Leeds v Millwall Play Offs....

[ELVIS68]

These two are going to be playing each other home and away over the next couple of weeks and no doubt there will be trouble before, during and after these games

Should the FA act now and threaten both clubs with expulsion of promotion when the fans riot?

[WhiteBear]

omg i remember that day when some of the First Leeds buses windows were all smashed, it was pretty scare walking past the football fans chanting and singing and banging on the buses window full of football fans whilst going past me slowly.

Elvis, im sure the police will be more prepared this time round! there werent many troubles though, just a dozen of drunks causing trouble and a half a dozen of damaged buses. Last time they met, the police had to keep all the millwall fans in the stadium until all the leeds fans had gone away.

there was a program about polices etc on telly few months ago and showed how the police controlled the troubles.

[paraffin]

ELVIS:

You predict rioting by both sets of fans and expect the FA to "act now" by threatening to expel the clubs.

I'm interested to know, though, how do the clubs actually prevent their fans from "rioting"?

[ELVIS68]

I saw that program Whitebear, but why should the city suffer just because of of these scum?

paraffin..The clubs and the FA can issue a warning in the papers that if there is any rioting then they will not be promoted, not all the fans are after trouble but these two clubs are well known for it

[paraffin]

ELVIS:

Alright, the Leeds and Millwall fans end up rioting during the first leg, so what do you do?

1. Expel both immediately?

2. Get the next two teams, Tranmere and Southend to have a play off instead. Their fans also riot: then what?

3. The remaining game between MK Dons and Scunthorpe also results in rioting. Do they also get expelled?

Where does this all end? It's a crazy idea which could never work. Do you actually believe that the sort of idiots who cause these punch-ups are bothered about warnings? Because they are the problem, not the actual football clubs.

Going by your logic, if FIFA and UEFA adopted such practice, England would have been banned from numerous World Cups and European Championships in fairly recent years, wouldn't they?

[mightyWBA]

They ought to adopt the Dutch approach where the police stick the ones who want to have a punch up in a field and let them get on with it.
This happened a few years ago before a Feynoord v Ajax game.