City Fans At Boro May Cost Club UEFA Place (Video)

honestly? could sven have enough influence on a side to turn a decent set of profesioanls into a group of ammaters worsre than most of league 1 (and 2)? if so, he is a better manager than even i thought!

using battons to hit an old man who wasn't involved, minding his own business isn't right is it? Lets get it right, They are just low-life scum that pretend to be a (City) football fan, we City people are not represented as that! So it's nothing to do with City... They are just mindless yobs, making an excuse to cause trouble. That shouldn't spoil europe, it won't stop violence - some yobs from another team will do the same. Fulhams fans could! Every club has yobs and idiots, you cant claim some are worse then others when a thug is a thug, and that is how they have come to claim being a thug in the first place, on the behalf of all the decent city fans not the 0.1% of idiotic ones I fully apoligise.

Completely agree with the above from HuddersfieldYiddo.

I hd the misfortune to be at Boro JB. I can confirm that the trouble was down to ridiculous police tactics. It may be hard for some that weren't ther to believe on the back of an 8-1 defeat but this was, in the main, a pretty well behaved City contingent. In essence the fans had given up and just wanted to party/take the *****. I didn't see exactly what happened at the front to spark the trouble but the police reaction of indiscriminate use of batons on anyone's head was out of order. This was a police force that had geared up for trouble. Had more TAU units from 20 miles out of Boro then I have ever seen to meet coaches search and arrest. After each goal they ran from the corners across the front of the visiting support, batons drawn and facing the crowd up. I certainly don't condone violence but the reaction of those blues caught up in the police assault was understandable. Unsurprisingly once a senior office took control and got his officers to stand back behind the ad boards and not ***** people around the heads it all died down and Boro were able to get on with their lap of honour. To add insult though we were kept in the car parks by very same police force and couldn't leave the area until all the Boro fans had left and the area cleared.

ps You don't read headlines of old timer battoned by police, but police hospitalised by fans. As ever, you couldn't make it up.

Just come back from Carlisle thisafternoon and the 'Tartan Army' are on the march with hundreds of cars heading down the M6 bedecked in Rangers colours. From what I have seen I guess it could be nearer 200,000 invading Manchester for the match. It will be interesting to see how our Police handle the situation.

Did yous hear about the Rangers match last night the fans were a disgrace they will want to paty for the damages of the stadium and to manchester a pack of hooligans