[fc:stanley]

Hi all,

Went to the youth game last night and witnessed such a great sight with Stanley grabbing a deserved win against a famous west ham youth team! What a great night ........until, I was walking out of the entrance of the main stand. What I saw and witnessed in that last few minutes was absolutely disgusting as a club! All night there had been a group of lads (around 15-19) making an absolute racket in the main stand supporting the reds on and actually making a cracking atmosphere out of the game! As the game went on the two stewards who were the only ones there were obviously getting very tetchy and probably a case of bordem and kept making excuses of going up to them in extra time to cause a situation not needed i.e telling them to stop waving a flag and to stop swearing in songs. However as said , when walking out a steward had grabbed one of the lads and had pulled him into one of of the ticketing stalls, cornered him and was blocking him from getting out ! He was also holding a piece of seating that a ball had smashed the whole crowd saw and was trying to use this against him. Anyway, this steward was adamant he could block this young fella in the ticket stall and wasn't allowed out. Next there was a crowd around him with people telling him he couldn't do that and to let him out. With people doing this next came the atrocious language with many words coming out of his mouth including several occurrences of '**** off, go away' and then came the threat of violence towards people but mainly it was the language which was appalling! After many minutes of trying to negotiate with him and many stewards he finally moved out the way so this lad could finally be let out!

I'm sick and tired of these stewards and very much told them and him (the main culprit) that and also told them and other people how these group of 15 lads won't be here on Saturday because of people like him and why this club is on the downhill because of him! Why would these lads pay money to be treated like that again! The steward had no right to hold him against his will in a ticketing stall and not to let him out! No right at all! But also the main anger of people witnessing this was his language! We're paying customers and your telling us to f'off etc and using violent threats!

I was unsure wether to post this as yes it's every negative but I'm sick and tired of these kind of people at our club bringing it down! I didn't know where to complain and a threat of not going to home games would also not make any difference either as I'm just a number and this will still carry on! I think the whole security situation needs to be looked at Stanley as their stewarding and also there customer service skills are appalling!! The funny thing is many clubs come to our ground , take the mick and there no where to be seen! It's a sad state of affairs! These are the main reasons us ultras don't bring the colour now to the Clayton end and also why many fans , friends and family don't return and don't make the effort to visit the crown ground!

By the way , the man in question is the guy dressed in jeans and casual wear but with that high viz on that apparently makes you a copper and power mad! I hope he gets a good grilling and also sent on a course for some stewarding practises!