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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Airfix on October 31, 2013, 08:38:39 AM

Title: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: Airfix on October 31, 2013, 08:38:39 AM
Bring one to a game and you could go to jail.

Good!

No place for them at a crowded venue such as a football match.
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: Pluto on October 31, 2013, 11:00:56 AM
Quote from: Airfix on October 31, 2013, 08:38:39 AM
Bring one to a game and you could go to jail.

Good!

No place for them at a crowded venue such as a football match.

:plus one:

Is this something which has just been announced?
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: LBNo11 on October 31, 2013, 11:04:50 AM
...why do they give the slightest ambiguity, just say get caught with a flare and you WILL be banned - for life - and you WILL go to jail and it WILL stop the trend...
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: Airfix on October 31, 2013, 11:11:43 AM
Quote from: Pluto on October 31, 2013, 11:00:56 AM
Quote from: Airfix on October 31, 2013, 08:38:39 AM
Bring one to a game and you could go to jail.

Good!

No place for them at a crowded venue such as a football match.

:plus one:

Is this something which has just been announced?

I think it's law anyway, it's been brought into sharp focus by the throwing of a smoke bomb at a linesman by a Spurs "fan".  The BBC Breakfast show were running an article on it - we're about to be given leaflets outside grounds explaining the law related to the topic.
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: Berserker on October 31, 2013, 11:17:58 AM
Apparently some lad was killed by one a while back
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: Fulham1959 on October 31, 2013, 11:49:45 AM
I've always been amazed that the lighting of flares seems to be treated as normal behaviour on the continent, to be met with a shrug of the shoulder.

On the other hand, English football thugs are known the world over.  'Go figure', as they say !
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: Logicalman on October 31, 2013, 01:42:46 PM
Unfortunately its also treated a normal by some of the moronic Liverpool fans. One might have thought, with their history, they would be a little more considerate about such things.
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: Irelands_number1 on October 31, 2013, 03:24:41 PM
We used to use a lot of pyro in our displays at my Irish league team drogheda

Made an unbelievable atmosphere and they're actually very safe as long as people know what they're doing!!!

We actually got recognition all across Europe on the ultras forums!
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: God The Mechanic on October 31, 2013, 08:03:24 PM
Not sure getting recognition from "ultras" is necessarilyva good thing ;)
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: valdeingruo on October 31, 2013, 08:21:26 PM
While I will admit some of the atmosphere created by smoke is pretty cool, it is down right dangerous for a plethora of different reasons, and dont get me started on flares. There are plenty of ways to make a unique atmosphere without flares and smoke, look at Dortmund.
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: epsomraver on October 31, 2013, 08:30:25 PM
really dangerous in an all wooden stand like JH, very alarmed when the Poles set one off in the last Europa
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: somerset cockernee on October 31, 2013, 08:46:15 PM
totally agree....anyone caught wearing flares (or tank tops) should be banged up for life!
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: HatterDon on October 31, 2013, 10:00:32 PM
Quote from: LBNo11 on October 31, 2013, 11:04:50 AM
...why do they give the slightest ambiguity, just say get caught with a flare and you WILL be banned - for life - and you WILL go to jail and it WILL stop the trend...

Well, the problem with the "WILL go to jail" thing is the whole jury system and English common law.
Title: Re: Flares and smoke-bombs
Post by: Twig on November 01, 2013, 06:59:02 AM
Quote from: Irelands_number1 on October 31, 2013, 03:24:41 PM
We used to use a lot of pyro in our displays at my Irish league team drogheda

Made an unbelievable atmosphere and they're actually very safe as long as people know what they're doing!!!

We actually got recognition all across Europe on the ultras forums!


Yeah right, tell that to those who suffer from smoke imhalation and burn injuries.