re: Stay Classy Chelsea Fans

I'm not really sure. Someone thinks they have to check in at their local police station every time theres a home match? That seems a little impractical to enforce though.

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I'm not really sure. Someone thinks they have to check in at their local police station every time theres a home match? That seems a little impractical to enforce though.

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That's exactly how they do it

Or if you are caught on cctv within a radius of the ground on match day you go to jail

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Or if you are caught on cctv within a radius of the ground on match day you go to jail

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This seems pretty easy to get around.

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It probably just allows everyone to say that they're doing all they can to fight the good fight without even losing a single ticket sale.


I don't think England uses the government ID plus special club ID card that Italy does to enter matches?


That does keep out a majority of the convicted hooligans but also drove away thousands of regular fans in the process in Italy.

It created huge difficulties in buying last minute tickets and made it near impossible for fans living in other cities to get tickets to attend (for ex, if you were a Saints fan who lives in New Orleans but originally from, say, Houston, you would have to change your passport address, permament records address, car insurance etc etc etc to New Orleans to get the card to attend, if you're a Saints fan that has had to move to another city forget about it).

Also, many regular fans simply protested the "bank/police state" idea of it and also some horror stories circulated of people being arrested after their stolen card was used by banned fans.

There's really no easy solution it would seem.