Trouble in Cleethorpes

Quoted from Mighty_Mariner

I was walking through the market place with my 2 young children, one of which is severley disabled at around 1pm and it seemed like a party atmosphere... fit forward 30 minutes  when we were walking back and it was.like a war zone... I spent q0 years in the Army and it felt like being back in Helmand..... guys between what looked.like 16-60 running Round and fighting... absolutely embarrassing. Why can't people just enjoy a sociable beer, the sunshine and a game.of football without it all ending in violence... really don't understand!!!

And that's the point!

Absolutely no need for it at all, but we did smash up Sheffield City centre a few seasons ago, especially around the Graduate Pub, I remember walking through it after it and it wasn't nice at all, it was like a bomb site, so they are just getting their own back, obviously that doesn't make it right, but we did the same at Sheffield so we had it coming... Let's not pretend all our fans are angels because we aren't, every club has a MINORITY who are scum

Yorkshire invasion

https://youtu.be/O1AnmUljE4U

Quoted from Davec

Absolutely no need for it at all, but we did smash up Sheffield City centre a few seasons ago, especially around the Graduate Pub, I remember walking through it after it and it wasn't nice at all, it was like a bomb site, so they are just getting their own back, obviously that doesn't make it right, but we did the same at Sheffield so we had it coming... Let's not pretend all our fans are angels because we aren't, every club has a MINORITY who are scum

No we didn't "have it coming".

There was no need to even have the match. Anyone with an IQ in single figures could have worked out what would happen if you had Sheffield "fans" coming to Cleethorpes on a Saturday afternoon in July. It wouldn't matter if we were in L2, L1 or Conference Northern, the result would still have been chaos and violence.

I'm sick of hearing about "small minorities" and "poor segregation" and all the rest of the excuses. This was 100% predictable. It could easily have been a lot worse.

The blame for it happening at all lies with the club and specifically with whoever sanctioned this unnecessary game at this time.

I agree with Ron the writing was on the wall for this game, but maybe the near 4 k paying gate over rided all sense . As for minority I witnessed 100s from both sides more than happy to oblige in fighting each other.

Am i missing something........clearly i am.  Maybe some of you should be working for the old bill.  How do you know this was going to happen and excuse my ignorance but when was the last time we played sheffield utd?  Has there always been confliction between us and them? If so then i understand some of the comments but if not.....well how can anyone know this was going to happen.....even i didn't know.

Quoted from Meza

Am i missing something........clearly i am.  Maybe some of you should be working for the old bill.  How do you know this was going to happen and excuse my ignorance but when was the last time we played sheffield utd?  Has there always been confliction between us and them? If so then i understand some of the comments but if not.....well how can anyone know this was going to happen.....even i didn't know.

Always been agg between us and both sheff clubs.

Quoted from Meza

Am i missing something........clearly i am.  Maybe some of you should be working for the old bill.  How do you know this was going to happen and excuse my ignorance but when was the last time we played sheffield utd?  Has there always been confliction between us and them? If so then i understand some of the comments but if not.....well how can anyone know this was going to happen.....even i didn't know.

Erm, hot summer Saturday, nearly 2,000 tickets sold, loads of old bill, old bill helicopter, come on engage brain.

Basically what some seem to be saying is it's OK for the fun of the majority to be put on hold for the fun of the violent minority, because the authorities can't seem to handle a bit of disorder and sort out the culprits.

Yesterday was a total police failure , we pay a so called football liaison officer a good wage out of our local taxes , yesterday he never had a clue.
The police never really seemed to locate Grimsby's mob , they seemed happy to stand outside all the high street and market place pubs full of United  fans and thought that was good enough.
It was obvious the Grimsby lot was going to make an aperance and they managed to do it twice in the market place and once in the high street .
After the match that should have been the end of it as the police know exactly where everyone is and where they need to go to get home .
The trouble on the train tracks and train station was totally avoidable .
I'm not blaming your average Bobby with bottles ect being thrown at them but they was badly led yesterday and heads should roll