CRIMEWATCH - CAN YOU HELP?

Founding Father Joined : 05 Jun 2007 Posts : 3522

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Witnesses required - please help
By James Auger - 07/01/2008 16:07
This story is for everyone who knows my Dad Cliff, known also as 'Rubsy'. As some of you might know, there was trouble after Chelsea¿s match against QPR last Saturday. Myself, my father Cliff, my younger brother John and my two friends were walking along the North End Rd in Fulham near The Goose pub.

There seemed to be something happening in the pub as there were many policemen outside stopping people entering or leaving. Unfortunately, my two friends were caught up in the confusion and pushed inside the pub while the other three of us were outside.

I told a policeman that we were waiting for our two friends to be let out and he said that although we couldn't enter the pub, we could wait where we were for them.

Suddenly, a police dog unit arrived and the police started to get heavy handed and started pushing people near the scene including my Dad who fell onto my younger 13-year-old brother. The police drew their batons and we began to walk away.

Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my leg and as I turned around, a police dog was biting my leg. At this point, I was scared and tried to get the dog off of me but its jaws were locked. Eventually, it let go but my Dad kicked the dog to help me escape from it.

Then, three (I think) policeman leapt on me and four jumped on my Dad while another friend managed to get my younger brother away but I was on the floor. I felt a police baton, fists and boots kicking me and I could hear cries of pain from my Father.

He has since told me that he was handcuffed, punched and one of the police officers stood on him before arresting us both. Now my Dad is in hospital with three broken ribs and a punctured lung and I have black eye, swollen lips and a cut face from where I was punched.

I was cautioned for using foul and abusive language and breaching the peace while my Father has been charged with criminal damage to a police dog. We both feel that we were not guilty of what we have been charged with and I am asking for any witnesses to contact us in they feel they can help us mount a case against the police.

I hope this redresses the charges that have been pressed against my Father and myself with both of us claiming our innocence. Meanwhile, I look forward to my Father being released from hospital on Wednesday

If you can help, please contact Cliff and James via info@chelseasupportersgroup.net.

Gary Stevens Age : 30 Joined : 24 Jul 2007 Posts : 1798

ha ha ha - bloody Chelski fans, I'm suuuuuuure they were innocent!
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Founding Father Joined : 05 Jun 2007 Posts : 3522

haha...it's a cracker isn't it. Poor old innocent Chelsea fans and not nasty right wing plumbers from Swindon at all. Oh no...

Founding Father Joined : 06 Jun 2007 Posts : 1704

I have a good mind to call the authorities and corroborate (Janek, is that the right term?)the police's story. Chelsea muppets.

Gary Stevens Age : 30 Joined : 24 Jul 2007 Posts : 1798

Yes Ezza, that's the term.

They really are a nasty bunch.

They did a load of Spurs fans after the FA Cup game at their place last season. If you remember it was an early kick off, I think 1pm, and the Chelski lot waited until about 9pm when all the Spurs fans were drunk in a pub in Fulham and then they went in with machetes, baseball bats etc and had a smash up!

Reported here:http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23388581-details/10+fans+knifed+in+Chelsea+battle/article.do
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The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.

Founding Father Joined : 06 Jun 2007 Posts : 1704

I know the Sloany Pony very well. Did lots of drinking there in my 20s. There's always top totty knocking around that boozer. The last place I'd have imaged for it to "go off".

Gary Stevens Age : 30 Joined : 24 Jul 2007 Posts : 1798

I've been there a few times too as may mate lives round the corner, still the same place, full of posh totty.

Can you imagine their faces when it went off amongst the hoolies?

The report mentions a 41 year old from Chigwell who was hospitalised. I know him through a friend of a friend. He threatened to beat me up on a trip to Villa a few years ago when I suggested the lions on his Tottenham crest tattoo on his bicep were round the wrong way!
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The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.

Founding Father Joined : 06 Jun 2007 Posts : 1704

Sounds like the sort of chap you'd introduce to some posh totty, eh luv?

Gary Stevens Age : 30 Joined : 24 Jul 2007 Posts : 1798

Yes, I reckon a 41 year old builder from Chigwell would be right up their strasse!
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The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.