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Edgar Davids
How about this load of self-serving crap from The West Ham Way blog:
"Moving forward we need better stewarding, more police presence, bans for those West Ham fans involved and for the club to have more of a say in the stadium. I think the club hope that one day the stadium will be handed over to us because the committee and tax payer will see it as being much safer and cost-effective to do so but until then we need to have more control over it.
The media in my opinion should not give the problems the sensationalised headlines that they have been. I have heard talk of war zones and that it looking like a bomb had gone off, which again wasn’t the case. These headlines sell papers but they don’t always paint an entirely accurate picture and had we just focused on the success of the football then perhaps the perpetrators would find the lack of media attention a reason not to risk a future banning order.
The London Stadium has problems – these were inevitable in the early stages of trying to use an athletics stadium as a football ground for one of the most passionate group of supporters in the land. The club, however, are doing all they can within the restrictions they have to solve the problem and this will hopefully lead to the media talking about the success of our on-pitch performances rather than what goes on off it."
It's an excerpt from this account in The Guardian of the latest crowd trouble. Good piece featuring first hand accounts of what it was like in and around the game:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/27/west-ham-fans-view-london-stadium-trouble
"Moving forward we need better stewarding, more police presence, bans for those West Ham fans involved and for the club to have more of a say in the stadium. I think the club hope that one day the stadium will be handed over to us because the committee and tax payer will see it as being much safer and cost-effective to do so but until then we need to have more control over it.
The media in my opinion should not give the problems the sensationalised headlines that they have been. I have heard talk of war zones and that it looking like a bomb had gone off, which again wasn’t the case. These headlines sell papers but they don’t always paint an entirely accurate picture and had we just focused on the success of the football then perhaps the perpetrators would find the lack of media attention a reason not to risk a future banning order.
The London Stadium has problems – these were inevitable in the early stages of trying to use an athletics stadium as a football ground for one of the most passionate group of supporters in the land. The club, however, are doing all they can within the restrictions they have to solve the problem and this will hopefully lead to the media talking about the success of our on-pitch performances rather than what goes on off it."
It's an excerpt from this account in The Guardian of the latest crowd trouble. Good piece featuring first hand accounts of what it was like in and around the game:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/27/west-ham-fans-view-london-stadium-trouble
