Swindon Town and Southampton fans arrested after trouble near St. Mary's Stadium (From Daily Echo)
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Swindon Town and Southampton fans arrested after trouble near St. Mary's Stadium
10:22am Wednesday 17th March 2010 in
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- By Jenny Makin » Assistant News Editor
DETECTIVES are investigating after a fight broke out resulting in the arrests of 14 fans moments before last night's match between Southampton and Swindon.
Trouble flared outside a pub in St Mary's Street between a big crowd of supporters, spilling in to nearby Jonas Nichols Square just 15 minutes before kick-off.
Two Saints fans were arrested at the scene and taken to a nearby police station.
A contingent of Swindon supporters were then escorted on the short walk to St Mary's Stadium, but were also arrested and detained by police before they were allowed inside the ground.
All 14 people were held in police cells overnight and were this morning expected to be interviewed by police leading the investigation.
It's believed officers are examining CCTV footage and images to establish exactly what happened near the Plume and Feathers pub around 7.30pm.
Police were also called following reports of a man who had been stabbed in the same area at around the same time as the fracas, but it is not thought to be linked to the football related violence.
Anyone with information or who witnessed the trouble is asked to call Shirley CID on 101 and ask for the Operation Billet team.
Comments(19)
Stupideditor
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11:39am Wed 17 Mar 10
dannybrennan
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12:11pm Wed 17 Mar 10
Stupideditor wrote:And
Football is a gentlemans game played/watched by thugs, Rugby is a thugs game played/watched by gentlemen.
kev63
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12:53pm Wed 17 Mar 10
Stupideditor wrote:Egg chasing is played by people that can't kick a ball and watched by snobs
Football is a gentlemans game played/watched by thugs, Rugby is a thugs game played/watched by gentlemen.
dannybrennan
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1:07pm Wed 17 Mar 10
kev63 wrote:Would switch the s for a k
Stupideditor wrote:Egg chasing is played by people that can't kick a ball and watched by snobs
Football is a gentlemans game played/watched by thugs, Rugby is a thugs game played/watched by gentlemen.
Saintlygirl
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1:25pm Wed 17 Mar 10
priesterz
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1:35pm Wed 17 Mar 10
G0Rf wrote:"Yooof"
What were the swindon lot doing in Kingsland market before kick off anyway? Looking for trouble! Yooof!
"Yawn" more like...thinking they're big men by putting up hoods and getting together in numbers to try and intimidate single groups of people. Nothing more than jumped up chavs trying to be hard when in fact a tuesday night kick-off is well past your bedtime.
Linesman
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2:55pm Wed 17 Mar 10
Stupideditor wrote:With what they appear to be grabbing in the scrum, I would hardly describe watching that is something that a gentleman would want to watch!
Football is a gentlemans game played/watched by thugs, Rugby is a thugs game played/watched by gentlemen.
Or at least, only a certain type of 'gentleman'!
GoodnessGraciousMe
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3:13pm Wed 17 Mar 10
alineworker
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3:30pm Wed 17 Mar 10
TJC67
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4:06pm Wed 17 Mar 10
SomersetSaint
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10:17pm Wed 17 Mar 10
Stupideditor wrote:Egg shaped ball compensates for lack of skill!!
Football is a gentlemans game played/watched by thugs, Rugby is a thugs game played/watched by gentlemen.
clausentum
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6:40am Thu 18 Mar 10
GoodnessGraciousMe wrote:Drastic action needs to be taken against so-called football fans who are simply thugs.
Football thugs yet again, load of absolute cowards........
Tie them to deck chairs and make them watch a five-day cricket international match while consuming curled -up cheese and cucumber sandwiches and downing tepid tea.
Rudd Gillett
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10:09am Thu 18 Mar 10
frenchvic
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10:53am Thu 18 Mar 10
Gladbachsaint
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12:32pm Thu 18 Mar 10
These people are not organised hooligans - just the same idiots who get in trouble on a night out. They can't handle their drink and will, more than likely, be the sort of lunatic who gets involved in a fight outside the ground then stands around while the police take a clear picture of them to put in the paper.
B. L.
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2:15pm Thu 18 Mar 10
clausentum wrote:Good grief, how could you suggest that. Isn't that vile method of torture against the Geneva Convention?
GoodnessGraciousMe wrote:Drastic action needs to be taken against so-called football fans who are simply thugs.
Football thugs yet again, load of absolute cowards........
Tie them to deck chairs and make them watch a five-day cricket international match while consuming curled -up cheese and cucumber sandwiches and downing tepid tea.
Wait a minute, that only applies to prisoners of war, OK, carry on then.
Optimism rules OK
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3:15pm Thu 18 Mar 10
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The lower leagues are not too different from the top division clubs, the only difference is that the top clubs price out the hooligans, but lest we forget, they also price out the families (another shame in english football).
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The FA are very keen to rid the premiership of crowd troubles and bad press, its why portsmouth have gained such support and publicity from the FA (and got away with fraud), they dont want the world to see the premiership being any less than a superleague.
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With that in mind, what about the football league? the world pays as much attention to league 1 and 2 as we do to the italian Serie C (none), so why would the FA highlight the problem to the world and spend millions trying to change it, when they can hide it under a money carpet? .
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One last point, this whole ''southampton are victims'' and laying the blame with every team that face us, Millwall fans blame everyone else as well, so do Leeds fans.. im sure we werent 100% responsible, but were not blameless, and there is a fraction of Saints that are Sinners, just like every club on the planet.
Optimism rules OK
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3:18pm Thu 18 Mar 10
B. L. wrote:You may end up getting 'posh' football hooligans, now that really would be a bad sequel to 'Green street'.
clausentum wrote:Good grief, how could you suggest that. Isn't that vile method of torture against the Geneva Convention?
GoodnessGraciousMe wrote:Drastic action needs to be taken against so-called football fans who are simply thugs.
Football thugs yet again, load of absolute cowards........
Tie them to deck chairs and make them watch a five-day cricket international match while consuming curled -up cheese and cucumber sandwiches and downing tepid tea.
Wait a minute, that only applies to prisoners of war, OK, carry on then.
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G0Rf says...
10:48am Wed 17 Mar 10
Looking for trouble!
Yooof!