away end... The police presence was ridiculous on Wednesday... just ridiculous and I guess it was a success for them with only 11 arrests.
I felt a bit like royalty with the Police escort once we got on the coaches at Wakefield. All vehicles being stopped for us, ignoring all red lights, going against the traffic on the round about. The coach drivers didn't even need to hit the brakes until we got to the ground. Though our coach did stall at one point and was refusing to start back up again which was a bit worrying.
