Is this the end of EFM?

[Rob_the_Saint]

Talk of watching Cambridge, Luton, Spurs... others off to University (God help us)... have the glory days ended for the country's favourite firm?

 

Discuss.

 

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[Colin Zeal EFM]

Quite the opposite. This year promises to be the best yet for EFM.

 

The League's top brass have done their bit, ensuring that the trips to Aldershot and Canvey take place during the University Easter holidays.

 

Safeway are selling cans of Scrumpy Jack for 49p, surely in a bid to get a mention in next season's Hendon Herald.

 

Costello and DJ Thornsy have both pledged to end up this season's "Hooligan of the Year".

 

And from what I can make out, the younger lads have been "tearing up" Ibiza giving EFM a good name all over Europe!!

 

And when Costello was in the USA earlier in the month, he was stopped at customs on suspicion of being a member of the Mafia.

 

Good times are ahead!!

DOIN' IT FOR THE CITY

[AFF]

I have noticed that the Honarary Members have outnumbered the hardcore at a couple of games but then again friendlies don't really count.

 

I saw the topic, Rob, and I thought that you would be referring to some Home Office Report that is to be published today concerning the growth in football hooliganism in the U.K. I'm sure that EFM will feature large.

 

Perhaps that chap who produces the matchday programme can shed some light on the matter.

[ESG]

Sharp rise in soccer banning orders

Government figures reveal the number of alleged football hooligans handed banning orders rocketed from less than 700 to 1,149 last year.

Arrests for all football-related violence fell by 6% during the same period from 4,162 to 3,898.

There were 3,214 arrests at league matches, up 23 on the previous year.

Stoke City claimed the dubious honour of the largest number of fans arrested, with 143 held during the year - nearly triple the number in the previous 12 months.

The club with the second largest number was Sunderland, with 129 (down from 166 previously) and then Manchester City with 106 (down from 148).

There were 687 banning orders - which prevent suspected hooligans from travelling to games - in force on August 12 last year, but by this month that figure had risen 67% to 1,149, the figures showed.

The Home Office said arrests for football-related offences in connection with league matches had fallen 30% in the last 10 years, from 4,588 in the 1992-93 season to 3,214 last season.

 

 

Story filed: 11:24 Thursday 8th August 2002

 

EFM didn't quite make it...

[Colin Zeal EFM]

That's cos they're too shrewd to get caught!! <img src="/forums/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />

[ESG]

LOL indeed

 

the majority of Stokes' N40 were for parking offences anyway....