Football clubs urged to keep a gang behind violence

The club of Dairy City supporters condemned the violence associated with rival gangs of fans in LondonDery on Friday night.

A teenage boy and a person in his 20s required a hospital treatment after two big groups attacked with sticks, bats and iron bats and iron bars and each other with cars and assets near the Ryan McBuride Brandowel Stadium.

Northern Ireland Police Service is trying to identify people involved in violence on Leki Road and Lone Moore Road during the Dairy City We Bohemian League of Ireland Game, which she believed that he was “pre-staged”.

Michael Kerigan, the chairman of the Club of Pride of Northern Dairy City supporters said that the people involved have nothing to do with football.

He said that the violence was “sad to see”, especially after the spectacular spectacle of the Foyal Cup last week, he said, “Very successful and” brilliant performance for the city “.

Steven Eagon is a lifelong Bohemian fan who traveled to Dairy for the match and believes that both clubs now have a collective responsibility to prevent the violence from repeating violence.

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“There were some thugs, obviously, who came up, who had arranged something and what happened was nothing with the club or real supporters,” he said.

“But I think real supporters were suffering from vengeance.

“Attacking two or three hundred supporters including elderly supporters and children and there were also some pregnant women who were essentially boxing in a cage, there is no way to do this and I think the club needs some way to protect supporters from situations.”

The disorder continued during and after the match, which had to be stopped at a point after the pitch caught fire.

Footage on social media shows fans ducking and running fireworks explodes around them.

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) is investigating the trouble, while Dairy City and Bohemian have been approached for comment.

Politicians have told Dairy City and Bohemian football clubs to eat to catch the gang involved in the violence.

Sin Fen MLA Siara Ferguson told BBC Radio Foyal North West Today Program: “Clubs need to keep these youths in account.”

He said that priority is now to identify people who orchestrated and carried out violence and gave them justice.

“We noticed that the masked youth were armed with weapons while fighting on the road and then turned on the PSNI,” he said.

“It was only terrible to local residents, including children who saw these events, but eventually, any footage that is available needs to be sent to PSNI.”

SDLP MLA Mark H. Durkan, who was in the match, said it was “compulsory” that both clubs meet and measures to ensure that there is no repetition of violence.

He described scenes outside the stadium as “derogatory” and “deeply upset” for local people and “real supporters”.

“Many of them were leaving early, they were scared,” he said.

“I have never experienced the atmosphere anywhere in Brandwell or any football match.”

He said that there was no place for violence or threats in a football match and the people involved were described as “thugs” and “hanger-on”.

DUP MP for East LondonDery, Gregory Campbell said that the violence raised questions about future policing at Brandwell Stadium, where PSNI did not have a regular appearance.

Campbell said, “Lessons need to learn and need to be a lesson or not, it is going to be discovered and seized for the game.”

“This is sometimes where people use a football as an excuse for a riot and it appears that it was on Friday night, so action should be taken to stop it.”