Football stewards are renowned for being a touch heavy-handed and pedantic
However, stewards at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium have surpassed themselves for taking away the season ticket of a fan they believed to be smoking, when the guy was simply chuffing on a perfectly legal electronic cigarette.
The fan explains the story below:
I was on the concourse at half-time having a drink with a few mates. I took a drag of it and was asked by security to come into a room. I just thought I was going to be asked to explain what it was.
I was told they were banned and asked for my season card which I handed over. I was then escorted out of the ground by police.
However, it appears that City offer warnings that e-cigarettes should also not be smoked in the ground. So despite there being no evident reason for such a rule, that might be that. With only a few games left and the title race over, maybe it was a deliberate ploy?
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Sunday, 24 March 2013
Plans at exhibition show how landscape would radically alter
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pictures show that the scheme, which could potentially have ten tall
towers the tallest of which would be 14 storeys high, would radically
alter the landscape for residents in Chiswick.
The Football Club is planning to move from its existing stadium at Griffin Park to a new purpose built ground close by. The plans being developed will provide a modern 20,000 capacity stadium and they hope to have it completed by 2015. According to Saturday's Daily Telegraph, London Wasps are in discussing with the Brentford F.C. about a ground share at the stadium.
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The Football Club is planning to move from its existing stadium at Griffin Park to a new purpose built ground close by. The plans being developed will provide a modern 20,000 capacity stadium and they hope to have it completed by 2015. According to Saturday's Daily Telegraph, London Wasps are in discussing with the Brentford F.C. about a ground share at the stadium.
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NEW GLASSES SHOW HOW GOOD A FOOTBALL FAN YOU ARE
Scientists have invented glasses which show how good a football fan you are. We sent STEVE HUGHES to the Championship clash between Charlton and Millwall – with former England boss Graham Taylor in tow – to investigate.
Wearing a massive pair of specs attached to a laptop, while sitting next to one of the most famous faces in football in a stadium of 18,000 fans, I felt a tad self-conscious.
But however silly the equipment I was wearing looked, there can be no denying its technological brilliance.
The glasses track tiny movements in your cornea – the part of the eye which does the focusing – and records on to the laptop, inset, exactly where your eyes are looking.
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Wearing a massive pair of specs attached to a laptop, while sitting next to one of the most famous faces in football in a stadium of 18,000 fans, I felt a tad self-conscious.
But however silly the equipment I was wearing looked, there can be no denying its technological brilliance.
The glasses track tiny movements in your cornea – the part of the eye which does the focusing – and records on to the laptop, inset, exactly where your eyes are looking.
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Olympics deal ‘is a pig’s ear’
A DEAL to allow West Ham Football Club to move into the Olympic Stadium should be ripped up because taxpayers will be paying for it for years to come, it was claimed last night.
The Hammers are set to move into the east London venue after it was agreed the club would pay just £15million towards the estimated cost of £190million to refurbish the stadium, making it a suitable venue for football matches and athletics.
The rest of the bill will be met by taxpayers.
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Saturday, 23 March 2013
England fan in coma after bar fight in Italy
An England football fan has been arrested in connection with a fight outside an Italian pub ahead of the match against San Marino that left another England fan in a coma.
Police said a 65-year-old man defended himself with a bar stool in a fight, was punched, fell and hit his head. He is now in an induced coma and his condition was described as “very serious”.
A 21-year-old man was arrested. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “We can confirm the arrest of a British national in Italy on 21 March.”
Police said a 65-year-old man defended himself with a bar stool in a fight, was punched, fell and hit his head. He is now in an induced coma and his condition was described as “very serious”.
A 21-year-old man was arrested. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “We can confirm the arrest of a British national in Italy on 21 March.”
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Chelsea transfers: Atlético’s Simeone hints at summer move for Torres
Chelsea transfers: Atlético boss Diego Simeone hints at a summer move to bring Fernando Torres back to the Vicente Calderón
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Club statement on recent events
Statement on behalf of Coventry City Football Club (Holdings) Ltd
As fans will know, Coventry City Football Club Limited was placed into administration on Thursday.
This
subsidiary of the Club held the lease and licence for the Ricoh Arena.
This covered the permission to play home matches at the stadium as well
as the rental of the Club shop and the Club offices.
Given
this subsidiary is now in administration, the Club has taken the
decision to protect its staff by moving them from the stadium to the
training ground at Ryton, before finding a more permanent base.
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