Stevenage stewards

[upthemaggies]

Let's hope things are sorted before we go there in November.

"Female football fans were left “shocked and stunned” when they were made to show their bras during security searches at Stevenage football club, a supporters’ group has said."

“What we can’t understand as football supporters is why Stevenage football club have told their stewards to do this. It’s not a policing issue, it’s a football club issue – they’ve told their stewards to check people’s bras and we can only assume they’ve been given some intelligence to do that. You don’t have it at airports, so why would you have it at a football club?"

The Mariners Trust letter also claims Stevenage FC stewards carried out full-body searches on children as young as five, leaving at least one minor “visibly upset”, and confiscated safe objects including hand sanitiser from fans.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...enage-stewards

[JoePass]

Let's hope things are sorted before we go there in November.

"Female football fans were left “shocked and stunned” when they were made to show their bras during security searches at Stevenage football club, a supporters’ group has said."

“What we can’t understand as football supporters is why Stevenage football club have told their stewards to do this. It’s not a policing issue, it’s a football club issue – they’ve told their stewards to check people’s bras and we can only assume they’ve been given some intelligence to do that. You don’t have it at airports, so why would you have it at a football club?"

The Mariners Trust letter also claims Stevenage FC stewards carried out full-body searches on children as young as five, leaving at least one minor “visibly upset”, and confiscated safe objects including hand sanitiser from fans.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...enage-stewards

You do have it at airports, East Mids.

[ancientpie]

Just a PR stunt aimed at getting more visiting fans hoping for a glance of titty, but seriously I suspect that they must have had some sort of intelligence to go to these measures. Grimsby fans have a reputation & female fans could well be used for carrying weapons, smoke bombs etc, but if so I would think that it was a Police matter rather than left to the Stewards?