[Centraal] Randverschijnselen #36

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Op donderdag 19 maart 2009 23:09 schreef TerroRobbie het volgende:
Het zal wel aan mij liggen

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Op vrijdag 20 maart 2009 10:23 schreef _Parallax het volgende:
Klopt.

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Op vrijdag 20 maart 2009 12:50 schreef TerroRobbie het volgende:

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Ga jij nou maar mobiel internetten.

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Op vrijdag 20 maart 2009 12:50 schreef TerroRobbie het volgende:

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Ga jij nou maar mobiel internetten.

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Op maandag 23 maart 2009 15:56 schreef Breach het volgende:
Die PSV'ers met hun, van Twente, anti-Reker song

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Op maandag 23 maart 2009 08:39 schreef _Parallax het volgende:
Parallax komt de deur nog eens uit. Kunnen de meesten hier niet zeggen.

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Op maandag 23 maart 2009 15:56 schreef Breach het volgende:
Die PSV'ers met hun, van Twente gejatte, anti-Reker song

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Op dinsdag 24 maart 2009 00:42 schreef RijstNatie het volgende:

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het is wat he
niet iedereen is zo orgineel als damsco

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Op dinsdag 24 maart 2009 20:02 schreef DIGGER het volgende:
Na afloop buiten het stadion werd Milan voorzitter Galliani belaagd, enkele autoruiten sneuvelden alsmede een band,

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Op donderdag 19 maart 2009 22:34 schreef Breach het volgende:

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Dat bounced allemaal terug bij WopperRobbie

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Why you should care about the Watching Football Is Not A Crime campaign

By Ian Winwood 6/02/2009

Read Ian Winwood’s column exclusively on Mirror.co.uk every Friday

The Football Supporters’ Federation – a group that campaigns for the rights of fans – have just launched a campaign called Watching Football Is Not A Crime.
Here are just a handful of examples of why such a campaign is needed.

Earlier this season, Chelsea fans were travelling to see their team play against Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium on a train subsided by the Stamford Bridge club. After departing this train, away supporters were transported to the stadium and held behind one of the stands for more than two hours before the game started. The police did not allow any member of the group to leave the convoy as it travelled from train station to football ground.

Also this season, a number of Stoke City fans were drinking in the Railway Inn, a pub in Irlham, Greater Manchester. Despite no reported complaints of disorder, officers from Greater Manchester Police entered the pub and told the 80 fans that they would no longer be allowed to go to the game at Old Trafford, and would instead be forcibly returned to Stoke.

Want another one? Okay, try this, also from this season…

Fifteen Plymouth Argyle fans were on their way to the see their team play away against Doncaster Rovers. Club stewards directed the group to a nearby pub. Despite their being no trouble, the group, whose number included children, were confronted by the police and told that they too would not be attending that afternoon’s game. Instead they were given a police escort through three counties back toward Plymouth.

The reason the police are legally able to harass British citizens in this way is because of something known as Section 27. A part of the 2006 Violent Crime Reduction Act, S27 allows Plod to move people from a certain area for a 48 hour period if there is a belief that an alcohol-related offence may be committed.

The law was originally passed so that two groups of drunken yahoos in a pub on a Friday night might both be sent 500 yards in the opposite direction. It was not intended to deprive peaceful Plymouth fans – fans that have travelled hundreds of miles to see their team – of watching live football.

“What Section 27 does,” says Malcolm Clarke of the Football Supporters’ Federation, “is treat football fans in a way that no other section of society would be treated. The way it’s being used certain police forces is to assume that all fans are gathering to get drunk and cause trouble.

“Now I’m not saying that the information the police are acting on is always incorrect,” he continues. “Maybe some of the fans in some situations are thinking of causing trouble. But does that mean that the police are right to round up everyone in the area and deny them access to the game?”

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Mr Clarke likens the situation to a supermarket locking down everyone on the premises because it suspects one of the people inside is planning to steal a frozen chicken.

But perhaps a more fitting comparison would be to London’s Notting Hill Carnival. Each year Carnival is attended by hundreds of thousands of people, and some of these people cause bother. But the police wouldn’t dare impose a Section 27 order on whole groups of people attending this event, and neither should they.

People are innocent until proven guilty. Except, it seems, football fans. The same football fans who, recent arrest figures show, boast one troublemaker for every 100,000 people who attend each weekend’s games.

Senior officers are said to be dismayed at how S27 is being implemented. But reports from on the ground seem to show what history has already taught us: that if you give the police too much power, they will misuse it.

Watching Football Is Not A Crime is a campaign being run alongside the civil rights’ group Liberty. Yesterday, Stoke City FC publicly backed the campaign, and promised £20,000 toward legal costs. If you want to find out more, then log on to www.fsf.org.uk.

I suggest you do, because what has happened to some fans already could soon happen to you.

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Op donderdag 26 maart 2009 01:02 schreef De_Slagert het volgende:
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