Luton today

gimmick

Bloody hell. They are going to be in very big trouble after the crowd violence today. The fans went for the York fans who were celebrating qualifying for the play off final. The York players had to hide in the stands and missiles thrown at them.

Add this to what happened in Sheffield yesterday, and it does not look good at all for the English league. I know its only a minority, but this will be a major black eye and has to effect the 2018 World Cup bid.

antomorro-sei

Not too surprised at Luton tbh.

Bounty Hunter

have no time for Luton town FC or their fans in general (there are exceptions) and i lived there for 4 years. There isnt a whole lot to be liked about them tbh.

leninbenjamin

Any more details? The BBC completely ignore it in their match report, unsurprisingly. Was it many?

That_Guy

Just looking at pictures. Mad stuff altogether. Absolutely disgraceful behaviour.

Dozen Wicked Words

gimmick wrote: »

Bloody hell. They are going to be in very big trouble after the crowd violence today. The fans went for the York fans who were celebrating qualifying for the play off final. The York players had to hide in the stands and missiles thrown at them.

Add this to what happened in Sheffield yesterday, and it does not look good at all for the English league. I know its only a minority, but this will be a major black eye and has to effect the 2018 World Cup bid.

Just confirmed, Kenilworth Road and Hillsborough dropped by the world cup bid, Morecambe and Burton Albion on stand by.

gimmick

Well done, you obviously know how world cup bids work. Bravo.

Kingp35

That_Guy wrote: »

Just looking at pictures. Mad stuff altogether. Absolutely disgraceful behaviour.

Do you have a link to the pics?

JerryHandbag

Jesus Christ, goin by the report on BBC text this seems like the worst in years :eek: Will wait to see footage later

IvySlayer

Kingp35 wrote: »

Do you have a link to the pics?

The Mail has 2 pictures, judging by the fact the York players are quickly rushing out and are protecting their heads, it must've been bad.

IvySlayer

The Sun has a video link too.

I don't look at those papers, but it was the first google result :P

amacachi

Sky Sports News just with a report there, seems the York players went to the away end to their fans and the Luton "fans" came onto the pitch and cornered them throwing bottles and coins at least. Police got the players out through the stand.

The_Kew_Tour

Club should get 10 point ban for this, its not good enough.

carlop

Had a good lol at the name of the player in the photo in The Sun article.

Headshot

its kicking off in the Dundalk game

OPENROAD

Headshot wrote: »

its kicking off in the Dundalk game

Really?

You never see any reports in the Irish media about crowd trouble, does it go on here?

cson

adrian280582 wrote: »

Club should get 10 point ban for this, its not good enough.

What the feck is that?!

As opposed to a nine point ban?

3hn2givr7mx1sc

OPENROAD wrote: »

Really?

You never see any reports in the Irish media about crowd trouble, does it go on here?

Not too bad in the grand scheme of things, tbf. But that's no excuse, a bad sending off for James Chambers(Rovers) fueled by the manager being sent off and the scum in Rovers fans got involved, tried to charge at the Dundalk fans. In the stand though, didn't invade pitch.

Aidric

IvySlayer wrote: »

The Mail has 2 pictures, judging by the fact the York players are quickly rushing out and are protecting their heads, it must've been bad.

PC Ronnie Whelan in the first pic. :pac:

OPENROAD

baz2009 wrote: »

Not too bad in the grand scheme of things, tbf. But that's no excuse, a bad sending off for James Chambers(Rovers) fueled by the manager being sent off and the scum in Rovers fans got involved, tried to charge at the Dundalk fans. In the stand though, didn't invade pitch.

Same as England then

Columbia

Should be forced to play their next three home games behind closed doors, as well as a points deduction.

Gavin "shels"

OPENROAD wrote: »

You never see any reports in the Irish media about crowd trouble, does it go on here?

Obviously missed the papers back in Feb after LuasGate so.

Savman

I saw this vid on Sky News, effing shocking behaviour. Luton will be hit hard and rightfully so.

And for the smartarses - this will most definitely hurt the WC2018 bid for England. Blatter/Platini and the rest of the FIFA bureaucrats look for any reason not to award these things to the English, so they will be all over this like a bad rash.

keane2097

Ban terraces.

If we give these people seats they'll behave themselves.

enviro

Very damaging to the England bid, They will have to hand down serious punishments to hold on to some respect from FIFA.

FIFA wont want this sort of thing going on at a world cup finals.

Also the UEFA cup final riots in Manchester in 2008 will be fresh in their minds again following all this.

Hooligans.

Imagine if that was another national team up in the stands getting bombared with missles following an unfavorable result for England....
World cup disaster, FIFA will want to avoid imo.

Zebra3

Savman wrote: »

I saw this vid on Sky News, effing shocking behaviour. Luton will be hit hard and rightfully so.

And for the smartarses - this will most definitely hurt the WC2018 bid for England. Blatter/Platini and the rest of the FIFA bureaucrats look for any reason not to award these things to the English, so they will be all over this like a bad rash.

What are you talking about? Blatter/Platini and the rest of the FIFA bureaucrats? Platini has nothing to do with FIFA ffs. :rolleyes: Do you know where the CL final is next May? :rolleyes:

antomorro-sei

How would this effect the WC Bid?

Luton have been at this all year in the Conference.

enviro

antomorro-sei wrote: »

How would this effect the WC Bid?

Luton have been at this all year in the Conference.

I dont think FIFA are concerned by Luton, it is English hooliganism that is their concern.

Reganio 2

I don't see how the odd fight is going to ruin their World Cup bid but its ok to hand it to the murder and rape capital of the world.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Reganio 2 wrote: »

I don't see how the odd fight is going to ruin their World Cup bid but its ok to hand it to the murder and rape capital of the world.

Nothing got to do with football in SA, though.

Savman

Zebra3 wrote: »

What are you talking about? Blatter/Platini and the rest of the FIFA bureaucrats? Platini has nothing to do with FIFA ffs. :rolleyes:

Sorry, my mistake, Platini's UEFA. Not that this changes anything, they are pretty much variations of the same thing and both have the same disdain for the English game, probably due to it having such financial muscle.

Oh and as for where the CL final is next year, couldn't care less. I'm a Villa fan ffs, I regret to inform such things don't concern me....yet

Chucky the tree

Goodluck finding a country where there hasn't been a football fan riot in any of the leagues. This shouldn't make any difference to there bid. Now if it was in a premiership stadium it might make a difference.

dfx-

enviro wrote: »

I dont think FIFA are concerned by Luton, it is English hooliganism that is their concern.

I think what antomorro-sei is getting at is that why should this event be treated any different to what goes on all the time..