Should anyone want to share their experiences of Tuesday night, the Football Supporters Federation would like to hear from you as they are complying a report on the policing and stewarding of the game.

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Personally, I think it's important. If we don't speak out the police will own the narrative and the fans will be to blame for their incompetence.

There's already lies spreading around this.

Amanda Jacks is the contact. Her email is

amanda.jacks@fsf.org.uk

Edited by Kodg (30 Nov 2017 12.39pm)

I have emailed her, for what good it will do I don't know; but have to try.

This was lifted from the Evening Standard and was in itself a part of a wider statement that offered a little more balance. But as always it is what is left out of the news that is the real problem

I have never been involved in reporting anything like the events of Tues before, so I have no idea if anything will be achieve from doing so now, but if we don't try then we become part of the problem

Edited by Kodg (01 Dec 2017 7.23pm)

I applaud the efforts of all those concerned. Testimonies from fans on the day of the match are truly shocking.
Media coverage (or lack of it) will have some influence, along with the fact that 'football supporters' seem to lose their rights as tax-payers and citizens in these sorts of situations. "Oh well, they're only football fans" kind of stereotype.

I wish the FSF and other Palace fans all the best with this.

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

I have to say, I think I gauged this wrong from my initial post.

My wife was watching South-East news yesterday evening, and she said a representative from Sussex police was briefly interviewed and he admitted 'mistakes had been made in relation to policing of the Brighton - Palace game'

Making a mistake is like driving off with your handbrake on. You immediately know there is a problem (based on your previous driving experience), so you rectify the problem before anything dangerous happens.

What Sussex police did was drive through a pedestrian area at 60mph and then tell the media the pedestrians were vandalising your car with weapons. That is incompetence, provocative, and lying.

I think the interview was an attempt to de-fuse the complaint.
I hope the fans see this through to the end and hold those who made the policing decisions to account.
Looks like you have the police (match-day commander) on the back-foot already.

Sure, every club has a few t055ers amongst its support, and I would hope they are brought to account. That is termed 'policing', I believe.
But to treat all fans the way the police did was disgraceful.

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak