Who REALLY are, the worst behaved fans in the UK?

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From this site - http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/2008/08/transport-police-report-sectar.php

Earlier this month figures were released detailing arrests and anti-social behaviour incidents carried out by spectators travelling to and from football matches in England, Wales and Scotland.

Celtic Quick News contacted the British Transport Police for a breakdown for arrests in Scotland which was illuminating. For season 2007/8, arrests were down from 73 to 61, but the total number of incidents involving football fans, including those which did not result in an arrest, rose from 86 to 99.

Fans from seven SPL clubs were arrested: Rangers, Dundee United, Motherwell, Celtic, Hearts, Aberdeen and Hibernian, as well as fans from Cowdenbeath, Hamilton Academicals, Dundee, the Highland League's, Clachnacuddin, and supporters of Chelsea, Manchester United, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Two Chelsea fans were arrested for possession of drugs, Manchester United appear on the list as one of their fans was arrested for Breach of the Peace at Motherwell Railway Station. The Cowdenbeath fan was arrested for Indecent Assault, perhaps the most serious incident during the season.

Celtic, Motherwell, and Hearts each had four fans arrested during the season, Aberdeen and Hibs had three. Dundee United were the second highest offenders with six arrests, while an incredible 30 Rangers fans were arrested, almost half of the season's total for all clubs. These figures do not include those arrested at the Manchester riot in May, which British Transport Police refer to in their press release.

Including those which did not result in arrest, there were six incidents involving Celtic fans, six for Dundee United, seven for Motherwell, four for Hibernian and five each for Aberdeen and Hearts. Rangers fans were involved in a total of 48 incidents, again just less than half the total.

One striking aspect of the list is that very few fans are arrested at the station nearest their home ground, which suggests police take a hands-off approach when large numbers of fans are congregated together, most incidents occur when fans travel to away games.

One of the most pleasing aspects of the information is the complete eradication of sectarian offences from all but one Scottish club. 11 arrests were made for sectarian offences in total, 10 Rangers fans and one Northern Ireland fan; news that is bound to resonate at the SFA and Uefa, both of whom warned the Ibrox club two years ago that punitive penalties would follow unless such behaviour was eradicated.

The figures are a ringing endorsement of most Scottish football fans, although clearly Rangers have a significant problem they have failed to address; Manchester, it appears, was merely the tail-end of a trouble filled season.

and heres a link to the individual offences.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p_XaNIfOHwYHcLZF6IVsLYA&gid=0

Answer 1

no. should you need an other question ask who are the worst behaved PLAYERS in the UK

Answer 2

i find it hard to believe that bit about complete eradication of sectarianism watch the old firm game on sunday and look at the hatred on both sets of fans faces if it was not so disappointing it would be laughable

Answer 3

well that has got to be the funniest thing I have read today.

Only 61 arrests in the whole of scotland for last season,yeah right,pull the other one.11 sectarian offences,gtf no way not with 4 old firm matches being played a season.I know football fans are getting better behaved but please their not bloody that well behaved.

If you think this is the truth you are living in cloud cuckoo land or have you only printed this is as a nanananana celtic fans are better behaved than rangers fans.Well guess what,the problem exists at all clubs and not just rangers,you have your idiot fans just like we do.It's just that your lot are better at not getting caught.

I know you didn't write it,I am not defending our moronic fans I just don't think it is true due to the amount of fans they say have been arrested,it has got to be a lot more than that.I like how you didn't come out and say you didn't believe it either though.So what though if our fans get caught the most.doing idiotic and stupid things,there is not a d**n thing the rest of us can do about it.I am just sick and tired of you all classing us the same way that's all.I am all for getting rid of the idiots out of the ground and banning them but unfortunately we can't ban them from wearing the club colours and giving the club and the decent fans the reputation is has now got.

Answer 4

Clyde fans!!

they turn up in thier incestious gangs, park thier caravans, set up campsites and sit around singing hyms...causing traffic jams all over the joint

Answer 5

yep ok i will admit it i am a racist bnp loving sectarian bigot who hates all things that aren't white or catholic..i go to the games and i shout racist bigoted chants..i start fights and get arrested after every game..there does that suit all your higher than mighty attitudes...

seriously i have never denied we have our idiotic element..wish we didn't but hey we do..but sorry if you think we are the only club with a problem..then you are wrong...at least thomas is big enough to admit that..instead of acting the big i am

btw..did no one notice the celtic fans and their IRA chants at manchester as well as elsewhere..or does your u tube only work for rangers fans..jeez..

i'm sure the families of the people they murdered are happy to hear that..and before you start no i don't condone the loyalist paramilitries....as least my head is not buried in the sand..or so far up my own **** that i can't admit we have a thugish element..can you all say the same...and to be honest i find it disgusting that you have just compared the IRA to the british army...

belfastman all your justification of the IRA has done is to show you are as much of a bigot as to who you constantly slag off...of course any nationalist would justify the IRA..i'm suprised at you thats all after taking the moral high ground with everyone else..

Answer 6

You are right, of course.

Celtic fans have never misbehaved in the Clubs history.

And a sizable proportion blatantly support a banned terrorist organisation, the IRA.  But that's not in any way sectarian, is it ?

Answer 7

it really annoys me when people say but all clubs have bad people etc....that's no excuse for being the club that breeds this sectarianism...

Before Celtic came to Scotland, Rangers were just a normal Scottish Football Club, they became sectarian when all us Irish Asylum Seekers came to Scotland who happened to be mostly Catholic. Its the fact that we had different ideals from them that made them hate us. By about 1904-05 they really hated us because by that time we had integrated into communities all over Britain and were making better lives for ourselves than many of them could. This is when Rangers became a sectarian club and attracted the bigots from Scottish society. For the last hundred  odd years the same kind of people were attracted to a club like this because they know a lot of the fans are like themselves.They're bitter and twisted  and this makes them angry, mostly at themselves but they take this out on other people by being thugs basically, a bit like the BNP, a party that a high % of rangers fans are connected to.

Bluebell, I think you got a bit mixed up there LOL...All I'm saying is a lot of you that dont see the way the majority of rangers fans in scotland come across should open your eyes and stop saying its ok cause its not only Rangers fans that are like that!

Also, its not any more illegal to sing about the Provisional IRA or the IRA that faught the war of independance than it is to sing or praise the efforts of the British Army during the world wars or any other wars....Fascism, bigotry, sectarianism and loutish behaviour is illegal

What about the families of the people the British Army and Inteligence Services murdered

Anyway Bluebell, I know you and many people here dont know much about the politics of the British Army/Inteligence Services or the IRA over the last 100 or so years so I won't go on about politics.....but I have at least justified our fans chanting because its not illegal when as I said before Fascism, bigotry, sectarianism and loutish behaviour is illegal.

Enjoy the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW and GOOD LUCK

Answer 8

I read this yesterday and not surpised at the main findings, just the low figures involved.  

Answer 9

i j ust could not be @rsed reading that. life is too short. and i think you need tae get one.

Ye still took the time to go and find this p1sh and then went and  posted it.  now you are just a sad p***k.

Answer 10

I read this too...

the complete eradication of sectarianism except for one club bit was an eye opener for me...

they really need to do something about it once and for all and although we know it is not all Rangers fans surely the good ones must want to eradicate this sort of stuff which gives them all a bad name

the old saying you fly with the crows you get shot with the crows..so true