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What the feck was this all about? Early kick off, no pubs, overuse of stewards and police?

I've been to Barnsley umpteen times over the years including a Gentry Day and come across no problem whatsoever other than a bit of rowdiness that you see at all away games.

Why this overeaction?
 
Liberation said:
What the feck was this all about? Early kick off, no pubs, overuse of stewards and police?

I've been to Barnsley umpteen times over the years including a Gentry Day and come across no problem whatsoever other than a bit of rowdiness that you see at all away games.

Why this overeaction?
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Rumours doing the rounds that Ando and his crew were hitting town.
Can't be too careful.
 
Said in the MDT without a doubt the most over the top policing and stewarding operation I've witnessed (that wasn't a derby).

Today SYP made the organisation at Bloomfield seem text book.

12.30pm Kick Off.

No pubs for away fans (aside from the phoenix club).

Fans missing said kick off due to the most over the top entry into a football club I think I've ever seen.

Single file to go past a sniffer dog that when questioned a steward response was "to sniff out weapons, knives etc"...

Labels being put on bags again after being made to totally empty them (my daughters 12).

The away fans being moved to the back of the stand yet about 20 stewards at either side watching our fans like hawks.

As for the "line of steel" at the end it was farcical and totally unwarranted. I'm not sure what they expected, folk to jump over 20 rows to get near the pitch.

Then after the game there was more police in Barnsley Town Centre than at the G5 conference. Durham Police had been "drafted in".



We are staying just outside the area and had planned to have some food and a drink in Barnsley, however we felt some unwelcome and uncomfortable we went elsewhere.

It was a highly expensive, unwarranted, and most of all hostile environment I've seen for a very long time when the away fans where so good natured.

The FSA would like fans to email info@thefsa.org.uk with there experiences today.
Truly staggering.
 

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SYP are scum. Always have been.

I feel really sorry for the good people of South Yorkshire having to put up with SYP on a daily basis.

Obviously, they were intimidated by Bowler Hats, I presume the CI of SYP has had them all watching "A Clockwork Orange" this week and they were expecting "ultra violence". 👀

The twerps.
 
Jack Daniels said:
SYP are scum. Always have been.

I feel really sorry for the good people of South Yorkshire having to put up with SYP on a daily basis.

Obviously, they were intimidated by Bowler Hats, I presume the CI of SYP has had them all watching "A Clockwork Orange" this week and they were expecting "ultra violence". 👀

The twerps.
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Another grossly underused word these days 🙂
 
Jack Daniels said:
SYP are scum. Always have been.

I feel really sorry for the good people of South Yorkshire having to put up with SYP on a daily basis.

Obviously, they were intimidated by Bowler Hats, I presume the CI of SYP has had then all watching "A Clockwork Orange" this week and they were expecting "ultra violence". 👀

The twerps.
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I had to be vetted by SYP a couple of years ago as the company i work for deal with them on a regular basis, it was the most over the top invasive vetting process I've had to go through, also done it for other police forces around the country and they didn't need half the info they wanted, felt like saying to my boss that i cant be arsed and to just give the work to someone else
 
Absolutely ridiculous in their over cautious approach. what the bloody hell was that about at the end with the stewards? They looked ridiculous. We observed the minute silence (although it was partly for our lost fans too) and we even applauded their juniors going round the pitch with their cup. I neither saw or heard any problems. The way fans are treated is stupid and causing from less than curing them.
 
Jack Daniels said:
SYP are scum. Always have been.

I feel really sorry for the good people of South Yorkshire having to put up with SYP on a daily basis.

Obviously, they were intimidated by Bowler Hats, I presume the CI of SYP has had then all watching "A Clockwork Orange" this week and they were expecting "ultra violence". 👀

The twerps.
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For some reason, when I hear that term it reminds me of the Blackadder Goes Forth episode and the concert party.
The Three Silly Twerps. "The joke being there's only two of them."
Sorry, it just tickles me.🤷‍♂️🤣
 
I think that serious questions should be asked about SYP, the country is struggling to keep wards open in hospitals, Covid is costing a fortune and they are drafting in rozzers from Durham because they cant handle 1700 PNE fans.
 
The 12.30 kick off was bad enough but today showed why it was completely unjustified.

Closing pubs to PNE fans, closing the toilets at Barnsley Interchange, forcing PNE fans to take a certain route, the absurd single file queue into the equally absurd searching area, three sniffer dogs, police on EVERY street, stupid searching of bags which included putting tags on once searched, the absurd line of stewards at the end of the game, more overkill of police including those at Barnsley Interchange and bizarrely including Durham Police, excessive number of police vehicles. I could go on.

Overkill? A massive understatement and the locals should rightfully be angry at so much of their tax money being wasted on this.

SYP quite clearly have never learned their lessons. I described their actions as fascism and got laughed at by two people here - quite clearly they weren't there.
 
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