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Fans banned Gillingham v Swindon....

cafcsinger
cafcsinger Posts: 5,604
edited April 2012 in Other Football and Sports
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17678341


If i was a Gills fan i would be fuming!
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  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,983
    edited April 2012
    I can see this happening a lot in the future, was on the news yesterday how Police want to start charging clubs more.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,604
    I can see this happening a lot in the future, was on the news yesterday how Police want to start charging clubs more.

    And (i think) they had a story on late kick off about it, seems to becoming a real issue.
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,427
    The cops can pretty much set their own match day staffing levels / policing costs - so you can see why this has happened.

  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    "Councillor Mike O'Brien, from Medway Council, said that Kent Police had "serious concerns about public order at the ground".

    He explained: "We have done this following advice from Kent Police that they have specific intelligence concerning the match and its fans. "The risk is so serious for fans that, until steps have been taken to reduce it to a reasonable level through agreeing adequate policing levels, spectators will be prohibited from attending the match."

    Whats that all about then, they dont have a violent history between them do they?

  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    "Councillor Mike O'Brien, from Medway Council, said that Kent Police had "serious concerns about public order at the ground".

    He explained: "We have done this following advice from Kent Police that they have specific intelligence concerning the match and its fans. "The risk is so serious for fans that, until steps have been taken to reduce it to a reasonable level through agreeing adequate policing levels, spectators will be prohibited from attending the match."

    Whats that all about then, they dont have a violent history between them do they?

    Always been quite heated matches between the two, think it goes back to the 70's, there was a brawl after a match since then on there has been stuff going on. Didn't help that Swindon beat them in playoffs a few years after.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Oh never knew that, thanks for the insight.

    I though they might be protecting the fans from Di Canio :-)
  • halesbeard
    halesbeard Posts: 177
    nothing but dirty gypos , pykies , knackers....
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,862
    Not helped by the idea that Swindon will get promoted that day
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Not helped by the idea that Swindon will get promoted that day
    That makes even more sense then, there will be a lot of Swindon coming down
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,452
    Game of Poker which Scally will lose.

    He'll agree to pay the police bill rather than lose out on one of the biggest gates of the season.

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  • redcarter
    redcarter Posts: 1,018
    Won't most Gillingham fans be on the Valley Express that day to watch us get promotion? :)
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,144
    edited April 2012
    if he holds out the public preassure on the police might swing it though.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,560
    Won't most Gillingham fans be on the Valley Express that day to watch us get promotion? :)
    Fantastic post....LOL!!!!!

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,206
    Won't most Gillingham fans be on the Valley Express that day to watch us get promotion? :)
    Fantastic post....LOL!!!!!

    lol ... perfect
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,452
    if he holds out the public preassure on the police might swing it though.
    That's the hand he's playing but I think the police hold all the aces.



  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,073
    nothing but dirty gypos , pykies , knackers....
    Nice display of racism there Mr Beard.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    if he holds out the public preassure on the police might swing it though.
    That's the hand he's playing but I think the police hold all the aces.



    I'm fairly sure he tried doing the same thing last year and gave in in the end.
  • SE10
    SE10 Posts: 2,169
    One of the few games Gills would turn out for in that league.

    Could be wrong but looks like Gillingham are refusing to play an early KO...
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,488
    nothing but dirty gypos , pykies , knackers....
    Nice display of racism there Mr Beard.
    Love it. Since when did stereotyping people who have no legitimate way of earning a living become 'racism'? I've never understood this accusation levelled at people who have no love for the 'travellers' way of life. Last I looked, a race wasn't defined by whether or not people paid income tax. And before anyone starts giving it about it being a thinly veiled attack on the irish, I'd remind you that the vast majority of the Irish hate tinkers as much as anyone else who has anything to do with them. You might as well label anyone who refers to lower-class unemployed Englishmen as 'chavs' as a racist.

    There should be a concerted effort to reclaim the word 'pikey' from racists and bigots. It's origins go way back to well before the 'Irish traveller' became a staple of outrage of the Daily Mail brigade. Even the term 'Gippo' is a bastardisation of 'Gypsy' - which now means something completely different from it's origins as a reference to those of Romany extraction.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,560
    nothing but dirty gypos , pykies , knackers....
    Nice display of racism there Mr Beard.
    Oh Jeeeez....how tiresome iainment!


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  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    so if i was to say most muggers are black and knife crime is generally a black issue thats ok surely leroy?
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,427
    I'll fight you for your shoes, boy ?
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,488
    so if i was to say most muggers are black and knife crime is generally a black issue thats ok surely leroy?
    Not sure what you're saying nolly? I'm not suggesting that 'most thieves are Irish'. I'm also not even saying that 'most thieves are pikeys'.
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,078
    edited April 2012
    so if i was to say most muggers are black and knife crime is generally a black issue thats ok surely leroy?
    If it was true then why wouldn't it be ok.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    no i have seen your past post on gypsies leroy and i agree on some of the sterotypes they have but for some reason its ok to cast them down but if i was to say what said in my last post it would not be acceptable even though based on clear clear truth
  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,753
    its understandable, afterall gillingham vs swindon is a massive rivalry...... wait a minute?!
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    edited April 2012
    anyway bloody gillingham hey
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,473
    edited April 2012
    I have a 'Book of Knowledge' dating from the late 1930s, it's basically a poor man's Encyclopaedia Britainica (spelling, I need a Dictionary !!). The entry for 'Gypsy' begins .. A member of an untrustworthy group of people who live a hand to mouth existence across much of Europe and Asia Minor.... I'd better burn the book before the thought police find out that I have it propping up a bedside lamp and come to take me away ... haha
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    its understandable, afterall gillingham vs swindon is a massive rivalry...... wait a minute?!
    Have a read through the whole thread, I did make a comment as to why
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    no worrys on how you think lincs
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