Not having 1000 United fans turned up with 10 minutes to go. I know United have quite a few lads/MIBS and they're organized, but not that many. Their end was almost full at kick off.
Police Plan More Arrests After Crowd Trouble Before And After Manchester City's League Cup Semi-Final First Leg With Manchester United
We will get you and ban you is message to hooligans...
Greater Manchester Police is set to arrest more troublemakers following the outbreaks of violence around Tuesday night's League Cup semi-final first leg between Manchester City and Manchester United.
Eighteen arrests were made before, during and after the game, with security checks before the game finding golf balls, darts and flares on suppporters at Eastlands.
A lighter was at one stage thrown at United defender Patrice Evra, while United fans also managed to light two red flares during the build up to the match when a blue moon is beamed into the stadium.
One police officer was injured after the game and many fans tried to get into the stadium without tickets.
Having studied further evidence, including CCTV footage, Greater Manchester Police now plans more arrests.
"We had an incident with about 1,000 Manchester United supporters turning up at the away end with about ten minutes to kick off," assistant chief constable Ian Hopkins explained, speaking to Sky Sports News.
"This was clearly a tactic that some of them were using to get into the game without tickets, and fans were passing back tickets that had gone through the turnstile mechanisms to enable others to get in.
"We're now working with Manchester City assessing the damage that was done to seats inside the stadium. We're continuing to gather evidence and I can assure you that there'll be further arrests prior to the match next week.
"You will get arrested if you cause trouble. There's a huge policing operation, a huge stewarding operation, there's CCTV everywhere and if you think you've got away with it on the night - think again.
"We'll be coming to get you after the event and we'll make sure you're banned from going to any future matches."
Greater Manchester Police and the FA will speak to both clubs ahead of next week's second leg at Old Trafford, which is expected to attract 9,000 City fans as part of its 76,000 sell-out crowd.
More officers may have to be deployed for the game.
"After the match again we had skirmishes with fans who wanted to throw things at the police," Hopkins continued.
"One police officer was injured when a brick was thrown at them and there were 18 arrests overall.
"We had large policing operation palnned for it anyway. It is a high-profile game. So at the moment I've not brought in any more resources.
"We'll see what the investigations do over the next couple of days and what intelligence we're getting.
"If I need to put extra resources in then we'll do that, and we'll be meeting with the clubs again to ensure that the stewarding is as it should be, and that they support the policing operation and we support the stewarding operation."
Police Plan More Arrests After Crowd Trouble Before And After Manchester City's League Cup Semi-Final First Leg With Manchester United
We will get you and ban you is message to hooligans...
Greater Manchester Police is set to arrest more troublemakers following the outbreaks of violence around Tuesday night's League Cup semi-final first leg between Manchester City and Manchester United.
Eighteen arrests were made before, during and after the game, with security checks before the game finding golf balls, darts and flares on suppporters at Eastlands.
A lighter was at one stage thrown at United defender Patrice Evra, while United fans also managed to light two red flares during the build up to the match when a blue moon is beamed into the stadium.
One police officer was injured after the game and many fans tried to get into the stadium without tickets.
Having studied further evidence, including CCTV footage, Greater Manchester Police now plans more arrests.
"We had an incident with about 1,000 Manchester United supporters turning up at the away end with about ten minutes to kick off," assistant chief constable Ian Hopkins explained, speaking to Sky Sports News.
"This was clearly a tactic that some of them were using to get into the game without tickets, and fans were passing back tickets that had gone through the turnstile mechanisms to enable others to get in.
"We're now working with Manchester City assessing the damage that was done to seats inside the stadium. We're continuing to gather evidence and I can assure you that there'll be further arrests prior to the match next week.
"You will get arrested if you cause trouble. There's a huge policing operation, a huge stewarding operation, there's CCTV everywhere and if you think you've got away with it on the night - think again.
"We'll be coming to get you after the event and we'll make sure you're banned from going to any future matches."
Greater Manchester Police and the FA will speak to both clubs ahead of next week's second leg at Old Trafford, which is expected to attract 9,000 City fans as part of its 76,000 sell-out crowd.
More officers may have to be deployed for the game.
"After the match again we had skirmishes with fans who wanted to throw things at the police," Hopkins continued.
"One police officer was injured when a brick was thrown at them and there were 18 arrests overall.
"We had large policing operation palnned for it anyway. It is a high-profile game. So at the moment I've not brought in any more resources.
"We'll see what the investigations do over the next couple of days and what intelligence we're getting.
"If I need to put extra resources in then we'll do that, and we'll be meeting with the clubs again to ensure that the stewarding is as it should be, and that they support the policing operation and we support the stewarding operation."