Exactly, that type of thinking about football fans led to 96 peoples deaths at Hillsborough because that's exactly what South Yorkshire police thought. In fact can you imagine if the internet had been around when Hillsborough happened, within half an hour of the news breaking there would have been a 10 page thread on here with people bringing up Heysel and saying the Liverpool fans were scum, people always want to have their say before the facts come out.

There were loads of Leeds fans dotted around the Wire end and there was no trouble with them, just in that one pocket where it looked like some blokes were acting provocatively and throwing beer. Most people go as couples or families and are no bother, when you get groups of lads who are acting as though they are on a stag party then there's the potential for trouble, there were a few well meaning but completely off their heads Wire fans who were a bit annoying so I can imagine when they met their equivalents from Leeds in a bad mood there was the potential for a bit of handbags.

Always seems to be Leeds though....

So there's 85,217 fans, the majority probably having consumed a skin-full, including lots of 'big-chested' RL lads (the sort you see strutting around Wigan, St Helens, Warrington, and many other RL towns on a Saturday night), fans of dozens of different teams all sitting together, many hours to sink a load of beer and there's a couple of scuffles and 73 evictions?

Not a bad performance. We could do without the idiots looking to prove their manhood and playing up to their mates, but let's be grateful our sport can stage a huge event like this in such a manner.

Always bloody Wire though innit?!

Every time I go out on a night in town in Leeds, there's always s squaring up to each other, especially outside Oceana, Gatecrasher and Academy.

I reckon there must be an element of Leeds United fans who has got into the nightclubbing culture in Leeds! It won't be the students because they are too well bred to act up, I blame Leeds United fans!

wire fans fighting what a surprise not like them is it

The good people of our city are just a little bit spasmodic.

You plum
A handful of overly beveraged people were escorted from their seats after fists were thrown. A few Leeds and Warrington fans got a little excited and it was over before it started.

In the Wire end right near us we had Saints, Leeds, Wigan fans among others and got on with them. The Leeds fans were even shaking hands at full time and saying well done.

Our 4 tickets were on row 1 and row 2 right behind the sticks, so I couldn't see the trouble in the corner so just kept watching the game.

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The same thought crossed my mind

It was mindless idiots

As a Leeds fan next to the screen at our end, we could hear the booing and see the brawl from probably 150 metres away. There seemed to be a lot get involved. Didnt it clear about 50 seats or so?

And 3 years ago in the grand final an amateur teams fans from the Hull area caused a mass brawl in the Saints end of OT.

Well....that's not bad going, 3 pages before it degenerated into a slanging match.

The usual suspects.