not condoning this for one minute but i think we do rather well to be able to for the most part, generally mix as fans and have banter and a good laugh together, sing songs and stand amongst each other with no trouble whatsoever.that Could never happen in football.I was in a few bars around the ground as well as Sam Platts at around the time the said fighting started,i was inside the pub at the time and when i came outside a friend said there was a bit of agro that dispensed in under a minute so i think people on here maybe over egging it as per usual. Im sure 99 percent of people at the game yesterday had an excellent day and enjoyed what was for the most part a great atmosphere.

Yes it was, we saw Leeds fans fighting each other and randomly starting on anyone unlucky enough to be near them right outside St James Park.

Leeds fans in "acting like scum" shocker....

Yes it could, it happens all over the country every weekend.

People who are drunk and enter ANY sporting stadium cordon/Area around a stadium are commiting a criminal offence under the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985.
if there is any sense from the RFL they need to be resolute in stating and reiterating that fans turning up drunk to matches (league/cup whatever) will be turned away and not allowed to enter AND possibly be turned over to the police.
Scummy fans like this have no place in RL as far as I'm concerned, they are more interested in getting tanked up than what happens on the pitch, it's hardly surprising that fewer fans want to bring their kids due to the heads that are turning up. As for blaming 'soccer' fans, utter garbage.

WHEN we are on about fans fighting years ago ,at Hull krs old ground many a time fighting started and with me and the wife taking our kids we were able in them days to stand on the steps in the old ground which lead up to the seats, any how with standing on the steps you were able to spot the trouble makers and one was posh has hell suit and tie job, he would start the trouble then move of when we were able we told the police they did not believe us when we pointed him out to them but the next home game a plain clothes police man was stood their and pinched him so what i am saying is it will always happen that you get dick heads out to cause trouble

Is English your native tongue? How on earth did you interpret my comments as condoning this behaviour!?

Quite often fans (of any sport) would play the blame game and/or try and try and downplay it's severity. I think it's great that we have family-friendly atmospheres at matches and are determined to preserve that!

Let me know if you need any further clarification

It was disgusting. I saw a wigan fan kicking a leeds fan on the floor so i pulled him away. Cant stand around and watch things like that. I dont even know who started it all

Regards

King James

MEN have run the story, so the daily fail will have it tomorrow, no doubt portrayed as a full blown riot. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... lick_Other

MEN have run the story, so the daily fail will have it tomorrow, no doubt portrayed as a full blown riot. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... lick_Other

what? rival football fans mingling in all the pubs around a stadium? i find that very hard to believe.

Happens all the time at major finals when idiots go on the lash,I've been to a few grand finals watching other teams with my relatives and mates from Wigan and we have been out early but never got in any punch ups as we just went for a good day out and a game of rugby.

Is that it? Out of 73,000 people a 30 second scuffle? If that was "shocking" you're too precious for this world!

You love it don't you. A few weeks back after the Bradford game it was Wakefield with the Hooligan problem - you knew this even though you weren't there.

Now it Leeds.

Well pal its everywhere and everyone - yep even Huddersfield. People drink, drink makes most people stupid and stupid people very stupid. Put 70000 people together and occasionally the very stupid prevail.

I believe it's called human nature. You can condemn it all day long but it will never really change.