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Missiles being hoyed all game from North Stand Upper

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I just messaged Stewart Donald on Twitter re the situation. This was his reply:


I heard it and saw. I have requested a full report sent to me ASAP. I am distraught our fans appeared to be subjected to what I think I saw and if so is completely unacceptable. I should have gone over in person myself to help stop it. I will say more once I have investigated.
 

Billy Fish said:
Quite easy to top it happening in isolated games, clear the stand, those standing by and watching idiots lob dozens of objects down onto families are culpable, to a lesser extent, to those doing it and if it means they lose the privilege of watching a game of football then so be it.
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Then who are we blaming at the club exactly ? Don't we pay the police to police these things?
 
The stewards did absolutely nothing they may as well not have been there, one in the north stand said to me “the ones up there will sort it, not my issue”
 
Paninaro said:
The stewards did absolutely nothing they may as well not have been there, one in the north stand said to me “the ones up there will sort it, not my issue”
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The police were there, offences were being committed, you can’t expect stewards to deal with significant number of people behaving in the way the Coventry idiots were
 
rocky said:
Then who are we blaming at the club exactly ? Don't we pay the police to police these things?
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The Head of Safety, who I believe is a club official, if not then the Head Police Officer there and the Sunderland official in charge of the stewards. They are responsible for maintaining safety inside the ground and it's obvious from all the reports coming out that they were negligent in their duties yesterday.
If it was "beyond their control" then something more fundamental needs to be assessed with the match day control.
 
Billy Fish said:
The Head of Safety, who I believe is a club official, if not then the Head Police Officer there and the Sunderland official in charge of the stewards. They are responsible for maintaining safety inside the ground and it's obvious from all the reports coming out that they were negligent in their duties yesterday.
If it was "beyond their control" then something more fundamental needs to be assessed with the match day control.
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Well this is the 1st and hopefully last time it happens. Having spoke to people involved it seems the police done fuck all about despite seeing it happen. How can that happen?
 
rocky said:
Well this is the 1st and hopefully last time it happens. Having spoke to people involved it seems the police done fuck all about despite seeing it happen. How can that happen?
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It shouldn't, it wouldn't have gone on if the police had gone in and cleared a few rows even, they'd soon wise up.
As someone else has said on here the basic principle of managing safety is risk assessment and the first control measure should always be eliminate the risk where possible. This was possible and should have been done before it escalated to the stage where families were being put in danger of being seriously injured and off the back of that violent disturbances outside
 
two left feet said:
He’s not stated anything other than he will wait for a report.

If he ‘thinks’ he saw something then action needed immediately.
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He said he thought he saw something and regrets not going over. He obviously thought the officials were doing their job.

It is the job of the fans there yesterday to disabuse him of this.
 
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