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[Football] The Always Ultras - utter embarrassment to English football
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turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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no- there's no way any of this can be true. Everyone knows that Selhurst has been sold out at every game FOREVER and it's only "plastic" teams that see attendances rise when they've been promoted....given how much they bang on about it, theres no WAY palace could be lumped in with these other clubs is there?
turienzo's lovechild
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yep, I'd place several championship sides ahead of them....even palace themselves at previous visits
If only you said "Nigel, aged 13 and 5 mumphs!" would've rounded it off nicely.
surlyseagull
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- Aug 23, 2008
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Flares and pyrotechnic devices inside stadiums are very dangerous and they can reach extremely high temperatures,” inspector Matt Ashmead from the Metropolitan police’s central football unit said.
“There is a very good reason that they are banned from football matches, as they can cause horrific injuries and can also be frightening for the many young fans that attend matches.
“Some fans might think that setting off a flare is a good way to support your team, but it is putting yourself and fellow fans at risk.”
Any clearer buddy
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
I missed the CPFC song which always rung out strong and loud. Their support was not the normal true away fans.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Perhaps not the fashionable line of thought but my first one was "god, imagine if you are in that away and are just a normal person who wanted to come along and watch their team".
It would drive me mad.
It would drive me mad.
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Eric Youngs Contact Lense
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I am a bag of contradictions this morning! Part of me blames both sets of supporters who feel that they have to take to video/social media to "justify" the rivalry to the wider footballing public by explaining just how much they "hate" the other club, which helps to set a stage for those who are intent on building their "reputations" amongst like-minded others. No-one outside of the two clubs cares, and why should they? But ultimately, Crystal Palace as a Club now have to decide how they want to react to the evidence before them and how they want to progress, as will Brighton, but as others have pointed out, CPFC appear to have embraced the development of the "Ultra" element,no doubt with intentions to help foster an atmosphere that they believe will help the team - loud, intimidating etc.. However, these "Ultra" chaps fortunately wear a uniform, presumably so that they can stand out, recognize each other and present an air of intimidation and even organization - militia style. The Club should act, in communication with other elements of the Fan base, not because of the specifics of last night, because this is a fixture that brings out the T**Ts on all sides but on the broader direction that this group have been heading which mandates that they need to go to ever increasing extremes to build the reputation for intimidation . It reminds me of the cosy relationship that the old Cardiff owner appeared to have with their hooligan element many years ago. The CPFC fans should demand action by their Club on that specific group in a coordinated way and make their own stand. This is all my interpretation, so any of the regular Palace posters have a view or can offer a different perspective, would be interested to hear it.
Arrests last night... seems pretty Sussex focussed?
'A Sussex Police spokesman described the operation as 'challenging', and said: ' By 11.30pm, six people had been arrested.
'A 26-year-old man from South Croydon and a 15-year-old boy from Brighton were both arrested on suspicion of throwing or discharging a missile.
'A 51-year-old man from Worthing and a 30-year-old man from Horley were both arrested on suspicion of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
'A 45-year-old man from Portslade was arrested on suspicion of being a football spectator failing to comply with a banning order and a 41-year-old man from St Leonards-on-Sea was arrested on suspicion of homophobic abuse.''
'A Sussex Police spokesman described the operation as 'challenging', and said: ' By 11.30pm, six people had been arrested.
'A 26-year-old man from South Croydon and a 15-year-old boy from Brighton were both arrested on suspicion of throwing or discharging a missile.
'A 51-year-old man from Worthing and a 30-year-old man from Horley were both arrested on suspicion of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
'A 45-year-old man from Portslade was arrested on suspicion of being a football spectator failing to comply with a banning order and a 41-year-old man from St Leonards-on-Sea was arrested on suspicion of homophobic abuse.''
Eddiespearritt
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Absolutely agree. Paul Barber's high-handed indignation about pretty much everything is really going to be tested here. Here.... is a really important subject which needs serious action by the Premier League, the FA and CPFC. NOW. Get writing Paul - and let's see action taken. Explosions.... in a football ground.... in this day and age ? When terrorists are killing people at events everywhere. Sorry but there needs to be strong action taken. Mark Bright - it isn't jolly japes you idiot.
In other news - people ejected again from the 1901 club for not wearing a collared shirt on a freezing night. Grow up BHAFC.
For an alternative take on the subject of this thread....
https://twitter.com/ULTRAS_CPFC/with_replies
https://twitter.com/ULTRAS_CPFC/with_replies
Suspect there might be more northern balance once the video has been analysed. More widely, seems like the goons might have reached a watershed with the HF - quite a backlash from their own support overnight and today on social media as [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] posted last night.
Seasider78
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- Nov 14, 2004
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Spot on and I cannot understand why given they were being set off deliberately at key moments in the game a stadium announcement was not put out saying the game would be held up and players removed from the pitch until it stops. Given the times we are in this kind of thing being allowed to go on in the crowd is really poor form and the lack of action taken was astonishing. At the end of the game they were still letting them off within metres of police. Palace will not do a thing as others have said the club actively support these goons and Parish has shown his lack of class over poogate so fully expect them to be plastering this all over their twitter feed in the coming days.
So when your kid gets a french banger in the face and has to walk around like Niki Lauda for the rest of his life you'll be happy to say it's all part of the 'fun'? What a cock.
Your last few words sums up your limited vocabulary and explains why you have completely missed my point.....which was (in simple words) it is difficult to detect small devices in a security search in the limited time available.
I didn’t mention people getting injured.
exactly!!!!!
Not Andy Naylor
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Crystal Palace Football Club statement:
“We have been made aware of a small group of supporters attempting to gain access to the Amex stadium last night without tickets while using bangers and flares. This kind of antisocial and criminal behaviour is completely unacceptable and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms. There are very clear images of the incident and we will work with the police to identify the supporters involved, who will face stadium bans as well as potential criminal proceedings.
We would like to apologise to all the innocent supporters who arrived at the stadium with tickets but were denied entry and to the two stewards who were injured at the ground. We wish them a full and speedy recovery. Any supporters with legitimate, unscanned match tickets should email either a picture of the ticket, or the unique seven-digit ID number on the ticket, to boxoffice@cpfc.co.uk, together with their personal details, and arrangements will be made for a refund”.
“We have been made aware of a small group of supporters attempting to gain access to the Amex stadium last night without tickets while using bangers and flares. This kind of antisocial and criminal behaviour is completely unacceptable and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms. There are very clear images of the incident and we will work with the police to identify the supporters involved, who will face stadium bans as well as potential criminal proceedings.
We would like to apologise to all the innocent supporters who arrived at the stadium with tickets but were denied entry and to the two stewards who were injured at the ground. We wish them a full and speedy recovery. Any supporters with legitimate, unscanned match tickets should email either a picture of the ticket, or the unique seven-digit ID number on the ticket, to boxoffice@cpfc.co.uk, together with their personal details, and arrangements will be made for a refund”.
Agree totally including PC D------d.
Pretty sure the reason they all dress alike is to make Police CCTV hard work as 50 people of similar age in similar clothes are quite hard to distinguish. Makes banning orders for pyro etc hard to stick.
Eactly why, during the match, Sussex Police should have sent along a bunch of vans and they should all have been rounded up and processed upon attempting to leave the Stadium. They haven't a hope in Hell of getting mnore than one or two of them after the fact. They'd have better luck playing Jenga with their bellends.
Might agree for other forms of disorder but this was a serious and significant safety issue. And it scared the shit out of young kids. They could have thrown a flare at our fans. Or at our keeper. The smoke could affected our keeper / defenders and resulted in them scoring.
So many reasons why the OB should have taken IMMEDIATE action.