Free TAW Special: Knives, Knuckle Dusters And Policing Gone Wrong

The Anfield Wrap

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🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Gareth Roberts and John Gibbons speak to Rob Sutherland, online editor of the "Five Year Plan" fanzine, about claims by Sussex Police that Crystal Palace fans were carrying knives and knuckle dusters at their game versus Brighton. Rob and the fanzine challenged the claims prompting a police u-turn and public statement. Gareth and John also speak to Amanda Jacks from the Football Supporters' Federation about the incident and how the media covered it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.
0:05.0	Okay, so we've got Rob Sutherland here is the editor of Five Year Plan Fanzine,
0:09.7	a Crystal Palace fanzine, and the reason we've got them on today is you may have all seen
0:13.6	some stories in the press about a crystal palace fans having difficulty getting
0:19.6	into the game at Brighton and the way they were policed and plenty of stories about the
0:24.1	treatment about sort of being kettled back to the station people with tickets not
0:28.7	getting into the ground and then Sussex police it appears decided to embellish this story a little and started talking about
0:36.5	machetes and knives. Now Rob, this is where yourself and the five-year plan fanzine comes in.
0:44.0	Tell us a little bit how you all got involved and
0:48.0	eventually it leads to a turn around, a U- turn from the police who admit
0:53.2	the way no machetes and the way no knives.
0:55.9	Correct.
0:56.9	So it was just to clarify it was, uh, it was knives and knuckle dust.
1:01.9	Oh, knuckle dusters, sorry.
1:03.2	Yeah, okay.
1:04.5	No, it's fine.
1:05.4	Equally as mad to be fair.
1:07.4	Yeah.
1:08.4	It seems like such a random thing for people, for football fans to be carrying nowadays, maybe in the 80s they might have done, but I don't think that happens nowadays.
1:16.0	But yeah, so basically, there's been a general kind of discomfort among Palestine about how everything went down on that Tuesday.
1:26.4	In terms of just how everything was police, it ended up with 150 to 200 Palestine's being locked outside the stadium.
1:35.0	They were then accused in part of not having tickets.
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