Bigg Bigg Blue
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Unless you're actually there then it's not easy to make assumptions. That vid doesn't show the Leicester fans in a great light but there's another one on that Football Away Days FB page showing the police baton charging fans in a bar in the same square. Lobbing stuff at the Madrid police isn't particularly wise and they'd have been better off getting on their toes because that is a battle the fans are never going to win, but having witnessed the indiscriminate attacks on City fans last season (not to mention the video from 2012 of police randomly attacking our fans who were peacefully drinking outside a Madrid bar in which the Charlton chairman got knocked clean out), and seeing some of the pics circulating of Leicester fans and their injuries (fans that don't exactly look like the type to have been calling it on unlike those in that vid), I'd sooner reserve judgement before condemning them out of hand on the basis of a few knobs throwing stuff and singing stupid songs. I'll also add that the Leicester fans' actions towards the police in that video is literally fuck-all compared to the retaliation of some City fans towards South Yorkshire police at the battle of Oakwell in 2000.
I know I was one of the lads who tried to help him and got battered for my trouble.