jeffers#13 has quoted my original post on this topic.

The account from Fax4Life above has no resemblence to the actual events of yesterday afternoon whatsoever ( at least with the incident they are trying to describe )

I cannot pass a comment on any other incident bar the one in block 109. I do not doubt for 1 minute that there were incidents where the fault lies entirely with Warrington fans and that Leeds fans may have had to put up with the same abuse as we had to. Hopefully their day was not spoiled.

As a previous poster claims the truth will lie between the accounts of Leeds fans and the Warrington fans. This is not true.

I do not condone the actions of the Warrington fans who finally retaliated after over 70 minutes of abuse, beer showers and offers of a fight outside to prove who was the bigger man. However the conduct of the group of I would guess 30
Leeds " supporters" was a disgrace. There were 2 or 3 ringleaders but in my opinion the intent of the whole group was to cause as much trouble as possible.

I just wanted to put a version of the actual events that took place forward from someone who was sat almost right in the middle of it

So once again, thanks to this group for the spoiling of what should have been a great afternoon. Its a shame that such a small minority caused distress for a large number of people.

Couldn't agree more mate

I love attending these finals both as a Leeds fan and as a neutral but each time I'm never fully relaxed until I see who is sitting around us,hoping we don't get the kind of drunken idiots that were involved in the incident described in this thread and other similar ones that seem to get reported on at every final,especially the Grand Final,like when you say these lads who cannot handle their beer have been at it all day.

When it's football, the YEP are never shy at printing mughsots of the scummers who have been rucking. I'd like them to do the same here. I bet a lot of us would recognise some of them. I've certainly been to matches where the conduct of some Leeds fans has made me ashamed.

I'm not saying other clubs are angels, but I can only comment on what I see on a regular basis.

the fight in block 109 was started by your lot but our so called "fans" that took the bait are honestly just as bad. i would say though that the group of leeds fans at the bottom were givving gestures and signs aat all the wire fans in our end not a very smart move, they then started throwing beers at different warrington fans one hit a young girl in the face so the dad got up angrily and pushed the leeds fan down the stairs he was then chased up the stairs and more wire fans jumped up to have a fight and just people that were next to the fight had to as the leeds fans were that smashed they just hit anyone who was near them www.flickr.com/photos/garyskent/ ... 7908/show/ there is a pic of what happened it is a bit through the slide show just go through it at the bottom

the fight in block 109 was started by your lot but our so called "fans" that took the bait are honestly just as bad. i would say though that the group of leeds fans at the bottom were givving gestures and signs aat all the wire fans in our end not a very smart move, they then started throwing beers at different warrington fans one hit a young girl in the face so the dad got up angrily and pushed the leeds fan down the stairs he was then chased up the stairs and more wire fans jumped up to have a fight and just people that were next to the fight had to as the leeds fans were that smashed they just hit anyone who was near them www.flickr.com/photos/garyskent/ ... 7908/show/ there is a pic of what happened it is a bit through the slide show just go through it at the bottom

Its the booze IMO. As has been stated on here in previous forums people get tanked up before big finals and then their mouths run away with themselves. Some of the neutral fans do my head in. I sat next to some Hull fans who just watched the game and clapped both teams. How it should be. Then there were some muppets a few rows back just chanting 'Leeds scum' all the time. A Leeds fan had a word then a steward got involved. Pathetic.

Banning booze in the ground would not help. I saw a large number of fans drunk at Watford Gap services at 10 AM.

There were a few guys necking beers in the queue for the coaches at 7.00 in the morning. Thankfully they weren't allowed to drink on the coaches otherwise they'd be in a right state.

I enjoy a few beers on a matchday but I don't see any need to get so smashed?

What about drunks not being allowed entry into the stadium?

After all Airlines have the power to refuse drunken passengers onto a plane so why not sports grounds (it may even say something about it in the ground regulations on the tickets?)

If you end up being seated anywhere near these sorts of morans it just ruins your enjoyment of the game

Yep i'd go along with this.
Unfortunately we won't get these stadiums to stop selling beer because it rakes in so much £££ for them especially when they are way over-priced so an admission policy is the only way imo.

They can do that already - but don't.

Its a simple formula - empty the pockets of your punters with massively over-priced and often poor quality alcohol (how many pubs do you know that shut down for two weeks in between sessions and still hold a pretence of knowing how to keep beer), and let the stewards deal (sometimes) with the handful who abuse the privilege.

You take the money every time and sod the inconvenience to anyone else, after all, the stadium still sold out didn't it ?

Here is what I have posted on the Warrington forum. Please note I have not used the word fan to describe anyone who was part of the trouble.

This incident was in the next bock to us along the same row. There were two guys inparticular wearing light blue and white striped shirts who had been goading people around them most of the game. Clearly under the influence of beer. A number of times people ad asked them to calm down and just enjoy the day. Their behaviour had been reported to the stewards a number of times too. Sadly when it all kicked off big time it was because a man in a Warrington away shirt squared up to one of the men and pushed him down stairs causing others to react with fists.

True fans around this incident did the right thing IMO and let them get on with it but just roundly booed them till the stewards escourted everyone involved out of the ground.

Not nice to see and very upsetting for the children who were near to the incident and had to witness it, like my daughter who was in tears for 5 minutes. She thought I was telling her off when I told her not to watch the fight but watch the game instead. Thanks for that you idiots.

Put a bit of a tar on a fantastic day. Someone has posted a video of the end of the incident on a popular video viewing sight.

Hope your only joking but if not you should be truely ashamed of yourself

Asked a few Leeds fans what happened because I was at the opposite end so couldn't really see who was fighting. They told me it wasn't the Rhinos fans it was actually Leeds Utd fans, instead of going to Watford for the football they decided to go down to Wembley buy tickets off touts and got in the Warrington end. If you look at the pictures theres not actually that many wearing Rhinos shirts. I don't know how it started or who was involved but I don't think either sides are innocent here, both were as bad as each other.

Let's hope it's stopped before it turns into football crowds.

On a personal note though I did find some Warrington fans very aggressive on my way back to the coach. Wanting fights was glad to get back to my coach away from them.

You can't describe any of them as "fans" and this "it was LUFC" fans not Rhinos ones smacks of the Hull lot blaming City fans.
They are NOT FANS they are sh#8houses of the highest quality.

Agreed - we once had a bog brush thrown at us by some travelling supporters at Headingley - these trouble makers need banning by the RFL.