Police escort - coaches - A55/A51 today. What was it?
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mrtwisty said:
On tbe way to Conwy from the Midlands today, just seen a convoy of maybe ten coaches escorted by quite a few police motorcycle outriders, cars & 4x4's. Anyone else seen it or have any idea what it was? They were heading eastbound with quite a queue of traffic behind.
The MPs that voted "yes" being taken to the loony camp.Impasse said:
Football hooligans enthusiasts.
I saw that in Southampton once. Couldn't believe it! What a waste of police resources. In F1 fans of all teams and drivers all sit together in the same grandstands, enjoy banter and have a great time together. In football fans have to be bussed in with police escorts and sit at opposite ends of the pitch so they don't kill each other like uncivilised animals. f
king hate football. zed4 said:
I saw that in Southampton once. Couldn't believe it! What a waste of police resources. In F1 fans of all teams and drivers all sit together in the same grandstands, enjoy banter and have a great time together. In football fans have to be bussed in with police escorts and sit at opposite ends of the pitch so they don't kill each other like uncivilised animals.
fking hate football.
A very narrow minded opinion. Football is a family sport for most. As usual it's the select few that ruin it for everyone and tarnish all fans. I'm currently sat on the terraces of my teams ground, am 30 years old and have been a season ticket holder since the age of 6! A thoroughly family affair. I can honestly say I've seen a handful of problems in that 20+ yearsf
king hate football. Not really a waste of police resources when you think the clubs are forced to pay for ALL match day policing resource, I'd wager the police make a little surplus for the coffers too.
zed4 said:
Impasse said:
Football hooligans enthusiasts.
I saw that in Southampton once. Couldn't believe it! What a waste of police resources. In F1 fans of all teams and drivers all sit together in the same grandstands, enjoy banter and have a great time together. In football fans have to be bussed in with police escorts and sit at opposite ends of the pitch so they don't kill each other like uncivilised animals. f
king hate football. Nice bit of overtime for them with no real risk of having to do any work.
eltax91 said:
zed4 said:
I saw that in Southampton once. Couldn't believe it! What a waste of police resources. In F1 fans of all teams and drivers all sit together in the same grandstands, enjoy banter and have a great time together. In football fans have to be bussed in with police escorts and sit at opposite ends of the pitch so they don't kill each other like uncivilised animals.
fking hate football.
A very narrow minded opinion. Football is a family sport for most. As usual it's the select few that ruin it for everyone and tarnish all fans. I'm currently sat on the terraces of my teams ground, am 30 years old and have been a season ticket holder since the age of 6! A thoroughly family affair. I can honestly say I've seen a handful of problems in that 20+ yearsf
king hate football. Not really a waste of police resources when you think the clubs are forced to pay for ALL match day policing resource, I'd wager the police make a little surplus for the coffers too.
Having lived in Southampton city centre for a while, it kind of put me off football and everything to do with it. Yobs fighting with Portsmouth supporters, just all seemed a bit childish to me.
I used to play for Swindon Town Juniors when I was younger too!
zed4 said:
I saw that in Southampton once. Couldn't believe it! What a waste of police resources. In F1 fans of all teams and drivers all sit together in the same grandstands, enjoy banter and have a great time together. In football fans have to be bussed in with police escorts and sit at opposite ends of the pitch so they don't kill each other like uncivilised animals.
fking hate football.
+1f
king hate football. Never been and never I will. Rugby lads drink twice the amount and seem to be civilised.
F'kin animals mostly - and that's the players. However, I'd kick a bag of air about for over 100k per week.
Driving trucks pays circa 30k.....
PIGINAWIG said:
+1
Never been and never I will. Rugby lads drink twice the amount and seem to be civilised.
F'kin animals mostly - and that's the players. However, I'd kick a bag of air about for over 100k per week.
Driving trucks pays circa 30k.....
Holy Crap 30K a week for driving a truck... are you moving nukes around. Never been and never I will. Rugby lads drink twice the amount and seem to be civilised.
F'kin animals mostly - and that's the players. However, I'd kick a bag of air about for over 100k per week.
Driving trucks pays circa 30k.....
mrtwisty said:
All that for a few football fans?!? I've never been to a football match (can't say I ever will either) - what the hell goes on that necessitates that kind of police presence? I thought the really hardcore football hooligan stuff ended in the eighties or early nineties?
They'll categorise the various games based on risk & try and weight the amount of police presence appropriately - but it often ends up as overkill on low & medium priority ones "just in case". Realistically, on those it's a huge operation to stop two or three drunks having a fight; go into any town centre on a Saturday night and you'll see worse.On higher risk ones they don't leave anything to chance & throw every toy they've got at it, which is generally fair enough but sometimes gets a bit ridiculous with some of the dispersal powers.
As to the comment about Southampton, I can imagine the difficulty of dealing with games against Portsmouth colours their viewpoint for everything else - I went to a really low-risk game there once and the police presence was really quite unpleasant and crazily OTT given it was at most 1/3rd full and hardly some sort of high-risk game.
They had sniffer dogs, searches and metal detectors at all the train station exits, trying to search as many people as they possibly could. The usual sort of pointless angry attitude and there was one of the weirdest things after -
Three teenagers, clearly friends, one wearing the away team football shirt and two wearing Southampton ones were standing on the train station platform afterwards. They're all waiting for the same train to London. Policeman comes over, tries to separate them as if they were fighting and forces the one guy who was wearing the different top to go onto the platform for the train to that city - he kept politely trying to explain and show his ticket to the policeman but just kept getting yelled at and this guy was really throwing his weight around. It was nuts.
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