Disgraceful scenes at Upton Park last night for the league cup tie between West Ham and Millwall, it looked like these kind of nights had been banished from our game but sadly this was hooliganism at its worst.
All the hard work of the last 15 to 20 years by the F.A had paid dividends and it had pretty much cleaned up the game , but there are clubs out there that consistently drag us back, well its time to get tough with these serial culprits.
First of all both teams to be excluded from any further part in this competition for 5 years, Millwall I know are already out this year because they lost so make their ban run for 6 years, also any more trouble from either of these two teams supporters must result in their League home games at their respective clubs to be played behind closed doors.
Behind closed door matches will severely hit gate money but the games can still be filmed and shown on TV whether that be live or recorded, so its not all doom and gloom on the financial front.
If this to fails to stop the trouble then they must be thrown out of the football league, its only harsh punishments like these that will have the desired effect, morons and violent thugs these so called fans are, but they do love their football.
There are certain fixtures around the Country that do have the potential for this kind of aggro, Birmingham host Villa next Month and that is another game with the potential for violence, so to Swansea versus Cardiff, there are many more like these, so why do the FA not anticipate this and make them early morning games if its a Saturday or Sunday game or behind closed doors if its a midweek evening.
Any matches with a history of trouble should be put on notice, clean up your acts or these will be the punishments, I fear if we don’t get tough the nightmare of the 1970’s could return.
West Ham should be kicked out the competition, and their next opponents given a bye.
ReplyDeleteThis was a case of 6 of one, half dozen of the other. The FA should punish both clubs severely. Millwall fans went their looking for aggro, and West Ham were lying in wait.
Thank God I support the poshest, nicest team in the Premiership, where even the nastiest chant is "Come and have a scholarly debate if you think you are smart enough'
Nuff said.