sirlesboyd wrote:Please find below a copy of the post I put on the Warrington site this morning.If you think it is biased due to being a Warrington supporter then I can assure you it is not. You can trivialise events like this as just a bit of fighting if you wish but this bit of fighting ruined the day for kids and adults alike.
What you describe is almost identical, word for word, to what I witnessed at the 2005 Leeds/Hull final at Cardiff except that I was sat four rows closer to it than you.
To those who say that it is not alcohol that causes these problems, I'm not sure where your reasoning comes from, sure it takes an aggressive individual to want to create such mob violence in the first place but its the alcohol that is the spark to the fusewire, it would be a shame to ban alcohol sales inside the stadium because that is only part of the problem - anti-social behaviour like throwing beer around should be an instant ejection from the ground, no questions asked.
And like bramleyrhino I too was part of the same bbq night in Perpignan that was completely ruined by another gang of middle aged boozed-up fekkwits who simply did not have the knowledge of how to control their moronic behaviour under the influence of alcohol.
It embarrassing when its attached to your club but the truth is its a whole tranche of society who simply don't know how to control themselves now.