The Old Bill certainly had their hands full with West Ham when they played here last Tuesday night.
A couple of hundred of them arrived on the train early in the afternoon and immediately set about smashing a pub near the station to bits. By all accounts they were running riot in the Grangetown area of the city for around an hour before the police managed to get them under control.
They also started going beserk inside the ground at half-time. For no apparent reason a large number of them steamed into the police during the break. It looked pretty nasty. All of the women and kids in the West Ham section had to be taken out of there and put into the home family enclosure for the rest of the game.
I guess it was a result of all the hype surroundig cardiff's hooligans. The west ham lot probably wanted to let them know who's 'boss'. TLB, what were the cardiff hooligans doing during all this?
GNLF: Our lot were nowhere near the West Ham mob when they started performing. That was the oddest thing about it. There seemed to be no apparent reason for their attack on the police, but it looked very much premeditated as loads of them were involved and it flared up so quickly.
You're right though, it was probably the ICF trying to impress their Soul Crew counterparts. City play West Ham again here soon in the league. Should be interesting.....