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Tonight we saw Birmingham vs Villa kick off into an almighty scrap.

May be O/T but it reminded me exactly of Luton vs Rushden last year at our place. However, we didn't react whereas Villa is, and probably now as I type, there's all hell breaking loose around Birmingham!

I'm too young to remember the days of ripe hooliganism but for me it seems like more and more cases are occuring, and the Police just arent doing enough to stop it. If they had stop fans going on in the first place, none of this would have happened!

I think the common trend is where the supply of tickets is relatively huge, and the demand is low. For Carling Cup ties (eg Millwall vs West Ham) some regulars do not go so that leaves tickets for people intending on just violence to go instead!

Does anyone feel like starting at our level, clubs and police should be doing more to eradicate these issues? I know we only realy had two cases last year, but it seems to be like its a problem that needs solving before it grows out of control!

Perfect timing....not, with the world cup bid result tomorrow.

at our level: police = money.

that kinda thing was always going to happen when you get two hated rivals playing one another.

Re our game with Luton this year, am i correct in thinking this is to be played on Sunday 26th Dec?
The police bill last year was reported to be £18k, WTF is it going to be this year if they are paid to work on a Christmas holiday?

Really wouldn't suprise me if those 'erberts with flares were sneaky commy soviets.