Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
Think there may have been a few injustices handed out to football fans over the years. The Chelsea f a cup game springs to mind. Didn’t about 25 go to jail? One for throwing a traffic cone?
Not so sure it was quite an injustice. You had around 100 plus men brawlingvwith each other in a busy city street in the middle of the day in full view of members of the public (including children ) aggravated by the fact that the only reason for this violence was that the two factions supported different football clubs.

As for throwing a cone, in it’s own it may seem harsh but when you factor in the above it’s fully in context of what they were convicted of.

Section one of the Public order act classes a riot as more then 12 people acting in unlawful violence. This incident as you can see fits that although they were charged with violent disorder.

There are indeed miscarriages of justice but this wasn’t one of them.
I’ve met a few of eh lads involved and individually they’re sound guys but if you’re going to get involved then you have to face up to your actions.
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