Weststander
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[Albion] Bbc1 - Paul Barber
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oneillco
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- Feb 13, 2013
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What did he say? I'm amazed there are no eye-witness accounts on here of the aggro (unless I've missed 'em)
Bloody hell. What's he going to go on next? Newsnight? The Graham Norton Show?
Couple on facebook....
‘Nothing like reported’
‘Albion fan of 50 years wouldn’t hurt a fly’
‘Heavy handed steward’
Etc.
dingodan
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- Feb 16, 2011
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Crimewatch, regarding tuesday night.
Weststander
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He said the ‘life’ bans are in fact 10 years to be reviewed.
The police praised the club’s zero tolerance approach, trail blazing for all clubs.
Half the article was then pointless street interviews with random (and obviously not football fans) in Brighton city centre, condemning football including an assertion that players disrespecting match officials sets the tone for the violence by fans.
The police praised the club’s zero tolerance approach, trail blazing for all clubs.
Half the article was then pointless street interviews with random (and obviously not football fans) in Brighton city centre, condemning football including an assertion that players disrespecting match officials sets the tone for the violence by fans.
Weststander
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‘The female doctor walked into his innocent fist’.
Megazone
On his last warning
any chance I could have one of the 3 spare season tickets Paul?
Possibly. Police investigating as per the club announcement.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
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- Jun 27, 2012
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There was longer interview with Barber this morning with BBC Sussex
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06zm3qq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06zm3qq
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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Makes the Amex seem to be a place full of violent football thugs and not the right message IMO.
The article should have opened up stating that we had a crowd of 27k and the vast majority behaved properly then state there were three incidents that don't meet the club standard on acceptable behaviour and we have now banned the 3 people involved and will continue to ban people who act in unacceptable ways.
The article should have opened up stating that we had a crowd of 27k and the vast majority behaved properly then state there were three incidents that don't meet the club standard on acceptable behaviour and we have now banned the 3 people involved and will continue to ban people who act in unacceptable ways.
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He was banging on like it’s a weekly occurrence
“Sick and tired of giving fans warnings”
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“Sick and tired of giving fans warnings”
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from the Radio Sussex interview
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06zm3qq
Barber: We’ve worked very hard to make the Amex a very safe and welcoming environment for people who want to enjoy their football. Unfortunately 1-2 people want to spoil that and we’re not prepared to accept that , and we will take very strong action, as we have done.
Presenter: I’ve yet to take my 2 children who are 8 and 10 to a football match, my daughter is particularly keen to come. When you hear of something like this, it makes people nervous even if its a very small minority.
Barber: The vast majority of people who come to the Amex, week in week out are well behaved, love the environment, respect the staff, respect other supporters and simply enjoy the football. But unfortunately there’s a few people who see football as a place to let out their aggression, behave badly towards people and other fans, make threats to our staff and when it gets to assault, then we are simply not prepared to have these people anywhere near the club. And we will do whatever we can to keep them away and we urge the police to take strong action against them criminally as well.
We can only do so much as.a football club to keep these people away from what is an enjoyable environment for most people. We need the authorities to make sure to these people that this kind of behaviour isn’t acceptable in society let alone in a football stadium.
Presenter: Presumably you’re in conversation with Sussex Police but no criminal charges so far ?
Barber: Absolutely and all we can do is hand over the evidence we’ve got . In these cases we have CCTV, we have video evidence, we have witness statements. We don’t take the decision to ban people for life lightly. We’re taking away their enjoyment of football. We don’t do that on a whim. We do that with careful evidence , we do that with witness statements, and then we simply hand over to the police and let them do what they do. We’re not in the position of punishing people for criminal behaviour but what we can do is protect our stadium and keep these people away which is exactly what we are doing.
Presenter We’ve heard about the allegation involving one of your stewards. How are they doing?
Barber: We have a responsibility, we have a duty of care to our staff. They turn up week in week out , to support the football club , but most importantly to keep people safe. And when those people are attacked by the very people that they are there to keep safe then we have to take strong action, and we will , and we will protect our staff. And if this means banning more supporters to keep these [types of] people away then thats exactly what we will do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06zm3qq
Barber: We’ve worked very hard to make the Amex a very safe and welcoming environment for people who want to enjoy their football. Unfortunately 1-2 people want to spoil that and we’re not prepared to accept that , and we will take very strong action, as we have done.
Presenter: I’ve yet to take my 2 children who are 8 and 10 to a football match, my daughter is particularly keen to come. When you hear of something like this, it makes people nervous even if its a very small minority.
Barber: The vast majority of people who come to the Amex, week in week out are well behaved, love the environment, respect the staff, respect other supporters and simply enjoy the football. But unfortunately there’s a few people who see football as a place to let out their aggression, behave badly towards people and other fans, make threats to our staff and when it gets to assault, then we are simply not prepared to have these people anywhere near the club. And we will do whatever we can to keep them away and we urge the police to take strong action against them criminally as well.
We can only do so much as.a football club to keep these people away from what is an enjoyable environment for most people. We need the authorities to make sure to these people that this kind of behaviour isn’t acceptable in society let alone in a football stadium.
Presenter: Presumably you’re in conversation with Sussex Police but no criminal charges so far ?
Barber: Absolutely and all we can do is hand over the evidence we’ve got . In these cases we have CCTV, we have video evidence, we have witness statements. We don’t take the decision to ban people for life lightly. We’re taking away their enjoyment of football. We don’t do that on a whim. We do that with careful evidence , we do that with witness statements, and then we simply hand over to the police and let them do what they do. We’re not in the position of punishing people for criminal behaviour but what we can do is protect our stadium and keep these people away which is exactly what we are doing.
Presenter We’ve heard about the allegation involving one of your stewards. How are they doing?
Barber: We have a responsibility, we have a duty of care to our staff. They turn up week in week out , to support the football club , but most importantly to keep people safe. And when those people are attacked by the very people that they are there to keep safe then we have to take strong action, and we will , and we will protect our staff. And if this means banning more supporters to keep these [types of] people away then thats exactly what we will do.
crookie
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This, total overkill. If the club feel these 3 deserve banning they have my full support but let's not make out like the Amex is descending into some equivalent of the Den in the early 80's. That footage of a pitch invasion from the 80's, Jesus!!
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Superseagull
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It’s a good job Barber is not CEO at Millwall. How sick and tired would he be there?
Especially when Millwall v Everton violence and 70s hooliganism is woven in to the story. Pathetic.