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A quote from Martyn Sadler in his colume in todays league express

What a great bunch of supporters the Warrington fans are, and what a happy bunch they look.
They are a club that is setting the pace in super league in many ways, and i am delighted that they are back at wembley for a second year.
The Warrington club isn't just a club with great players and a superb coach in Tony smith, but it's a club that genuinely feels like it is the central feature in the Warrington community.
It's a club at which any supporter always feels welcome, at least in my experience.
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Myself and my kids were sat near the front in the north stand yesterday but my mother and her friend were sat at the back behind the Catalan fans. She saw the beer being thrown and also a hat being took off a catalan fans head and thrown to the front. What a bad way to behave. The same group of Catalan fans gave my sons flags and t-shirts at the end of the game to their delight. Having said all this I to had some idiots behind me and the kids who I had a word with to no avail.

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The hat thing was what set it off. Worse of all it was some 30 something bloke doing that to a girl there with her parents, that's bloody intimidating in any language.

The guy was thrown out, but then the bottles etc started to get thrown and a general atmosphere of intimidation got going. Now, I don't pretend the Catalans fans didn't respond, but basically, it was a load of 20 or 30 something male Warrington fans confronting a Catalans groups which was mainly families and quite a few older couples, it wasn't as if les Catalans brought over some all male hooligan group. The pair next to us actually left as a result.

Clearly those fans involved were frustrated at only beiong 30 points ahead - which was when it started icon_iamwithstupid.gif d040.gif

Having said all that, the lady in front of us from Warrington apologized for their behaviour.

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It's a certain sort of "fan".

I get annoyed when the so-called boozed up teenagers get blamed when more often than not it's a bunch of head the balls reliving their youth (or pretenning they were some sort of hooligan in the 70s). Complete idiots.

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I was in the East stand surrounded by families who seemed intent on wearing out the lads selling Carlsberg rather than watching the game. Then I realised that they knew all the words to all the Warrington "songs" and reacted every time they were told to "stand up if you love the wire", whilst jigging and waving their bottles around, giving us all a splash of ale.
Couldn't decide if they were only there for the beer and the tribal singing.

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Quote: The All New Chester Wire "It's a certain sort of "fan".

I get annoyed when the so-called boozed up teenagers get blamed when more often than not it's a bunch of head the balls reliving their youth (or pretenning they were some sort of hooligan in the 70s). Complete idiots.'"


I've experienced this recently at both the Wigan and St Helens matches.

To see 'grown' men behaving in the fashion they do is both terribly embarrassing and, frankly, rather worrying. The tip of the pathetic iceberg was a fat bloke in a Barry Grant (1980's soap character for all the youngsters out there) tracksuit with his arms outstretched screaming "come on then" in a Monty Pythonesque general direction from the safety of 30 metres.

Yes, every club may have a similar element, it's a social thing not a rugby thing, I shouldn't be such a mard@rse, etc, etc, but all of those trivial generalisations shouldn't be used as a cliched excuse to what's becoming an ever-increasing problem.

There's no way my wife and step-daughter would ever go in the South Stand again after their experience and that in itself should be a clear signal of how poorly some spectators (I use the word loosely as I bet most can't remember the scorers at the final hooter as they're too busy keeping count of how much ale they've managed to drink/throw) behave.

Is the Halliwell Jones covered by CCTV? If so, why isn't anything being done about it to pick out and ban the clowns?

One final note about the Catalans incident. I watched from the other side of the stadium but to the gentleman who was pointing out one of the culprits to a steward I salute you.

Does anyone else worry about what it will be like should we lose at Wembley?

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