@LordMandeville Don't get me wrong, I fully recognise, regardless of whatever went on last Saturday, that we have a small element in our support whose behaviour has clearly overstepped the mark on a number of occasions now and that this needs to be sensitively but effectively addressed. I've said my piece on this in another thread I think.
I can well imagine that aggressive Col U fans and an element of mismanagement by both the police and CUFC were also factors in any problems.
Chanting (even to goad opposition) will always be part of the game. Banter at managers/players, etc etc is all good fun. It's when it gets personal and uncessarily abusive that problems begin. Fighting outside games is smaller scale these days, but has never really gone away.
I can’t comment at Colchester (I wasn’t there) but at other away games we do seem to have a regular presence of TV Police who go along. Not that many years ago we were deemed reasonably well-behaved enough not to need this, so I would think it safe to assume that ‘the authorities’ whoever they are are now concerned enough about the behaviour of a minority of our supporters to think that a visible police presence is a good thing, presumably as a deterrent. (I assume the club pays for this?)
If we are now back at the stage where our reputation, deserved or otherwise, is such that we are being escorted to and from the train station to the ground, then the club do need to step in a little more forcibly. One of the real pleasures of being a wycombe supporter over the years has been the freedom to be welcomed in to almost any pub in the country (and even Wales).
I have worked closely in the past with the Police and their management of football supporters (don’t ask) and they go very much on intelligence gathered, so if they did over-react (and it is quite possible they did)
It'll be a fairly worrying and quite embarrassing thing if the police now have a file on Wycombe.
I can see the scenes - Wycombe - bunch of 20-30 teens/early 20s, with 3-4 odd much older guys who hang out with them. get boozed up, shout at people from the safety of their gang.
Secondary gang of 7-8 13-15 year olds who look up to the above, who let off smoke bombs and post things like "No pyro, no party" on twitter.
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So it seems that the whole problem was caused by police 'gross incompetence' and a bunch of aggresive Col U supporters. Hmm.
Can someone spell "Worboys" correctly? Just once?
There you go.
@LordMandeville Don't get me wrong, I fully recognise, regardless of whatever went on last Saturday, that we have a small element in our support whose behaviour has clearly overstepped the mark on a number of occasions now and that this needs to be sensitively but effectively addressed. I've said my piece on this in another thread I think.
I can well imagine that aggressive Col U fans and an element of mismanagement by both the police and CUFC were also factors in any problems.
Chanting (even to goad opposition) will always be part of the game. Banter at managers/players, etc etc is all good fun. It's when it gets personal and uncessarily abusive that problems begin. Fighting outside games is smaller scale these days, but has never really gone away.
I can’t comment at Colchester (I wasn’t there) but at other away games we do seem to have a regular presence of TV Police who go along. Not that many years ago we were deemed reasonably well-behaved enough not to need this, so I would think it safe to assume that ‘the authorities’ whoever they are are now concerned enough about the behaviour of a minority of our supporters to think that a visible police presence is a good thing, presumably as a deterrent. (I assume the club pays for this?)
If we are now back at the stage where our reputation, deserved or otherwise, is such that we are being escorted to and from the train station to the ground, then the club do need to step in a little more forcibly. One of the real pleasures of being a wycombe supporter over the years has been the freedom to be welcomed in to almost any pub in the country (and even Wales).
I have worked closely in the past with the Police and their management of football supporters (don’t ask) and they go very much on intelligence gathered, so if they did over-react (and it is quite possible they did)
tease by name, tease by nature
It'll be a fairly worrying and quite embarrassing thing if the police now have a file on Wycombe.
I can see the scenes - Wycombe - bunch of 20-30 teens/early 20s, with 3-4 odd much older guys who hang out with them. get boozed up, shout at people from the safety of their gang.
Secondary gang of 7-8 13-15 year olds who look up to the above, who let off smoke bombs and post things like "No pyro, no party" on twitter.
It's hardly Chelsea headhunters is it.
@Malone it would be the invoices I’d be keen to see