Football fans urged to stay safe tonight

11:20am Sunday 24th June 2012 in News By Siobhan Ryan

Ambulance bosses are urging football fans to stay safe and look after themselves and friends when watching England’s quarter-final against Italy tonight.

Bars across Brighton and Hove and the rest of the county are expected to be packed by the time the game kicks-off at 7.45pm.

South East Coast Ambulance Service typically experiences an increase in calls when events like major football matches take place.

The ambulance service received than 100 additional calls when England played Sweden on on June 15 compared to the Friday before.

The service is urging everyone across Sussex to ensure tonight is not spoilt by a trip in an ambulance and to hospital which could have been avoided.

Head of planning Andy Cashman said: “As always, we have robust plans in place to manage any increase in demand but people can support us as well as the players by using their common sense to avoid any unnecessary trips to A&E.

“If people choose to consume alcohol they should also ensure they also drink plenty of water.

“We obviously don’t want to stop people having a good time but we do ask that they are sensible and think about the impact of their actions.”

Comments(8)

Popped vanity implant says...
12:02pm Sun 24 Jun 12

Football yobs of the type described who also have access to the assistance of someone who can read will probably interpret the headline as needing to use a condom. Which was more aimed at their parents I guess.

However, it's possible that the average Brighton football fan thinks protection during sex is to stay under the bus shelter.

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9 of us says...
1:16pm Sun 24 Jun 12

Also possible that with a pen name as daft as yours, you are the tit here. Leak did it darling?

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Popped vanity implant says...
1:54pm Sun 24 Jun 12

9 of us wrote:
Also possible that with a pen name as daft as yours, you are the tit here. Leak did it darling?
Nope, and it's singular so it could be referring to the penile implant you are still saving up for? The NHS would do it but there's a long waiting-list for micro-surgery I'm afraid.

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All 9 of me says...
2:04pm Sun 24 Jun 12

Popped vanity implant wrote:
9 of us wrote:
Also possible that with a pen name as daft as yours, you are the tit here. Leak did it darling?
Nope, and it's singular so it could be referring to the penile implant you are still saving up for? The NHS would do it but there's a long waiting-list for micro-surgery I'm afraid.
jolly good shot old fruity

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Alan G Skinner says...
2:37pm Sun 24 Jun 12

Popped vanity implant, your attempt at humour by making frankly outdated, degrading remarks about Brighton supporters is cheap, offensive and deeply prejudice. Perhaps someone as reputedly learned as yourself, should be a little more objective.

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Popped vanity implant says...
2:43pm Sun 24 Jun 12

Alan G Skinner wrote:
Popped vanity implant, your attempt at humour by making frankly outdated, degrading remarks about Brighton supporters is cheap, offensive and deeply prejudice. Perhaps someone as reputedly learned as yourself, should be a little more objective.
OK

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Popped vanity implant says...
3:04pm Sun 24 Jun 12

Mr Skinner, to be more objective, I'll update some material - knob gags aside, and I'm not 'reputedly' anything. I didn't ention 'supporters'. 'Yobs' is the term you find offensive?
What else do you want me to call so many drunken thugs burdening the emergency services? Why defend them? They all claim to be fans - are you the person who decides if they're true fans?

I guess you won't be defending the yobs on West Street after 11pm tonight? Role out the standard excuses about there's always a few bad apples? There appear to be much more than a few I'm sad to see.

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Cabin fever says...
10:30am Mon 25 Jun 12

Popped vanity implant wrote:
Mr Skinner, to be more objective, I'll update some material - knob gags aside, and I'm not 'reputedly' anything. I didn't ention 'supporters'. 'Yobs' is the term you find offensive?
What else do you want me to call so many drunken thugs burdening the emergency services? Why defend them? They all claim to be fans - are you the person who decides if they're true fans?

I guess you won't be defending the yobs on West Street after 11pm tonight? Role out the standard excuses about there's always a few bad apples? There appear to be much more than a few I'm sad to see.
What about the people that burden the emergency service the throughout the year, not just on the nights an England match is taking place?

Also, you seem to poke fun at those who apparently 'can't read properly', and yet you use 'Role' instead of 'Roll', you can't seem to string a decent sentence together, and you don't much care for punctuation: "Football yobs of the type described who also have access to the assistance of someone who can read will probably interpret the headline as needing to use a condom."

Let him without sin...

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