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Home | Friday 6th November 2009 | Issue 698

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AND FINALLY

After their pisspoor attempts to catalogue the most hardcore ‘domestic extremists’ on their infamous spotter cards (See SchNEWS 697) – including such dangerous zealots as comedian/activist Mark Thomas – you’d think cops might have done a better job when it came to football hooligans. But no.

Presumably with all their top intelligence gatherers busy following banner-wavers around, the Met were forced to use Sky TV news footage as they looked to spot the key ringleaders during the big West Ham vs Millwall ruck in August.

Unfortunately they completely failed to notice that the report also contained footage of ‘The Firm’, a movie set in the 1980s about football-fan thuggery.

They duly released over 60 stills of their ‘most wanted’ fans – including some of the actors involved in the film.

Maybe the police should go one step further than the spotter cards and start handing out gongs for political agitation, and the NETCU Awards could compete with the BAFTAS... ‘best supporting rioter’, ‘best ringleader’, ‘best riot choreography’ – ‘...and the nominees are...’

Keywords: netcu, surveillance


 

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