Quote Originally Posted by Canton Kev View Post
I think your missing my point. I’m not saying people should’ve stood in the car park with the coaches but underneath the stand. There were no coppers in the way back down to the area I was stood. We were kept back for what? 20mins? The police aren’t gonna move just because fans ask them to so with a bit of common sense people at the back could’ve stopped trying to push their way through a non moving crowd. After a couple minutes it was apparent that the crowd weren’t being allowed through so why keep trying to get further forward?
Coaches were just a few feet away. It would have been very easy to allow the crowd to get on the coaches if they had so desired. People just wanted to get home. Quite how high the risk of post match confrontation was between fans is a matter of debate. It was noticeable that there were no burger vans outside the away end and the fact that trains were not allowed to stop at Bordesley (information to that effect given out on arrival at Bordesley) implies that WMP had already decided to make post match dispersal difficult for City fans. The tannoy system was unintelligible as far as I was concerned so, maybe, a "stay where you are at the end of the match" announcement was made. That's an issue for BCFC. Thankfully, no-one was hurt and batons weren't used. Just a bit of unnecessary confrontation.