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That's the way I read it too. An experienced copper could have turned the situation round and had the fella back in his seat with smiles and laughs all round. The reaction was over the top, unprofessional and unnecessary. It was bad policing, and it created a potentially dangerous situation: quite a few people started jeering and shouting at the old bill for their mob handed approach to the incident. It could have got pretty ugly in a very short space of time.

The fella was stood behind the hoardings, shouting at the ref. Last time I checked this wasn't a crime. A policeman asked him to move back from the hoarding and he started remonstrating with them about the referee. At no point did he take a swing at them. What followed was beyond belief, the Saints fan (and yes, he IS a fan) was put into a neck lock and an arm lock by half a dozen uniformed meat heads. His 2 sons were understandably upset, the eldest of them was grabbed by another heavy handed policeman and arm locked, while the younger promptly burst into tears. The father was dragged away and ejected. I have no idea if he was arrested. I have seen them all at plenty of away games and not once have I seen them cause trouble. Yes, they are vocal but that hardly makes them criminals does it. I am amazed at some of the comments on this thread, mainly by people who weren't even at the game. I think a few of you should get up off of your behinds and start supporting our team by going to watch them play, instead of spouting your biggoted viewpoints on internet forums. And as for you Stanley, with your comment about sterillisation.... you should be ashamed. I despair of some of the narrow minded people on this forum. You sit in front of your computers and say these people have no place at our club......... and yet you don't even bother to go and support our team! I'd rather have one true Saints fan who goes to away games and mouths off at the ref for a dozen lily livered sofa surfers who never go to away games!

Cheers Jan..... I see me!

I shall be there. Oh yes!

Why not have a rep from TSF? Poll etc?

Would be foolhardy to break up Perry and J-P at the moment....

What was that all about then? Stand by..... Stand down.... Left leg in.... etc etc...

2-0 Saints.

So he can be within walking distance of Clouds house.....

Robbie might be able to have a word with Becks.....

Sorry Robbie, you're quite right. I have just emailed david.beckham@broadmoor.gov.org but the email was returned undelivered. Perhaps you could give him a message next time you bump into him in the communal TV room at Broadmoor?

Mods, please lock this thread or have those responsible sectioned under the mental health act.

What administration "decision"?

Go sit somewhere else and stfu. Incidentally, it was good to see a section of Kingsland north standing, and singing last night. I take back all I said about Kingsland being the domain of the thermos/blanket brigade.

Yawn yawn........ shouldn't this be in the lounge? Or on a rugby forum?

Their fans were awful. They hardly sang at all. Mind you, we weren't much better in the 2nd half!

See ya there!

Gutted at having to miss this one.....

Anything that gets the players psyched up and doing the business works for me. Although personally I would love to hear James Brown's version of "Oh when the Saints" as the players come out.........

We will walk this league!

What he said.

Let's model it on our own parliament........!

Bollix

Alpine has been handing out Ecstasy to everyone.....

The Dodd / Gorman dream team.......