F.A.O. Trevor Lambert

[GodalmingYellow]

Not trying to condone any of this but if York fans had not turned up with trouble in mind nothing would have happened.

or indeed, had the &quotOxford lads&quot not &quotrun down to meet them&quot!

My understanding is that this is not what happened. Again this is third hand information, but I understood that those who aligned themselves to York City &quotstormed&quot the Priory and the Oxford &quotfans&quot defended themselves.

I don't do tinted spectacles when it comes to violent behaviour, so I don't doubt that both sides were jointly and severally at fault. But as Baboo said, one has to doubt if there would have been violence had the York &quotfans&quot not had intent.

[Hog]

In my view, the Cambridge switch is purely down to officers not wanting to work on the Saturday. Because of the size of our support, rather than a handful of officers' weekends being affected, it becomes more than a hundred having their weekends affected.

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That's a good'un GY! Whatever the reasons it certainly wouldn't have been because a Saturday game would have upset the week-end arrangements of a handful of bizzies!

[Mally]

Not trying to condone any of this but if York fans had not turned up with trouble in mind nothing would have happened.

or indeed, had the &quotOxford lads&quot not &quotrun down to meet them&quot!

My understanding is that this is not what happened. Again this is third hand information, but I understood that those who aligned themselves to York City &quotstormed&quot the Priory and the Oxford &quotfans&quot defended themselves.

I don't do tinted spectacles when it comes to violent behaviour, so I don't doubt that both sides were jointly and severally at fault. But as Baboo said, one has to doubt if there would have been violence had the York &quotfans&quot not had intent.

I think you're talking about a different incident GY. The one reported in the OM that I referred to was outside The Blackbird in Blackbird Leys and no where near The Priory.

[GodalmingYellow]

or indeed, had the &quotOxford lads&quot not &quotrun down to meet them&quot!

My understanding is that this is not what happened. Again this is third hand information, but I understood that those who aligned themselves to York City &quotstormed&quot the Priory and the Oxford &quotfans&quot defended themselves.

I don't do tinted spectacles when it comes to violent behaviour, so I don't doubt that both sides were jointly and severally at fault. But as Baboo said, one has to doubt if there would have been violence had the York &quotfans&quot not had intent.

I think you're talking about a different incident GY. The one reported in the OM that I referred to was outside The Blackbird in Blackbird Leys and no where near The Priory.

Ah! that might explain a lot!!

[GodalmingYellow]

In my view, the Cambridge switch is purely down to officers not wanting to work on the Saturday. Because of the size of our support, rather than a handful of officers' weekends being affected, it becomes more than a hundred having their weekends affected.

That's a good'un GY! Whatever the reasons it certainly wouldn't have been because a Saturday game would have upset the week-end arrangements of a handful of bizzies!

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