Smirking_Saint

Yeah ok, the paper bit was a bit of a misguided comment really. As for the 12 months, in all honestly yeah it is a little harsh IMO. But these people will be out in under that time. Hopefully the time away allows them to rethink their direction and those at home them have let down. Do i feel sorry for their children and wives etc ? Yeah of course but TBH they walked past and made a conscious choice TO get involved, they could have walked away, could have walked past, but they didn't. How did the 30k odd others manage to do it ? Unfortunately football violence tends to draw higher sentances, and so it should. Was 12 months a tad harsh ? Yes, but then it was their choice to commit a crime and tbf the crime will carry a maximum sentance (5 years), the law cannot hand out higher sentances than that so it's not like they have not been warned. Unfortunately for every over sentancing there will always will a few slack sentances, look at the yoevil incident. It is what it is.

Going to prison was a bit harsh really. But then if you are really going to incite an already baited mass of equal idiots in full view of the OB and in doing so hurl objects randomly into a crowd of people to do no more than to cause damage to someone with no regard to who else is in the group of people then you really deserve to be punished. They'll be out in 5-6 months anyways.

True. I maintain both comments however Difference is i wouldn't tear up someones livelyhood and hurl objects in his direction as he was stood with other innocent parties that could include women and children, in front of the police and recording equipment. But heyho, that is a different thread.

The man in questioned said he looked forward to going toe to toe with the rival fans !! As much as i feel sorry for the 14 that may lose their jobs i don't feel sorry for him, or his son that also went down and has previous.

But that problem with this form of 'violent disorder' is that in can also looked at as incitement, the police IMO failed to adequately control it and could have easily avoided it, however they also managed to stop it escalating into something far far more serious. This is what was obviously taken into account when handing out the sentancing and rightly so. A fight in a street between two people for example is just more or less going to be contained. The problem when the same happens between two groups of people that share a common bond (football teams) is that more and more will be dragged into the ensuing violence. As much as the Echo have clearly watered down the charges you can see the sort of people that you are dealing with, as well as a couple which obviously got carried away and drawn into it (see above). Add to this the fact that they caused 30k of damage to the car dealership. I really can't see how anyone can defend these thugs.

If you really can't understand what i am implying is there any point in trying to explain ?

Great game, Pepe should have been sent off, petulant idiot, if he did that to me on a sunday i would have lamped him. Hate all of the play acting i have seen in the world cup so far.

Lol at this thread getting to 13 pages worth of pointless boll*cks. Anyone that actually believes these guys got 12 months for shaking a fence and perhaps throwing a coin is almost as f*cking moronic as the goons that have gone down for acting like tw*ts in full view of the police and cameras. Everyone knows that football violence carries harsher sentancing, and saying 'think about the people and their families etc' Boll*cks, i feel sorry for their families for being related to such a bunch of idiots, i don't feel sorry for someone that goes out and commits a crime, i wouldn't feel sorry for someone that lost their driving licence for being over the limit, i wouldn't feel sorry for someone that went down for throwing a punch in town when 'he is not normally like that' and i certainly don't feel for these guys. Hopefully a stint inside will make them actually THINK about their families, jobs etc themselves.

Hard luck mate, However i would never have touched Italy with a barge pole

Her ?

Boll*cks, players on both sides will be harbouring the old rivalry don't worry about that. get over yourself FFS

Always English first, British second

Bring the ****z on, this is the game we needed to bring out our best IMO. No point in just poncing through the whole tournament, we need a test. If we fail it then so be it, but if we win it then it should set us up. Rooney needs a few days off before sunday, he is jaded.

I tell you what, one player that has really really impressed me was the Argie LB last night. Thought he was fantastic. And Tshabalala for RSA was pretty good.

Gonna cost ya

I believe he was maynor Figueroa, the Wigan LB. Scored a belter last season too

A little dissapointing TBH. I should have easily won the league if i had started with a 3-5-2 formation, but i didn't and so i have lost a game Hopefully i shall smash the leaders in my upcoming match but we shall see. The season has seen me completely change the squad and ensure i have a quality YA to hopefully create some great prospects in a few years. Changing the training from Keepers to PM training next season as well.

Plus 20% VAT Things are going to get hard. Unfortunately we have ball-bag face and the rest of his labour cronies to thank for a difficult budget.

No probs, My online name is WTFsmirky08 incase you need a bodyguard

Find the stickman you want, right click on it and select Save image as.. name it something memorable and save to desktop. Click Settings in top right corner and then go to edit avatar on the left hand side under my profile. Once there, use option 2 - upload image from computer, click browse and find the picture you saved to your desktop. Click Save changes and bobs your uncle, fannys your aunt.

This

Perhaps not for off topic but defo an infraction for the joke

Villa, Casillas, Pique for me today, shame that Silva and Iniesta didn't play. Still a nice 30 place rise or so, will watch iniesta and see if he regains fitness, have 15 transfers remaining and 3 captain changes. Time to make a charge

Apparantly it will be the one with the coin purse

I am deeply deeply troubled by this, it is a clear indication that cortese is going to move southampton fc to the antarctic next season. This is inextricably linked to him wanted as few STH's a possible and as few fans as possible to support the football team.