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Crap.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/9191468.Cheltenham_match_postponed/ (http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/9191468.Cheltenham_match_postponed/)

For fucks sake. Was looking forward to this immensely. Cunty rioters.

aaah....bastard squad
fucking rioters

Bah!  :badmood:

we are going to lose our top spot :doh:

If daggers gets called we'll have 100% record on 21st. #overreaction.

Cunts.

Cunts.

Cunts.

Certainly is difficult to build up a winning run when we aren't allowed to fooking play.

mothering fucking cunting monkey shagging hoodies

how stupid

Do you think PDC might accept a friendly against a Town End XI??

Oh for fucking hells sake.

Fully understood postponing the City game. This is just stupid.

Training ground got looted last night as well

I'm struggling to believe they have seriously called this off. How much trouble have they actually had down there?

A dozen little scroats and our match gets pulled. Agreed Barnard, agreed.

Complete over-reaction.  Postponed because there was some trouble more than 10 miles away almost a week before the fixture.  Pathetic.

Sounds political to me.  Adding to the already strong calls to cancel planned cuts to police budgets.

Spurs match was called off, get on the phone, PDC!

Glos Police - what a bunch of fucking amateurs. What the fuck are the doing?

Fucking 60 hoodies in Gloucester.

I've come to the wild conclusion that the Police hate Swindon Town Football Club.

For fuck sake, may as well get Spurs down here for a friendly.

Yet every single other game in London is ON.

It'll get rearranged for a Tuesday night when only half of us can go....

how can all but 1 game in the prem go ahead with an average of about ten times the attendance of this match yet this is called off?  pathetic

guess i'll now have a spare ticket if it's rearranged for the next few weeks, the old man will be on his hols so if we can still use tickets there will no doubt be one for sale...

saw on Twitter that Callum Kennedy got all of his boots stolen!!

The game is over-policed usually anyway, so not surprised by the over-reaction.

Fucking cunts, so even with all the trouble in London, all the games bar 1 are on and fucking Cheltenham, which has seen no real trouble, feel the need to call of a game which has never seen no real trouble, fucking clueless cunts.

Calling of the Bristol game was sensible but this is just fucking retarded. Seriously pissed off.

I'll ask @ChiefGlosPolice what he's playing at.

i feel a riot is needed

Thats over £200 down the fucking shitter for me then.
I'm going to buy some bloody riot gear and sort the fuckers myself. Seems the useless government & police are incapable of doing so.

Surely all we need to do is hire a vigilante group to police the fixture if Gloucestershire Police don't think they're up to the job?

Seems like a ridiculous overreaction by the powers that be. Poor.

Hot fuzz

I live in Cheltenham so I've taken a bit of an interest in the 'trouble' down the road. It's ludicrous the game's been called off - the headline in the local rag is how nothing happened last night. I wouldn't mind betting that'll be the same tonight and Friday.

I'm personally pretty chuffed - it means I can now go to the re-arranged fixture.

The police will no doubt use the excuse that a derby takes greater levels of policing, but this is Cheltenham for gods sake - the idea of 'trouble' is if there's no Earl Grey available at half time.

I'd quite enjoy the prospect of being policed by The Watchmen.

This is an apsolute joke i cant belive it, the riots are over, if they were concerned why not bring it fowerd to 1 or 12 oclock.

the old bill should have just battered the shit out of any rioters. Fuck thier human rights,just wipe them off the face of the earth. Job done,football on.
Watching them stand off whilst lone skinny twats give it the big un is infuriating. Even a kid waving a traffic cone was not challenged by a copper in full riot gear. Pathetic!

I've emailed the feds to let them know what a balls up of a decision this is:  [email protected]

Due to a lot of bloodshed at the nell gwynn tea room, so I heard

Utter cunty bollocks....No match now means I have to go with my wife to a wedding...fuck :suicide: :suicide: :suicide:

How can they not be able to send police to the game, what else are they going to be doing, there's no fucking trouble in Cheltenham, every other police force in the country can manage it, even in places where there had been a lot more trouble and they are expecting bigger crowds. It makes no sense.

And as for the excuse of it being a derby, Birmingham V Coventry is going ahead, and there has been a hell of a lot more trouble there and is as about as much as a derby as out game is. I'm utterly baffled.

If Glos Police want to avoid becoming a complete laughing stock, they need either to reverse the decision today or explain it.  Because it simply does not stack up at the moment.

Have to say, I'm also concerned about lack of match practice going in to our game with Oxford on the 21st.

half of everyones police will be stationed in the major citys so they probably dont have any to manage the game

Friendly vs Spurs/Everton this weekend?

THIS

Stop giving reason and call them cunts like the rest of us are.

Who's policing the other 44 games that are on this weekend then?

That would have been a comprimise that rational people could have come to.

This is just the Police saying, we dont want to Police you any more. Fact is, they werent needed anyway. Useless Force. Last time we played there this group of Chelt Yoof were outside a pub surrounded by coppers, a few of them had a bit of a go at us, but we walked on. Glos Police decided they needed to Sec 60 us, even though none of us had gesticulated back. We walked on to that Cat and Fiddle pub, there were about 60 Swindon in there. About an hour later they escort this Chelt Yoof lot into the Cat & Fiddle pub and stand outside, with us lot still in there. Amateurs.

oh sorry fucking cunts

there will be other games called off between today and saturday

Total knee jerk over reaction.

What a joke.

Nottinghamshire police manged fine with the Forest/County game on Tuesday, a bigger game in a city which had proper trouble going on.

Bet there's not many and they're alot more high profile than our game, and in alot more "troubled" areas than ours. Estimated attendance 6,000 max. Its farcical mate. There is no defence even if you have a crystal ball.

The FL said this morning that every game was on didnt they?

i agree with you it is stupid, and yes i did have to check my crystal ball to find out

Even the fucking prime minister said they should go ahead, muting the prospect of perhaps an early kick off. Whatever your political views i'm sure Cameron knows next to fuck all about football, but even that seems to more than Gloucester's finest.

Have to agree with the majority on here. If other forces were making the same decisions then I'd understand, but when all but one of the games in London can go ahead, along with the Forest vs County game the other night and (seemingly) the Brum vs Coventry game this weekend then its a joke to call off a game where there'll be 5,000 people in a match and town with no serious likelihood of any trouble.

Bunch of fucking cunty bastards.  What the fuck am I meant to do now on Saturday?

Its nothing to do with the trouble in other cities. This is because the police force in Cheltenham feel they have to provide a presence in the town centre to stop more trouble kicking off.

Absolute disgrace

I feel for those who have lost money cos of this. I lost out on £10 cos of trains on tuesday, and people have prob lost more. Shocking decision.

Oh and I wonder if there were any consultations with wilts police?

It does seem a poor decision. I hope Glos Constabulary issue some kind of justification so we know why. For all I know, most of their pc's might be covering in London that day, so it might be that there are none left for their own commitments.

By the sounds of it, they're stretched to breaking point at the moment.  There was probably no one available to make the call.

i'm so angery at this, can't imagine how paolo and this team feel

A spokesman for Gloucestershire Constabulary said:

"Following recent events in Gloucester, there is requirement for us to focus police resources to deter and deal with any potential disruption which may take place."

"As a result, it will not be possible to deploy officers alongside stewards in the ground or additional resources in the town centre on this occasion."

"This presents a safety risk for and we have therefore advised the club to postpone the match in the interests of ensuring the safety of everyone involved."

"We have an excellent relationship with the club and are grateful for their support in this matter."

Absolutely my thoughts.Government are secretly loving this.More abuse of power on its way.

Lets see-Dagenham(that's London)Oxford(always over policed)- I make it our next game will be in September when all those"millions"of rioters will have gone back to school!

We should all email [email protected] in protest, and make it a makeshift petition to get the game back on, absolute farce this whole situation is! Not been this angry since our relegation

so if a riot was to happen in cheltenham on saturday they would be fucked?

Have you really just used riot and Cheltenham in the same sentence?

i believe so

If? If the game is on and the stadium gets blown up, everyone is also fucked, are we supposed to call the game off in case that happens too?

From the sounds of it , yea. What else have they got to do apart from controlling Aggies who are unhappy at the quality of the Quali eggs, or some toff whos had his Chordoroids bird shat on. Can easily Police are game, they need to man up.

Agree, let's get emailng, probably won't make a scrap of difference but worth voicing our opinion.

Watkins seems to echo these sentiments, albeit sans the word "cunt"

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2417322,00.html

if truth be told they have done there allocated hours for the week due to the riots, so they would have had to pay the majority overtime to police the game, simple :busted:

Nick Watkins sounds rather unimpressed by the decision

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2417322,00.html

Just let the fans be heard, it might not make a difference, but its worth a go

What a wonderful irony that this match gets called off cos of riots but (so far) the following week one match most at risk of rioting remains on

This just looks comical...

My rant of the day has been signed, sealed and delivered to [email protected]  :smugfu: the Glos Po Po

Felt like I've got a lot off my chest now

If this is rearranged for any date other than 30th/31st August I won't be able to make it, and I'll be frightfully displeased.

I believe we pay their o/t don't we?

Watkins on Sky Sports News

Nick Watkins currently being interviewed on SSN.

He's not happy. If he knew he would've offered to take up all the Swindon stewards to help 'police' the game.

Come on Cameron, get our game back on!  ;D

Basically just said what he mentioned in the statement - sounded pretty fucked off with the decision and that if Cheltenham had contacted him, he is sure he could have sorted something out. Also worried about fixture congestion already, and how its annoying not to be able to keep up momentum from a 3-0 win.

Also, no one will have the bottle to overturn this decision, how refreshing would it be for the Glos police to say 'we got it wrong, after consulting with Swindon, they will send police/stewards and the game can go ahead' Not gonna happen. Sigh.

would be good if we could get the whole crowd chanting something against this when we actually do play them, i've got an idea of a chant but it's karma police inspired which would be a bit wrong as they're oxford scum

Emailed the clueless cunts. I recommend others do so too.

Ah man. Only one game pre-Oxford.

I think a behind-closed-doors practice match is in order for the squad.

Maybe paolo cud hav aword with his mate harry and we could play against spurs at the CG?

Why doesn't everyone with a ticket turn up anyway and spend the afternoon getting pissed in the Town Centre.

If that were to happen I think you would find that the local constabulary would suddenly find sufficient resources to police the situation.

Not good this,very poor decision.

Abroad on the bberry, and cannot be arsed to scroll back through.

I am pissed off with this .....fucking stupid.

If games in manchester, london and brum can go ahead then so can tinpot cheltenham.....

Old bill og!

That is all.....

If the home side is unable to host the match then shouldn't they forfeited the points / be knocked out of cup? Or least moved to a town which IS able to host it.

Cop Out !

There you go, Adver.  I've written tomorrow's back page headline for you.

Incompetent Wankers Can't Be Arsed To Find Obvious Solution Of Bringing KO Forward!

There you go Adver, I've written your headline for you.

Bunch of shit cunts

Who exactly are you referring to?  Its not very clear.

well the club does, so i suppose we do in a way

There's the adver's headline!

email sent to glos police, massive cunts

What a joke. I don't see how riots or potential riots could cause a problem, as has already been proven, they don't do fuck all about them anyway.

Send the police to the game for something to do and should a riot some how materialise in one of the least likely places to riot in the UK, they can go and stand around and watch, after doing fuck all at a football match.

As it stands, it's looking pretty farcical. Two called off fixtures across four divisions.

One is in within the heart of the riot area... the other is in Cheltenham.

I cannot get my head around it  :hmmm:

If the riots continue into next week our game  V Oxford on the Sunday will be fucked too as that game will need a large police presence.

Yeh, let's punish Cheltenham Town FC because their local constabulary was a bit off the pace  ::)

The riots will be finished by then. They've almost completely stopped already.

Emailed too.

I managed to restrain and not use the word cunt either. :)

This is a fucking joke.

I live in Croydon and even the Palace game is on for fucks sake

Well said.

Must have been 'interesting' for you t'other night. Were you that close to the hassle?

i have been thinking about this for 4 hours now and i literally still can't believe this considering we are 1 of two games postponed.

His local supermarket got razed.

Like everyone else, I'm puzzled by the decision and absolutely fucked off with it too. My Saturday was all set, stfc world on the laptop, reading the matchday thread, jumping about the room like an idiot when we score and getting sozzled on red wine. Now just because some clueless, dumbass plod decide that Cheltenham is suddenly more dangerous than sierra leone I have to settle for 2 minutes of redtube and kip.

:D

Anyone who manages to get Sierra Leone and redtube in the same sentence deserves a round of applause.

Exactly.

Un-fucking-cunting-believeable.  It's cunting August and we've got a piss flapping fixture pile up already! Those bastards better not start kicking off in Dagenham or I'll be starting my on bastarding fucking riot.


Cunts.




FACT!

There will be a degree of politic involved in this no doubt. A mate of mine used to be fairly high up in GMP as a civillian (although now been made redundant ironically), apparently all the staff shortage and scare mongering stories that came out (pre-riots) is all carefully co-ordinated within ACPO, so at least one force gets a horrow story out each week.

Only because its been wet (it was like bloody December in Manchester yesterday!), bloody fair weather scroats!

Absolutely fucking pathetic decision.  Not only am I pissed off, but now I've got a disappointed 7 year old who was excited about attending his first away match.  As mentioned, it will now more than likely be rearranged for a Tuesday night, which means it will finish too late for him to go!

As well as the pathetic Glos Constabulary, Cheltenham Town FC need to take some responsibility as well.  Surely they should have liaised with us before making the decision to postpone the match. As well as emailing Glos Police, I suggest everyone who has lost money due to purchasing tickets for trains etc emails Cheltenham Town asking them to reimburse them!  

Been an interesting few days...no supermarket now, community all sticking together guarding the shopping parade.

Live 2 miles from the real madness so wasn't as epic as it should have been

Take him along anyway.  ;)

The more I think about it, the less sense it makes.

The police are usually the first to label us football fans as troublemakers, yet they're obviously pretty happy for us to have an afternoon off to do whatever we want/get pissed/go rioting. When they could've had 6,000 or so of us in one place knowing exactly what we're up to.

Idiots.

Did we ever pay Cheltenham back the 25k we owed them in ticket sales?

Likewise, well not the first away game bit. Leeds was interesting with him, singing "we're going to West Ham, You're going to Dagenham"  down Elland Road on the way back.

Close enough, hope its over now. I think it is...

Absolutely furious about this, been looking forward to it all week.  FYI they're on twitter: @Glos_Police

Yeah it's ok now, shit loads of old bill patrolling and a few ARVs

Think everyone has missed the most important bit of this - ours is actually the only game called off due to the Police being unable provide sufficient resources to police it. The Tottenham game has been called off due "safety concerns relating to the infrastructure of the High Road and access to the stadium caused by last Saturday's riots" (quote from the club).

The decisions is an absolute joke and I hope the Cheltenham Police will be made to fully explain their decision and especially why they are the only Police force in the country that are unable to police a game which is far less risk than a lot of others.

Aimed for the top man @ChiefGlosPolice. He just slopey shouldered it off saying look at the official explanation on Chelt FC site.

Can I call him a cunt without getting in trouble?

Can you ask him for his comments on his Police force being the only one in the country to call a game off this weekend due to their inability to police it?

still really pissed off with this!

no reply from the email i sent at 16:34 - not that i'm suprised at all.

i really think we would have taken them apart, after the first half on sat i think paolo would have sent them out there all guns blazing and bagged a couple inside the first 20.

as it is we've practically got to start our season all over again next week

@ChiefGlosPolice Spurs off due2safety concerns,infrastructure of the High Road & access to the stadium. ur the only force un capable then?

is what I just tweeted him. Even Jason Scotland is abusing him, assuming it really is him. Pity he thinks its ' gloschester'

The fact that Glos police and Cheltenham didn't liase with us makes me think perhaps Cheltenham wanted the game called off? I mean they have lost their opening 2 games. Maybe they wanted to come into this game on the back of some form... :hmmm:

Totally pissed off.

1. Game could have been policed by 20 stewards. I am sure Supporters would have been well behaved if the game was on.

2. Out of the box thought. Change the fixture around and play it at the CG, therefore avoiding fixture congestion.

My little lad now is upset and probably will not be able to attend the re-arranged fixture due to school.

Fucking yobs, Police bottle it and once again the innocent victims pay.

Stick your fucking human rights up your arse and sort this fucking soft Country out please for the majority.

Wrong thread i know but aint the cup draw on after the Wednesday match...looks like extra time.

Cheltenham ticket office manager on phone to Glos police " got a big problem, loads of Swindon are coming up Saturday without tickets and are going to be in home end. Any chance you could get the game called off as our Stewards won't be able to cope " Wankers, hope twice as many Swindon turn up at rearranged fixture and take over !

Not sure if it's the real him, but check out some of 'Jason Scotland's' tweets.

http://twitter.com/#!/Scotty_Jay79

If it is him he's an absolute hero haha.

Blatently a Swindon fan pretending to be Jason Scotland for some reason.

Its a covert strike (work to rule) against cuts by the Glos Police - so why not send in the army - decent public servants who get on with it when the going gets tough - to break the strike?

we could police the game ourselves - we've seen that local vigilante groups police a lot more effectively than the pensioned pen pushers anyway who are too busy being wined and dined by the tabloids to deal with crime and disorder when it does arise

Our beloved leader David Cameron might have imposed his cuts to the police by the time this gets replayed.
The stupid cunt is still pressing on with that as stated today.

This has to be the most ridiculous decision I have ever known.  I genuinely have no idea what prompted them to postpone this.

Very concerned about our back log of fixtures.  If this has been called off then it wouldn't surprise me to see the Dagenham game under threat also.

I bet, with 100% honesty, if the rugby season was under way and glos were at home this weekend their game would have been on.  no doubt in my mind whatsoever

They are at home Saturday against AFC Wimbledon. It's still on because their police force aren't imbeciles.

No idea what this is based on but just saw the following tweet...

There's a mention of something similar on the Cheltenham forum.  Apparently there was stuff on facebook about Swindon fans buying tickets for the home end, because we'd sold out.

The more I've thought about this decision, the more annoyed I've got.  Glos Police look completely pathetic in all this and deserve the comments being made on Twitter.

I very much doubt that Cheltenham would have postponed a game after learning that, heaven forbid, some away fans have stated within a social network site that they're going in the home end... right?

I dunno, this is the same Cheltenham whose supporters cried because of a lack of seats at Plainmoor.

Hahaha - These fans clearly didn't go to games against the likes of Atherstone United or Baldock Town back in the mid-90's did they!

People tweeting nonsense about it being back on.

Seen a few tweets saying that... will wait for official confirmation before I believe it

Came from the Gloucester Echo.

I think it's Cheltenham's equivilant of Gary Rose who has 'tweeted' it.

Their media officer has confirmed it!

What a ridiculous situation this is.

Very embarrassing.

pahahaha. Something to do with an inability to arrange a heavy drinking session at the production line of booze.

Explanation imminent on ctfc.com

Their Chief Officer has just left a heavy hint!!!!

WOO HOOO!!!!

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Cheltenham-Town-Swindon-match/story-13114156-detail/story.html

Woohoo!!!

Looking forward to the explanations which are apparently coming up on ctfc.com and also by @chiefglospolice at http://t.co/uxT8TVu

Its on. I don't care that they messed up. Common sense has prevailed. Hooray!

We'll get stuffed now  :)

Never heard of anything like this, but very happy it's on.

It's Cheltenham. We usually do.

Can a mod change the thread title to "it's back on", when its officially official.

Give him a break. Got there in the end.

Not exactly an explanation, but this is from the Cheltenham OS...

Chuffed to bits that common sense has prevailed

The right decision has been made, and what I said wasn't intended as a dig at the police like many on facebook and twitter have... more a "how are you gona explain that one then son?" type of thing!

Officially official

http://www.ctfc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10434~2417567,00.html

Excellent!

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I wonder if Nick Watkins going on SSN helped sway it? I bet they felt rather sheepish if they saw that.

Ah well - whatever the reason it means that we get another game under our belts before the Oxford match.

fucking hell - this almost pisses me off even more than the original decision.

i'm off down to bournemouth after the game and was going to meet up with a mate to go onto a birthday celebration from there.  when the postponement was announced i called said mate - who is in leatherhead - and said i would now be able to pick him up on route.  i've now had to call hime and tell him i can no longer do this and he'll now have to book a train, no doubt this will cost him extra now.

i wonder if glos police have any idea how far the consequences of this farce run...

That was my main concern to be honest. Gutted I'm not going but will make the use of my recent subscription to the STFC website.

I am working - will have to remember to take either my MP3 player or headphones for the mobile so I can catch the commentary.

Admin, get the title of this thread changed! Weve got a game on our hands!

Well, I'll be damned! Fair play for reversing this crazy decision.

Atherstone United were my local non-league side when I was a kid who I went to see quite regularly, I remember seeing Cheltenham in around 1996 at Sheepy Road, in the season they got promoted. Cotterill was there and from my memory they brought about 60-70, it was near the end of the season so they'd probably jumped on the promotion bandwagon.

I've also seen Crawley, Burton (Home and Away), and Accrington (Home) play Atherstone which makes the thought of playing these with Town rather depressing.

Total shambles - hope the police admit they made a big cock-up with total over-reaction.
I know for sure that Cheltenham were equally livid about the original decision but presumably need to keep decent relationships with Glos police so have been circumspect in their announcements.

oh, oh gloucestershire police
oh, oh gloucestershire police
oh, oh gloucestershire police
you're bent, you're stretched - blah blah blah

you postpone a match
reinstate a match
you're in, you're out
and you fuck us all about
you're gloucestershire police
and you turn around
what the fuck's it all about?

Well Fishing Bait can remain in the Freezer and Plan A back on.

Great news and common sense.........One condition we drink no beer, no swearing, no standing and lots of happy clapping.

 :girlgiggle: :clap:

Didn't expect the roller coaster ride to be up and running this early in the season ! Don't you just love supporting the Town.

and nothing to do with PDC...

This is a beautiful farce.

Just woke up to the news.  Brilliant!

Better win it now.

Get In!!

The correct decision... eventually  :)

Good one Tom, like that angle.