Blues match police crowd management

[amfy]

I suppose they could keep them lot in for 20-30 mins afterwards to allow regular fans to be away from the stadium and the only ones hanging around would be the pavement dancers who could be easily spotted by the Police

Amfy's first post says they won't do that because the Blues fans will trash the stadium.

Or there could be risk of crushing. The away end concourses are very narrow.

[Kingthing]

Can someone explain why the game is kicking off at 12 when the Police are happy for pubs to, generally with a licence, open at 8am. I thought the whole point was to stop people getting tanked up before the games. As someone who often has Stella on his cornflakes and has frequented many a pub at 8am before one of these games, I'm a bit miffed at having to travel up from London at stupid o'clock on Sunday morning.

I called the Social and they said they were opening at 10.   

[amfy]

The police said that their experience indicated that alcohol was only a small part of the equation in creating the trouble, and that those who want to drink will do so whether there are pubs open or not.

A much bigger factor is people just generally getting more and more worked up as the day goes on - including a build up of social media 'banter', but mostly people just having time to get more and more tense and edgy.

They also like to have a few local pubs open because it means that for the most part, they know where the tanked up people are coming from, rather than them arriving from all directions having had a few at home or at their mate's.

[dave.woodhall]

That second point's interesting.  I'd never thought of that before but it makes sense. 

[Lambert and Payne]

Can someone explain why the game is kicking off at 12 when the Police are happy for pubs to, generally with a licence, open at 8am. I thought the whole point was to stop people getting tanked up before the games. As someone who often has Stella on his cornflakes and has frequented many a pub at 8am before one of these games, I'm a bit miffed at having to travel up from London at stupid o'clock on Sunday morning.

I called the Social and they said they were opening at 10.   

0830 according to their notices in the pub and what the owner told my mate. Witton arms is 0830 too

[SoccerHQ]

I suppose they could keep them lot in for 20-30 mins afterwards to allow regular fans to be away from the stadium and the only ones hanging around would be the pavement dancers who could be easily spotted by the Police

Amfy's first post says they won't do that because the Blues fans will trash the stadium.

Or there could be risk of crushing. The away end concourses are very narrow.

Pretty sure when fans are kept back in other grounds they're kept back in their seats.

[UK Redsox]

Seems daft to me that pubs are open at 08:30 but I won't be able to buy a sandwich from Tesco on Aston Lane until 11:00

[PGW]

Can someone explain why the game is kicking off at 12 when the Police are happy for pubs to, generally with a licence, open at 8am. I thought the whole point was to stop people getting tanked up before the games. As someone who often has Stella on his cornflakes and has frequented many a pub at 8am before one of these games, I'm a bit miffed at having to travel up from London at stupid o'clock on Sunday morning.

I called the Social and they said they were opening at 10.   

0830 according to their notices in the pub and what the owner told my mate. Witton arms is 0830 too

How about Holte Suite???

[Walmley_Villa]

Some Bloonose nugget has posted a full view of his two tickets in the Upper Trinity on FB and it was retweeted on Twitter...

[amfy]

Tag AVFC official.in and they'll be cancelled!

[Des Little]

Some Bloonose nugget has posted a full view of his two tickets in the Upper Trinity on Twitter....

Let's have a link to it

[Walmley_Villa]

[Des Little]

Good old Yasir

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Talk about being mind-bogglingly thick. Now everyone knows his exact seats, and everyone knows who sorted the tickets for him.

[cdbearsfan]

Has anyone forwarded that to the club or shall I? I assume if they get cancelled Villa still get to keep his money?