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"High-Risk" Away Fans

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To be fair to the Norfolk police if being in Norwich by 11 o'clock, bumping money into their town in the form of alcohol in a few cruisers, and once in the ground standing and singing a few songs equals a high risk then they've got me well and truly sussed. Good on them...

Posted

Some fisherman only put that on their forum in the hope it'd be discussed on here and surprise, surprise it's worked.

Well we've been ****ed around once, what's stopping them doing it again?

Posted

And here's my reply from the FA following my complaint.

Dear Gary

Thank you for contacting The Football Association.

The FA has been advised by both the Norfolk Police and the local Safety Advisory Group and it has been agreed to allow Norwich City to offer less than the required 15% away allocation.

Kind regards

Alex Burkwood | Customer Relations Officer

Customer Relations

The FA Group

Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London, HA9 0WS

I received exactly the same response to my query to the FA, empty word for empty word.

I've sent a follow-up with some precise questions and will post here if I hear anything useful - but I'd expect to receive either no reply or similar, content-free guff to this FA response. As I said, it is not in the self-interest of any of the parties (NCFC, Norfolk Police, the FA - or even LCFC) for any true answers to be provided....let's keep trying, though!

Posted

This is such a fvcking pisstake! What the fvck have we done to deserve being high risk . Im not one to normally advocate violence but im fvcking outraged by this ! Lets smash up norwich fvcking coonts give em high risk

Posted

This is such a fvcking pisstake! What the fvck have we done to deserve being high risk . Im not one to normally advocate violence but im fvcking outraged by this ! Lets smash up norwich fvcking coonts give em high risk

Simply because we run every town we visit.

Posted

As a Swindon fan of many years I can only remember three sets of fans that have scared me, and I mean really scared me at home fixtures, in the late 70s maybe early 80s Leicester charged the Town End even though there wasn't that much violence the intent was there, Middlesbro took the Town End and in latter years Leeds, well they are just badly behaved generally.

My point being that Leicester do have a reputation around football league clubs,in my opinion this is from many years past and no reflection on your fan base currently. Every club has nutters, we certainly do and are also classed as a 'high risk' by many clubs in the lower leagues, maybe because we take a large following for are normal levels of third and fourth tier football.

Leicester have visited on a few occasions since and there has never been any problems, and we were very well treated by fans, stewards and police at our recent fixture, and an extremely pleasurable experience, apart from the result.

Posted

We'll do what we want, we'll do what we waaaaant, we are a high risk we'll do what we want.

Posted

Interesting, indeed. It would also be interesting to see the minutes of this Safety Advisory Group. It has already been stated that the police and the club made submissions - so what were they? Who (if anyone) argued for a full away allocation and who argued against - and on precisely what "crowd safety" grounds. Nobody, be it NCFC, LCFC, the FA or the police, wants to give clear info about this - they all want to cover it up! My guess (and it is only a guess) is that it suited both NCFC and the police to reduce the allocation. No doubt, Norwich feel that they have a good chance of selling out to home fans as it's the 5th Round - I bet they wouldn't have been so keen to lose the cash at the turnstiles for "crowd safety" reasons if it had been a visit from Swindon or someone in the 3rd Round!

Freedom of Information request?

Posted

We'll do what we want, we'll do what we waaaaant, we are a high risk we'll do what we want.

Same old LEICESTER taking the piss. This defiantly.

Posted

High Risk? We might as well act it then? Tear Carrow Road up? ;)

Dont do that it will be doing them a favor, they will claim off their insurance and build a proper football ground, somewhere they can park their tractors

Posted

I got this reply from NCFC which admonishes them of all blame and directs the blame to the police.

Your email to David McNally has been passed to me as David is away currently and I am responding on his behalf.

I can understand you and your sons disappointment at not being able to get tickets for the FA cup tie. However to suggest Norwich City used safety as a “smokescreen” is incorrect .

The decision to limit the number of Leicester supporters to 2,400 was made by the Safety Advisory Group a statutory body chaired by Norfolk County Council under advice from the Norfolk Constabulary. Both of these bodies are government bodies and as such totally independent of Norwich City Football Club. A statement to that effect is on the Norfolk County Councils web site.

I hope that my response clarifies the position.

Kind regards

Chris Bailey

Head of Stadium Operations and Supporter Services

I got the exact same reply, i bet they didn't even read our letters this was a reply that had already bean put on paper knowing they would get complaints

Posted

were high risk fans . who gives a **** . were leicester boys .and were going up

I'd change that last line for this game to either:

We're Leicester boys and we'll smash you up

or

We're Leicester boys and we'll win the cup

Posted

They're right it's cheating. It's the FA cup and this game could be decided by being first out of the draw. Really hope we beat them. Any one know where to park by the way.

Posted

They're right it's cheating. It's the FA cup and this game could be decided by being first out of the draw. Really hope we beat them. Any one know where to park by the way.

Park anywhere that is unsafe and 'high risk'

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I e-mailed Norfolk Police just to get some views and reasons mid-week, still no reply yet, despite getting an automated message saying they normally read and reply within 4 hours, can't blame them though, they must be having crisis meetings and planning the tactical stratagys how to combat our high risk fans.

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