policing the olympic stadium for west ham games.

[Beso]

After the savage scenes of last Wednesdays west ham chelsea game do we think football hooliganism is on it's way back?

I know that every west ham home game this season so far has had some trouble surrounding it, including fighting with away fans as well as fighting amongst themselves.

Is this stadium unpolicable for football matches? as i am unaware of any other issues inside any other grounds this season.

:shrug:

[user104658]

Hooliganism and football-hooligan-style views and values have become mainstream / accepted in the general public conscious again (thanks, Brexit!) so yes, football hooliganism will probably continue to rise, and the police are (and always have been) ill-equipped to deal with this sort of unrest.

[Beso]

Hooliganism and football-hooligan-style views and values have become mainstream / accepted in the general public conscious again (thanks, Brexit!) so yes, football hooliganism will probably continue to rise, and the police are (and always have been) ill-equipped to deal with this sort of unrest.

The police don't really police it now though, it down to the stewards in and around the ground, certainly at west ham games anyway.

I think the police use a very clever tactic in just videoing the events and making the arrests later.

[Kizzy]

I love the 80s ......Again :/

[James]

West Ham: London Stadium should be knocked down, says expert
7 hours ago

West Ham's London Stadium should be knocked down and rebuilt to suit football fans, a stadium expert says.

Paul Fletcher, who has built or advised on more than 30 new grounds, says athletics was wrongly put before football at the former Olympic Stadium.

He says fans are too far from the pitch at a ground beset by problems since the Hammers moved there this summer.

"Either we go on as we are for the next 30 or 40 years or we knock it down and start again," Fletcher told the BBC.

"Something has to give. If you want to satisfy spectators the only way to get those spectators near that pitch is to knock it down and start again," added the former Burnley striker turned chief executive.

Fletcher, who was behind new stadiums at Bolton, Huddersfield and Coventry, among others, and was commercial director for Wembley Stadium, said he was asked about the development of an Olympic stadium in 2000.

"I said what you must do is design a football stadium that converts to an athletics stadium for two weeks of its lifetime," he said.

"When I build my football stadiums, my number one concern is the spectator.

"What they've done is tried to convert an athletics stadium into a football pitch and, in my opinion, it doesn't work.

"The building was almost built when they started to talk to West Ham."

West Ham won the bid to occupy the Olympic Stadium in March 2013 and played their first game there in August 2016, after 112 years at Upton Park.

However, their move has been marred by fan violence, leading the club to issue a five-point security plan to prevent further disorder.

Hundreds of supporters clashed during the Hammers' EFL Cup tie against Chelsea, with seven arrests made as riot police were deployed inside the stadium.

Vice-chairwoman Karren Brady said the club would ban any fans involved in the violence, while Mark Field MP said the club should be forced to play behind closed doors until the issues are solved.

"Let's face it, there was only going to be one end user and it was only going to be West Ham," Fletcher added.

"Everyone in those days spoke about legacy. The only legacy was going to be as a football stadium and they should have been talking to West Ham and ask them what they want."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37828905

The bits I highlighted are good points.

[user104658]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37828905

The bits I highlighted are good points.

It is pretty awful to be fair.

http://www.footballgroundguide.com/images/image/product/property-thumb/london-stadium-west-ham-united-on-matchday-1471462582.jpg

[Kizzy]

You see this is why we can never have nice things....

Take it off them then, make it a music venue or something?