Daggers Posted 11 June 2009 Posted 11 June 2009 Stoke City fan Lyndon Edwards, 38, has been awarded £2,750 in compensation following unlawful police action in Manchester last year. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) used section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act to round up more than 80 Stoke City fans prior to their club’s Premier League tie with Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday, November 15, 2008. Superb result - full details here
Daggers Posted 11 June 2009 Author Posted 11 June 2009 Watching football is not a crime! Watching football is not a crime! is part of the FSF’s ongoing drive to monitor the police in their dealings with football supporters and work with them to ensure that all fans are treated fairly, within the law and in exactly the same way as other social groups. Watching football is not a crime! has been launched as a direct reaction to recent instances of police officers using Section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 as a way of stopping football supporters, usually in pubs, from attending matches. We have teamed up with the civil rights organisation Liberty and are fully committed to taking this issue to court in order to prevent police using Section 27 on innocent football supporters. Campaign aims: * To stop the use of Section 27 legislation as a strategy for policing football supporters. * To inform supporters that this is happening with previous examples and steps to take if you are a victim of Section 27 legislation. * Prosecution/compensation – to establish whether or not use of Section 27 legislation by police on football supporters in this way is lawful, and if not, to take appropriate legal action to compensate as many of the victims of this tactic as possible. Specifically, we will strive to achieve the following compensation for innocent fans: refunds on travel expenses and match tickets, deletion of any records of incidents held on file, and a written apology. To do this we need your support, legal proceedings can be very expensive. We cannot know in advance how this case will develop, how long it will take or the total possible costs at the end of it. You can do this securely online or send a cheque payable to the Football Supporters’ Federation, Fans' Stadium, Kingsmeadow, Jack Goodchild Way, 422A Kingston Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 3PB. The suggested donation is £2.70, the approximate price of a pint, although we obviously welcome larger donations. We’ve set it up in multiples of £5 and £10 on the site, or you can purchase a membership-donation combo for £20. This means you get a year’s individual membership (including six copies per annum of our magazine - The Football Supporter) and feel extra good knowing you’ve contributed a fiver to Watching football is not a crime! We also ask that everyone who reads this sends the link on to five people. The more people who hear about this, the more evidence we build up of Section 27’s unfair use. All money raised in this campaign will be spent solely on the campaign while it runs. If we are successful in overturning the use of Section 27, any surplus will be used for future legal challenges on behalf of football fans. FAQs on Section 27: So what is Section 27? How can I help challenge Section 27? What can I do if Section 27 is served on me? Section 27 has been served on me!
C-man Posted 11 June 2009 Posted 11 June 2009 £20,000 legal costs. £2750 compensation. Fair play to Stoke for covering the legal costs, hopefully they'll be the first club to back their fans and more people will be able to challenge such ludicrous policing.
Daggers Posted 11 June 2009 Author Posted 11 June 2009 Deprived of toilet facilities on the coach, Lyndon and his fellow supporters were instructed to urinate into cups, which spilled over the floor of the bus so that they had to sit with urine sloshing around their feet for the 40-mile journey back. Nice.
Simi Posted 11 June 2009 Posted 11 June 2009 Very good news, hopefully this will make the police tone down their arrogance with regards their treatment of football supporters, doubt it though.
dandannieldanok Posted 11 June 2009 Posted 11 June 2009 I could have sworn that is a Brentford shirt.
Guest Posted 11 June 2009 Posted 11 June 2009 Very good news, hopefully this will make the police tone down their arrogance with regards their treatment of football supporters, doubt it though. At nearly £3,000 per supporter, and another 25 lodging complaints, I think it's very much in their interest to start using a bit of common sense when it comes to football fans. I was trying to search for this, as I'm sure that there was a topic discussing the treatment of the Stoke fans, but couldn't find it.
Daggers Posted 11 June 2009 Author Posted 11 June 2009 At nearly £3,000 per supporter, and another 25 lodging complaints, I think it's very much in their interest to start using a bit of common sense when it comes to football fans. Hands up who thinks the settlements will come from increased policing costs levied on clubs, who will in turn pass on the charges to...err...umm?
Big Ol' Bob Posted 12 June 2009 Posted 12 June 2009 I could have sworn that is a Brentford shirt. WORD!! Good spot.
hairy Posted 12 June 2009 Posted 12 June 2009 ALL football fans are thugs and should be made to sit at home and practise yoga on a Saturday afternoon (especially jobba)
davieG Posted 17 October 2009 Posted 17 October 2009 Apparently Burnley fans have to report to the Old Bill at 9.15 a.m. tomorrow and submit their name, vehicle make and registration to them before being allowed to join an escorted convoy which is the only means of entry for away fans to get in to see the derby at Ewood Park. So all you Baby Squad loving twats and your ilk this is what supporting a football team has come to - thanks!
Budweiser Posted 17 October 2009 Posted 17 October 2009 Apparently Burnley fans have to report to the Old Bill at 9.15 a.m. tomorrow and submit their name, vehicle make and registration to them before being allowed to join an escorted convoy which is the only means of entry for away fans to get in to see the derby at Ewood Park.So all you Baby Squad loving twats and your ilk this is what supporting a football team has come to - thanks! Boohoo.
Fosse Boy Posted 17 October 2009 Posted 17 October 2009 Boohoo. You actually admire them? They're kind of the reason we get treated like wankers at away games, have to move kickoff times etc.
CosbehFox Posted 17 October 2009 Posted 17 October 2009 Very good news, hopefully this will make the police tone down their arrogance with regards their treatment of football supporters, doubt it though. Greater Manchester Police being one of the biggest bunch of arseholes within the organisation. Seen that for myself at a lower league game. Apparently Burnley fans have to report to the Old Bill at 9.15 a.m. tomorrow and submit their name, vehicle make and registration to them before being allowed to join an escorted convoy which is the only means of entry for away fans to get in to see the derby at Ewood Park. Common practice for most 'high risk' games now. Millwall-Leeds, Cardiff-Swansea...
lou Posted 17 October 2009 Posted 17 October 2009 Apparently Burnley fans have to report to the Old Bill at 9.15 a.m. tomorrow and submit their name, vehicle make and registration to them before being allowed to join an escorted convoy which is the only means of entry for away fans to get in to see the derby at Ewood Park.So all you Baby Squad loving twats and your ilk this is what supporting a football team has come to - thanks! like the pricks today who knocked my daughter flying down the steps coming out the stand in their haste to "get em" (meaning the Derby fans) acting very hard when they know for a fact they wont be allowed anywhere near the away fans and would probably shit themselves if they had of done Fcuking grow up you morons
FSF Posted 20 October 2009 Posted 20 October 2009 No, your eyes don’t deceive you, this actually happened. Forgive us for blowing our own trumpets, but it’s not as if the police are going to do it for us on this occasion Last week saw an almost unprecedented apology from one of the country’s top policemen to a group of football supporters. Ian Hopkins, Assistant Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), attended a Fans Forum to personally apologise for the treatment of fans by his officers. For more on this, see the full story: http://www.fsf.org.uk/news/police-say-sorry-to-fans.php The Football Supporters Federation stands up for fans across the country, and it’s good to see that our work is beginning to pay off. We campaigned successfully against the misuse of Section 27 legislation last season, we’ve been working with Sunderland fans in an ongoing investigation into police brutality by Northumbria Police this season, as well as helping fans in individual cases week-in, week-out. The FSF is there for when the shit hits the fan, but we’re far more than that – find out more about getting involved and join for free (and get yourself a couple of freebies) at www.fsf.org.uk/join.php
Thracian Posted 20 October 2009 Posted 20 October 2009 Hands up who thinks the settlements will come from increased policing costs levied on clubs, who will in turn pass on the charges to...err...umm? It won't come out of the coppers' pockets, that's for sure. And doubtless they'll keep their jobs too which is more than I imagine Martin Allen will!
FSF Posted 20 October 2009 Posted 20 October 2009 Cheers to whoever merged these, but they are actually separate incidents. The Section 27 stuff was last season at the Man United v Stoke match, this apology comes from an incident in Manchester this season at the Bolton v Stoke game.
Guest Posted 20 October 2009 Posted 20 October 2009 The FSF is there for when the shit hits the fan, but we’re far more than that – find out more about getting involved and join for free (and get yourself a couple of freebies) at www.fsf.org.uk/join.php Any chance of any pro bono work?
Wycombe Fox Posted 21 October 2009 Posted 21 October 2009 Any chance of any pro bono work? As a public service, I think you should volunteer to move this to the Music section. Did you see what I did there?
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