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Looking at the large numbers of police and horses outside Everton football ground yesterday, I was wondering what percentage of the cost for that comes from tax payers.
I know the club pays some, but how much?
Re:Football mongols (again) .... 6 Years, 1 Month ago
Not enough !
The disuption to town centres etc is enormous ... and probably costs local businesses (those that have not boarded-up) millions as genuine customers stay away.
Re:Football mongols (again) .... 6 Years, 1 Month ago
In The Know wrote: Not enough !
The disuption to town centres etc is enormous ... and probably costs local businesses (those that have not boarded-up) millions as genuine customers stay away.
Yes, we try our best to avoid the area on Saturday,even though it is normally somewhere I like to go shopping. (a couple of miles of proper shops on a street)
They have clashed a home game with the upcoming Grand National this time, and the police say they cant cope.
Re:Football mongols (again) .... 6 Years, 1 Month ago
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote: Yes, we try our best to avoid the area on Saturday,even though it is normally somewhere I like to go shopping. (a couple of miles of proper shops on a street)
They have clashed a home game with the upcoming Grand National this time, and the police say they cant cope.
Re:Football mongols (again) .... 6 Years, 1 Month ago
In The Know wrote: honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote: Yes, we try our best to avoid the area on Saturday,even though it is normally somewhere I like to go shopping. (a couple of miles of proper shops on a street)
They have clashed a home game with the upcoming Grand National this time, and the police say they cant cope.
Re:Football Fixture - 14th April 6 Years, 1 Month ago
Spee wrote: honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote: They have clashed a home game with the upcoming Grand National this time, and the police say they cant cope
The Liverpool FC home game is a late kick-off on the day of the Grand National which will have concluded, when it starts.
It is only a fifteen minute difference. The crowds for both cause terrible problems and its a double whammy because it is the same road for both events.
They have got extra police (on double pay) and I am sure they will do a grand job of crowd control, as usual, but it seems a bit daft to make the job harder than it needs to be, and inconvenience more people for longer.
Re:Football Fixture - 14th April 6 Years, 1 Month ago
Spee wrote: Your MP, Council and police have all been consulted - drop them a line?
JK lives near that huge west London music festival; maybe that should be cancelled too...
Nobody is suggesting that anything should be cancelled, Spee, just that kickoff is moved a bit so people can get home without it being an ordeal.
It doesnt look good for the city if people come and then have to sit hours in their car or not be able to get the train!
Re:Football mongols (again) .... 6 Years, 1 Month ago
I've no sympathy for people who set out to provoke other people. If you poke someone with a sharp stick, don't go crying to the papers when they react more aggressively than you expected. Is it years of sitting on a couch, saying what one likes about people on the screen, that makes them think they can do the same when the people are actually in front of you? Or is it years of tapping insults on a computer that has the same effect? The person who deserves vilification here is the idiot father who thinks he can hide behind 'banter' when things backfire. I bet he'll feel so deflated once this story dies he'll have to haul his daughter back out to wind up another celeb, so that he can belatedly get outraged again. Absolutely pathetic.
Re:Football mongols (again) .... 6 Years, 1 Month ago
Largely agree - but what he should have done was point out that even if his team had lost he would still be picking up thousands and thousands in wages that week - whereas the other person would be scraping up enough to pay for an entrance ticket for the next match !
Re:Football mongols (again) .... 6 Years, 1 Month ago
Ray wrote: I've no sympathy for people who set out to provoke other people. If you poke someone with a sharp stick, don't go crying to the papers when they react more aggressively than you expected. Is it years of sitting on a couch, saying what one likes about people on the screen, that makes them think they can do the same when the people are actually in front of you? Or is it years of tapping insults on a computer that has the same effect? The person who deserves vilification here is the idiot father who thinks he can hide behind 'banter' when things backfire. I bet he'll feel so deflated once this story dies he'll have to haul his daughter back out to wind up another celeb, so that he can belatedly get outraged again. Absolutely pathetic.