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&quotMooro&quot wrote:

&quotBaboo&quot wrote: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.

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!

&quotGodalmingYellow&quot wrote:

&quotMooro&quot wrote:

&quotBaboo&quot wrote: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.

&quotMally&quot wrote:

&quotGodalmingYellow&quot wrote:

&quotMooro&quot wrote: 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!!

&quotHog&quot wrote:

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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