You don’t remember being kettled after the 5-0?!
Blimey. Still remember it to this day.
Held in the ground for 30 minutes, then slowly slowly escorted en masse to one train station for trains back to Brighton. Dogs and horses blocking every street, helicopter overheard, hundreds of coppers. Took at least another 45 minutes.
Didn’t matter if you’d driven and had a car parked nearby, you weren’t allowed out the kettle. Didn’t matter if you lived somewhere other than Brighton and needed a different station, you weren’t allowed out the kettle. (I lived in Ealing at the time, so was being forced to go in a completely wrong direction).
It was the most over-the-top policing I’ve ever experienced at a football game.
I managed to escape! I was living in Camden at the time and with a girl, we pleaded with an officer to be let out but he wasn’t having any of it. After a lengthy exchange we all became aware the kettle had moved on a bit and me, girl and cop were now all standing on our own. He repeated his lines but I pointed out we were now standing on our own...he then relented and left us to run back to his colleagues.