The met police today!!

I like im sure alot of city fans today was really looking forward to the last game of the season. It just so happened to be a game that we needed a result which added extra spice. So me an the mrs thought we would make a weekend of it and stay over night, after a lovely journy we got to our hotel in south london and made our way to thorton heath, when we arrived we saw a pub accros the road from the train station with a number of plain clothes men outside. I decided to ask a met officer what were? If any designated city pubs were in the area? To which the police officer laughed in my face an told me cant you see the pub over there mate!!! My girlfriend/fiance found this hilarious so i just laughed it off and said thanx. Even though i thought it wasnt helpfull.

Everything else was supurb after that untill me and the mrs decided to go back to the pub after the game to have a beer and some food. On the way back i seemed to notice that all the pubs that were open before the game seemed to be closed, but didnt think anything of it. It was only when we got to the flora pub that was opposite the station was closed that i thought something was up. Me and the mrs decided to go to tescoes get some beers and go back to the hotel. This is when i found out the met had put this as a high risk game and no place in a mile radius was allowed to sell alchohol which really pissed me off!!! Anyway i didnt give up and decided to walk further down the road to the local corner shops to see if they would sell me some alchohol. This is when i had a chat with a shop owner who told me that a met officer had personally told him they werent allowed to sell alchohol untill 5o,clock. I said to him, why not its only cardiff palace? To which he said that this officer had informed him that cardiff were high risk surportors who were likely to course trouble after the game!!! This pissed me off because the majority of city fans that were still there, were either couples or small groups of middle aged men Just looking for a pint before they went home.
This action from the met has in mine and my mrs opinion ruined our weeked as we didnt feel like going anywhere else as we Had our city shirts on.
Sorry if this was a bit boring but i felt like having a rant about it!! Cuz i thought all city surportors were well behaved and considering we are in a recetion, this was valueble money these pubs/shops needed as this shop keeper told me.

Did anyone have the same issue as me today?

The met have always hated city, spoke to one of them on the tube going to wembley and he admitted they hate us more than any prem team...
f**k em thats what I say....
They got to put up with us 2 more times this season...

Yeah we walked back to the flora and saw it was shut till 4pm.
It was 2:45Pm so we headed back to Croydon and had a beer in east Croydon.

Similar issue apart from I didn't stay overnight with your missus anywhere

Similar issue apart from I didn't stay overnight with your missus anywhere

Not that your admitting to on here anyway!!!


The met cause more problems than anybody, waste of space at times.

Yeah we walked back to the flora and saw it was shut till 4pm.
It was 2:45Pm so we headed back to Croydon and had a beer in east Croydon.

Similar issue apart from I didn't stay overnight with your missus anywhere

I wish you had shes doing my nut in lol thats why im on here and not up to anything else lol

Yeah we walked back to the flora and saw it was shut till 4pm.
It was 2:45Pm so we headed back to Croydon and had a beer in east Croydon.

Similar issue apart from I didn't stay overnight with your missus anywhere

I wish you had shes doing my nut in lol thats why im on here and not up to anything else lol

fair play mate,is it cos she wants to watch Britains Got Talent

they clearly set out to spoil the day, when we got back on our coach the police had been on and taken all the alcohol from us,anyone else have that done on other buses????????

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

Now that you mention it i did see i guy who was dressed up, not goin to say as what. Who were pissing in someone garden which was out of order, so maybe some city fans werent well behaved, still not a reason to turn over coaches and shut down pubs. Its not even 0.001% of the crowd that went today

This action from the met has in mine and my mrs opinion ruined our weeked as we didnt feel like going anywhere else as we Had our city shirts on.
Sorry if this was a bit boring but i felt like having a rant about it!! Cuz i thought all city surportors were well behaved and considering we are in a recetion, this was valueble money these pubs/shops needed as this shop keeper told me.

Did anyone have the same issue as me today?

I wouldn't let it spoil your weekend. City won, we're in the play-offs and the MET have once again shown themselves to be the complere facists they have always been. Are you really gonna let them nazis spoil your weekend because you couldn't get a drink til 5? Nah mate, feck em, and don't give em the time of day or waste any thoughts on them..... your missus is waiting

Yeah we walked back to the flora and saw it was shut till 4pm.
It was 2:45Pm so we headed back to Croydon and had a beer in east Croydon.

Similar issue apart from I didn't stay overnight with your missus anywhere

I wish you had shes doing my nut in lol thats why im on here and not up to anything else lol

fair play mate,is it cos she wants to watch Britains Got Talent

Its on now mate lol i eneded up getting a few tinnys and im sitting on here getting bollocksed lol

This action from the met has in mine and my mrs opinion ruined our weeked as we didnt feel like going anywhere else as we Had our city shirts on.
Sorry if this was a bit boring but i felt like having a rant about it!! Cuz i thought all city surportors were well behaved and considering we are in a recetion, this was valueble money these pubs/shops needed as this shop keeper told me.

Did anyone have the same issue as me today?

I wouldn't let it spoil your weekend. City won, we're in the play-offs and the MET have once again shown themselves to be the complere facists they have always been. Are you really gonna let them nazis spoil your weekend because you couldn't get a drink til 5? Nah mate, feck em, and don't give em the time of day or waste any thoughts on them..... your missus is waiting

Yea dont get me wrong the result was awsome and the game and the atmosphere, the met just took the edge of what would have been one of the best days out. I was talking to a steward at the ground about letting alchohol inside, and he agreed that what the differance between a plastic bottle of coke compared to a plastic bottle of carling???

This action from the met has in mine and my mrs opinion ruined our weeked as we didnt feel like going anywhere else as we Had our city shirts on.
Sorry if this was a bit boring but i felt like having a rant about it!! Cuz i thought all city surportors were well behaved and considering we are in a recetion, this was valueble money these pubs/shops needed as this shop keeper told me.

Did anyone have the same issue as me today?

I wouldn't let it spoil your weekend. City won, we're in the play-offs and the MET have once again shown themselves to be the complere facists they have always been. Are you really gonna let them nazis spoil your weekend because you couldn't get a drink til 5? Nah mate, feck em, and don't give em the time of day or waste any thoughts on them..... your missus is waiting

Yea dont get me wrong the result was awsome and the game and the atmosphere, the met just took the edge of what would have been one of the best days out. I was talking to a steward at the ground about letting alchohol inside, and he agreed that what the differance between a plastic bottle of coke compared to a plastic bottle of carling???

Exactly. I honestly think some of the nutters at City (who are, thankfully, fewer than previous years) are gonna do what they like anyway, regardless of the availability of booze so these rules the MET put in place are just to piss us off and to feel like they have some kind of power over us. Bollox to em.

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

It's illegal to have alcohol on a coach either going to or returning from a football match.

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

It's illegal to have alcohol on a coach either going to or returning from a football match.

Wow. I didn't know that.

Thanks for letting me know.

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

It's illegal to have alcohol on a coach either going to or returning from a football match.

Wow. I didn't know that.

Thanks for letting me know.

I'm glad you took the breaking news so well

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

It's illegal to have alcohol on a coach either going to or returning from a football match.

The answer is J2O. Tastes good and does not get you drunk.

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

It's illegal to have alcohol on a coach either going to or returning from a football match.

Wow. I didn't know that.

Thanks for letting me know.

I'm glad you took the breaking news so well

Given I'm a regular away traveller and have organised lots of caches myself including today then I'm well aware of the score -and also of what the police tell us. You might be a bit surprised by some of that.

However, I don't know if you travel away regularly, or if its by coach, if you do you'll also be aware that most police forces turn a blind eye and at dozens of grounds around the country fans 'get away with it'. I'd be VERY susrpised if your club didn't too (especially as I know one who goes away with your lot who would collapse if he had to go 3-4 hours without a beer )

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

It's illegal to have alcohol on a coach either going to or returning from a football match.

Wow. I didn't know that.

Thanks for letting me know.

I'm glad you took the breaking news so well

Given I'm a regular away traveller and have organised lots of caches myself including today then I'm well aware of the score -and also of what the police tell us. You might be a bit surprised by some of that.

However, I don't know if you travel away regularly, or if its by coach, if you do you'll also be aware that most police forces turn a blind eye and at dozens of grounds around the country fans 'get away with it'. I'd be VERY susrpised if your club didn't too (especially as I know one who goes away with your lot who would collapse if he had to go 3-4 hours without a beer )

Indeed, most unofficial buses are the same as yours with plenty of consumption going on

When I go to away games though, which isn't as often I used to, I usually let the train take the strain.

Its worse than a few closed pubs mate. The police turned the coaches over, took away some people's errmmm 'property', and have threatened to take coach companies and drivers to court.

Apparently they kicked off because some City fans gt off a bus with booze and were peeing in gardens and banging on windows.

Only what I heard from our driver (apart from the confiscation bit which we KNOW happened) -so don't shoot the messenger.

I hope its not true, if a couple of knobs decided to spoil it for the rest of us who by the way were 'absolutey superb'.

It's illegal to have alcohol on a coach either going to or returning from a football match.

Wow. I didn't know that.

Thanks for letting me know.

I'm glad you took the breaking news so well

Given I'm a regular away traveller and have organised lots of caches myself including today then I'm well aware of the score -and also of what the police tell us. You might be a bit surprised by some of that.

However, I don't know if you travel away regularly, or if its by coach, if you do you'll also be aware that most police forces turn a blind eye and at dozens of grounds around the country fans 'get away with it'. I'd be VERY susrpised if your club didn't too (especially as I know one who goes away with your lot who would collapse if he had to go 3-4 hours without a beer )

Indeed, most unofficial buses are the same as yours with plenty of consumption going on

When I go to away games though, which isn't as often I used to, I usually let the train take the strain.

Do any of your coaches get the same treatment ?

I'm genuinely interested.

From what I've heard going by train is an even bigger nightmare for our fans.

coppers are bastards

should of told him who the f**k do you think you are mate

Its still a police over reaction to turn coaches upside down an close pubs and shops just because cardiff/welsh are on their way!!!

Do any of your coaches get the same treatment ?

I'm genuinely interested.

From what I've heard going by train is an even bigger nightmare for our fans.

Not as far as I'm aware but I don't travel by coach to be honest.

As for the train, always looked to arrive at wherever we're going way ahead of the rest so any police problems are avoided. At Shrewsbury a few years back for instance, we made sure we were there by 10.30am, when the main lot turned up a 12ish they were all herded away in a convoy. By which time we were in the pub up the road watching them trudge by.

The shop owner said this was one of the reasons for stoping the service of alchohol. To stop city fans who are going home by train on stocking up. I wander if they had stopped serving at victoria station though

I like im sure alot of city fans today was really looking forward to the last game of the season. It just so happened to be a game that we needed a result which added extra spice. So me an the mrs thought we would make a weekend of it and stay over night, after a lovely journy we got to our hotel in south london and made our way to thorton heath, when we arrived we saw a pub accros the road from the train station with a number of plain clothes men outside. I decided to ask a met officer what were? If any designated city pubs were in the area? To which the police officer laughed in my face an told me cant you see the pub over there mate!!! My girlfriend/fiance found this hilarious so i just laughed it off and said thanx. Even though i thought it wasnt helpfull.

Everything else was supurb after that untill me and the mrs decided to go back to the pub after the game to have a beer and some food. On the way back i seemed to notice that all the pubs that were open before the game seemed to be closed, but didnt think anything of it. It was only when we got to the flora pub that was opposite the station was closed that i thought something was up. Me and the mrs decided to go to tescoes get some beers and go back to the hotel. This is when i found out the met had put this as a high risk game and no place in a mile radius was allowed to sell alchohol which really pissed me off!!! Anyway i didnt give up and decided to walk further down the road to the local corner shops to see if they would sell me some alchohol. This is when i had a chat with a shop owner who told me that a met officer had personally told him they werent allowed to sell alchohol untill 5o,clock. I said to him, why not its only cardiff palace? To which he said that this officer had informed him that cardiff were high risk surportors who were likely to course trouble after the game!!! This pissed me off because the majority of city fans that were still there, were either couples or small groups of middle aged men Just looking for a pint before they went home.
This action from the met has in mine and my mrs opinion ruined our weeked as we didnt feel like going anywhere else as we Had our city shirts on.
Sorry if this was a bit boring but i felt like having a rant about it!! Cuz i thought all city surportors were well behaved and considering we are in a recetion, this was valueble money these pubs/shops needed as this shop keeper told me.

Did anyone have the same issue as me today?

So you got your beer eventually!
don't wear ur mrs out i need her bright eyed and bushy tailed for work on monday

See the post above about pissed up Cardiff supporters fighting each other before the game and you will get your answer