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Due tifosi del Leicester sono stati diffidati, rispettivamente per tre e cinque anni ( nonchè entrambi condannati ad una multa di 250 sterline ) per avere festeggiato invadendo il campo la promozione della loro squadra in “Championship”. Intanto i fans del Cardiff lamentano le imponenti misure di sicurezza che li attenderanno nel prossimo match sul campo dello Sheffield Wednesday. I supporters dei “Blue Birds” hanno acquistato tutta la dotazione di biglietti a loro disposizione ( 3500 ) e confidano di festeggiare l’ accesso ai “play off” promozione.Vi sono precedenti di incidenti occorsi nella città di Sheffield in occasione dell’ arrivo della “Soul Crew”, sia in sfide contro lo United che con il Wednesday. Un portavoce della tifoseria gallese sottolinea, comunque, come gran parte della situazione dell’ ordine pubblico sia anche determinata dall’ atteggiamento più o meno militarizzato delle forze dell’ ordine ed evidenzia il minore numero di problemi verificatisi quando l’ approccio è stato all’ insegna della distensione. Anche il Millwall, nel momento in cui la polizia ha diramato le foto di trentasei presunti responsabili per gli incidenti in occasione della gara di FA Cup sul campo dei “Tigers” dell’ Hull City, ha voluto chiarire come il suo usuale seguito in trasferta sia composto da circa cinquecento tifosi calorosi ma sostanzialmente corretti che seguono la squadra in tutte le trasferte e come gli incidenti avvengano usualmente quando accanto a questo contingente di fedeli sostenitori abituali si aggiungono decine di persone che il Millwall definisce “dal comportamento anti-sociale” che vedrebbero in particolari partite l’ occasione per dare vita a tafferugli.
Leicester City fans banned after pitch invasion
This is Leicestershire
30 April 2009
“Two Leicester City fans who ran on to the pitch during the match which secured their team’s promotion to the Championship have been hit with football banning orders.
Essex Police said today that Oliver Bolinbroke, 28, and Justin Jessop, 34, ran on to the field to celebrate City’s second goal against Southend on Saturday, April 18.
Both men appeared before magistrates in Southend, Essex yesterday, where they pleaded guilty to pitch incursion.
Bolinbroke, of West Street, Enderby was fined £250 and banned from all domestic and international football matches for three years. Jessop, of Forest Road, Coalville was also fined £250 and given a five year football banning order.
City’s 2-0 win at Southend’s Roots Hall ground secured the League One crown and the club’s immediate return to the Championship after relegation last season”
Cardiff fans attack police ‘mindset’
Sheffield Telegraph
30 April 2009
“CARDIFF City fans have criticised the scale of a police operation for the match against Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday, saying many supporters will be in fancy dress, only to be confronted by officers in riot gear.
Followers of the Welsh team say the police plans indicate the police are “going into the game with a mindset that there is going to be trouble”.
Paul Corkrey, of the Cardiff City Supporters Trust, said: “We believe Cardiff City supporters are being treated unfairly compared to supporters of other football clubs. When Cardiff City went to London for the FA Cup semi-finals and final last year they were greeted with police in short-sleeve shirts and smiles and there was no trouble.
“For the last match of the season many Cardiff City fans don fancy dress. So we are facing the prospect of fans dressing up as nuns, vicars and giraffes being greeted by an army of police in riot gear.”
Cardiff have sold out their 3,500 allocation of tickets for the end-of-season match at Hillsborough at which the club is looking to clinch a play-off spot. The kick off is at 1.15pm.
South Yorkshire Police have said they are preparing a “huge” operation, with extra officers on duty, the force heliocpter in use and ‘spotters’ in the crowd looking for troublemakers. They point to a history of trouble between Cardiff, Wednesday and United supporters. Last season Cardiff and United fans clashed after a game at Bramall Lane, with a coach carrying away supporters getting pelted with missiles.
United fans claimed it was retaliation for Cardiff fans attacking them first as they sat in a beer garden with their children”
Help identify Millwall FA Cup rioters
London Daily News
29 April 2009
“Cops are looking for these men after riot police clashed with hundreds of Millwall supporting hooligans in an FA Cup game.
Seats were torn out and coins and bottles hurled as missiles and shop fronts were smashed up at their away game to Hull City in January.12 people were arrested in the FA Cup forth round clash which the lions losing 2-0.
Humberside Police and now the Metropolitan Police are investigating how as many as 500 Millwall fans already known to be “high risk” potential trouble-makers were able to attend the game.
Notorious reputation
The incidents were a major set back to the South Bermondsey club’s efforts to rehabilitate the New Den’s rowdy image.
ast.It harks back to the bad old days of the 80s where the club gained a fierce reputation for having unruly fans, including the play off game against Birmingham City in May 2002, which was described by the BBC as one of the worst cases of civil disorder seen in Great Britain in the recent p
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said that 47 policemen and 24 police horses were injured, and the Metropolitan Police considered suing Millwall after the events.
Hull say ‘pay for damage’
Hull City plan to bill Millwall for the damage to seats, toilets and refreshments stands. Paul Duffen, the home club’s chairman, said:
“This kind of mindless hooliganism is an ugly throwback to a bygone era which most clubs have eradicated from their culture.”
The Football Association has also launched an inquiry.
How the violence unfolded
Crowd trouble broke out in a corner of the North Stand where the away fans were closest to Hull supporters in the East Stand. They infiltrated the empty seated area designed to separate fans and reigned missiles on the home fans who responded in kind – leading police to believe the violence was organised.
In the second half, another incident was spotted in the other corner of the North Stand which was packed with hundreds of Millwall supporters.
280 officers – “thugs should expect a knock on the door”
Intelligence said that the match would be targeted by footie thugs leading to the doubling of officers at the ground. Chief Inspector Darren Downs, Humberside police’s match commander, said that around 280 officers were assigned to crowd control duties. He warned that people should expect a knock on the door:
“What was unusual was the outbreak of trouble inside the ground, since the introduction of closed-circuit television it has become rare. Once the video evidence has been studied, however, those involved can expect to find us knocking on their doors.”
Determination to rid club of thugs
In a statement on the club’s website, Lions executive deputy chairman Heather Rabbatts said:
“The reality of the situation is that we have a core of around four or five hundred travelling fans who follow the team up and down the country week-in week-out causing no problems whatsoever.
We, at Millwall, will continue to take responsibility for doing everything in our power to rid ourselves of a criminal element which clearly sees big games involving our club as an opportunity to indulge in anti-social behaviour.
While Millwall’s name was again the one that hit the media headlines, so-called Hull City fans were also arrested on Saturday and there were problems at other games just as there have been during the course of the season.”