I’d be surprised if they aren’t in contact. I don’t do social media, so no idea but the quotes posted above, while supportive of the club and police, could be seen as carefully worded. He wants something done.Maybe the club and his family are in contact and he's happy (relatively speaking) with what's happening. Has he said anything recently on social media?
The footage I have seen showed a dipper fan throwing things into the tier below but I do not think it can nail him as the one that threw the glass that injured the young girl. I am encouraged by the statement from the girl's father about how the club and GMP are handling this matter. The guy seems sensible and not the type to be bought off.
What happened to the "It was a collection for the coach driver which accidently fell and the person doing it reported the incident to a steward"? - did this actually happen or was it a scouse-washing fantasy?
Totally agree but this was the excuse that was trotted out soon after the incident and, I think, was reported by some media outlets. The source needs to be identified and discredited.Scouse washing fantasy.
If you have a whip round for a coach driver you do it on the coach where all the passengers can chip in. Nobody would ever do it in the stadium as an advance activity to be undertaken while watching a major football game.
PS. Do they wash?
That’s what I thought. He’s supportive of the process but there may come a time he isn’t.The footage I have seen showed a dipper fan throwing things into the tier below but I do not think it can nail him as the one that threw the glass that injured the young girl. I am encouraged by the statement from the girl's father about how the club and GMP are handling this matter. The guy seems sensible and not the type to be bought off.
What happened to the "It was a collection for the coach driver which accidently fell and the person doing it reported the incident to a steward"? - did this actually happen or was it a scouse-washing fantasy?
Is what he had to say about City.
Hence why I deployed the word suspect, not culprit.Simple fact is that if they were able to identify the City fan who did this: https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...-news/moment-madness-landed-city-fan-13694742
then they can just as easily identify the Liverpool fan who chucked that pint pot full of coins. As you say, they know pretty much exactly where it was lobbed from in the away section. If there's CCTV footage of the offender throwing it, they'll have the row and seat number. Liverpool FC will be able to advise who that ticket was sold to. Granted, there may be caveats here - fans don't necessarily always sit/stand in the seat they're allocated (often I'll move around a stand at both home and away games and stand with my mates), or the ticket might have been passed on to someone else to use (in that case, the original purchaser needs to be reprimanded if they can't find the offender).
Not going to lie, coming from you, this did make me chuckle.You are arguing against things I’ve never said.
I suspect this approach is fueling, not dampening the situation.
I had an ultimately futile (surprise surprise) back and forth on email with the club about this very thing. Their responses read like either (a) they don't understand their own fans or for that matter any football fans or (b) they do understand but consider it more important to show a united front with their fellow business (LFC) rather than address the problem effectively.
I actually think it's a mixture of the two. As traditional fans become an increasingly irrelevant part of the business model there is neither the appetite or comprehension to engage with them. If trouble continued/escalted I have no doubt they'd throw our fans under the bus because their assumption is they can easily change the conditions of entry and the type of people attending and still make the business model work.