Sadly not, the dickheads would never allow it would they.
So we still get incidents where the police end up treating EVERYONE like the embarrassing, drooling, braindead scumbags out for a ruck, and the ones who ARE quite capable of enjoying a drink-up and a laugh with their mates without...
I think the (very valid) point B of F was making is that it'd just be better ALL ROUND if football didn't attract elements of the special needs knuckle-dragging community who feel they have to go around attacking pubs and nutting people to prove how "hard" they are.
I appreciate it'd suit your...
Probably because these mentally challenged social inadequates routinely express themselves with pointless acts of violence, which most folk with the requisite number of braincells who have managed to evolve into fully functioning human beings, tend to avoid if at all possible.
"Hold their own" ?
"Stand their ground" ?
Its SOUTHEND SEAFRONT on a spring afternoon for fucks sake, not Helmand Province. If they wanted a PWOPA tear-up, they'd don the khaki's and sign up wouldn't they ?
Oh no,hang on. That would actually take some bollocks wouldn't it.
f***ing saddos.