Block Seven

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That's a fair point - the police are there to serve the needs of the wider public, they're not there to just police through the lens of stewarding a football match.

I think the police are far too heavy handed with their treatment of football fans at times, but there have been plenty times when my personal experience of them has been fine.

I don't enjoy not being able to leave the stadium as usual so that they can let away fans leave first but I understand why they do it because I've seen the bother that can happen when segregation isn't there, and in the not too distant past have seen stuff thrown from the home support gathering at the gates at the West stand at away fans. Those actions make it much harder for the police to have confidence that we're all grown up enough to leave the stadium at the same time as a big visiting support.

Every away game I go to, there are young lads taking coke in the toilets, that has consequences, I've seen groups fighting after games this season, that has consequences, I've seen pyro and pitch invasions and objects thrown from the crowd, I've seen Block Seven having physical fights with stewards in the stadium this season- these things have consequences.

The consequences are that football fans continue to get policed like an underclass. That's the price we pay for those behaviours.

It's not rocket science. Some self-awareness wouldn't go amiss and the ability to correlate the actions to the consequences instead of implying that this policing has come out of nowhere would help.

Block Seven have some significant positives, but you can't net off the bad stuff because there's some good stuff - it doesn't work like that.

Very well said