First game next season played behind closed doors.
Shirley making them watch all the games next season, would be a harsher punishment
First game next season played behind closed doors.
So many of these idiots are only around 18-21.
I said this yesterday: lockdowns have had a psychological effect on people we don't fully understand yet.
They were entirely necessary of course. But if you lock people away for a time it seems plausible to me that some people will find the restoration of their freedoms to be an 'Act Like A C**t' golden ticket.
Couple that with everything else going on: political shambles, the spectre of nuclear war, people going hungry or cold, low wages, easier access to drugs.
Take your pick.
We're in a melting pot and unfortunately amongst 30k amped up blokes, with all this going on, there are going to be some tossers being larger tossers than they were in 2019.
He was trying to get to the away dressing room, which are located in the corner by the away fans.
Reflects a very broken and breaking apart country/society. Drugs everywhere, anger everywhere, a sense of hapless foreboding everywhere (politics, economy, inflation, climate, covid…), corruption, MoJ in crisis, NHS in (even bigger than normal) crisis…and that’s just Domestic stuff. Meanwhile, over in Ukraine…!
And we are undoubtedly soft. We need to inject real fear into peoples lives, of consequences committing crime. Fear keeps majority of people in line. Shame used to, but that’s more badge of honour stuff these days so we need fear eg Fly tip? Seize van, crush it > Can’t work? Tough luck > no Unemployment benefit > Can’t pay bills/Resort to further crime therefore? Proper jail time! > Act up in jail? > Sentence increased! And so on. Got to be the case that individual always pays a higher price than society if they offend. Not believe they can always win by going one step lower in a race to the bottom and ‘we’ pick up the tab/relent and release. And to pay for all this? Tax corporate evaders, the biggest crooks of all some say! Country needs a massive overhaul from top to bottom. We need a new generation of strong, duty driven political class who will reform almost everything and work cross divide for more than 2-3 parliaments to really put eg NHS, Education, MOD, MoJ etc on right path. Even if I have zero expectation this happening, it could at least be attempted!
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I think that's giving to many excuses.
I also think you're right in the end.
Easier access to potent Class A, 30k amped up blokes, the emotions surrounding the match.
Tosser being a larger tosser - sadly that's not going to be the end of the story.
Yes, but if it hadn't been him there were dozens of other similar dickheads ready to do it instead.Sorry, but this was just a pissed up bin dipper.
Sorry, but this was just a pissed up bin dipper.
I think my wider point is that the last few years have been, and continue to be, a shitshow for various reasons. Football has always allowed people to let off some steam so, whilst concerning, it's not surprising that some are taking it too far.
I think that's my point. It's early and I've not had a cup of tea yet.
At the euros people didn't bother with cubicles they just openly passed the bag round with a key, police just don't seem to care anymore. The euros was the pinnacle of lawlessness for me, in 25 years of going to games I've never seen people swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniels in the stands !!!! Everyone off their nut.Of which drugs has become an inevitable and more ubiquitous symptom at football - I'm certainly noticing it more and more of late in the ground, and on the trains. Pissheads have always been a factor, but the drug element has ramped up massively in the last 12-18 months.
There was an account from a journalist attending an England game this year at Wembley. He reported that there was a massive queue in the mens gents - not for the urinals, which were largely vacant. The queue was for the cubicles.
Wonder why that was.
He was trying to get to the away dressing room, which are located in the corner by the away fans.
Definitely. Point I was making about how football reflecting wider societal picture in this country.
The bloke banged up for giving Sharp a Glasgow kiss is 30. You can't put that down to youthful idiocy