Their lack of "crowd control" in Marseille was staggering

And by crowd control I don't mean chucking in tear gas every so often to make the crowds disburse.

I know it's more challenging keeping the peace when you've got thousands of people in a city for two to three days rather than for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon but the way that the Russian group were able to move around at will was staggering. A mate of mine in the Old Port sent me a picture of that group when they first appeared on Friday lunchtime. If it was the uk then that group would have been picked up by the police, put in a couple of bars away from the England contingent and monitored.

Our police also would have just imposed some sort of cordon around the England fans in the main squares, left them to it and not let the Russians anywhere near. Whether or not they should have yo do that is another question and there are others factors as well but our police are in a different league when it comes to keeping rival factions apart.

Posted By: Jim on June 14th 2016 at 16:05:36

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I get the feeling the velvet glove will come off the French old bill now, much like our ow (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 14, 15:37:56
- Their lack of "crowd control" in Marseille was staggering (Other Football) - Jim, Jun 14, 16:05:36
  - do not try and blame the French for this (Other Football) - Henclrikus, Jun 14, 16:18:19
    - Complicated thought process here... (Other Football) - norway, Jun 14, 16:33:48
      - VMT. Military grade Russian gangs + N.African/French gangs + English twats + French police (n/m) (Other Football) - col canary, Jun 14, 18:24:33
    - I'm not blaming the French for it but their lack of experience/ability to deal with it (Other Football) - Jim, Jun 14, 16:33:15
      - no evidence of this at the Scot Cup Final (n/m) (Other Football) - Henclrikus, Jun 14, 16:51:39
        
        I'm referring to in the city. The stuff in the ground was just terrible segregation. (n/m) (Other Football) - Jim, Jun 14, 16:58:36
    - That's true, but Marseille and psg have had a hooligan problem for years (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 14, 16:22:27
      - unfortunately, and ironically timed (Other Football) - Henclrikus, Jun 14, 16:31:16
        
        I Yep, that's irrelevant to my post though. (n/m) (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 14, 16:33:07
      - sounds like a bit of loose fact to me (Other Football) - Henclrikus, Jun 14, 16:28:29
        
        Sounds like you are clueless to me.😚 (n/m) (Other Football) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jun 14, 16:31:47

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