I nearly got arrested at Wigan. A load of Police were stood on a street and there were a few Police horses and a load of horse shit on the road. Coincidentally two of them were stood by a lamppost with a Police sign on it saying ‘NO FOULING, £1,000 FINE’. I asked if they were going to pick their horse’s shit up.
They said, ‘No, mind your own business’.
I said, ‘That’ll be a thousands pounds then please! Says so on your own sign there, lads.’ as I held my hand out to them.
They didn’t find it funny and started going on about ‘you’ll be arrested under a public order offence in a minute’.
Thankfully, another copper a bit further up the street, nodded and laughed to me. At least he found it funny. But my mates thought the others were actually going to nick me over a joke. I was only young n’all.
Another time I got truncheoned in the back of the leg/hamstring area for confronting a Policeman after he twatted this couple holding hands in the hands they were holding with each other. It was derby day and it had kicked off after the game after Scholes had scored a winner in the last minutes the Etihad. They were stopping people going past them but this couple who were trying to get away from the fighting said ‘our car is this way can you let us through’ and this copper shouted at them twice and then twatted them in the hands with his truncheon. I saw my arse with him, but then he saw mine and twatted it as hard as he could.
Knob head! Had a whopping bruise for weeks. Poor couple though, as if they were any trouble. Copper shitting it a bit because it was a bit rowdy.