Quote Bal="Bal"Yes, I remember you been on your little high horse then as well, ironically even after it was proven that Leeds fans had been involved in missle throwning as well as Hull fans. The higher you get, the further you fall - or are you suggesting that no 20 year old somethings get drunk and make an idiot of themselves from Leeds?
A Criminology expert would find your suggestion that there is a pattern laughable. Hull fans equally stopped the trouble, apparently in greater numbers. Your statement is like the idiots that suggested that the riots in the UK were a fault of the young, or that cultural problems with "young black men" were the cause, at the same time as young black men were out on the street with brushes cleaning up and by a vast vast majority hard working people - your brush is way to wide, simplistic and sullied by a wish for a good which hunt, or worst genuine prejudice. There are problems with elements of most groups, my example of the riots is just an example of that net been cast way to wide, i.e. there is a cultural problem with an element of the group, not the whole group. There are kids that drink too much in among the Hull fans, its not the fault of the Hull fans when they act like idiots - its our reaction to those incidents, and in the past we have been one of the most pro-active groups of supporters going, including fan charters, issuing life bans, naming and shaming (look at the Hull forum in reaction to this incident) and in this most recent incident actively stopping the trouble.
One idiot getting drunk is not an indication of cultural problems within the Hull supporters, nor the Hull supporters fault as you suggested in orginally quoted post. Well, no more than say it was your fault as somebody from Leeds that there was a fight in Leeds City Centre last Saturday night. You'll probably point to past incidents, but you can only draw a pattern if the incidents involved the same people, or at least the same group of people - and that does not exist here, probably largely because of previous efforts. It can only be suggested that it is a problem with Hull fans per-se if encouraged by Hull fans, but they were actually stopped by Hull fans - contridicting the whole premise. So we are back to what it actually was, an idiot, who happened to be from Hull, who had too much to drink and made a prat of himself. Unfortunetly, something that happens a lot, everywhere. Maybe its "humans fault"?
The RFL will likely fine Hull FC for the trouble at Leeds, a daft situation meant to appease people like yourself with a sense of misplaced justice. Aim for those actually responsible.'"
Like I said earlier - the people of Kings Town have this over inflated sense of pride in their God forsaken town which leads to a misplaced over-protective attitude.
Example as above: [i"an idiot, who happened to be from Hull, who had too much to drink and made a prat of himself"[/i
This guy even words his reply so to detract from the fact that the initial instigator of this trouble was a Hull fan, but instead was simply "an idiot, who happened to be from Hull".
