http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-21708571Leeds won their case against West Yorkshire police re the police costs at games, the above film shows the great cost that occurs at certain games, but is it necessary? 150 Millwall fans travelled, the briefing mentions Leeds fans getting hijacked on the way back to the station in the reverse fixture and the possibility of revenge attacks by Leeds against Millwall.
Different police forces use different methods...this is a statement that is true but also something that has always baffled me over the years attending police meetings. How can fans have a great day out at Shef Utd on a Saturday with real good police officers and three days later get treated like shit at Shef Weds ?
Anyway we should count ourselves lucky at Cardiff, we had years of crap but to be fair we now have many police free matches, especially home games and this season high profile games at home have gone really well with Cardiff fans getting virtually zero problems, arrests or bans.
So the conclusion must be that West Yorkshire police are still getting it wrong and the costs they are building up policing football could and should be much less if they looked at the methods of other police forces.