Title: Is This Legal? Champions League Travel
fozzt - May 19, 2008 12:29 PM (GMT)
Supporters with previous convictions for football related disorder are being stopped from travelling to Moscow. Is this legal? What happens if you have served your sentence? Or is is for supporters whose name appears on the 'Hooligans' list (if there is one)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7408255.stm yorkiebarkid - May 19, 2008 12:35 PM (GMT)
They issued letters to known people a few weeks ago - not all were banned
Good isn't it
Amanda - May 19, 2008 12:45 PM (GMT)
Yorkie
The letters to those not banned - did they have to surrender their passports?
The only other group that are treated like this, are terrorists.
Having said that, anybody intent on travelling to Russia with the idea of taking part in trouble, organised or otherwise, deserves to be locked up for sheer stupidity... in the long run, the police may well have done them a favour. (still don't agree though with people being stopped from travelling if they don't have a banning order).
fozzt - May 19, 2008 01:08 PM (GMT)
Well, we should also stop convicted rapists, murderers and thieves, Shirley?
I also seem to recall fans being detained/questions if they were wearing Burberry etc on their way to last World Cup too.
marvin - May 19, 2008 01:17 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (fozzt @ May 19 2008, 01:08 PM) |
| I also seem to recall fans being detained/questions if they were wearing Burberry etc on their way to last World Cup too. |
got to say i'm in favour of this policy and would like to see it extended to all ports regardless of whether there's any football on. Just add another red circle with a line through below the ones with knives etc. "No Burberry"
yorkiebarkid - May 19, 2008 02:22 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Amanda @ May 19 2008, 12:45 PM) |
Yorkie
The letters to those not banned - did they have to surrender their passports?
The only other group that are treated like this, are terrorists.
Having said that, anybody intent on travelling to Russia with the idea of taking part in trouble, organised or otherwise, deserves to be locked up for sheer stupidity... in the long run, the police may well have done them a favour. (still don't agree though with people being stopped from travelling if they don't have a banning order). |
It was a report I'm pretty sure it was the BBC about them writing to known touts about not going to Moscow
Hodgson - May 19, 2008 02:37 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Amanda @ May 19 2008, 12:45 PM) |
Yorkie
The letters to those not banned - did they have to surrender their passports?
The only other group that are treated like this, are terrorists.
Having said that, anybody intent on travelling to Russia with the idea of taking part in trouble, organised or otherwise, deserves to be locked up for sheer stupidity... in the long run, the police may well have done them a favour. (still don't agree though with people being stopped from travelling if they don't have a banning order). |
A united fan off another forum had to hand his passport in even though he's not on a ban anymore.
And he's supposed to be going on holiday on friday, but doesn't get the passport back till a week on friday.
JR04 - York City - May 19, 2008 03:27 PM (GMT)
Going on past experience from travelling abroad to watch England and been caught up in this kind of thing, I can confirm they stop fans from travelling even though they've never been up before a court of law for offences at football (or anything else for that matter) nevermind have/previously had banning orders.
If you have a banning order then you can't travel, that's fair enough (even though I don't agree with them), but those are the only people who should have to worry about being stopped. It's ridiculous that police can, and do, decide you can't go because of past wrongdoings even though you haven't been banned. I know for a fact they've stopped people for nothing more than having had a caution for football related stuff.