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Fans miss out on derby start
Wednesday 16th April 2008, 12:56PM BST.
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Angry Albion fans missed the first 10 minutes of last night’s match against Wolves after being held back at the Metro stop by police.
Around 550 officers had flooded the city centre to prevent hooliganism.
Pubs were also closed before the game, which Wolves lost 1-0.
But dozens of Albion supporters on two pre-booked trams were forced to wait at the St George’s stop in Bilston Street until after 7.30pm until both had arrived. They were then escorted on the quarter-mile walk to Molineux by police.
Just two arrests were made out of the 24,000 fans who attended, although pockets of trouble flared around the city.
Fans confronted each other at around 9.50pm behind the Chubb buildings in Fryer Street but were moved on by police.
Half an hour later in Market Street a fight was broken up by 11 officers in riot gear.
Wolverhampton city centre was almost a ghost town as every bar and pub obeyed a police order to stay closed after 5pm.
The force helicopter hovered over the Wishbone bridge on Bilston Road after the final whistle as Albion fans, again flanked by police, made their way to The Royal Metro stop.
West Midlands Police spokeswoman Jaspreet Jagdev thanked supporters from both clubs and local businesses for their co-operation.
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Discrase are they going to compensate those fans who bought expensive tickets
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who cares it was the albion fans
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**disgrace**
unfortunately preventing public order and safety would be a priority.
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Over the top from the coppers as usual, can’t believe they shut all the pubs. Most football fans are more than capable of having a drink before a game. We don’t suddenly undergo a Hulk like transformation as soon as we consume alcohol and go on the rampage
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Never mind fellow Baggies, you saw the important bit in the 59th minute.
Now go away Stuart
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YEH STUART WHO CARES
WE GOT THE 3 POINTS
EASY EASY EASY
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A copper pushed me into a 8 year old child with his riot shield. When I said be careful there are kids here he said “well he should be home in bed then”.
They were very heavy handed and nearly caused many people to miss the last train to London by blocking off the station.
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Re: 2. from Stuart, and you wonder why Wolves fans are disliked so much (its not just by Albion either) whenever we sing stand up if you hate the Wolves, 90% of th time the away fans at the Hawthorns join in.
Still, never mind about missing the first 10 mins, I’m sure they were all in the ground by the 59th minute :-)
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No2 STUART I hope that you will remember that coment when this happens to the Wolves when they attend the Hawthorns.
I bet there would have been a riot if this had happend to the Wolves being delayed into the match. Such bad loosers…….
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tonywba is inbread
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I’m pretty sure every seat was taken in the albion end at the time of kick off, infact i’m 100% sure did i missing something?
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Southern Wolves no 6
What was an 8 year old child doing with a riot shield ?
Don’t be bitter about loosing as you are going to have to get used to it from now on.
Boing Boing.
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The way we were herded out of the ground last night was ridiculous. I came out of the Jack Harris, wanting to get to West Park by the baths, and was herded like a bloody sheep all the way to the Civic Centre, then had to walk all the way down the main road!!!
In my own sodding town!!!
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The treatment that the Wolves supporter received from the Police after the game was a disgrace.
All the fans from the South Bank and Steve Bull upper made to go through the subway. I was constantly getting barged into and trodden on, and i saw one person who was seriously injured. Did the Police care? No. Absolutely diabolical. You try and get towards the station and the Police dont let you and they just swear at you and threaten to arrest you. To get home i had to cross the busy traffic on the Ring Road nearly getting myself killed in the process.
West Midlands Police are a complete joke. Wolverhampton is a Police city. If you have got a football shirt on, then look down on you like a piece of scum.
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Southern Wolves-that was me and my lad.
There was a bit of trouble with the police by the bridge,so we were waiting out of the way til it died down,then out of nowhere 20 riot police come from the other direction pushing and abusing anyone in their way.The only thugs I saw last night were wearing flourescent jackets.
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SHAME IT WONT HAPPEN TO WOLVES NEXT SEASON
COS WE WILL BE IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE
UNLUCKY LOSER
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9 andy
fantastic comment, well made.
what a pity you cant spell inbred
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Oh dear Stuart – talk about being a sore loser!! Well at least we won’t have to contend with all this next season when we’re in the Premiership and you’re still in the Championship, complaining and slating us because we have ability you can only dream of!!
The amount of Wolves fans who taunted me before the match who are now avoiding me like the plague is amazing – guess humble pie doesn’t taste that good!!!
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boing boing
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UP THE SADDLERS
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Andy can’t spell!!
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Will all you saggy faggies please do one, and make comments in your own paper…. oh hang on a minute, you haven’t got one have you? Like i’ve said elsewhere. You may have the upper hand for now, but don’t forget normal service will be resumed sooner rather than later. You have: smaller club, smaller town, smaller history, smaller future, smaller ground, smaller fanbase, smaller everything. You do however have: more toes than us and webbed armpits. So it’s not all bad eh?
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THE HAD A JOB TO DO AND THEY DID THERE BEST TO KEEP THE 5% OF IDIOTS APART AND THEY DID IT,WE WERE HAVING A DRINK IN SEDGLEY BEFORE THE GAME NOT ONE BIT OF TROUBLE WOLVES AND BOGGIE FANS ITS A BLACK COUNTRY THING IF YOU GET PRATS FROM WEST BROM AND WOLVO THEN THERES GOING TO BE TROUBLE,BUT LOCALS NOT A BIT OF BOTHER SO THE POLICE DID WHAT WAS ASKED OF THEM STOP THE TROUBLE JOB DONE.
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having being made to wait 25 mins from getting off the metro and stood next to a billboard was not much fun, yes we missed the first 10 minutes but that was due to the last metro being delayed, I think its cause of the amount of fans we had. But By the by we saw the 59th minute and nobody seriously hurt so all good i think !!!
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i thought it was well policed ok wolves fans had to walk a further distance to there cars but thats the way football as gone these days to keep the trouble at a min….
it was a good game in poor weather conditions say 50-50 on the night +there was only gona be 1 goal in it best derby game for a long time……………playoffs for the wolves come on me babbies
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21,
Have to agree its people from outside the Black Country that cause the rucks. I was drinking with my Wolves mates in Dudley last night, enjoying the banter and the result!
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the police were a joke last night they helped create the possibilities of trouble by herding wolves fans through the town to get to the train station, then turning them away if they did not have a ticket
some fans like myself only wanted to get the first train home but were denied this by the police,so instead a large crowd were being refrained from getting transport and held back….
i can understand reasons behind it but it is only the minority who are hooligans who wanted to cause trouble but the majority of ordinary citizens were treated that way last night by the police…. so does that mean we should treat police all the same?? are they all like those white cops in america who attacked the black man who was complying with them??
absolute joke!!!!!
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and the reason i didn’t have a ticket was due to the fact that the ticket office in coseley was shut last night no one there to sell tickets so wanted to buy ticket in wolvo station to get to coseley
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I jsut about mad ekick off with around 100 or so albion fans. After getting off the train at 7pm we were then treated like sheep by the police who took us to the ground which took us 45mins just arriving for kick off. We stood we moved we stood we moved it was a joke!!
We are all adults and surely we can make our own way.
After the game we headed back to the station but been stopped by the police once again, once we moved from our “escort” towards the sation the albion fans were confronted by thugs in wolves shirts and masks- and obviously it went off!!
You never get this trouble at the albion- its the thug wolves fans who crate this every time we play them, and looking at some of tehre intelligent comments on here shows them up for what they are- Idiots
Get in 3 point at the custard bowl AGAIN!!
Boing Boing
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21. You missed: smaller goal difference, smaller points total and as of next year smaller league to play in. Have fun loser.
What is this ‘normal service’ you’re on about, Albion beating Wolves IS normal service. We’ve spent more years in the top flight, more years in the premiership, have won more FA cups, have a higher average finishing league position, Albion have beaten Wolves more often than vice-versa.
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Smoke bomb and inflatable banana’s. Just about summed the 2.5k Albion fans who braved coming to Molineux last night.
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All you dingles face facts, you will forever be a Championship team!
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13. Tom smith and 14. Andy. Stop moaning about the police just cause your team lost. If they hadn’t been there no doubt you would have got a right kicking cause the Wolves fans are sore losers who always have to kick up a fuss and start a few fights. No wander poeple hate Wolverhampton! So be grateful about something!
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Most of the above is like listening to little boys in the play ground. Poor command of language, limited response and an over abundence of non productive testosterone. For those who cannot understand the comments lets put it on your level… My dads bigger than your dad and I’m telling.
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Police are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. I am sure there would have been plenty moaning about there lack of presence if it had all kicked off. Remember, the morons have created this disease over the years, not the police.
As for the game, all credit to the baggies (pains me to say it!). They were better all round, we resorted to hoofing it up to SEB all game, and whilst I like the look of him, miracle worker he aint!!
Up the Wolves, keep the faith!!
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This story is scraping the barrel. Why can’t the Express and Star cover the real story that there were only 2 arrests the whole evening. No other local newspaper smears its local fans (and readers) as much.
A disgrace to professional journalism!
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Herded like cattle prevented from walking to our car near the old M&B Brewery So thanks very much to the car driver who kindly agreed to us thumbing a lift passed the Yellow line of riot shields who had no control over cars only women ,kids and pensioners on the inner ring road able to get out of car 100yds past the yellow perils and get home!
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The policing was a disgrace on Tues night- we were herded up a bank which was muddy and steep- this was average fans, men women, children and pensioners
All of our clothes got muddy and my husband helped some older men over the fence at the top.
I think the police induced a trespass on their behalf as we were herded through what I tyhink is Uni grounds and a little recorded meeeage kept stating ‘this is a restricted area please leave’
Well done West Midlands POlice you must have cost the trade in the city centre hundreds of thousnads of pounds last night at a time when they need it more than ever, treat the home fans like rubbish and have no idea of how to logistically plan an operation.
If Wolves FC are prepared to let their fans be treated like this then it just shows how they have lost touch and are only interested in courting the corporate supporter.
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stand up if you hate the wolves? so at the poorthorns with your 20,000 crowd average isnt that impressive is it? and its only a pound to watch!!! we didnt even know the albion fans were in the stadium until the 59th minute. i dont know why paul robinson was celebrating after the game he wanted out straight away last year but being morbidly obese unfortunately was the telling part in failing his medical. gera wants out and so does phillips still you have luke moore! cark hoefkens has slated your club and area your players do not respect your club and you have a passionless manager! were see you in the play offs!
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39. Brilliant.. you forgot something.. WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE!!! Robbo was going wild cause he hates you lot… i’ll never forget last years cup game when he waved goodbye to u lot!! Now that was BRILLIANT!!
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As ever the WM Police creating problems.
As a football fan I feel sorry for those who missed some of the game. In no other walk of life can the Police get away with treating the public as they do at a football match.
I suspect that pubs will no longer close before the derby game either. There is a growing feeling against this in the city and something has to change or the Police will lose even more support. (If that is possible)
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The Police were an absolute disgrace after the game on Tuesday. Fans of all ages were herded from the South bank and the John Ireland stand and funnelled into the subway. It would have only taken someone to suffer a panic attack in the claustrophobic conditions for serious injury to have ensued. People at the back were starting to push creating a lot of pressure with a big crowd in a confined space.
WMP are very lucky no one was seriously injured.
Just normal people trying to get back to their transport to go home. Treated abysmally all for being a football fan
And on the 19th anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster – do they never learn?
We were beaten by the better side managed by someone who understands tactics
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