Trouble is, despite so many peoples perception that the Police are mindless thugs incapable of doing anything beneficial to society, they do read things like:
So what do they do? They could ignore it as juvenile wankfests, or they could decide not to take the risk. The Police will have to be out in force, regardless of whether this is shite or not.
When you read how much crap there is on this board about this, about Effsee Untied fans who are adamant they will be in the home end (illegal), how many comments about the behaviour of FCUM fans elsewhere (by both Albion posters and FCUM posters), about how they might behave when they come here (standing on the running track, refusing to sit down at any point during the game etc).
I would expect that some (if not all) of the commentry on here has been read by the club/SAG/Police and had an influence on the decision not to allow more tickets to be released to them.
So they look at the idiots who went on the pitch at Rochdale (the Police don't have to see it as 'misinterpreted good nature', it is illegal), they consider many factors, including the segregation issues at Withdean, the councils requirments and of course, as we now know, the SAG, and have decided not to give them an additional allocation.
It's a shame they haven't been given the full allocation for their biggest ever game so far, but in other ways, they have no right to any more than Man City had, than any away team has had (Woking only had 870).
It is sad that this is being reported as the 'fault' of Brighton & Hove Albion FC' when clearly there have been other reasons for this decision, who knows, perhaps good old 'fan power' has even had an influence on this too.
In advance, thank you for the flaming I'll get for this post
Trouble is, despite so many peoples perception that the Police are mindless thugs incapable of doing anything beneficial to society, they do read things like:
So what do they do? They could ignore it as juvenile wankfests, or they could decide not to take the risk. The Police will have to be out in force, regardless of whether this is shite or not.
When you read how much crap there is on this board about this, about Effsee Untied fans who are adamant they will be in the home end (illegal), how many comments about the behaviour of FCUM fans elsewhere (by both Albion posters and FCUM posters), about how they might behave when they come here (standing on the running track, refusing to sit down at any point during the game etc).
I would expect that some (if not all) of the commentry on here has been read by the club/SAG/Police and had an influence on the decision not to allow more tickets to be released to them.
So they look at the idiots who went on the pitch at Rochdale (the Police don't have to see it as 'misinterpreted good nature', it is illegal), they consider many factors, including the segregation issues at Withdean, the councils requirments and of course, as we now know, the SAG, and have decided not to give them an additional allocation.
It's a shame they haven't been given the full allocation for their biggest ever game so far, but in other ways, they have no right to any more than Man City had, than any away team has had (Woking only had 870).
It is sad that this is being reported as the 'fault' of Brighton & Hove Albion FC' when clearly there have been other reasons for this decision, who knows, perhaps good old 'fan power' has even had an influence on this too.
In advance, thank you for the flaming I'll get for this post
You're probably right, unfortunately they've managed to lose all sympathy from anyone who has read the drivel they have written on here trying to blame us for this decision, despite being told about two weeks ago that is was a police/safety decision none of them seem to have yet managed to comprehend that sentence. Add the fact that their club seems to be deliberately trying to muddy the waters around this fact and it's easy to see why a lot of people don't give a f*** if they want a couple of hundred more seats.
