It was very windy and my face was getting cold, did you want my face to be cold when I had a perfectly good scarf to put around there? Stop making mountains out of mole hills.

Sorry but I know for a fact that there were 6 people who had paint cans taken from them. I'm Wigan through and through and wish it was rubbish.
There was also 3 saints fans arrested for going into the ground with somebody else's season ticket. They were adults with juvenile tickets. I wouldn't make anything up and post it on here. I was there as a Wigan fan and enjoyed the day more than I have in a long time but these things happened. Fact!!

Your just a hooligan. Your the very reason the game was policed. Thug.

1 arrest in the ground for someone throwing a pint at the front as far as in aware. Debate over.

They wernt "the brigantes", they were a group of lads that had red hair spray that had all sprayed there hair red. Take it you didn't see this group? There was about 20 of them

If it was you, you looked like a d1ck....

Now we know your'e fibbing.

I put it round my face when I was watching the U20's and it was really cold. I'm sorry, it will never happen again I promise.

You could shake it up and spray Fanta in someone's eyes!

That isn't an arrestable offence. Refusal to enter, yes, confiscation of ticket, yes.

They were arrested on suspicion of fraud by false representation.

Arrested by who? At the turnstile?

The steward brought a police officer over to look into it. The inspector referred to above was consulted and the decision was made to arrest.

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just no

You laugh but I'm actually being serious...

Look, the Brigantes have done bloody wonders with the songs, the flags and reinforcing that "proud even when we lose" attitude that Wigan fans had already shown in the past (especially 2006). More power to them. One thing I will say, and I realise I'm probably in a minority of one here, is that I don't like fans throwing things on to the pitch from the stands/terracing. Even if it is till rolls (which is what it looked like on Friday).

I can appreciate that stewards and police cannot, by training and by the rules they operate under, take a relaxed attitude about fans throwing anything on to the pitch - and I don't want unnecessary trouble created between them and the fans. I think Wigan fans are creating enough of a great atmosphere at games anyway without bog/till rolls being chucked.

I'm glad it wasn't just me that thought it was all a bit over the top. We were sat with the Saints fans so didn't see anything like that. But we brought a couple of cans of Lucozade in with us, not knowing you weren't allowed. We did see people getting searched at the away turnstiles. When we were drinking them in the concourse a female steward asked us how we got them to which I replied "we bought them from the shop". She told us to drink them quickly before the cameras picked us up. Then one of her colleagues came over and asked if she'd dealt with us and made a couple of jibes. Nothing malicious but very petty.

We got there 2 hours before kick off and I like taking pictures of the grounds I've been to. I asked a steward if I could get into the other stand to take some photos. He told me no but I could ask the head steward. I walked up to the head steward who in the most blunt way told me "absolutely not. This is a sell out." - didn't even make any eye contact with me and his tone was as if I was a piece of dirt on his shoe. Again, nothing massive and I know it's the rules but I've never had a problem getting into stands before. Was hardly gonna do a runner and leg it into another seat when the ground was 1/10 full. That wasn't a problem, it was the way he spoke to us. You get the feeling with the stewards and the Police that they'd have been better at a Football game.

Yet when that bloke ran on the pitch none of them had a clue what to do.

How do you know all this Bigredwarrior? You're either a copper, spent the whole pre-match walking round the turnstiles, or are making it up.

I'm not trying to deny any of it happened, I'm just intrigued as to how you know it all did.

I'm a Wigan fan but right first time. I'm a police officer and I work in St Helen's.

Unlucky

Case closed

In which case; do you know the numpty with the stick?
If so, tell him how much pleasure he gave us in entertaining us for half an hour matching round yet not knowing his elbow from his .

I know him very well. He's a great bloke but even I was amused by him on Friday.

Can I ask you Bigredwarrior (in your capacity as a Police Officer) if you think it was appropriate action to evict a lad (he looked under 16) from the ground for alledgedly throwing a toilet roll?

Personally, although not condoning people throwing toilet rolls, I think it is way over the top. I also wonder how the steward managed to pick this lad out of the crowd?