They do have some "training matches" - perhaps this was one of those.
Can't say that I noticed more than usual - was it inside or outside the ground?
yes , of course they wereI think they heard of the trouble outside the ground at Hillsborough and were not taking any chances ............................
yes , of course they were
plop !whooosh ..........................
fashion parade for top manAnd what was with the half a dozen blokes in shirts and ties who appeared in front of D block 10 minutes before half time?
My thoughts are that they were needed for the Marathon and so took the whole weekend as overtime. What better way to deploy extra police than at a football match?
They were on the look out for weds hardest supporter... leader of the shaft wed crew ... spotted here at the withdean early sat morning
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Have you any idea how much police budgets are being cut by??
And it's almost unheard of for police to be paid overtime for Albion matches: for starters the most games require minimal policing anyway so they're simply not needed, and secondly, the dates of the games are known weeks if not months in advance, so officers are either shuffled around from normal duties, or have their rest days cancelled and re-rostered, thereby incurring no overtime.
Might be a great big overtime gravy train in the Met, but Sussex are tight as anything when it comes to paying out any more than they absolutely have to.