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Il Birmingham City appare prossimo ad essere oggetto di un passaggio di proprietà che vedrebbe quale acquirente un magnate orientale mentre il nuovo proprieterio arabo del Portsmouth immetterà denaro nelle casse per sanare almeno parte delle posizioni debitorie della squadra. Tifosi dello Stoke City e dell’ Everton sono accusati da alcuni tabloids di comportamenti discriminatori verso giocatori avversari di colore, fenomeno che si asserisce essere in nuova crescita. Il reporter Mac Intyre, il quale nove anni fa si infiltrò nello “zoccolo duro” dei “Chelsea Headhunters”, continua a denunciare aggressioni ed intimidazioni; a distanza di diverso tempo dal documentario che provocò diversi arresti, vivrebbe ancora sotto scorta e sarebbe stato costretto anche a cambiare casa. Intanto provvedimenti di diffida hanno colpito sostenitori di Hartlepool ed Huddersfield.

 

 

Il Birmingham City cambia padrone

2009-09-26 11:39 Verso l’acquisto da parte di un miliardario di Hong Kong
(ANSA) – ROMA, 26 SET – Sempre piu’ vicino l’acquisto del Birmingham da parte del miliardario di Hong Kong Carson Yeung, che ha superato i test della Premier League. I primi contatti tra Yeung e il management del team sono previsti per la prossima settimana, mentre l’acquisto della societa’ dovrebbe concludersi entro un mese. Prima di procedere con l’operazione il magnate si e’ dovuto sottoporre a un ‘fit e proper person test’, per verificare che non ci fossero ombre sul suo status finanziario.

 

Harry: Lock racist fans up
The Sun
26 September 2009
By Antony Kastrinakis

HARRY REDKNAPP has launched a scathing attack on football’s bad-boys and fumed: Stick racist sickos in the nut-house.

This week the issue of racism has reared its ugly head again.On Wednesday night Blackpool frontman Jason Euell was racially abused at Stoke in a Carling Cup clash, which the Potters won 4-3.And Tottenham boss Redknapp let rip against the thugs that threaten to ruin the game and called for them to be sent to jail.He said: “That is disgusting – there’s no place for that in the game. When I was a player at West Ham we had that every week with Clyde Best because he was a black player. It was disgusting.”He was a fantastic fella and a great player and he was the first black player to really make it apart from maybe Albert Johanneson.”But it’s all over, surely we can’t have that sort of behaviour now?”Anyone who does it should be put in prison – not banned from football. Stick them where they belong, in the nut-house. It’s wrong. And there is other stuff that goes on as well that is sick.”I hear things, I listen to the radio people talking about chants and singing songs to people at different clubs that just turn me over, I can’t believe it.”You’ve got to be some kind of nutter to do that. That’s not banter, that’s sick. Sick.”They are sickos who have got to be locked up somewhere. Put them away and don’t let them come to football.”Last weekend Blackburn bad-boy El-Hadji Diouf was interviewed by police for allegedly aiming racist abuse at a white ball-boy at Everton.He subsequently accused fans of throwing bananas at him although police found no evidence.Redknapp said: “I’m sure somebody would have had a picture of that if it had actually happened.”It shouldn’t happen any more because without the fantastic black players you wouldn’t have teams.”How can supporters give grief to black players on the other team when they’ve got them in their team. It can’t happen.”

 

Donal MacIntyre: Following my undercover investigations me and my family were assaulted and we had to move house
Daily Mail
26 September 2009
By Sandie Jones

My undercover work has always carried risks and I’m used to death threats and being abused, but a line was crossed when my wife, Ameera, was attacked.We’d had a lovely family meal at a Mexican restaurant and headed to a quiet wine bar on our own when we were approached by some smartly dressed men.They started their usual calls of ‘snitch’ and ‘grass, referring to my investigation into football hooliganism nine years ago – who would have thought that those kind of people had brains with such long memories?I asked them very politely to leave us alone – Ameera had a brain scan the following morning and was feeling stressed.She’s had a benign tumour on her pituitary gland for some years and has learnt how to manage it, but recently some unpleasant symptoms had returned and we were worried.But these thugs wouldn’t go away, and suddenly they were punching me to the floor.When Ameera tried to intervene they started attacking her as well. I don’t have an issue with them having a problem with me, but why her?She ended up more bruised than I was, and was really shaken and traumatised.The saddest part was that not one Good Samaritan came forward to help us. I’ve always believed in the positive force of human nature, but after this attack, I find myself questioning everything. It’s made me reassess how I live.Now, when I’m stopped in the street or a hand is offered to me, I’m wary there might be a knife in the other hand.We’ve had to move house and are under police protection. I can handle it, but it’s so difficult for my family – they didn’t buy into this.I don’t regret doing the programme on football hooliganism, or any of my other undercover investigations – it’s part of who I am. But if I was given the choice between doing the programme or seeing my wife being beaten up, then, of course, there’s no question that I wouldn’t have done it.I don’t know why it remains such an attraction with the Far Right groups – maybe I didn’t fade into the background as they hoped. I’m more than happy to be an arrowhead for peoples’ concerns, it means a lot to me. But I could certainly do without the backlash that’s affected my family – it’s not acceptable.

 

Fan banned after pitch invasion
Milton Keynes News
25 September 2009

A Huddersfield fan who ran onto the pitch during an MK Dons football match has been given a three-year football banning order.Andrew James Kelly, 24, from West Way in Stafford, was found guilty of Section four of the Football Offences Act (pitch incursion) at Milton Keynes Magistrates’ Court yesterday (24/9).Kelly was also fined £300 and ordered to pay £100 costs for his behaviour during the match between MK Dons and Huddersfield on Saturday, September 5.PC Jimmy O’Brien, football liaison officer, said: “We hope this sends out a clear message to other supporters that this kind of behaviour won’t be tolerated in Milton Keynes.”A moment of stupidity has resulted in this man not being able to attend a football match for three years. Anyone considering this kind of action should ask themselves if it’s really worth it.”

 

Football fans and police thugs
U TV
25 September 2009
Henry Porter: When faced with large crowds, officers seem to lose respect for the public. Stoke City fans have particular cause for complaint

The rise in complaints against police in England and Wales by 8% to more than 30,000 individual grievances last year cannot be easily dismissed by the suggestion that people have simply become more aware of the complaints procedure. There are important underlying trends that the police and politicians would be wrong to ignore.

The one I want to focus on here is the way the manner of the police has deteriorated in the last decade. Whenever I encounter officers individually they seem helpful and on top of the job, but when it comes to policing large demonstrations, football crowds and so on, the police appear to lose what should be an instinctive respect for the law-abiding public.Rudeness, which too often includes officiousness, swearing, thuggishness and a bullying attitude, accounts for one in five of the complaints recorded.Plenty of examples of this were on display in the policing of the G20 demonstrations earlier this year, which were not included in the figures. The outcry at the time has resulted in a significant change of approach to the policing of climate change demonstrations by the Metropolitan police force. But elsewhere the story is depressing. Audio and photographs taken by a member of the public in north Wales, linked in a thread last weekend, demonstrate the problem. A policeman dressed in paramilitary black attempts to enforce obedience rather than the law and without having to account for himself.The policing of football crowds and the routine mistreatment of fans is a particular problem. Earlier this year I wrote about a case concerning the treatment of Stoke City fans by Greater Manchester police who abused section 27 of the Violent Crimes Reduction Act to deprive people of their lawful right to assemble and attend the game.Stoke supporters received an apology but it seems nothing has been done to change the basic attitude in Manchester’s police.Last Saturday there was equally disturbing abuse of rights when Stoke fans travelled to watch a fixture against Bolton Wanderers and encountered Greater Manchester police in the city centre. All the emails I’ve seen tell the same story. Police officers are alleged to have manhandled the fans, told them they were “scum” and “c****”, crammed them on the train to a point that was self-evidently dangerous, threatened to seize one man’s Blackberry, dragged them from toilets before they could urinate and informed the supporters that they could “piss themselves”. People were forbidden from finding drinking water, and forced into the wrong trains – one man found himself on the train to Stoke when he wanted to get to Chesterfield. Fans who wanted to stay in Manchester to eat at a restaurant and catch a later train were forbidden from doing so.Here is a letter from an ex-marine:I have never seen such a display of absolute arrogance, discrimination, aggression and a complete lack of respect to basic human rights, by your so called “professionals”, whilst trying to make my way home from Bolton, on 19 Sep ’09. My name is Dan Swift, a lifelong Stoke City fan, and until recently served the country in the Royal Marines for 13 years until I was shot twice in Afghanistan, where my childhood best friend (also a staunch Stokie) was brutally killed.Walking around the outskirts of the city, I felt ashamed and angered by such a disjointed, disorganised gaggle of violent thugs, who dare call themselves police. Being called a “knob”, “Stoke-c***s”, “Shut f***ing up”, paints the real picture of what GMP is about, a lack of respect and standards.The Football Supporters’ Federation has obtained a 25-minute film of the operation to escort fans across Manchester city centre from Victoria station to Piccadilly, which seems to confirm the scores of complaints from aggrieved fans. No doubt this will feature in any investigation by Manchester police, who say they are looking into the matter. The crucial point is that the trouble was unnecessarily caused by a culture of unpleasantness and what seems to be a lack of leadership on the ground.The chair of the Football Supporters’ Federation, Dr Malcolm Clarke, said this about “the institutionalised prejudice” that was on display last Saturday:We would like to know why and under what powers did the police require people to board a particular train; refuse to allow people to get off at Bolton where they could have caught a train direct to Piccadilly and avoid Manchester city centre; refuse to allow people to use the toilets; refuse to allow people to leave the “crocodile” if they wanted to go for a meal; and force everybody into a hot and overcrowded carriage at Piccadilly on the train to Stoke. We live, supposedly, in a free country and people who have committed no offence and given the police no reason to believe that they will commit an offence are surely entitled to go to the toilet, stop for a meal where they like and choose which train they catch home.

 

Ban for football yob
TeleText
25 September 2009

British Transport Police have won a three-year football banning order to stop a hooligan associated with Hartlepool United from watching games.A dossier of complaints was produced in a similar way to how an Asbo is made.Evidence dating back to 1998, and as recent as this year, was provided to Hartlepool magistrates, who granted the banning order.

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