davieG Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Leicester City NEWS: Police planning for European football at the King Power Stadium By Ciaranfagan | Posted: February 29, 2016 Police are planning now for big European nights at the King Power Stadium. VIEW GALLERY Comments (0)Police are planning for nights of European football at Leicester City's King Power stadium next season. The Foxes' miraculous performances in the Premier League have put them on the brink of passage to the elite Champions' League or, if the dream does not quite come off, the Europa League. Senior officers at Leicestershire Police have been discussing the implications for them should City's end-of-season league position in May send them into European competition for the first time in 15 years. Officers visited two matches in London last week as guests of the Metropolitan police. The matches, Arsenal's 2-0 loss to Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday and Spurs' 3-0 demolition of Fiorentina in the Europa League two nights later gave officers an insight into modern European match policing. They are also speaking to the UK Football Policing Unit, which advises forces whose teams enter European competition. The force is weighing up the implications of policing extra mid-week games, welcoming fans from across the continent and, eventually, the need to liaise with colleagues overseas to share information on the hooligan element. City's potential entry to Europe will have implications for the 21 fans who are currently subject to court-imposed football banning orders. They will be required to surrender their passports prior to City matches on the continent to prevent them from travelling. Similar measures are in place for overseas England games. A capacity King Power Stadium would make up to 1,600 seats available to visiting fans in a European tie. Pc Ali Grimsley, of the force's football unit, said: "It's a learning curve for us. "Hopefully it will be matches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays – meaning the Champions' League – rather than the Europa League on Thursdays. "I can't help but want to see the team do well. "This will be my ninth season working the football and it's only a few seasons since I was planning for matches in League One. "Then it was the Championship and then the Premier League. "Next, hopefully, it will be the Champions' League and the likes of Real Madrid or Barcelona coming to town. "I certainly didn't expect that." Leicester City Sir Peter Soulsby said: "European football would bring new challenges to the police and for the city. "But they are exciting challenges and we are all beginning to get our heads around what might be. "It's brilliant the police are thinking ahead and taking advantage of the experience of their colleagues in London. "There is a lot of planning going for what might be " City fan Chris Baird, 33, from Aylestone said: "I'm pretty confident we'll make it though and can't help imagine some of the teams that might end up coming here and some of the stadiums we might end up going to. "But in some ways it still feels too early to be talking about it. There's a long way to go to the end of what's been a mad season so far." Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Police-planning-European-football-King-Power/story-28819598-detail/story.html#ixzz41YPhzRXs Follow us: @@leicester_Merc on Twitter | leicestermercury on Facebook
ScouseFox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 1600 nice we get more seats then. or is there going to be blocks of segregation keeping them european nutters away from the poor family stand
Voll Blau Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Would be pretty unsporting of us to only give over the minimum 5%, especially if we want decent allocations for any return fixtures.
GaelicFox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Would be pretty unsporting of us to only give over the minimum 5%, especially if we want decent allocations for any return fixtures. It's 5% generally more is not the norm
yorkie1999 Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 I think it's more of an excuse to go on the lash abroad.
Sionnach gorm Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Unless we play Liverpool in CL I hardly think we'll need the police
AjcW Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 To be fair the champions league tends to be the only away games Spanish sides get support at, as most of the ex pats turn up. If you look at away games in the league in spain you're lucky if you see 50 people in the away end!
stripeyfox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 I presume the stadium capacity will not be restricted in any way? I know some CL venues lose the first few rows of seats to accommodate larger advertising boards. But I think this is generally older venues (Stamford Bridge springs to mind)
Birmingham fox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 I may be wrong but I'm fairly sure we have to give up the first few rows of seats around the stadium, due to advertising boards having to be bigger in the CL. May be why away support is less to get the extra home fans in who give up there front row seats
Birmingham fox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Stole your thunder there stripey fox. Apologies
stripeyfox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Stole your thunder there stripey fox. Apologies We were obviously thinking the same thing. Great minds and all that! Don't know the answer though...
ramboacdc Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 I presume the stadium capacity will not be restricted in any way? I know some CL venues lose the first few rows of seats to accommodate larger advertising boards. But I think this is generally older venues (Stamford Bridge springs to mind) capacity wont. if you are in the europa league you have to add certain advertising and lose the front 3 rows of the seats.
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Can't wait for our stewards and police to crap their pants when the Unity turn up and pyro the sh!t out of our away end
stripeyfox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Is Mr Elsome arranging the coach trip to Madrid again?
GaelicFox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 The club will be focused on package trips I would expect half the away tickets to be swallowed up on club run packages All the regular champions league clubs run them now
AndWhat? Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 The club will be focused on package trips I would expect half the away tickets to be swallowed up on club run packages All the regular champions league clubs run them now Our away tickets or away tickets for fans to come here? Can't imagine Dortmund or Lech Poznan selling tourists tickets in their away section?
m4DD0gg Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Is Mr Elsome arranging the coach trip to Madrid again? Nothing short of prisoners on that away trip
GaelicFox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 Our away tickets or away tickets for fans to come here? Can't imagine Dortmund or Lech Poznan selling tourists tickets in their away section? Our fans going away I'll be surprised If they don't do the "added value" trips Official Flight tickets coaches etc... For a fixed price I'm led to believe some clubs do 1000-1500 of these
Wymsey Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 More policing will probably mean more delays, both in and outside the ground (like traffic, and stop/check searches if they're going to do it).
Soar Fox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 1600 Galatasaray fans waving flares and chucking pyro around next to the family stand. Our stewards won't know what to do
filbertway Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 To be fair the champions league tends to be the only away games Spanish sides get support at, as most of the ex pats turn up. If you look at away games in the league in spain you're lucky if you see 50 people in the away end! It must be so hard to support away teams in most countries. We're lucky that worst case is probably a 6 or 7 hour drive.
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 1600 Galatasaray fans waving flares and chucking pyro around next to the family stand. Our stewards won't know what to do A barrage of clappers going one way and flares and coins coming the other
ScouseFox Posted 29 February 2016 Posted 29 February 2016 It must be so hard to support away teams in most countries. We're lucky that worst case is probably a 6 or 7 hour drive. and we think our kick off times are bad, there's rarely, if ever, more than one saturday 3pm in spain and france. they play friday night, sunday morning ffs, sunday nights etc etc. psg to marseille at 9pm on a sunday, just the 8 hour drive back starting at midnight. be back just in time for work without any sleep. sounds boss.
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