www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/new ... _at_derby/ Lets hope details are forwarded to the clubs so that they can also take the appropriate action.

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/new ... _at_derby/ Lets hope details are forwarded to the clubs so that they can also take the appropriate action.

www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article.php?id=12047

www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article.php?id=12047

Impressed with Widnes' fast response and I hope they can get that element at their club in order as it's a real shame for the vast majority of genuine fans and the sport.

Will be reporting this gem to that email helpfully supplied by Widnes in their statement:

I noticed him, and also noticed just how quickly he got back into the middle of his fellow supporters. A steward started to follow him but, probably quite rightly the way the night had gone down that end, thought better of it.

Sorry for trolling but when it was the magic weekend when we got stuffed by the wire, we were surrounded by the dobbins fans the game before, and when they were getting beat by Hull FC they turned on each other and several violent fights broke out amongst themselves.

We are not immune; against London of all games (yawn) last week it kicked off behind where I was sitting and two Saints pensioners were knocking 7 bells out of each other, apparently over one of them standing up at certain moments during the game and obscuring the view.

You see SaintsatWire ,that why i prefer standing in thr south stand.....there's nothing worse than all than jumping up to let people past & jumping up to see the game.

Just seen a video of one of your stewards/security basically assaulting a Widnes fan.

The guy just lets rip with a volley of punches all of which find their mark.

The video is on Twitter and has tweeted to Cheshire Police.

Just seen it. Gotta say it looks pretty bad to be honest. Not defending any of the fans who where involved but there is no excuse whatsoever for a "steward" to be acting like that. He must have thrown atleast 10 unanswered punches.

Not seen the video, but we could clearly see from the East Stand a steward throwing upper cut after upper cut at, I suppose, a Widnes fan in the top left hand corner of the West Stand (as looking from the East). Didn't look good

When i saw him dong it i thought that guys in trouble.

I think most of us in the South could see it. I really do think that the policy of clubs using what are basically nightclub bouncers as security is wrong. Having said that, if the Widnes fans had not kicked off between themselves the incident would not have happened.
The original poster should also bear in mind that the police weill want to see the whole video, not just the bit involving the steward. They will want to know the reason for the steward acting like that.

No your right there's no need to be employing bouncers.

Of course it's hard to judge the incident without having been there or seeing it all unfold, but even if the fan getting punched did do something first, which is a possibility, From what you can see in the video, There's no way that the steward was using reasonable force to restrain someone or acting in self defence. It went way beyond that. It also doesn't do anything to help the situation when fans who are already on one turn round and see someone getting treated like that by a professional.

I think Widnes do seem to be having a bit of a problem at the minute though with last night and what happened at Wakefield.