[Albion] Assault in away end

[Giraffe]

I was a few rows in front of this. Didn’t see the assault sadly or I’d be glad to help, but the aftermath was shocking enough. Youngish chap with a bloodied nose, a still raging dad being pushed away by his clearly distraught son. Funnily enough I’d been standing on the same bus with them on the way to the stadium. Dad and son were clearly very drunk and I thank god that I didn’t have reason to get in his way then and offend him perhaps. I’d recognise them again for absolute certainty.

Interestingly I saw the stewards being told and the steward making the action of a headbutt to another possibly more senior steward. I assumed therefore they were dealing with him and as a minimum kicking him out. Disappointed to hear he came back in.

As an aside and Bozza touched on this, where were the stewards generally? I saw a few early on stopping our fans from gesticulating at the fence but nothing after that. None in the concourse for broom gate fun.

I’m probably an old duffer for saying this but too many men of a certain age drunk more than they should have done. It gave me England away vibes when plenty end up missing the game because they can barely stand up! Odd behaviour to so clearly not know your limits.

I’m fearing it will be even worse in Amsterdam.

 

[swd40]

Only heard the punch connecting from block A row 35. Then the fuckwit left. His son can’t of been more than 16, and was clearly upset by his Dads shitty behaviour. The lad had more morals and decency than his white powder loving so called father figure. Who was still showing all the facial signs of being on drugs as well as no doubt beer. Blokes clearly visible in one of the games fan vlogs.

 

[Greenbag50]

Erm.

Ah yes… wrong thread

 

[portlock seagull]

Only heard the punch connecting from block A row 35. Then the fuckwit left. His son can’t of been more than 16, and was clearly upset by his Dads shitty behaviour. The lad had more morals and decency than his white powder loving so called father figure. Who was still showing all the facial signs of being on drugs as well as no doubt beer. Blokes clearly visible in one of the games fan vlogs.

Christ almighty, if you could HEAR it then it must have been delivered with some force. Could have killed. This thug needs banning for life. Which video btw, approx minute…?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Only heard the punch connecting from block A row 35. Then the fuckwit left. His son can’t of been more than 16, and was clearly upset by his Dads shitty behaviour. The lad had more morals and decency than his white powder loving so called father figure. Who was still showing all the facial signs of being on drugs as well as no doubt beer. Blokes clearly visible in one of the games fan vlogs.

Poor lad. Him and his immediate family are clearly in need of some serious protection from their **** of a dad

 

[studio150]

Not something I would ever have expected to read about, and it saddens me that such an idiot follows the Albion.

In the cold light of day and when sobered up, you would like to think that the idiot has remorse for his actions and gets in contact with the club to confess his actions. However given the assault and aftermath I have zero expectation of this happening.

With the evidence provided, hopefully this idiot can be quickly identified by the Club and Police and appropriate action taken swiftly.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Interestingly I saw the stewards being told and the steward making the action of a headbutt to another possibly more senior steward. I assumed therefore they were dealing with him and as a minimum kicking him out. Disappointed to hear he came back in.

Paying devils advocate here, the steward may have saved the dad and unfortunately as is usually the case the son (who by the sounds of it) a good kicking if they had been removed, I am sure a drunk pissed up English bloke being lairy would soon be identified and picked on, could have saved the ignorant bullies life.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

What a shame the bloke didn’t head butt one of the Marseille ultras instead. He might have got what he deserved. It’s typical of cowards like this that they pick on people who can’t fight back.

 

[cjd]

Paying devils advocate here, the steward may have saved the dad and unfortunately as is usually the case the son (who by the sounds of it) a good kicking if they had been removed, I am sure a drunk pissed up English bloke being lairy would soon be identified and picked on, could have saved the ignorant bullies life.

"devils advocate "...

And I suppose the beating taken by the supporter on crutches and his son who was headbutted, "may" have saved them from being run over by a bus later on in the evening as they paid less attention to traffic than they normally would due to excessive well-being and happiness following our two goals....?

Hmmm, OK then.

You are weird.

 

[swd40]

Christ almighty, if you could HEAR it then it must have been delivered with some force. Could have killed. This thug needs banning for life. Which video btw, approx minute…?

Luke Linx vlog. Won’t put up the exact time on here as per Bozzas previous pic removal but have made a record of it if needed.

 

[andy_lee007uk]

Sins of the Father... I feel sorry for the lad in all of this. Glad that he tried to reason with his Dad by the sound of things instead of (as often happens) joining in.

I worked with someone a long time ago who got punched in the back of the head at a West Ham game by one of their own fans (he's a West Ham supporter). The guy was 5 foot nothing and probably 65kgs wet. The reason for being punched? He happened to say that it was a rubbish performance as he was leaving (they'd just lost) and out off nowhere, a fist to the back of the head.

We seem to live in very violent times at the moment... people lashing out at anything that slightly upsets them.

 

[Whitechapel]

So you can take a picture of anyone in a public place, without their knowledge or consent and post it on social media can you?

Clearly you’re a twat. If you or anybody else took a picture of me without permission, you would swiftly find your phone inserted up your anus.

I hope that if someone takes a photo of you without your knowledge your sixth sense kicks in and your fist swivels round like a laser guided missile and aims straight at their phone/anus.

Without doubt the single stupidest hole I’ve seen someone dig themselves in to for ages. Marvellous.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

"devils advocate "...

And I suppose the beating taken by the supporter on crutches and his son who was headbutted, "may" have saved them from being run over by a bus later on in the evening as they paid less attention to traffic than they normally would due to excessive well-being and happiness following our two goals....?

Hmmm, OK then.

I am not defending the attackers actions, merely point out the steward possibly only let him stay, because he was so drunk and may have saved the bloke from a serious kicking, and he was by circumstance somewhat lucky.

You are weird.

If that is weird then fine.

 

[East London Exile]

Despicable behaviour and I am saddened that a Brighton fan would assault a fellow Brighton fan.
I am sure that the club will do whatever they can within their powers. I don’t know whether we will see a criminal prosecution as this happened on French soil. It will need the French authorities to pay enough interest to consider taking action. as the perpetrator will now be back in the UK they will

 

[Dirty Dave]

They don't need to prosecute, they have the right to ban him from the ground if they believe they have enough evidence. They may well be seeking CCTV footage from Marseille.

I'd imagine at least asking Marseille the question about CCTV would be a certainty as part of any enquiry process

 

[el punal]

I mean our fans. We should be standing up to this as fans and telling twats like this it's unacceptable very publicly. Forget JUST a stadium ban.

Shame you weren’t there then to deal with the matter.

 

[Coalburner]

Obviously the guys a twat, but, posting a full pic could well be close to the breach line of GDPR regulations.

Tread carefully, even idiots have rights.

With rights come responsibilites

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Despicable behaviour and I am saddened that a Brighton fan would assault a fellow Brighton fan.
I am sure that the club will do whatever they can within their powers. I don’t know whether we will see a criminal prosecution as this happened on French soil. It will need the French authorities to pay enough interest to consider taking action. as the perpetrator will now be back in the UK they will

Nothing to stop the victims of the assault suing the attacker in a civil action, especially if they’ve had to incur costs for treatment, suffered loss of earnings, had to change plans etc., or even just to claim compensation and damages for spoiling their trip. Maybe not the sort of thing they’d want to do on their own but there must be lawyers and other specialists here who could assist, and we could have a whip-round to cover costs. I’d contribute.

 

[sparkie]

The more I think about this the more angry and disgusted I am with the scum who did it.

There's no place for them anymore in the albion crowd.

 

[Littlemo]

So you can take a picture of anyone in a public place, without their knowledge or consent and post it on social media can you?

What classes as public matters though. The Amex is probably not, given its privately owned stadium. Most people generally don’t care too much if they are caught in incidental photos (I.e cheering crowd shots etc) but in an instance where a clear picture of someone is posted then you’d probably get asked to take it down if that person was upset about it, but if you refused they might have grounds to go further.