Gary Gardner - including loan to Coventry

[Percy McCarthy]

I must admit I did like the copper who addressed us as we waited outside the Highfield Road away end before one night game. 'If you've got any knives, hammers, crow-bars or baseball bats, just drop them here now and you can collect them after the game'.

[cheltenhamlion]

I got ejected from The Hawthorns when Cheltenham went there in the FA Cup a few years back.

They took a massive following and I was sat on the end by the Olbiyun fans. One fat bastard spent the whole game hurling obscenities at us but it was me who got the boot for using my hands to mimic his man tits.

At least I was back in the pub before it got busy.

[JUAN PABLO]

I dont miss them Tony, after leaving Brum at an early age I lived in Coventry for 20 odd years and they absolutely hate us with a passion, I take great pleasure in their demise, horrible spiteful club, my feelings towards them are almost as strong as for Small Heath which is why I dont like helping them out with the Gary Gardner loan.     

I get the same stick from Cov fans in Hinckley . Leicester lot are ok , they dont mind Villa, cov hate us with a passion .

[Rick_avfc]

Sorry, I didn't realise you had the background to the incident can you explain what the "mug" had done?

If they had handled it better they wouldn't have had to deal with the later reaction.

Geez!  Like a lot of people would, I made an assumption.  I could be wrong I could be right.  Who knows??  At the end of the day, its my opinion and I strongly believe that "mug" has done something wrong.  I have a mate who is a copper and have heard stories of the amount of shite they take especially during footy matches. 
Anyway, lets forget about this incident which clearly has nothing to do with AVFC or Gary Gardner's development as a player and move on.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Don't the police frequently get involved at the request of the stewards?

So if the stewards decided to eject him for - say - sitting near some people waving a banner, and he refused, and they got the police in, surely he'd be expected to insist he'd done nothing wrong? Wouldn't you?

You're also assume he used profanity, which you don't know.

Like you said, you don't know what he said to them, what the stewards involvement was, or whether he swore at them, so it seems a tricky situation to be saying he deserved to be dragged out.

Yes I would but I do not for one minute believe they would have ejected him for something so silly as sitting next to someone or near someone who was waving a banner.  there is obviously more to it than what the video clip shows.

I dunno about that, to be honest.

Those stewards at the Ricoh are apparently an organisation like the ones they use at Old Trafford that got a lot of bad publicity a while back.

As I mentioned earlier, the bloke got thrown out for highlighting that the police officer was not wearing his name and number. He choose to make an issue of it, the police didn't like it and eventually threw him out. The fan has apparently received a three year ban from the ground, which I guess makes it all worth while.

[Rick_avfc]

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As I mentioned earlier, the bloke got thrown out for highlighting that the police officer was not wearing his name and number. He choose to make an issue of it, the police didn't like it and eventually through him out. The fan has apparently received a three year ban from the ground, which I guess makes it all worth while.
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oh dear!  What a mug lol!  If your gonna get banned for 3 years then at least do it for something worth while.

Anyway, anyone been following GG?  hows he getting on?

[Percy McCarthy]

Ah, so initially it was the copper who did something wrong. What a surprise.

[adrenachrome]

The police are there for crowd control, they managed to do the opposite.

By the looks of it, they asked the guy to leave and then he started to become confrontational so they had to use force to get him out.  No doubt he probably used profanity as well which police do not stand for especially if it is aimed at them so im sorry, the mug deserved to be dragged out as he was not leaving when asked.

How can a hanful of police control a bunch of mindless thugs charging at them down the stairs?

Sorry, I didn't realise you had the background to the incident can you explain what the "mug" had done?

If they had handled it better they wouldn't have had to deal with the later reaction.

No doubt he probably used profanity ....

No doubt there is a logical contradiction is this formulation.

[Rick_avfc]

No doubt he probably used profanity ....

No doubt there is a logical contradiction is this formulation.

You have too much time on your hands.

[Percy McCarthy]

No doubt perhaps there might be, certainly.

[Steve kirk]

Sweet Jesus my eleventh post , I was living in Coventry in 1987 when they won the F A cup and we were relegated with Billy McShit, that was such a difficult period I took unbelievable stick for 12 months or more, it eased a bit on our return to the top flight, I have never been involved in any scuffles in boozers but there were a few moments with some of their vilest fans when I nearly snapped, as I said they are just a rotten spiteful club, have you guessed im not keen?        

[john e]

I lived in Coventry from 78-83, so all was well as you can imagine,

Mind we did live in Stivichall which is where All the rich posh people like me reside

[pauliewalnuts]

i think we can all agree, there's never a "good" time to live in Coventry.

[Handsworth Wood Villa]

Good to see football fans standing up for their fellow fans.

Negative banners shouldn't be confiscated by the club.

Remember the 'Had Enough. Houllier Out' banner which got confiscated against Wolves last season?

Are the fans not entitled to voice or display their opinion?

[RunRickyRun]

i think we can all agree, there's never a "good" time to live in Coventry.

It was great as a student. You could rock up to a nightclub in shorts and a polo top and be the best dressed one in there.