Yep and you was propbably one of them

and you wouldnt of seen anything 1) because not happened and 2) your never there, stick to valley parade

And the last point it would help if you read what he actually put as wasnt saying we were violent he mentioned bad publicity to to financial woes

so he should have done. Theres no such thing as no comment in the pr world. Send him for more media training forthwith.

What it proved, if anything, is the utter idiocy of spending tens of thousands of pounds on dayglo "security" marshals surrounding the pitch looking like a set of garv=den gnomes, they never do anything, and apart from running about a bit into groups, leaving huge gaps wide open for morons to run through, they did little, and achieved nothing. I am not knocking them, btw, the point I am making is that having a cordon of dayglos around the pitch is an utter pointless waste of money, as they aren't allowed into the creowd in the highly unlikely event anything did kick off, and are as much use in stopping drunks invading the pitch as a twelve inch plastic picket fence..

Tear gas would have sorted this very quickly

Tear gas? You're going soft.

Perhaps, but shooting live rounds indiscriminately into the crowd just generates too much paperwork

Typical. I turned over to watch the cycling once Cas had it in the bag. Missed all the excitement.

I didn't see any of it on TV just a couple of k no bs that ran on the pitch when widnes scored.

From the vids I've seen after it wasn't exactly the huysel stadium disaster. I think hull in 2000 were a lot worse. A bit of rough housing that was about it really.

It was more loutishness than hooliganism.

A fine for widnes or a ban from the cc like queens were given and bans once the cops round the idiots up. But it's not the crisis for rl some people will have us believe. It's very very rare this sort of thing.

It was unsavory really. There are many videos going around you tube which were taken by members of the crowd who were appalled by their own fans.

The bits that stick out for me was when the fans went for the stewards, it was pretty clear that one of the fans spat in the stewards face, also the lad that ragged the Cas mascot's head off and started kicking it round like a football.

These 'fans' need banning! embarrassing to think they are associated with the sport

Spitting is assault and if convicted can carry a prison term .

It's also disgusting

I realise that only a very few actually threw a punch, but isn't there a charge of, 'actions likely to cause a breach of the peace'? If the whole episode was anything, it was that -at the [ivery[/i least. Though I guess the official punishment from the courts is the equivalent of a couple of 'hail Marys' and a promise not to do it again.

I suspect it will be down to the club to actually apply some sanctions; a few sine die bans maybe?

Nail, head. Breach of the peace is about as trivial as offences get, the sort of thing that you get a binding over or a conditional discharge. It's what they did collectively, and tried to do, but there is no way CPS is going to do them for that, which is why apart from one or two the criminal consequences will be basically inconsequential.


It will. And to pay their own fines, sadly.

I think that about sums it up FA, I found the most disgusting scene was when the Mascot was attacked, and in that instant the thug who did it, not only attacked a defenceless person, but the concept of our sport to the junior supporters of the future...The club mascot is revered by youngsters and the status is one of identifying and belonging to the club. He therefore could not retaliate as to do so would have put the whole concept of the club in jeopardy. That cowardly act epitomised the knuckledragger mentality as you rightly describe them.