RV Casual wrote:dogfound wrote:RV Casual wrote:I would imagine they will be looking at sentences ranging from 18 months to 3 years for this depending on each defendants history.
Absolute madness and crazy for a fight over the Football. It really isn't worth it these days is it.
prison for football isn't new ,there are probably less going down now than the 70s/80s , whats different is your on camera all the time, if your not on cctv your on some idiots phone and then all over social media .
Where did I say prison for football was new??
Not that I'm proud of it but it's an area I have quite a bit of experience in unfortunately as I have mates who have done time for West Ham 2004, Stoke at the play off home game in 2002, Chelsea in 2010 amongst others and I have had a suspended sentence myself many years before (which if happened now would have probably meant jail), what is new though is the length of the sentences hence why I said it's madness. back in the 70's and 80's more often than not you would get a slap on the wrist or a fine, people were doing far worse than they are now and IF jail time was handed out it would be days not months or years and that was rare.
But since the turn of the Millennium, what happened at Euro 2000 and France 98 and all that panorama shit and the Macyntire crap sentences have gone through the roof and lads are getting jailed for the sort of lengths I quoted above which is absolute madness and does not fit the crime and why it really isn't worth it now, not that it ever was of course.
slap on the wrist.? your ill informed
football hooliganism was seen as a massive problem in the 70s /80s..
Lincoln Halinan regulary dished out dispropotionate sentences to our fans..
a club director/ MP campaigned to have fans publicly flogged.
and Margaret Thatcher actually had a War Cabinet for the fight against hooliganism and demanded judges give out STIFF PRISON SENTENCES...I personally know about 20 blokes that went down and it certainly was not for a few days either..personally i got arrested and fined twice ,a total of 280 quid for things id have been fined 40quid max for if even arrested in a town centre on a Saturday night...slap on the wrist that was 10 weeks worth of my apprentice wages at the time..
the games your on about was after the police had broken the back of it..