Some of the former mining towns stock up pretty badly compared to other areas.

Very true turned it off after first 15 minutes smug...

Tell you what, didnt half look like Richard Moore on Westgate.

anyone just seen richard moore and josh griffin on thisprograme on channell 4

Smile!

Get ready for the Wakey bashing

yes I spotted Moore......not seen anyone I know being arrested...yet

Was that Richard Moore?

on tv yes

If not richard must be the guy playing in his place last year ?

isnt that matty james getting arrested?

Certainly looked liked him; not just getting arrested, but behaving like a complete ar5e.

Once again though, annoying drunks or not, the coppers come out of it looking less than great.

Funny I had a bar on Westgate in the 80's and apart from a few very odd situations there wasn't much trouble,totally blown out of all proportions. Old wives tales. Also had four bars in Barnsley as well and in 10 years probably 3 call outs.
The problem between then and now is the type of alcohol consumed, smaller amounts now but higher abv not to mention the taste and also relatively speaking a lot cheaper now.I was probably retailing at an higher price late 80's than now. Plus all the later hours has done is instead of filter people out of the city it has kept them in the city so instead of like in the 70's,80's,90's where the pubs closed at 11pm and clubs 2am you had that natural respite, now it just mingles in and the whole city's not so loved up, all licensed premises are in effect the nightclubs of old. Add in the fact that you also have a load of tanked up people outside bars smoking and control goes out of the window and Westgate becomes a scene from Blade Runner with fat slags instead of robots


So no Wakefield wasn't barmy it was just a good and relatively safer night out. The copper tonight summed it up when he said you didn't answer the police back when he was younger, and you didn't. It's called respect.

Personally speaking, I lost respect for the police during the miners strike - until the early 80's I had total respect for the police and would never say a word to them - then in 84 & 85 the attitude of the police to people changed from being caring police to being enforcers of the law with no common sense included.

Respect is a two way thing - treat people ok and generally they will treat you ok - it's a simple way that has worked well for me 99% of the time.

I think it is getting back that way but any police officer wondering what happend should look at those years and see what their predecessors did thus causing the loss of respect from many people since then.

It wasn't him actually

Good; definite resemblance though.



Classic line - very Alan Partridge!

The lad who pushed him may have been young Griff though

I share a coupple of mutual friends with Josh Griffin and i will have more than likely been him causing troubble.

I was shocked by the lack of control shown by some of those on Westgate, pushing and swearing and shouting. And some members of the public were a bit out of order too.

Richard Moore was being daft, nothing more. You're entitled to be daft after a few cold ones. My only query is whether this was a Saturday night before a Sunday game. It would explain a lot if things about the season just gone.

Moore was simply in the background from the pics, no harm done at all. With regards to programme in general, whilst I appreciate its a nightmare job policing down town and they face a huge amount of provication at times the Police (well, 1 particular officer: "He's spitting at me, the dirty b*st*rd"icon_wink.gif could have handled things a lot more proffesionally and he was the main reason the strangely rather tasty ginger WPC got one in the mush.

Just shows you what sort of s some people turn into when they have ale inside them, particularly the bell end who was making a complaint about somebody cracking him and didnt want to wait and ended up getting done for D&D. Christ knows how he faired on the front line in Helmand if he couldt handle a bit of aggro in the pie shop!

nice to see Wakey aint changed since i left



i'm sure that was my nephew who hit the copper



seriously though it is not much different on Micklegate on a saturday night

was def josh griffin on coppers lastnight.... recognised him straight away

Quite enjoyed this show, I have the utmost respect for the police.. its a crappy job and having to deal with the vermin on the run every weekend must be depressing as hell.

I reckon alot of the disrespect to police comes from something that happened almost 30 years ago... which has been passed down to their kids.. and their kids kids.

What was apparent was that those who do get arrested are the ones who don't leave the scene. The ones who were arrested were those who kept on pushing the buttons until the police lost patience. Those who raise a hand in apology and move on were allowed to do so.

Arrest them,put them in a cell,charge/don't charge them either way then make them pay for their lodgings lessening the burden for policing.