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Racist Chelsea Fans Get 5 Year Ban
Chelsea fans who pushed black man off Paris Metro Tain given 5 year bans from all football grounds.
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Vulcan - //If they treat football like a religion, why did they bring it into such disrepute?//
The important part of that sentence is 'like'.
They do not treat it as though it is a religion - they simply adopt the fanaticism that accompanies some supporters' mind set - along with a side order of tribalism, yobbery, predjudice, unpleasantness, and overall waste of oxygen!
The important part of that sentence is 'like'.
They do not treat it as though it is a religion - they simply adopt the fanaticism that accompanies some supporters' mind set - along with a side order of tribalism, yobbery, predjudice, unpleasantness, and overall waste of oxygen!
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/// I assume because the offence did not occur on British soil, then it is not under the UK police's jurisdiction, so no criminal charges can be brought. ///
So what are you actually saying, if it had been on British 'soil' then criminal charges would have been taken?
Nice to see that the French don't take such matters so seriously.
/// I assume because the offence did not occur on British soil, then it is not under the UK police's jurisdiction, so no criminal charges can be brought. ///
So what are you actually saying, if it had been on British 'soil' then criminal charges would have been taken?
Nice to see that the French don't take such matters so seriously.
In a similar manner to the way Restraining Orders can be imposed without a criminal conviction, so can Football Banning Orders:
Football Spectators Act 1989 (FSA), section14B:
An application for a banning order may be made by the chief officer of police for the area in which the person resides or appears to reside if it appears that the condition in (2) is met.
The condition is that the respondent has at any time caused or contributed to any violence or disorder in the UK or elsewhere.
Application is by complaint to a magistrates' court.
If it is proved on the application that the condition in subsection (2) is met, and the court is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that making a banning order would help to prevent violence or disorder at or in connection with any regulated football matches, the court must make a banning order in respect of the respondent.
Football Spectators Act 1989 (FSA), section14B:
An application for a banning order may be made by the chief officer of police for the area in which the person resides or appears to reside if it appears that the condition in (2) is met.
The condition is that the respondent has at any time caused or contributed to any violence or disorder in the UK or elsewhere.
Application is by complaint to a magistrates' court.
If it is proved on the application that the condition in subsection (2) is met, and the court is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that making a banning order would help to prevent violence or disorder at or in connection with any regulated football matches, the court must make a banning order in respect of the respondent.
The legislation is quite clear, joeluke:
"The condition is that the respondent has at any time caused or contributed to any violence or disorder in the UK or elsewhere. "
The disorder does not have to have taken place in a football ground. But since this provision is under the "Football Spectators Act" it has too have taken place in connection with a football match. If a banning order were imposed for disorder that was not connected with football it was almost certainly be successfully appealed.
The aim is to prevent disorder associated with football matches.
"The condition is that the respondent has at any time caused or contributed to any violence or disorder in the UK or elsewhere. "
The disorder does not have to have taken place in a football ground. But since this provision is under the "Football Spectators Act" it has too have taken place in connection with a football match. If a banning order were imposed for disorder that was not connected with football it was almost certainly be successfully appealed.
The aim is to prevent disorder associated with football matches.
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