Disgusted and fuming

You're so far off the point, it's in another timezone.

 

Pal of mine is a big Chelsea fan, he’s a bit of a thug and in a wheelchair. Granted he can’t get physical like he used to, but he’s still there with em shouting and throwing things.

 

I’m not struggling with anything thanks, apart from the way you have all tried to put words in my mouth.

I go to the majority of games, at oakwell and away from home.

I don’t believe that stewards pick out people at random as suggested. I see older and disabled people waved through on a regular basis, myself included.

My personal experience is of leading a blind person to games, and also travelling with an OAP.

We normally prearrange a disabled parking space, headset for the match commentary and are usually asked by stewards if we want to be admitted via a separate gate, depending where we are playing.

It’s a fact that we are rarely searched and are normally well catered for - and that is why it’s a pain on the odd occasion the stewards are overly particular, like at Pompey the other week.

If the stewards checked everyone at every single game without exclusion, for all the reasons given in this thread, ie trouble makers, terrorists or whatever you might all have a valid point, but different people are already treated differently every week, so I’m sticking with being happy for the most part and put out every now and again.

 

No I’m not. You keep talking of a scenario where tactics are employed regardless of age, sex and disability and how there is no common sense involved.

I watch at least 40 games a season, and I can honestly say that’s not my experience.

 

Of course that will be the case, humans will always show bias when making these sorts of decisions (who to search)
The only point I was making is it should be random and no particular group should be exempt.

 

You’re aware that disabled people are just people with a disability, right? Which means lovely ones and knobheads. Stop trying to package people up with a huge variety of disabilities in one box. In fact, people with the same disability shouldn’t all be packaged up as an extension of one person either. Do you think that if one of the hooligans suddenly became blind or wheelchair bound tomorrow they’d stop being themselves and become Mr or Mrs disabled person with zero personality? And that’s setting aside the fact that people could persuade (or trick) a disabled person to take in something banned or people who may take it to the extreme and pretend to be disabled to sneak something in. Stop being so precious about someone being searched for 10 seconds, I’m sure most honest disabled people wouldn’t mind and may actually prefer to be treated the same as everyone else.

 

'Blondetyke' should certainly be female, and anyone called 'blondtyke' should definitely be male.

It's derived from French and takes the gender.

 

Did you miss the bit where I said I take my mate to games who is visually impaired?

 

No.

 

I really don’t get this comment. What relevance does that have to anything JamDrop said?

 

Absolutely

 

Perhaps she is a nun?

 

get a grip

 

Erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body
Erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body
Erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body

 

I think football hooligans exhibit signs of a mental disability straight away.

 

I think "get a grip" was part of the problem, not the solution.

 

Get a right firm grip