It may just be me, but it seems to be the case that we have attracted a fair few scrotes this season, who at times are behaving like dickheads. Take tonights game, for the last 25 mins of the 1st half, there were a group of 6 lads who stood behind the goal at the Hale End, giving puerile abuse to the Curzon keeper. There was a steward about 20 yards away who did nothing about it and it needed a couple of people standing near them to try to get them to shut up. Regarding the stewarding tonight, most of them seemed to be in their late teens, early twenties and not really doing much. None of them seemed savvy enough to see that the group of Curzon fans did not move round in the 1st half, and think it would maybe be a good idea to have a couple of stewards stood in the Popular Side to keep an eye on things. If they had done that, maybe one of the Curzon flags wouldn't have been nicked. As I was leaving the ground, stewards were trying to get one of the scrotes to open his rucksack to see if the flag was in there, which made me wonder why the club even allows people to bring rucksacks into the ground, especially when they are barely searched, if at all.
In general this season, there have been a couple of games, Chesterfield in particular stands out, where a group of scrotes were goading some Chesterfield fans at the fences in the Popular Side and chucking plastic bottles at them, with no response from the stewards. Outside the ground also there have been games where groups of lads have been hanging around at the corner of Golf Road, seemingly waiting to see if anything kicks off with away fans walking past them. I've not seen any trouble, but it is maybe something that the club needs to keep an eye on. It kicked off outside the away end v Halifax last season, so I presume there will be a police presence on Boxing Day, but also hopefully the stewards will be a bit more clued up as to what is going on at the ground generally. Rant over!