Heliocentric
Thousands of people descend on a city to express their passion. A small minority come for trouble and the police present are attacked with bricks and glass bottles. Twenty-seven people are arrested.
They were Swansea FC supporters having a day out in Cardiff last year.
You probably won’t have read about it. The story certainly wasn’t top of every bulletin on every news network.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown did not warn the offenders that ‘violence and intimidation will not be tolerated‘.
(The idea for this post was shamelessly pinched from the venerable Chris Applegate.)
Posted on April 1st, 2009 at 8:26pm under Crime and punishment, Culture, media and sport
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A very, very good point. Well done you both.
Craig and George have some more good points:
http://punkscientist.blogspot.com/2009/04/g20-and-legitimate-protest.html
One difference is that the Swansea supporters had all paid twenty or thirty quid for their day out…
conjecture: if thousands of Rangers supporters had gone for a day out in Dublin, which just happened to be on the day of the Pope’s visit to Dublin, this might a) have provoked rather more comment b) been a fairer parallel.
also note that when thousands of Rangers supporters went for an actual fun day out, with no opponent-baiting angle at all, in Manchester and a few twats threw stuff, it was indeed all over the media for days.