johnno
Midland League Division One
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Post by johnno on Jan 28, 2024 14:35:46 GMT 1
Baggies Vs Wolves held up due to crowd trouble
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Post by Valerioch on Jan 28, 2024 14:36:09 GMT 1
Game stopped in the 83rd minute due to crowd trouble. Players taken off the pitch. Long delay on going
Two sets of reprehensible, degenerate fan bases who probably don’t have a GCSE between them
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 28, 2024 14:40:29 GMT 1
A small percentage of reprehensible, degenerate fans who probably don’t have a GCSE between them.
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Post by ssshrew on Jan 28, 2024 14:41:37 GMT 1
Trouble is that they make the headlines and tarnish us all.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 28, 2024 14:46:00 GMT 1
This is one fixture that will always bring out a number of idiots. If it had been at Wolves, local shops would have boarded up their windows. The courts will be busy tomorrow or as soon as offenders have been identified from cctv footage, expect some teach 'em a lesson sentences....
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Post by hectord0g137 on Jan 28, 2024 14:51:14 GMT 1
Moronic behaviour. End of
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 28, 2024 14:53:19 GMT 1
Seen them years ago against Coventry, down in the corner they spent the entire match baying at the opposition fans, don't think that lot actually watched the match. We have similar small number when all said and done.
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Post by ssshrew on Jan 28, 2024 15:06:28 GMT 1
Fortunately we don’t make the headlines.
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Post by gainsparkshrew on Jan 28, 2024 15:18:52 GMT 1
Fortunately we don’t make the headlines. When I was a manager on BR,and when both clubs where in the same division, the staff at Sandwell & Dudley, which was the nearest station to West Bromwich and The Hawthorns at the time,always had a scramble when the fixtures came out. They all wanted to find out when the Black Country Derbys were,not to get tickets but to book the day off as none of them wanted to be anywhere near the station on those two days🙄
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Post by ssshrew on Jan 28, 2024 15:21:38 GMT 1
Can’t say I blame then to be honest.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 28, 2024 15:23:44 GMT 1
Hopefully a safe journey home for both sets of genuine fans.
I'm sure they did, but the question has to be asked of West Midlands Police, you did plan for this fixture to potentially go off like a bottle of pop didn't you?
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Post by The Clash 1966 on Jan 28, 2024 19:07:36 GMT 1
The worst violence / punch up I have ever witnessed at a gig was a Bad Manners & the Beat at wolves around 20 years ago all hell broke loose around 10 minutes into Bad Manners set as Wolves fans were winding up WBA fans over the days results.
The bouncers just stood and watched as they were completely outnumbered. I ended up scrambling onto the stage to avoid the fisticuffs & and near head level Doc Martens . Poor old Buster hadn't a clue what was going on.
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Jan 28, 2024 19:22:07 GMT 1
Early 1960s my mate was a Baggies fan and I followed Wolves so we went together to watch a Wolves v WBA league game.
No trouble during the game but afterwards we stopped at chippie on the way to the station and he went in while I waited outside holding his blue and white scarf and rattle.
A gang of lads saw the blue and white and went for me. Luckily the rattle was on of those heavy wooden jobs and I was able to hold them off until help arrived. Ironic being a Wolves supporter and being attacked by their fans.
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Post by Worthingshrew on Jan 28, 2024 21:07:19 GMT 1
Hopefully a safe journey home for both sets of genuine fans. I'm sure they did, but the question has to be asked of West Midlands Police, you did plan for this fixture to potentially go off like a bottle of pop didn't you? What’s your issue about the police planning? It had an 11.45 ko. What else could they have done?
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Post by BlueTone on Jan 28, 2024 21:25:54 GMT 1
A difficult one to police. Both sets of fans live in the same communities. I don't like either of them.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 28, 2024 21:40:34 GMT 1
Hopefully a safe journey home for both sets of genuine fans. I'm sure they did, but the question has to be asked of West Midlands Police, you did plan for this fixture to potentially go off like a bottle of pop didn't you? What’s your issue about the police planning? It had an 11.45 ko. What else could they have done? I have no issue about the police planning, but they surely will ask themselves if there was anything else they could have done, if there were enough police, etc. Even a consideration, in association with the football authorities, of the next meeting between them being held behind closed doors.
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Post by ThrobsBlackHat on Jan 28, 2024 22:25:29 GMT 1
I can't really understand what happened because it was miles away from the Wolves fans.
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jan 28, 2024 22:31:20 GMT 1
I can't really understand what happened because it was miles away from the Wolves fans. Fans getting tickets in the wrong area? Being so close it's not easy to keep them apart as we found out with the Wrexham game.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 28, 2024 22:35:50 GMT 1
I can't really understand what happened because it was miles away from the Wolves fans. It wil all come out when the cctv is studied and mug shots of the mugs involved are printed in the Express and Star to round up the idiots.
Maybe the Wolves hooligan element had infiltrated the West Brom sections?
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Post by townfaninnantwich on Jan 29, 2024 5:36:20 GMT 1
Said on the radio that Wolves fans in the WBA home end celebrating the goal upset the home fans. Then fans the other end of the ground started just started throughing stuff.
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Post by chirkshrew on Jan 29, 2024 9:24:02 GMT 1
If anybody didn't know what the 'black country' derby is/was like....they do now.....hatred comes to mind
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Post by davycrockett on Jan 29, 2024 9:39:46 GMT 1
I can't really understand what happened because it was miles away from the Wolves fans. Fans getting tickets in the wrong area? Being so close it's not easy to keep them apart as we found out with the Wrexham game. Did we? I never heard of any Wrexham fans in the home end causing any incidents………
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Post by ProudSalopian on Jan 29, 2024 9:46:35 GMT 1
Lots of talk of Wolves fans in the home end which kicked it all off, that does appear to be the case but it's certainly not a return to the bad old days of hundreds of fans infiltrating the home end. The one clip I've seen from the opposite corner to the Wolves fans (Where it all kicked off) shows loads of police/stewards protecting ONE Wolves fan. I'm not sure if there were others but certainly in the clip it was one fan trying to get away. And then another clip from another stand shows three Wolves fans trying to get out of the stand as they are attacked by Albion fans.
I'm certainly no Wolves fan but much of this appears to be West Brom fans losing their heads and fighting with the police.
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Post by Exkeeper on Jan 29, 2024 10:07:20 GMT 1
Early 1960s my mate was a Baggies fan and I followed Wolves so we went together to watch a Wolves v WBA league game. No trouble during the game but afterwards we stopped at chippie on the way to the station and he went in while I waited outside holding his blue and white scarf and rattle. A gang of lads saw the blue and white and went for me. Luckily the rattle was on of those heavy wooden jobs and I was able to hold them off until help arrived. Ironic being a Wolves supporter and being attacked by their fans. I still remember trying to get back to Wolverhampton Station after our draw at Molineux after our draw in Round 6 of the cup in 1979 - not a nice experience. Anything that could be picked up was thrown at us. As mentioned above, away fans in the Home enclosures is a recipe for trouble.
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Post by GlosShrew on Jan 29, 2024 10:14:49 GMT 1
Actually not a good weekend for crowd trouble!! Port Vale are surely going to get the book thrown at them after one of their idiots ran on the pitch trying to get at the ref!! Seeing the incident on the EFL Highlights show he ran across the pitch with not a steward in sight!!
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 29, 2024 10:19:46 GMT 1
Unless they really do want trouble, the odd few opposition fans should know better than to plonk themselves in the other side's areas on occasions like this. The whole security operation is run on each side's fans being in their designated areas. That sort of thing always reminds me of Jasper Carrott's "Oye Carrit, they've got no cowin Bovril" give away when he says he and a friend watched Brum from the other side's area.
This Black Country rivalry, does that explain why Walsall keep well away from the top two divisions?
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Post by davycrockett on Jan 29, 2024 10:35:01 GMT 1
Lots of talk of Wolves fans in the home end which kicked it all off, that does appear to be the case but it's certainly not a return to the bad old days of hundreds of fans infiltrating the home end. The one clip I've seen from the opposite corner to the Wolves fans (Where it all kicked off) shows loads of police/stewards protecting ONE Wolves fan. I'm not sure if there were others but certainly in the clip it was one fan trying to get away. And then another clip from another stand shows three Wolves fans trying to get out of the stand as they are attacked by Albion fans. I'm certainly no Wolves fan but much of this appears to be West Brom fans losing their heads and fighting with the police. I got the impression WBA fans had identified a number of Wolves fans and were actively stopping the stewards and the police rescuing them so that they could deal with them quite brutally. It seemed the police couldn’t get into the crowd and were being held back by what can only be WBA fans …..
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Post by Namur on Jan 29, 2024 11:05:50 GMT 1
Things got really jittery on ITV when chaos amongst two groups of rednecks causes a 30 minute delay to the match, and threatened to disrupt the uninterrupted coverage of Klopp Leaving.
The ref had barely blown on the whistle three times before we cut straight to Anfield
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jan 29, 2024 11:16:42 GMT 1
Fans getting tickets in the wrong area? Being so close it's not easy to keep them apart as we found out with the Wrexham game. Did we? I never heard of any Wrexham fans in the home end causing any incidents……… I wasnt talking about any incidents, I didnt hear of any. But as we saw some posts on here saying they could get tickets in the home fans due to living in close by areas/knowing fans of the other club.
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Post by Namur on Jan 29, 2024 11:29:39 GMT 1
Did we? I never heard of any Wrexham fans in the home end causing any incidents……… I wasnt talking about any incidents, I didnt hear of any. But as we saw some posts on here saying they could get tickets in the home fans due to living in close by areas/knowing fans of the other club. There is that, and also that part of the Hawthorns is the families / corporate / hangers-on area. A lot of people on Albion forums are saying those Wolves fans in that area would likely have got them from someone involved with Albion, be it the club itself, or sponsors / players etc.
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