Leeds win High Court case

WYP comment "the possibility of the force being unable to support the club's existing match arrangements in the present economic climate" does imply that the kick off times may be affected.

sabre rattling, middlesexwhite - do you seriously believe that the police can just walk away from public highway policing?

unless they are going to insist on Leeds games being played Monday to Friday between 10am and 4pm then Saturdays are as cheap for the police as any other time.

orange - they could impose crowd restrictions on us.
How would you feel if the OB turn round and say that we can only entertain 10,000 fans or less every Saturday now?

Mr Justice Eady added that it was likely steps would, if police funds became too stretched, have to be taken to limit the threat of violence at high-risk matches.

His judgment listed three suggestions made by officers who gave evidence during the case. They are:

Reducing the number of fans 
allowed to attend games;

Limiting the availability of alcohol;

Switching to earlier kick-off times."

Switching to earlier kick-off times.
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Looks like I was right then.

If this ruling is upheld, will potentially impact the fan in a big way.

Jonty - I bet they apply all 3 of those restrictions for "high risk" games!!

I hate kickoffs being switched to stupid times that make it difficult for regular fans to go and watch a game.

Arbitrary figures here, but If it costs 60k to police a game in a Saturday afternoon but 45k on a Thursday night you can see what is going to happen, especially if records show less problems on Thursdays than Saturdays or something like that.

& If it costs half of that to police only 15,000 fans instead of 30,000?

Can of worms

Yes - will end in tears!