Riot police on standby in Manchester
16-05-2008, 11:58
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Re: Riot police on standby in Manchester
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Originally Posted by Russ B
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But, as this info from that article shows, we shouldn't let the majority be blamed for a small minority of mindless idiots.
" "I saw two lads coming from my right; I thought they were going to have a go," he said.
"But one of them shouted at me saying, 'I'm British Army, I'm a medic'. He grabbed me by the collar and he propelled me up the street. "If they had not come along at that point I'd have been in big trouble. I'd have been seriously injured. I knew I was going to get done over. "
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16-05-2008, 12:06
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Re: Riot police on standby in Manchester
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
But, as this info from that article shows, we shouldn't let the majority be blamed for a small minority of mindless idiots.
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Whereas that's true, it seems like they were the minority that night.
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16-05-2008, 20:00
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16-05-2008, 20:08
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Re: Riot police on standby in Manchester
No budget for clean up now
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16-05-2008, 20:10
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Re: Riot police on standby in Manchester
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Originally Posted by Enuff
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It's not off it's postponed. It's still annoying though. I don't see the reason for doing this, i cannot see there being any trouble at a parade, every other time theres been a parade theres been no trouble at all. It seems Rangers fans have managed to give ALL football supporters a bad name now.
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17-05-2008, 23:10
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Re: Riot police on standby in Manchester
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
But, as this info from that article shows, we shouldn't let the majority be blamed for a small minority of mindless idiots.
""I saw two lads coming from my right; I thought they were going to have a go," he said.
"But one of them shouted at me saying, 'I'm British Army, I'm a medic'. He grabbed me by the collar and he propelled me up the street. "If they had not come along at that point I'd have been in big trouble. I'd have been seriously injured. I knew I was going to get done over. "
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Here's the man
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A former soldier has described how he dragged a police officer away from a mob of Rangers fans in Manchester.
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But Mr Bardsley did not end his heroics there - a short time later he helped a water rescue team pull a Rangers fan from a canal.
And later, he pulled an unconscious man from the mass of rubbish left across the city, threw him over his shoulder and sprinted 150m to a nearby ambulance.
Finally, he chased away two men in Rangers shirts who were looting a police van.
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My ambition is to work in either the ambulance service or the police force. The superintendent told me if I have ever applied in his area he would give me a job straight away," he said.
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It sounds like they should be honoured to have this guy on board. 
Mind you, the article states that Mr Bardslay, from Openshaw, Greater Manchester, had just left an internet cafe in Newton Street when the violence broke out, so it's questionable he actually was there as a Rangers supporter.
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17-05-2008, 23:14
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Re: Riot police on standby in Manchester
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Originally Posted by danielf
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*If* it all went down that way then yes.
However it all seems a bit superman-ish doesn't it? (Or is it just me?)
And anyway what was a local boy doing in the middle of a bunch of rioting Rangers fans? Could it be not all the yobbos were from Scotchland?
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