A friend who's a Leeds season ticket holder has sent me this. Interesting what the author says about the police give the experiences of the people in the Railway Bell.
(I haven't edited this in any way, are paragraph breaks not allowed north of The Wash?)
A grand day out
Trains delayed or converted to buses, weather awful, joke stadium, joke ref, joke performance by both sides. In short, a truly wonderful day out. Clueless performance by just about everybody wearing a Leeds shirt (though the home side weren't exactly any better), and although Killa was very unlucky to pick up his first yellow card, he should have known better than to tempt the moron in the black for his second. As for Butler's pair of injury-time cards for telling the ref what he thought of him - it was understandable but he should be experienced enough to know that he should leave that side of the game to the fans. The only vaguely positive thing I can find to say about the whole experience (beer and company apart) was that after the game, the police who held us back were probably the most professional and sensible bunch we've had in years: they talked to us instead of shouting and waving batons, they did their best to get the useless train company to get a rail replacement bus to come up to us - and when that looked like being a lost cause they shrugged their shoulders and said that if anyone didn't want to wait that was fine by them. In short, they treated us like adults and didn't have any trouble as a result. But this was probabl a one-off: expect the same threats of violence and arrest from the boys in blue at Pompey on Tuesday night if last year's visit is anything to go by.
(I haven't edited this in any way, are paragraph breaks not allowed north of The Wash?)
A grand day out
Trains delayed or converted to buses, weather awful, joke stadium, joke ref, joke performance by both sides. In short, a truly wonderful day out. Clueless performance by just about everybody wearing a Leeds shirt (though the home side weren't exactly any better), and although Killa was very unlucky to pick up his first yellow card, he should have known better than to tempt the moron in the black for his second. As for Butler's pair of injury-time cards for telling the ref what he thought of him - it was understandable but he should be experienced enough to know that he should leave that side of the game to the fans. The only vaguely positive thing I can find to say about the whole experience (beer and company apart) was that after the game, the police who held us back were probably the most professional and sensible bunch we've had in years: they talked to us instead of shouting and waving batons, they did their best to get the useless train company to get a rail replacement bus to come up to us - and when that looked like being a lost cause they shrugged their shoulders and said that if anyone didn't want to wait that was fine by them. In short, they treated us like adults and didn't have any trouble as a result. But this was probabl a one-off: expect the same threats of violence and arrest from the boys in blue at Pompey on Tuesday night if last year's visit is anything to go by.
