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Four-year ban for hooligan
Wednesday 12th September 2007, 11:48AM BST.
A Wolves hooligan who hurled a missile in a “disgraceful riot” on Black Country derby day has been hit with a four-year banning order.
Showcase cinema worker Krishan Patel, aged 19, was part of a mob of up to 150 yobs who vented their fury at police when Albion visited Molineux in January.
Patel, who is also a student at the University of Central England in Birmingham, was caught on police camera during the trouble and pictured in the Express & Star afterwards.
Yesterday the teenager, of Catherine Road, Coseley, was given a suspended jail sentence by a judge who said the community would have been terrified by the football violence.
The FA Cup match ended with one of the worst outbreaks of football violence the city has seen in years. Eleven officers were injured as bricks, bollards and road signs were thrown.
Pate, who admitted throwing a missile, was said to be angry that Wolves had lost 3-0 and that home fans had been moved from their seats in the Jack Harris stand to make way for the visiting supporters.
As well as the banning order, he was given a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid community work.
Kanwa Juss, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday that the atmosphere became “quite hostile” when Wolves fans were separated from rival supporters at the end of the match.
The court was shown a video of Patel, who had drunk one-and-a-half pints of lager, in amongst scores of fans marching aggressively through the city centre. He admitted to violent disorder.
Judge Anthony Cleary said he had “pencilled in” a nine-month jail term for Patel when he had read details of the case against him.
He said: “Your behaviour was utterly disgraceful. This offence frightens and even terrifies the community and seeing that film shows effectively a riot taking place in an English town with young hooligans throwing missiles at the police who are trying their best to protect the community.
“You are a football hooligan and you deserve to go to prison.”
But he said that “by some stroke of mercy and good fortune” to Patel, other hooligans involved in the trouble had been given suspended sentences and Patel should not be treated differently.
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what a nut case! and this boy is a university student? i thought university students are ment to have brains? lets hope this low life learns his lesson and grows up before he kills someone or causes someone harm
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this idiot should be banned for life does he still think football is still being played in the 70,s
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oh what a shame, he was angry his team lost! we all have to put up with our teams losing, its part of life. you give decent sports fans a bad name, grow up moron!
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Lock this nutter up and throw away the key.
We do not need these scum bags at the Molineux
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Good, we dont need these idiots at our football club.
I bet that was his 1st match he went 2 and what did he get out of it??
The proper supports go for the enjoyment of the game, win, lose or draw.
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His punishment, is too lenient by far, should be made an example of. Wolves dont need nutters like these at Molineux, ban him for life, decent people like to feel safe, when going to a football match, win lose or draw. He brings a bad name to football, in generall and Wolves, who hes supposed to support. Ban him for life from Molineux.
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sounds to me he had smelled the barmaids apron what a tater
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The offender suffers from an obvious lack of self-control, although I am impressed that he kept his alcohol consumption down to 1.5pints of lager.
He should be severely disciplined nonetheless, that brick could have had an old man’s eye out.
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the best of it is he’s an ordinary fan not a hooligan lol got to love the e&s
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Well said people,
in spite of the derisory comments we throw at each other on these pages,
it`s good to know a decent heart beats within each of us.
A few years ago, i took 2 of my daughters then aged 6 & 8, to the Mol to watch the Baggies in a reserve team game.
They wanted to wear their shirts,
so i thought, reserve game, yes why not, no problem,
how wrong i was
Everyone at the game was seated in the upper Billy Wright,
and within 10 mins of the game starting we had about a dozen lads aged between about 16 to 25 abusing my girls and myself, you know the kind of thing,
s*** fan dad with his s*** fan kids
and wait till you get outside.
My girls were absolutely terrified and crying, but that just seemed to make lads even more venomous.
I was ready to have a go, and was letting them know that, well you would would`nt you,
at that several Wolves fans who were sitting elsewhere basicaly came to our rescue,
these lads were told in no uncertain terms to leave us be,
stewards then arrived and threw the lads out of the ground.
And the guys that helped us were not content until they had given us safe passage back to my car after the game.
Whilst i hold those thugs in utter contempt,
i have the highest regard for those men that helped us that night.
So when people go on about, i hate Wolves & i hate Albion,
that aint for me.
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The fact he drank only 1.5 pints of lager makes the situation even worse as he (should) be within the legal drink drive limit and therefore aware of all his actions.
He should have been banned from ALL football matches for life.
However, the community service order is more beneficial to the community than sending him to prison, at least some people will benefit from his stupidity and we (tax payers) will not have to pay to feed him and look after him.
Worse BAWS (post 8), the brick could have killed someone and for what? Not seeing his team who drive flash cars, live in large houses and have models as wives/girlfriends win a game of football. Why take it out on opposing fans or the police. Vent your anger verbally or in writing to your team on boards like this!!!!!
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One and a half pints, the guys a lunatic!
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Incomprehensible behaviour. I weep for the future.
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Another example of the courts being soft on the minority that spoil things for the majority–surely Wolves can ban him for life ???
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No football club needs scum like this muppet – Ban should have been for life!
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This kind of football fan is not going to go away.the only thing they are intent on is having a good scrap, my suggestion is send them to a (military boot camp) for a year,with no leave.repeat offenders then get 5 years with no leave. prison is to nice.
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Another young man who cannot take his beer.What is this obsession with getting bladdered? One of life’s skills: learning to take defeat like a man. Not difficult for most football fans. If you can’t then go and support Man U or Chelsea as that is where all the other glory seekers go… until they do a `Leeds`. We seem to lack parenting skills in a big way in this country. Those who go abroad and remain sober will know what I mean.Love a drink myself… Cheers!
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should have banned the tosser for life, just the type of muppet that brings the reputation of wolves down.
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Something missing in his life I think. Probably never had a girlfriend by the look of him !
WOLVES should ban him for another 70 years when his 4 year one expires.
I have more in common with most Albion fans than this BOY.
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What a silly little child!
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Totally agree with comment 18 Nothing wrong with Banter BUT there’s no room for mindless violence in todays game
Alcohol is nothing more than an excuse for most thugs!!!
Comment 10 – We can only apologise for the distress this must have caused you/ your family & these nutters deserve a good smack from us Wolves fans for sick comments like that!!!
Keep thugs out of our grounds!!!
UP THE WOLVES!!!
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what a great lad
at least he’s passionate about his team. He should be given free entry to the city
unlike some of the prawn sandwich brigade that we see up and down the country.. they get complimentry coporate tickets for all the big events and half the time dont even attend the game or if they do ..they spend most of their time in the free coporate bar talking about the price of crude oil
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Most of the hooligans have been supporters since day 1. they just show more passion. A lot did not get caught . All you are the low lives. Up the wolves!!!
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i no this guy and he is generally alright but its a joke that he only drank 1.5 pints and was like this!!
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wba forever ..
you have my sympathy m8 !!
i know wolves n albion h8 each other but that was disgraceful !!
i wish your daughters well m8 !
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wba forever …
i hope ur daughters are fine m8 !
its disgraceful of us !!
we may be rivals but not that bad!
all the best m8 :)
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totally should bebanned from molineux for life! i know people who’ve been banned for less… people like that eejit who do give wolves a bad name.. i live in cornwall and am a life long wolves fan and because of some idiots i get tarred with the brush of being an idiot because i support a team who has a “few” lunatic supporters… jesus man we’re not in the 70′s anymore.. we’re not the subway boys
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don’t act like he’s the only one though. there’s bloody hundreds of fans who act just the same, if not worse. end of the day, he’s a kid, he’s 19, he’ll make mistakes. im not condoning it at all, hes acted like a tosser and im sure he knows it, and he deserves the punishment and maybe a worse one, but the fella is a kid at the end of the day.
and does the article ACTUALLY say he was drunk?so he had a drink, i know when i was 19 i could handle more than a pint and a half, if any of you couldnt, you probably should have engaged a bit more socially… arguably that makes it worse as it was all his actions and not drunken idiocy, but isnt that what a ‘guilty’ plea is for?
and before anyone starts moaning, im not his family or anything, but i can see when someone makes a big mistake, i just dont see why some people cant sometimes think that the kid regrets it, and at the end of the day, will pay for it, his face is in the bloody paper, people will probably make his life hard, and yeah he totally deserves it, but it doesnt hurt to put an arm around someone like that and help them out instead of burying them further.
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people i gotta say that i know this guy and he isnt a bad person. some of the things you’ve said about him seem very harsh. he threw a brick, and although that is terrible and cannot be excused, it’s not as if he as stabbed someone etc etc. he’s a young lad who has made a big mistake, but dont forget he is getting punished for this. it doesnt make him a bad person or some of the things people have called him on some comments. also, dont belive everything you read, we all know one and a half pints does nothing, proving the paper just puts its own spin on it.
this by the way is the same guy ive had great advice from over many years and who i know would go out of his to help me out in any situation.
basically this is someone who has made a mistake and will take his punishment on the chin and thats that, no need to call him names, which he isnt.
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I hope the University of Central England in Birmingham have sense and kick him off his course. People like this do not deserve to be on degree courses.
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Utterly disgraceful, but as AJ said he isn’t the only one involved in this. Why out of 150 fans has he been singled out?
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Your nicked my son!
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I have a fair few drinks before every albion game its all part of the build up imo (have you ever seen us play sober lol) but I dont go around throwing bricks when we lose. Mindless idiots will ruin this game!
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28 – some good points, but if that brick had hit someone on the head it could have been as bad as stabbing someone.
He is just another example of everything thats crap in this country and whatever happens to him I won’t be shedding a tear.
I have never felt the need to run riot at a match, or throw a brick. I’m no angel but I have never knowingly tried to cause trouble like this.
These are the same louts that hang around shops causing trouble, or damage cars for a laugh etc and if they all disappeared tomorrow who would care ?
p.s – while there are morons like 22 to laugh and cheer at what these slugs get up to they will always be here – Barkingsidebob you should be ashamed of yourself (but then your type have no shame).
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Wolves vs Watford at the start of the season was obviously a disappointing game, with Wolves losing the game with almost the very last kick.
Coming out of the ground I was walking past 4 Watford fans all wearing their team’s colours. I said to them that their team had played well, but were lucky to nick the win at the end.
I’ll always remember what they said to me, as it’s a sorry reflection of a small minority of Wolves fans. One of the fans who had just been punched in the mouth, said that I was the first Wolves fan who was treating them as “humans”!
They explained that as they walked past the Steve Bull stand they had been attacked, spat on and called every name under the sun.
I’ve been a season ticket holder most of my life and I hold Wolves very close to my heart. When we lose a game, I’m as disappointed as most Wolves fans. I don’t however let this disappointment manifest itself into violence against rival fans.
I’ve seen it on numerous occasions as parent with young kids regaled in their team strips are verbally abused whether the Wolves team have won or lost. They have simply come to follow their team and have a day out with their kids. This neanderthal attitude is disgusting and how would these Wolves fans feel if their own kids were treated in this manner?
I have a drink with Albion fans and chat to them at the gym or at work. When they get promoted I shake their hand and we have some good-hearted banter when the teams play. To my recollection, I can’t remember shouting at their kids or saying that their wives are on the game!
This is an epidemic that has infested all football clubs. I’ve been attacked myself at various away grounds for daring to wear Wolves colours.
Idiots such as Krishan should be banned for life from all football grounds. Slaps on the wrists and suspended sentences simply are not enough.
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This drinking is a disgrace, it should be banned, i run a 7 a side football team and i dont allow drinking before a game, we are like a well oiled machine since i banned the demon drink.
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The ban should have been much longer. On a more positive note though he will be eligible to see Wolves back in Europe in the Champions league in 4 years time. Lets hope he behaves himself at the San Siro, the Bernabeu etc..
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It’s the same at the mol as it is for us when we go away, at various grounds around the country I’ve been spat at, thumped, kicked etc it seems to be par for the course – don’t forget when you go away you are outnumbered by a fair amount. Every club has hooligans & i agree with one comment above – how come the police only got 1 out of 150. It’s a malaise of society not just football & unfortunately a lot of so called celebrities behave much the same & set a bad example. My dad says bring back the 40′s / 50′s with national service, that may sort some of the numptys.
ps appy baggie, yes one of the places i’ve been spat at is the hawthorns – it doesn’t only work 1 way
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Wplfie (37) – I never said it did… its a society thing. I’m sorry you have been treated like that at the Hawthorns – we have had bottles of p**s thrown at us down the molly too. There are slugs and morons on all sides unfortunately.
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Barkingsidebob you are a disgrace, I can’t put the words in what I’d like to call you because they won’t get printed
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Happy_ Baggie
We also had a bottle of p**s lobbed over our away section at the Hawthorns last season when the Wolves played in the league match.
Howv do you stop the venim which rears its ugly head when Wolves play Albion ????
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AJ (post 27)
I bet he thinks he’s an adult when it suits him…like when he bought his pint!!!!
His generation are all the same. Adult when they want to be and a kid when it all goes wrong and they expect understanding. He’s pathetic and so are you for backing him. He’s a thug nothing less. I was at that game & I didn’t go around chucking bricks at the Police or at the Baggies fans despite being very disappointed about the result.
WBAFOREVER.. man I’m disgusted about the way you and you’re daughters were treated. I’ve taken my 8 year old to matches and she loves it. I only hope your girls come back to Molineux in the future but in particular remain footie fans. They are the future.
All decent fans regardless of team colours need to stand together and rid football of this scumish thuggery.
SOUTH BANK FOREVER
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40 – it aint about football – as I said earlier, these are the same people that cause trouble on street corners. Vandals, theives, muggers and yobbos- they all use football as a means to hurt ordinary people.
(although I havn’t heard of that happening down the albion before)
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The not so funny thing about all this is, if this thug had been slightly injured by the Police when they arrested him he’d have probably sued them and won.
Typical of how this country is slowly being overtaken and ruined by the yob culture.
HB…you’re right it has nothing to do with football. Football just gets the blame for the way society is. This guy probably doesn’t even like footie that much…he just saw it as a chance to have some “beef” as his age group call it.
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B&T, Tommy Gunn Wolf, and Zoff,
thanks for your comments.
Zoff
the girls have not been to a game since that night,
the missus put the block on it.
As i say, it happened a few years ago,
and my upbeat nature would say,
it`s saved me a fortune over the years, and my daughters a lot of dissapointment lol.
I only hope that the youths/cowards
involved that night, have now attained a sense of decency,
and realised what they subjected two innocent little kids to
was a despicable act.
Cheers & good luck.
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hahahahahahaha wot a grt bloke he is the way footy is sopsed to be
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Wbaforever
I am sorry this has put your daughters off football for life.
All these morons need locking up and that includes both Wolves & Albion who subject ordinary folk to this disgraceful behaviour.
I really hope those idiots read this, realise it is them we are talking about and hang their head in shame.I doubt it somehow, they have probably got no shame in themselves.
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hahahahah a lot of u really are pathetic!!!! I actually know this guy and he’s one of the most loyal wolves fans you will ever know and he loves the game aswell as playing it. He made a mistake which he accepts, its not like him to act like that but it happened and he regrets it. He has learned his lesson so the rest of u computer boffins can stop with the cheesy comments because i doubt u wud have the nerve to say it to his face. Its a thing of the past now, and i know he will watch his first wolves game in 2011 having learned a valuable lesson.
End of. WWFC
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your team loses 3-0 n u wud just go home and weep! low-lives come on you wolves!!1
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i know the lad and he is a gd lad but he has had one moment of madness and he has been punished for it.and for the people on here tht have said tht this is just like there generation id take a gd look at urself because not every late teen and twenty something lads are all the same trust me!!
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i agree with AJ,post 42- there is no need to say AJ is pathetic for standing up for what he believes, he raised very good points, i actually think you are being shallow minded there-there was no need for that remark. This guy was not the only one involved. His actions were unacceptable i agree and maybe he should be given a life long ban but i don’t agree with people going off on one when all they’ve read is a paragraph in a paper which has been twisted to sell a story- this 19 year old guy has been singled out of 150, they should all bear the brunt, not just him, and i doubt all these hooligans were all youths so i don’t accept the youth yob culture being an excuse for this.
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’1.5 pints’ is no excuse.
This Twit should be sent back to his ‘Call Centre’.
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I still want to know how come the other 149 got away with it – there’s no room for any of them at any football match.
As for the “I know him & he’s a nice guy” brigade, mistake or not he could’ve killed someone with that brick – he’d still be a nice bloke i suppose but he’d also be in jail for life.
As for No46 – get a life mate if that’s what you think football should be like go & join the idiots in Holland or Poland – they’d make you welcome
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i wud luv 2 c u lot say tghis 2 his face u wud never say a word!!!!!
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So Zoff (post 42), you’re effectively saying ALL yobs and hooligans are of/around the 19 year old age mark. Wake up mate, it’s common knowledge just as many yobs are the chavvy 30/40-somethings who have nothing better to do than pick fights. You know, the same ones that get kicked out of clubs, arrested for assault and such?Yeah, so if you see ‘thuggery’ and violence as actions that are childish, maybe it would make more sense to lay off of a kid, and start worrying about the percentage of adults who do the same.
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If he really wants to fight, put him in the Army!
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