Sussex Police hail Albion v Palace match work a success (From The Argus)

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  buckler wrote:
  

  Ballroom Blitz wrote:
  I'm so fed up with reading all this drivel. You all take it for granted that a 'sport' needs a substantial police presence. Why? No other sport needs it. You don't hear about fights breaking out at railway stations after a tennis match at Wimbledon, or even after a Rugby match. Football seems to be a some sort of special case. Why? If people can't behave, then it should be banned. If it was ANYTHING other than football there wouldn't even be an argument about it.

  You have obviously never been near a football ground? A bit of rivalry is great and wont do anyone any harm. Best you stick on your tap shoes and jog on!

  Erm... we aren't talking about 'rivalry'.
  There is good natured rivalry at both rugby and cricket matches, and everyone gets on, and doesn't feel the need for a wholesale brawl, or to urinate like dogs on the rival supporters. (In fact that's unfair to dogs, because even they don't p**s on each other).
  These so called football supporters are disgusting excuses for humanity, and to call fighting, and the fact that they HAVE TO be segregated by the police within the ground 'a bit of rivalry' is ludicrous.
  There is much talk about whether the police acted correctly. The police SHOULDN'T EVEN NEED TO ATTEND! The fact that they do, and have to make plans to deal with these eventualities, and that no one questions it, says more about how complacent we have become about this sort of mindless violence than anything else. It is just taken for granted. A fact of life.
  Yes, I will 'jog on', thanks. At least that way I won't turn into one of those beer bellied, lager swilling 'supporters'."
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