| More room on the train? 07:36 - May 19 with 11380 views | stevec |
‘Coke head’ football fans face long ban
MIDDLE class ‘coke heads’ found with the drug at football matches face a five-year ban, Boris Johnson will announce today.
Anyone convicted of using cocaine at games will also face losing their passport to stop them travelling to overseas games.
The Prime Minister will say: ‘Middle class coke heads should stop kidding themselves, their habit is feeding a war on our streets driving misery and crime across our country and beyond. That’s why we are stepping up our efforts to make sure those who break the law face the full consequences - because taking illegal drugs is never a victimless crime.’
Five-year football banning orders can currently be imposed by courts only on offenders convicted of violence, disorder and racist or homophobic chanting.
The measures are expected to be introduced during the coming 2022/2023 season. More than 1,300 orders are in force now. |  | | |  |
| More room on the train? on 07:49 - May 19 with 6537 views | WokingR |
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Have noticed drug dogs at the gates of a few of our home games this season and it's long overdue. |  | | |
| More room on the train? on 07:49 - May 19 with 6533 views | bosh67 |
Someone I know who’s a season ticket holder said that coke has become a real problem with some sections of fans at Loftus Road. It’s very sad. |  |
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| More room on the train? on 08:12 - May 19 with 6450 views | Northernr |
Well first reaction is good, because it's a pain in the ars at the big away games now.
Second reaction, Michael Gove wants to watch himself if he's planning on going to Millwall again next season. Little bit one rule for us and one rule for them again. 
And third - is this football being singled out again? I don't do Six Nations and that lot but are the darling rugby fans not into this as well? Because in my experience it's also an enormous problem at big race meetings. We used to go to Ascot a bit but it's just not worth the hassle now, coked up lads in cheap suits fighting all over the place, carnage on the train back to waterloo. Five year bans from racing as well? Or would that upset The Jockey Club again? It is absolutely rife everywhere you go in London. Just a Saturday night in the pub, there it is, basically in plain sight now. We already know that all these "middle class" dinner parties and cocktail events these politicians go to have it rife as well. It's actually been found in the toilets at the house of commons, so they do it at work as well. But, again, football fans are the problem. We've already got situations where if I punch somebody on the Whetstone High Road I get one punishment, but if I punch the same person on SAR after a home game I get a much more severe punishment because I'm a football fan at a football match - is this another one of those? It's either a crime or it's not a crime, being at the football shouldn't be an aggravating factor.
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| More room on the train? on 08:46 - May 19 with 6298 views | stowmarketrange |
| More room on the train? on 08:12 - May 19 by Northernr |
Well first reaction is good, because it's a pain in the ars at the big away games now.
Second reaction, Michael Gove wants to watch himself if he's planning on going to Millwall again next season. Little bit one rule for us and one rule for them again.
And third - is this football being singled out again? I don't do Six Nations and that lot but are the darling rugby fans not into this as well? Because in my experience it's also an enormous problem at big race meetings. We used to go to Ascot a bit but it's just not worth the hassle now, coked up lads in cheap suits fighting all over the place, carnage on the train back to waterloo. Five year bans from racing as well? Or would that upset The Jockey Club again? It is absolutely rife everywhere you go in London. Just a Saturday night in the pub, there it is, basically in plain sight now. We already know that all these "middle class" dinner parties and cocktail events these politicians go to have it rife as well. It's actually been found in the toilets at the house of commons, so they do it at work as well. But, again, football fans are the problem. We've already got situations where if I punch somebody on the Whetstone High Road I get one punishment, but if I punch the same person on SAR after a home game I get a much more severe punishment because I'm a football fan at a football match - is this another one of those? It's either a crime or it's not a crime, being at the football shouldn't be an aggravating factor.
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Most of the big rugby matches I’ve been to have been watched by people who love their drink rather than a line or two.I’ve seen England away more times than I have at Twickenham though,but there isn’t a thought of trouble in the air like you sometimes get at football.A fair portion of fans going to watch rugby also play it,so there are some big feckers around that you mess with at your peril.
It all seems more good natured too. |  | | |
| More room on the train? on 08:47 - May 19 with 6293 views | SimonJames |
| More room on the train? on 08:12 - May 19 by Northernr |
Well first reaction is good, because it's a pain in the ars at the big away games now.
Second reaction, Michael Gove wants to watch himself if he's planning on going to Millwall again next season. Little bit one rule for us and one rule for them again.
And third - is this football being singled out again? I don't do Six Nations and that lot but are the darling rugby fans not into this as well? Because in my experience it's also an enormous problem at big race meetings. We used to go to Ascot a bit but it's just not worth the hassle now, coked up lads in cheap suits fighting all over the place, carnage on the train back to waterloo. Five year bans from racing as well? Or would that upset The Jockey Club again? It is absolutely rife everywhere you go in London. Just a Saturday night in the pub, there it is, basically in plain sight now. We already know that all these "middle class" dinner parties and cocktail events these politicians go to have it rife as well. It's actually been found in the toilets at the house of commons, so they do it at work as well. But, again, football fans are the problem. We've already got situations where if I punch somebody on the Whetstone High Road I get one punishment, but if I punch the same person on SAR after a home game I get a much more severe punishment because I'm a football fan at a football match - is this another one of those? It's either a crime or it's not a crime, being at the football shouldn't be an aggravating factor.
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I've not seen it at rugby (although I could have done with something to get me through Bath's failed season and England's dire 6N campaign) |  |
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| More room on the train? on 08:51 - May 19 with 6275 views | BlackCrowe |
| More room on the train? on 08:12 - May 19 by Northernr |
Well first reaction is good, because it's a pain in the ars at the big away games now.
Second reaction, Michael Gove wants to watch himself if he's planning on going to Millwall again next season. Little bit one rule for us and one rule for them again.
And third - is this football being singled out again? I don't do Six Nations and that lot but are the darling rugby fans not into this as well? Because in my experience it's also an enormous problem at big race meetings. We used to go to Ascot a bit but it's just not worth the hassle now, coked up lads in cheap suits fighting all over the place, carnage on the train back to waterloo. Five year bans from racing as well? Or would that upset The Jockey Club again? It is absolutely rife everywhere you go in London. Just a Saturday night in the pub, there it is, basically in plain sight now. We already know that all these "middle class" dinner parties and cocktail events these politicians go to have it rife as well. It's actually been found in the toilets at the house of commons, so they do it at work as well. But, again, football fans are the problem. We've already got situations where if I punch somebody on the Whetstone High Road I get one punishment, but if I punch the same person on SAR after a home game I get a much more severe punishment because I'm a football fan at a football match - is this another one of those? It's either a crime or it's not a crime, being at the football shouldn't be an aggravating factor.
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Been to Ascot races several times and the coke intake is off the scale. Urinals empty, cubicles full with two per cubicle and queues to get in. Seen lesser scale at Loftus Road and also at C&S - but admittedly not in the past 3 years or so.
At the Fury fight at Wembley recently it was even more overt. The Gents was permanently full of guys racking them up on the sink unit..no attempt to conceal.
Never seen it at Test cricket but limited overs, T20 and 100, is attracting this kind of crowd more and more unfortunately. Never seen it at Six Nations or any form of rugby. [Post edited 19 May 2022 8:58]
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| More room on the train? on 08:54 - May 19 with 6260 views | Northernr |
| More room on the train? on 08:51 - May 19 by BlackCrowe |
Been to Ascot races several times and the coke intake is off the scale. Urinals empty, cubicles full with two per cubicle and queues to get in. Seen lesser scale at Loftus Road and also at C&S - but admittedly not in the past 3 years or so.
At the Fury fight at Wembley recently it was even more overt. The Gents was permanently full of guys racking them up on the sink unit..no attempt to conceal.
Never seen it at Test cricket but limited overs, T20 and 100, is attracting this kind of crowd more and more unfortunately. Never seen it at Six Nations or any form of rugby. [Post edited 19 May 2022 8:58]
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Ascot's unreal. Just lads hoovering it up in full view on the fcking 18.32 South West Trains service surrounded by mums and kids going to the bloody west end for the night. | | | |
| More room on the train? on 09:00 - May 19 with 6229 views | Hunterhoop |
| More room on the train? on 08:12 - May 19 by Northernr |
Well first reaction is good, because it's a pain in the ars at the big away games now.
Second reaction, Michael Gove wants to watch himself if he's planning on going to Millwall again next season. Little bit one rule for us and one rule for them again.
And third - is this football being singled out again? I don't do Six Nations and that lot but are the darling rugby fans not into this as well? Because in my experience it's also an enormous problem at big race meetings. We used to go to Ascot a bit but it's just not worth the hassle now, coked up lads in cheap suits fighting all over the place, carnage on the train back to waterloo. Five year bans from racing as well? Or would that upset The Jockey Club again? It is absolutely rife everywhere you go in London. Just a Saturday night in the pub, there it is, basically in plain sight now. We already know that all these "middle class" dinner parties and cocktail events these politicians go to have it rife as well. It's actually been found in the toilets at the house of commons, so they do it at work as well. But, again, football fans are the problem. We've already got situations where if I punch somebody on the Whetstone High Road I get one punishment, but if I punch the same person on SAR after a home game I get a much more severe punishment because I'm a football fan at a football match - is this another one of those? It's either a crime or it's not a crime, being at the football shouldn't be an aggravating factor.
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I’ve not seen it at Rugby, not that I go too often. It’s just everyone getting pissed as f*ck. Fair.
Never noticed it at cricket. Again, just heavy, prolonged boozing and occasional sun stroke. Fair.
Horse racing, you are spot on. A real problem. Have pissed at urinals at the Cheltenham festival with blokes doing a line off their forearm before the first race. Cheltenham, and jumps racing has tried to tackle it. This year’s Cheltenham was better for it, but I skipped the Friday because it is the worst day for this sort of behaviour, so I may be mistaken. And regular meets at Sandown or Kempton or Newbury are usually fine.
Flat racing on the other hand. It’s unbearable. Ascot is the worst. That train from Waterloo to Ascot is the Coke express. Cheap suits. Cheap Prosecco. Lots of large pupils and loud, fast talking. And it’s the people that know nothing about racing, with two types of gamblers; the lads giving it the big in betting £2 win because they’re there for the booze and drugs, or lads giving it the big un’ betting money you know they can’t afford. The in-between stake seems to have left the game. That just exacerbates emotions depending on whether they win or lose and, when coked up, it’s far from ideal.
Football definitely has a problem though. |  | | |
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| More room on the train? on 09:12 - May 19 with 6192 views | slmrstid |
As well as football, me & Mrs SLM are basketball fans and go to watch Leicester Riders as much as we can.
In January they got to the British Basketball League Cup Final which was played at the NIA in Birmingham. Normal home games for the Riders are like going to a non-league game in terms of crowd size, probably average around 1,300 - 1,500 and they're one of the bigger teams in the league and there's never a hint of any unpleasantness at their home games.
Go to a cup final at the NIA where suddenly the crowd is 10,000+, lots of whom are "lads" in Birmingham for a day/night out and going to an event as a casual spectator in the meantime, and the toilet queues for the cubicles were unreal whilst the urinals were all empty. Now, whilst I didn't see anything, I don't believe in the slightest all those grown men were queuing for a poo.
Add to that the fact it was an all day event as they had the Ladies final at 12pm, a slam-dunk contest thing in the middle, then the mens game at 3.30pm and people were drinking all day, meant the crowds when leaving the venue after were quite unpleasant to be in the middle of trying to get back to the station.
Definitely a societal thing getting worse. |  | | |
| More room on the train? on 09:26 - May 19 with 6129 views | johnhoop |
Definitely agree that a clamp down is needed but the way it’s been announced seems a bit bizarre.
Is it really only “middle class coke heads” who face this five year ban and is there some sort of social class test that they’re going to give the offenders to determine whether they fall in the right category? |  | | |
| More room on the train? on 09:41 - May 19 with 6064 views | daveB |
It's a social problem and as Clive said happens in pubs and clubs every weekend and is rife at horse racing but football will be targeted as it's high profile and an easy win |  | | |
| More room on the train? on 09:58 - May 19 with 5989 views | loftboy |
My middle son is 17 now, when he was 6 he went into the toilets at the springbok, came out and asked me why the men were putting talcum powder up their noses.
Been a problem at Rangers for years. |  |
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| More room on the train? on 10:01 - May 19 with 5974 views | stevec |
| More room on the train? on 08:54 - May 19 by Northernr |
Ascot's unreal. Just lads hoovering it up in full view on the fcking 18.32 South West Trains service surrounded by mums and kids going to the bloody west end for the night. |
Yeah, had exactly the same experience on a Friday coming back from Ascot races last winter on my way to a Friday night game at LR, Luton possibly, and it was carnage.
As you say, although football mentioned, you would hope and assume it extends to other sporting events though if racing no doubt they’ll get a lighter sentence. | | | |
| More room on the train? on 10:11 - May 19 with 5907 views | PunteR |
Totally agree with Norf. Coke is rife everywhere. Alcohol is probably a bigger problem but that's taxable so it's fine to use. |  |
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| More room on the train? on 10:12 - May 19 with 5899 views | LazyFan |
Remember kids, hard drugs are a gateway to being a Chelsea supporter.
You were warned! |  |
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| More room on the train? on 10:17 - May 19 with 5880 views | Antti_Heinola |
The greatest trick the upper classes ever did, and still do, is to pit the middle classes and working classes against each other. Classic divide and rule. The idea that coke isn't being done by the richest people in society is laughable. |  |
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| More room on the train? on 10:25 - May 19 with 5833 views | theselector |
| More room on the train? on 10:17 - May 19 by Antti_Heinola |
The greatest trick the upper classes ever did, and still do, is to pit the middle classes and working classes against each other. Classic divide and rule. The idea that coke isn't being done by the richest people in society is laughable. |
Yep, exactly this. Coke use is endemic in every section of British society, but not a single govt spokesperson can say "Coke user" without inserting "middle class" in front of it. It's clearly a deliberate tactic.
I suspect its yet another example of this govts never ending culture war, pitting people against each other, cuz that's all they got. | | | |
| More room on the train? on 10:37 - May 19 with 5785 views | Toast_R |
Its rife where I live, in th pubs. It makes people really aggressive as they drink more alcohol to offset the high from the drug.
And have you tried having a conversation with someone who's on it? They are all overtly annoying. Can't shut the f*ck up and repeat themselves over and over and do not listen to anything being said back because what they have got to say is far more important even though it's bollocks and they'll not doubt regret saying it when they're eventually hung over and depressed.
It's a huge social problem. What has caused the surge in popularity of taking this drug?
Fashionable?
Smoking ban?
Is it now cheaper to buy or more accessible? (I've no idea) |  | | |
| More room on the train? on 10:49 - May 19 with 5743 views | BlackCrowe |
| More room on the train? on 10:25 - May 19 by theselector |
Yep, exactly this. Coke use is endemic in every section of British society, but not a single govt spokesperson can say "Coke user" without inserting "middle class" in front of it. It's clearly a deliberate tactic.
I suspect its yet another example of this govts never ending culture war, pitting people against each other, cuz that's all they got. |
It's not about which 'class' is doing it - that's missing the point as all 'classes' are almost certainly indulging. It's about how a certain and fairly sizeable demographic (how you define that i really don't know) behave when on it combined with a ton of alcohol. Probably all down to plain old simple being brought up to know what's right and wrong, and that's not dependent on class.
I dabbled occasionally combined with much booze in my younger years as did many of my friends...not once did anyone feel compelled to be violent, gobby, offensive to others around us.
We were obviously spouting bollox etc and thinking we were god's gift to the dancefloor, girls etc when we clearly weren't, but never offensive.
And i suspect it's the same for most today too, it's just there is a big minority where coke just amplifies the lack of self-awareness, decency, moral compass they already had in the first place. | |
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| More room on the train? on 10:50 - May 19 with 5734 views | toboboly |
| More room on the train? on 08:46 - May 19 by stowmarketrange |
Most of the big rugby matches I’ve been to have been watched by people who love their drink rather than a line or two.I’ve seen England away more times than I have at Twickenham though,but there isn’t a thought of trouble in the air like you sometimes get at football.A fair portion of fans going to watch rugby also play it,so there are some big feckers around that you mess with at your peril.
It all seems more good natured too. |
Agree, never seen it at the rugby. That said young(ish) groups of lads absolutely ar$eholed even before getting into Twickenham is becoming more prevalent.
As for race meetings, seems to every big one is in the papers with coke/fights isn't it? |  |
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| More room on the train? on 10:54 - May 19 with 5718 views | theselector |
| More room on the train? on 10:49 - May 19 by BlackCrowe |
It's not about which 'class' is doing it - that's missing the point as all 'classes' are almost certainly indulging. It's about how a certain and fairly sizeable demographic (how you define that i really don't know) behave when on it combined with a ton of alcohol. Probably all down to plain old simple being brought up to know what's right and wrong, and that's not dependent on class.
I dabbled occasionally combined with much booze in my younger years as did many of my friends...not once did anyone feel compelled to be violent, gobby, offensive to others around us.
We were obviously spouting bollox etc and thinking we were god's gift to the dancefloor, girls etc when we clearly weren't, but never offensive.
And i suspect it's the same for most today too, it's just there is a big minority where coke just amplifies the lack of self-awareness, decency, moral compass they already had in the first place. |
I'm missing the point or the govt is missing the point?
Because I agree with you, which is why I was asking why the govt is making it about class. | | | |
| More room on the train? on 10:55 - May 19 with 5703 views | BlackCrowe |
| More room on the train? on 10:54 - May 19 by theselector |
I'm missing the point or the govt is missing the point?
Because I agree with you, which is why I was asking why the govt is making it about class. |
I really don't know, because it isn't. | |
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| More room on the train? on 11:10 - May 19 with 5640 views | Toast_R |
| More room on the train? on 10:50 - May 19 by toboboly |
Agree, never seen it at the rugby. That said young(ish) groups of lads absolutely ar$eholed even before getting into Twickenham is becoming more prevalent.
As for race meetings, seems to every big one is in the papers with coke/fights isn't it? |
I regards to Twickenham, the big England matches, tickets are usually balloted to Rugby clubs for their specific members so there is a certain amount of accountability to who you are if you misbehave. I can't imagine for one minute any amount of illegal substances is tolerated at members only Rugby clubs. | | | |
| More room on the train? on 11:16 - May 19 with 5615 views | Boston |
| More room on the train? on 10:49 - May 19 by BlackCrowe |
It's not about which 'class' is doing it - that's missing the point as all 'classes' are almost certainly indulging. It's about how a certain and fairly sizeable demographic (how you define that i really don't know) behave when on it combined with a ton of alcohol. Probably all down to plain old simple being brought up to know what's right and wrong, and that's not dependent on class.
I dabbled occasionally combined with much booze in my younger years as did many of my friends...not once did anyone feel compelled to be violent, gobby, offensive to others around us.
We were obviously spouting bollox etc and thinking we were god's gift to the dancefloor, girls etc when we clearly weren't, but never offensive.
And i suspect it's the same for most today too, it's just there is a big minority where coke just amplifies the lack of self-awareness, decency, moral compass they already had in the first place. |
You were probably taking Coke, not the substance’s in todays bags, toilet cleaner, talcum powder and fentanyl | |
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| More room on the train? on 11:25 - May 19 with 5568 views | BlackCrowe |
| More room on the train? on 11:16 - May 19 by Boston |
You were probably taking Coke, not the substance’s in todays bags, toilet cleaner, talcum powder and fentanyl |
fair - i am going back 20+ years. Alas. | |
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