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By: Observer

Brilliant. What a bunch of muppets the Britannia staff are. And Mr Barmby looks your archetypal football hooligan, doesn’t he? Report this comment

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By: Proofer

I can sympathise. Many years ago I’d been shopping when I fancied, at the last minute, watching Exeter v AN Other Utd as there was a good crowd gathering. When I tried to take my small Tesco bag in the...

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By: How dare you call me old hack?

Nothing new there! A mate was hauled up for attempting to carry a copy of The Guardian into a Mansfield Town v Leyton Orient game 15 years ago!! Same reason given. Shows how slowly the football...

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By: Voice of Reason

World gone mad! Gratifying to hear the jobsworth security team acknowledging that regional newspapers still have some use in society though. Mind you flaming torches are so last summer! Report this...

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By: davy gravy

If memory serves, newspapers in the ’70s were banned from grounds thanks to the use of the so-called ‘Millwall Brick’. Get a really thick paper (say a South London Press back in the days of...

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By: seenitallbefore

Older, wiser heads may recall the Millwall Brick – you can do a lot of damage to someone’s face with a carefully folded newspaper. Report this comment

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By: Amazed

Clubs therefore for the same reason will need to ban football programmes- Oh they make money from those sales, so they aren’t an offensive weapon? Report this comment

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By: Fresh coriander

My friend John the sub and I went to a Southend/Portsmouth match once (he’s the Pompey fan, not me). There was a huge line (for Southend) of police waiting to confront the Portsmouth fans. John and I...

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By: Keir Hardie's Cap

As others who know what they are talking about have pointed out, the Millwall Brick, a newspaper folded to produce rock hard corners, is a serious weapon. Report this comment

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By: Mike T

Brings to mind the Monty Python sketch where John Cleese was an Army PT instructor showing his charges how to defend themselves against attack by someone carrying a variety of fresh fruit. Report this...

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By: Marty McFly

I always thought it was the Chelsea brick – when you try rolling up a paper tightly you can se what they mean. But clearly doesn’t stop them selling programmes that you could do the same thing with!...

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By: Fencehopper

Most newspapers wouldn’t burn for long, the pagination is so low! Report this comment

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