“It’s DEGRADING” – Why Are A-League Fans Policed Differently? | Straight Yellow

Hand in your drums. Behave yourselves, and you might get them back.

That’s what the RBB were told before Saturday night’s Halloween clash between Macarthur and the Wanderers. Police treated the game like a Sydney Derby, so the Wanderers fans answered with 20 minutes of silence. Peacock and Slater ask why football is still the only sport in Australia that gets policed as a collective. A punch-up at the AFL is a few individuals, but a flare at the A-League means the whole crowd is the problem. Robbie remembers the day he watched police provoke trouble at a Wanderers game, and they’ve got a fix the APL could act on now.

Then it’s the stories you only get on Straight Yellow. Jamie Carragher’s run-in with Aston Villa. The night John Kosmina grabbed Robbie by the neck in the tunnel. Clive Palmer giving the half-time team talk at Gold Coast United and threatening to sue Fox over a pie. Plus Richard Peil’s airport gym genius, Man United in freefall, and Robbie’s Melbourne Cup tip.