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General Category => Sport => Topic started by: Kent on February 17, 2014, 05:39:27 PM

Title: Everyones equal in the eyes of the Law, Unless your a Football Fan
Post by: Kent on February 17, 2014, 05:39:27 PM

Great, yet Disgusting Reading.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/02/everyones-equal-eyes-law-unless-you-are-football-fan (http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/02/everyones-equal-eyes-law-unless-you-are-football-fan)

Title: Re: Everyones equal in the eyes of the Law, Unless your a Football Fan
Post by: Slacker on February 17, 2014, 08:17:14 PM

Reading about the "offences" relating to the Mansfield match it sounds like may were for nothing more than shouting an gesturing, trivial compared with behaviour in the 70s

They got heavier fines than people who commit actual bodily harm in circumstances away from football

"Hiding With The Hooligans" by Chesterfield Fan David Radford   is a good read about 70s & 80s football violence (in a lighthearted way) - our resident Statto (Staurt) even gets namechecked

Title: Re: Everyones equal in the eyes of the Law, Unless your a Football Fan
Post by: Old Cruser on February 17, 2014, 08:20:51 PM

Shouting and gestures have always been part of football as long I can remember.   
I think they need to concentrate on the real troublemakers

Title: Re: Everyones equal in the eyes of the Law, Unless your a Football Fan
Post by: Stuart on February 17, 2014, 08:59:33 PM

It is a fine article but, from my own experience following football, it could have been written any time after the late 1970s.

Title: Re: Everyones equal in the eyes of the Law, Unless your a Football Fan
Post by: Slacker on February 17, 2014, 10:01:18 PM

The golden age (if you can call it that) of hooliganism was probably early 70s