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Smoke Bombs and flares at football matches
I've never understood why people are allowed to bring these things to football matches, they can be dangerous and I don't get why they aren't confiscated when people go through the turnstiles, in this age of terrorism surely every fan should be searched before they are let in and if found with one then they should be told to go away.
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I've never understood why people are allowed to bring these things to football matches, they can be dangerous and I don't get why they aren't confiscated when people go through the turnstiles, in this age of terrorism surely every fan should be searched before they are let in and if found with one then they should be told to go away.
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I've never understood why people are allowed to bring these things to football matches, they can be dangerous and I don't get why they aren't confiscated when people go through the turnstiles, in this age of terrorism surely every fan should be searched before they are let in and if found with one then they should be told to go away.
ETA: Mind you, I went to see Billy Joel at Wembley Stadium, over 70,000 people and most of us were searched - my bag was searched 3 times as they didn't believe I'd never had drugs in there People turn up hours early for concerts though.
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it's ridiculous, leave these flares to the latin countries, us Brits tradition was always to celebrate with throwing bog rolls onto the pitch
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it's ridiculous, leave these flares to the latin countries, us Brits tradition was always to celebrate with throwing bog rolls onto the pitch
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I remember some poor chap died after being hit by a flare at a football match.
Absolutely mindless to light one near others, and criminal to fire them into a crowd. |
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Is that to go with our shitty international football record?
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I think so, it was mostly popular in the 70s, ............
you can cut yourself on that ! |
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The way to prevent it is to start punishing teams with points deductions if it happens regularly.
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It was worse in the 60s when we used to throw packs of Izal
you can cut yourself on that !
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The way to prevent it is to start punishing teams with points deductions if it happens regularly.
Easy enough for a Liverpool fan to go to a Man Utd v Hull game and start letting off smoke bombs in the expectation that Man Utd would lose points. |
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The way to prevent it is to start punishing teams with points deductions if it happens regularly.
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That would only encourage rival fans chucking flares.
Easy enough for a Liverpool fan to go to a Man Utd v Hull game and start letting off smoke bombs in the expectation that Man Utd would lose points. |
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You punish the team for "Failing to control their fans", which they can do already, not the home team.
A fan could go to a rivals game in the home end, which doesn't feature their own team, and start trouble to get them docked points. |
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I think you've missed the point of what was said.
A fan could go to a rivals game in the home end, which doesn't feature their own team, and start trouble to get them docked points. |
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Is that really very likely? I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems to be clutching at straws that it would be a major issue.
However I don't think it's very likely that a club could conduct full body searches on every fan either. |
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Is that really very likely? I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems to be clutching at straws that it would be a major issue.
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Smoke bombs I can understand, if its a crap match, lets block our view from the dire showing and smoke there hell out of the place, and the flares......well they just light up the occasion
![]() In all seriousness, those who take these things to matches are of a different mind set, the wrong kind |
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I remember some poor chap died after being hit by a flare at a football match.
Absolutely mindless to light one near others, and criminal to fire them into a crowd. I was in the same stand and saw it come shooting across from the other stand at unbelievable speed. There'd been a trend for Wales fans to wave flares for the previous year or so. This was a marine distress rocket though. |
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Smoke bombs I can understand, if its a crap match, lets block our view from the dire showing and smoke there hell out of the place, and the flares......well they just light up the occasion
![]() In all seriousness, those who take these things to matches are of a different mind set, the wrong kind |
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Well when Liverpool won at the death at Goodison before Christmas, someone threw a smoke bomb on the pitch and all the pictures looked epic with mad celebrations and players emerging through the smoke.
When Manchester City played Manchester United a few years back the lights were dimmed before the game, images of blue moons were projected around the ground and City's anthem of Blue Moon was played over the sound system. At the same time a couple of bright red flares were lit by United fans. Looked good to me, I like the pretty colours - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBil-Yxq3o4They are dangerous though. |
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People turn up hours early for concerts though.

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