Football violence: Policing England’s travelling troublemakers | Times Reports

Matt Lawton gets special access into how German and British officers work together to control drunken louts before the Nations League match in Munich.
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[@brettdewfield]

The Times sent a whole film crew begging for trouble. Around 7000 fans went with only 13 arrests.... but the dark times are back??

[@southstandloyalblock37stok94]

A joke

[@michaelharrison3602]

The film crews and press go go to get a story. They don't want to come home empty handed so they don't hesitate to by rounds of drinks to get English supporters drunk and winding them up they tell them there's a big mob of opposing supporters in a bar up the St out to beat up any English supporters in the hope the Brits will go round there and attack them and they can get it oncamera. Reporter's hate it if there's no trouble but when there is they happily stir it up so that they can then do a story about how these animals disgraced the country

[@billykennedy6776]

The same newspaper who’s employees sniff more than England fans

[@TheGamingToffee]

Sent camera crews out to purposely look for trouble and came back with 1 glass bottle thrown towards an officer. Wow dark times…

[@markhepworth]

Sent a camera crew out to film what a bunch embarrassing little c🤡🤡ts British lads can be abroad basically..🤷‍♂️

[@markgreet3543]

No way is it back a few minor incidents only

[@tommo1237]

Most pointless video ever. What a waste of time and money. English media looking for trouble as usual.

[@carlboardman8301]

Gang of Wools who would have scattered had twenty or thirty decent German lads turned up and called it on

[@stephenholmes1036]

Send them to my club Partizan

[@Ladinhio]

Love these hard cunts in the comments that pretend they’ve been in footy scraps

[@BarkingLondon]

Hardly Englands top lot. 🤷🏻‍♂️😆

[@BarkingLondon]

@@stephenholmes1036 there just Jack the lads….Englands top lot would travel anywhere including Partizan yeah.

[@___fokker___974]

@@BarkingLondon And they would get destroyed, as always on the mainland.

[@Cookey77]

So nothing happened?

[@npche9865]

Just media scum trying to make the most of making the English look bad.

[@YorkshireMack]

Looks like a right laugh. Up the England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@hudson7354]

The Russians ran you out of town in France 😂😂😂😂😂

[@npche9865]

@@hudson7354 Did you not see the English and Welsh chase them down despite them using MMA gloves?

[@hudson7354]

@@npche9865 chase them 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@npche9865]

@@hudson7354 Okay keyboard warrior.

[@hudson7354]

@@npche9865 you tough guy 😂😂😂😂

[@jacktheladstevens]

Went once to an England game abroad, and soon realised a large number don't support the team. They pretend to but really they're primary purpose is to get drunk on the cheap and smash up the city centre. The real fans have long since stopped going away, the real fans turn up at Wembley for the home games

[@sidonthebank]

Happy clapper

[@BarkingLondon]

Absolute crap.

[@sqaudronsquadron3808]

Respect ,,,,,

[@jasonweston7759]

There's more playing up when the reporters are around. In Macedonia they were buying us drinks to sing hahaha

[@southstandloyalblock37stok94]

There was no trouble the media after trouble as usual

[@DK-cy5mt]

Typical excuse from a fan of the oaf's sport

[@peterroe6233]

Talking about offensive behaviour. Those snide burberry shorts. Its back to the dark ages.

[@jamiewilliams685]

There are no authentic firms in England

[@louistudor1086]

If alcohol never existed their would be less violence less crime less fights

[@Chirpingcherub]

Definitely, but do you think people would turn to other drugs if alcohol wasn’t a thing?

[@louistudor1086]

@@Chirpingcherub definitely

[@TheRhinog24]

Save your time and don't watch this.

[@Quincycle]

Let's keep it up lads.

[@partyline6626]

Singing about bringing down German bombers but give Nazi Salutes. Singing about the IRA and drinking in an Irish Pub. 🥸

[@stebic7125]

Completely sums them up ........... Ingurland followed my small clubs and cockneys, not used to travelling abroad with their own clubs so go with the national team & behave like they would on any Friday / Saturday night get pissed ,take drugs .... Abroad generally in big squares or outside so large numbers of police will always be there so young men pissed in a foreign country thinking their repping their country behave like they do in this video

[@kieranmccarthy6072]

@@stebic7125 be quiet lad I’m a Liverpool fan too and we’re just as bad abroad thinking we’re the best in the world n that.

[@Jhjhjj675]

The police protect them believe me

[@Lamby1010]

Can’t understand what they are singing

[@YJB8CCFC]

They chant about the RAF winning the war against the Germans, then get arrested for making a Nazi salute. Are English fans really that thick? Genuine question btw

[@pubtalkpubtalk4642]

The funny thing is that the German fans join in with the RAF song!

[@johnross2924]

The dinghy boys will soon water this lot down.

[@tommyhassan3545]

The Russians are coming run to the hills 😂😂

[@brisbanefermanagh]

I could spot them ..

[@DK-cy5mt]

I really really loathe football, this oaf's sport needs consigning to the dustbin

[@justinholmes1562]

These officers are on a jolly , they would hate it if English fans didn’t travel it be back to policing smack heads in Bolton . Lads get nicked for next to nothing so they can keep jolly going

[@mickharrison9004]

Yeah scummy dibble bstds .

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

They have no say over what the German police choose to arrest for, so that’s a mute point.

[@angie-smart-but-casual]

As soon as the narrator spoke ..scroll on...

[@bridger698]

So basically nothing happened.

[@angie-smart-but-casual]

The female spotter total despair who's not gonna spot her a mile off she stands out like a spare thumb..Totally out of their depth, 40 + years on and still no further..Nazi salute isn't cricket though

[@dpshtfc764]

Huddersfield fansagain

[@michaelstapelberg7751]

funny.. cos I bet all those yobs are automatic tories when they vote!

[@michaelharrison3602]

Funny I bet you're a snowflake who roboticly votes Labour

[@curiousmind.537]

Singing songs about the second world war is embarrassing enough, never mind when it's in Germany. However, a few arrests for very minor incidents is nowhere near back to the dark days of previous decades.

[@kieranmccarthy6072]

I agree it’s you on the songs , very distasteful

[@bfcwalshy]

Rubbish, the reason they don't know a lot of them is because a lot of the fans following England nowadays are on stag do's or birthday celebrations

[@geoffreycliff7020]

Watch it lads . A couple of Russian hools are round the corner. Lol

[@jamieunderwood5624]

What a false title, this is just England fans singing, no violence whatsoever 😂

[@grahammurray7426]

more uk media hype.

[@mickharrison9004]

Lowandonski were the fks he from ✌️

[@matty1mason]

That was boring nothing really going on

[@jettrink7510]

Forget football... find a constructive personal hobby, you'll be a contented person.

[@billybobkingston5604]

Not just booze, loads of coke sniffing as well and the typical yob has a good job

[@jimmymcleod4424]

England fans r passionate they get targeted by foreign police and fans

[@steve.s6741]

English in an Irish bar .That wouldn’t happened back in the day

[@dublinsfaircity]

It has always happened.

[@patglennon9671]

Chelsea used to meet in a pub in kilburn f.f.s.

[@patglennon9671]

@Tommy Karol they sell alcohol?

[@jasonweston7759]

The Times is awful, is this the best you got? Haha terrible report.

[@ShumonM]

Hooligan sport

[@paintsilj]

Zzzzzzzz

[@user-zi3ee8oj1i]

You can't compare the few pissed up brats of today acting like clowns to the football violence of the past.

[@tommyrobinson9330]

A.C.A.B

[@teamblitz1990]

Sadly football violence will not eradicated easily it's systematic of society and social condition's breed this culture.

[@michaelharrison3602]

Every football club in every city and town in every country that plays football has its hooligans its not an "English disease" Italy Holland,Germany Russia along with most countries in Europe and South America have the same if not worse levels of violence but their newspapers aren't as quick to blame their own country's supporters as the British press are. Even if an English fan is murdered abroad by another country's supporters the UK Press will only comment on how badly the English fans behaved. If well behaved English families who are not even there for the football are attacked by mobs of foreign supporters that won't even earn a paragraph in the British papers but if two English fans get drunk and start singing and waving their arms about; that will be on all the front pages and the TV news

[@angie-smart-but-casual]

Well said ! Seargant Smythe-Armley

[@mufferrs]

give the police cattle prods