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Post by rambo61 on May 9, 2023 16:32:33 GMT
After seeing bully boy tactics around the country how nice was it to interact,chat and laugh with the local old bill.Really helpful but never in your face. Loads of em about but never made anyone feel uncomfortable. Congrats to them all...perhaps west mids and greater manchester police should spend some time with them!!!
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Post by leicspotter on May 9, 2023 16:54:27 GMT
Good to hear
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Post by FranktheRabbit on May 9, 2023 16:55:42 GMT
Acting exactly as they should be and credit to them.
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Post by callas12 on May 9, 2023 18:03:15 GMT
After seeing bully boy tactics around the country how nice was it to interact,chat and laugh with the local old bill.Really helpful but never in your face. Loads of em about but never made anyone feel uncomfortable. Congrats to them all...perhaps west mids and greater manchester police should spend some time with them!!! I'd praised the stewarding at Cardiff a few weeks back aswell, how refreshing that in the main from what I could see they were pretty relaxed and welcoming again at Watford. I couldn't really rate the police at Cardiff as unusually there really weren't many of them there aside from a couple of Stoke/Cardiff Liasion officers, & some outside the away coach park doing traffic duties. Did notice there was alot of officers around and about Vicarage Lane and in the main town area bit aswell yesterday (Bank Holiday Pay perhaps! 🤔😉) but all was very low key & friendly & interactive where they needed to be. Did initally think having their riot helmets attached to their belts from the off could have been a clue as to what was to come (in West Mids & GMP it would be!) but absolutely nothing materialised and all remained good natured. I know they were busy with the recent Luton - Watford match so they probably just set out as they mean to go on & were ready for any eventuality for each match. Guessing yesterday being a nothing match for both teams kind took a lot of the tensions away. Millwall v Blackburn saw some unsavoury action but guessing nothings a suprise when Millwall are involved, especially in a Play Off contention match! |
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Post by a on May 9, 2023 19:35:12 GMT
You can find trouble anywhere if you’re looking for it. The Police should operate within the law, and in I’d suggest 99% of the time they do, unfortunately let down by a tiny percentage.
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Post by pavel on May 9, 2023 21:06:57 GMT
After seeing bully boy tactics around the country how nice was it to interact,chat and laugh with the local old bill.Really helpful but never in your face. Loads of em about but never made anyone feel uncomfortable. Congrats to them all...perhaps west mids and greater manchester police should spend some time with them!!! Yep they were fine, helpful and friendly, just as they should be. Tooled up but never threatening and importantly treated us as fans not troublemakers. |
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Post by greenhoffsleftboot on May 10, 2023 11:19:48 GMT
I was in central Watford for something else when they played Sunderland - just after Sunderland's manager came to us. The two sets of fans were in and around the same pub and were laughing and joking together and with the police. It was great to see. There were some interesting chants about Sunderland's ex-manager ...
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Post by davejohnno1 on May 10, 2023 14:25:41 GMT
Watford has always been a good away day. We normally always get a decent result there as well!
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Post by flea79 on May 10, 2023 14:36:04 GMT
You can find trouble anywhere if you’re looking for it. The Police should operate within the law, and in I’d suggest 99% of the time they do, unfortunately let down by a tiny percentage. about sums it up, seen some great policing over the years and some terrible policing the terrible policing just antagonises everybody and as alcohol and other substances are often consumed these things often bubble over and situations escalate very quickly look at a few years back at Preston when a simple misunderstanding over whether fans could smoke outside at half time led too a standoff with the law that ended with half of us being pepper sprayed, some sensible policing at that point would have scaled it back and calmed it down, instead they come in all heavy handed and next thing all hell broke loose on the other fist the police in Derby a couple of years back had a good laugh with us and we all mocked the met police and its failure to stop the just stop oil protestors, it set the tone for a pleasant day with the late summer weather! |
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Post by stokeuk474 on May 10, 2023 15:58:11 GMT
Despite being a miserable day all round, nothing kicked off in the end.
I went outside from some 'fresh' air at HT, and there was a few d*ckheads having a go at the police who were simply standing there minding their own business. Once lad got dragged out and taken away for throwing something at an officer I think. There was also a bit of tension about the fact that there was no alcohol on sale in the ground.
Stoke fans don't help themselves at times 🤦♂️
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Post by lordb on May 10, 2023 19:39:26 GMT
You can find trouble anywhere if you’re looking for it. The Police should operate within the law, and in I’d suggest 99% of the time they do, unfortunately let down by a tiny percentage. That's probably true for most forces most of the time but some forces it's absolutely not 'a tiny percentage' |
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Post by a on May 10, 2023 19:46:38 GMT
You can find trouble anywhere if you’re looking for it. The Police should operate within the law, and in I’d suggest 99% of the time they do, unfortunately let down by a tiny percentage. That's probably true for most forces most of the time but some forces it's absolutely not 'a tiny percentage' I dare bet out of the tens of thousands it is a tiny proportion. It just is. It should be 0% agreed but the laziness of labelling them all or most or a large % is just incorrect. Most police are excellent. |
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