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This is off a chelsea web-site.
By: Charlie Harris
Date: 12 February 2008
Following the incident in which Cliff Auger and his son were victim of a police assault, an article from Yeading Blue on this website urged all those who have cause to feel that they have suffered as a result of either harassment or any form of intimidation from police or stewards at a football match.
Following Chelsea’s visit to Goodison Park for the second leg of the League Cup Semi-Final in January, the following incident took place, affecting Charlie Harris, one of the cfcuk writers. Here’s his story…
After what happened to Cliff at QPR and what happened at Birmingham, when an acquaintance of mine was arrested for slurring his words on the way into St Andrews when he has a speech impediment! Just four days later in the Semi-Final second leg of the Carling Cup against Everton, I experienced first hand how terrible the Police actually are. Here is my story from that day:
Having had a few drinks in the Arkles public house, my friends and I made our way out of the pub which was typically being patrolled by police - as it was the away supporters pub (or at least the pub which the bulk of Chelsea supporters were using on that night).
There was a group of roughly 30 Chelsea supporters who we followed to the stadium, many of whom we knew and were not likely to cause trouble. The reason for going in a big group was because we did not want to walk through notorious Stanley Park at night in a small group in case there was trouble in the park!
The Police asked us to drop some pint glasses whom some supporters had bought with them outside, starting quite politely before eventually calling many "cockney nuggets" (yes I know!) and other such phrases many of which are too explicit to repeat and certainly would warrant an arrest!
One policeman seemed to have taken one of my friends to one side, so me and my friend turned around and tried to walk over to him to see what the problem was. We were shouted at to move on and sworn at. We were so disgusted that we may have said something to the effect of "That is an offence in itself" and before you know it, I was arrested. They told me to get on my knees and "beg for forgiveness".
Desperate and obviously trying to avoid unnecessary trouble I decided to obey their orders. When I was on my knees, they attached the hand-cuffs (extremely tightly I add, I still have cuts around my wrists) and while they were doing this they were kneeing me and kicking me discreetly, whilst swearing at me. Then I was shoved in front of a video camera and asked for details ranging from name to the make of my jacket. I was then pushed into the back of the police van.
My friends were trying to call me and I managed to reach into my pocket to answer and put it on loudspeaker to try to tell them what had occurred. I was then greeted by a police officer who informed me explicitly that it wasn't a good idea to use my phone, and he confiscated it. My friends later informed me that whenever they called me, a man with a Liverpudlian accent answered saying "He's nicked, f*** off"!
After roughly 10 minutes, the Metropolitan police turned up and forced the Merseyside police to release me. I was issued with an £80 penalty, Section 5 for "use of words/conduct - likely to cause harassment/distress/alarm." I can still go to court over it but with a lack of witnesses who will be willing to travel to Liverpool for a court hearing it seems like a pointless exercise.
After the game we were confronted by Everton supporters who were abusive and violent towards us. The police were no-where near and this was roughly 20 metres outside the stadium. When we eventually found some police it just so happened to be the same officers that arrested me. I asked them where we should go to avoid trouble and if they could possibly sort out some sort of escort to take us to the train station as we were in a dangerous situation. The officer told me I had two options, walk on (and face the danger of thousands of angry Evertonians) or be arrested for failing to adhere to police orders.
We ended up walking on and had a few more punches thrown at us and only once did the police make any effort to break up the disorder. The most any of my acquaintances got was half a dozen stitches just above his eye, much lower and this could have been a lot worse…
We were all fairly glad to get out of Liverpool in the end, a pity really, because before that day I had always said Everton were the better half of Merseyside, my thoughts have changed about them and the Old Bill! We have a Cup Final to look forward to so I have to look on the bright side of life!
Just does'nt ring true with me, iv never known mersyside police to be like this. Just sounds like a lot of bollox.
This lad has probably been mouthing off an got a bit of a kicking, and now he's feeling bitter with his black eye.
Has any one ever had a problam with the police around goodison??
By: Charlie Harris
Date: 12 February 2008
Following the incident in which Cliff Auger and his son were victim of a police assault, an article from Yeading Blue on this website urged all those who have cause to feel that they have suffered as a result of either harassment or any form of intimidation from police or stewards at a football match.
Following Chelsea’s visit to Goodison Park for the second leg of the League Cup Semi-Final in January, the following incident took place, affecting Charlie Harris, one of the cfcuk writers. Here’s his story…
After what happened to Cliff at QPR and what happened at Birmingham, when an acquaintance of mine was arrested for slurring his words on the way into St Andrews when he has a speech impediment! Just four days later in the Semi-Final second leg of the Carling Cup against Everton, I experienced first hand how terrible the Police actually are. Here is my story from that day:
Having had a few drinks in the Arkles public house, my friends and I made our way out of the pub which was typically being patrolled by police - as it was the away supporters pub (or at least the pub which the bulk of Chelsea supporters were using on that night).
There was a group of roughly 30 Chelsea supporters who we followed to the stadium, many of whom we knew and were not likely to cause trouble. The reason for going in a big group was because we did not want to walk through notorious Stanley Park at night in a small group in case there was trouble in the park!
The Police asked us to drop some pint glasses whom some supporters had bought with them outside, starting quite politely before eventually calling many "cockney nuggets" (yes I know!) and other such phrases many of which are too explicit to repeat and certainly would warrant an arrest!
One policeman seemed to have taken one of my friends to one side, so me and my friend turned around and tried to walk over to him to see what the problem was. We were shouted at to move on and sworn at. We were so disgusted that we may have said something to the effect of "That is an offence in itself" and before you know it, I was arrested. They told me to get on my knees and "beg for forgiveness".
Desperate and obviously trying to avoid unnecessary trouble I decided to obey their orders. When I was on my knees, they attached the hand-cuffs (extremely tightly I add, I still have cuts around my wrists) and while they were doing this they were kneeing me and kicking me discreetly, whilst swearing at me. Then I was shoved in front of a video camera and asked for details ranging from name to the make of my jacket. I was then pushed into the back of the police van.
My friends were trying to call me and I managed to reach into my pocket to answer and put it on loudspeaker to try to tell them what had occurred. I was then greeted by a police officer who informed me explicitly that it wasn't a good idea to use my phone, and he confiscated it. My friends later informed me that whenever they called me, a man with a Liverpudlian accent answered saying "He's nicked, f*** off"!
After roughly 10 minutes, the Metropolitan police turned up and forced the Merseyside police to release me. I was issued with an £80 penalty, Section 5 for "use of words/conduct - likely to cause harassment/distress/alarm." I can still go to court over it but with a lack of witnesses who will be willing to travel to Liverpool for a court hearing it seems like a pointless exercise.
After the game we were confronted by Everton supporters who were abusive and violent towards us. The police were no-where near and this was roughly 20 metres outside the stadium. When we eventually found some police it just so happened to be the same officers that arrested me. I asked them where we should go to avoid trouble and if they could possibly sort out some sort of escort to take us to the train station as we were in a dangerous situation. The officer told me I had two options, walk on (and face the danger of thousands of angry Evertonians) or be arrested for failing to adhere to police orders.
We ended up walking on and had a few more punches thrown at us and only once did the police make any effort to break up the disorder. The most any of my acquaintances got was half a dozen stitches just above his eye, much lower and this could have been a lot worse…
We were all fairly glad to get out of Liverpool in the end, a pity really, because before that day I had always said Everton were the better half of Merseyside, my thoughts have changed about them and the Old Bill! We have a Cup Final to look forward to so I have to look on the bright side of life!
Just does'nt ring true with me, iv never known mersyside police to be like this. Just sounds like a lot of bollox.
This lad has probably been mouthing off an got a bit of a kicking, and now he's feeling bitter with his black eye.
Has any one ever had a problam with the police around goodison??
