{"id":296936,"date":"2023-11-08T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=296936"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:24:25","slug":"football-hooligans-warn-do-not-come-tooled-up-to-protect-cenotaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/football-hooligans-warn-do-not-come-tooled-up-to-protect-cenotaph\/","title":{"rendered":"Football hooligans warn: &apos;do not come tooled up&apos; to &apos;protect&apos; Cenotaph"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Football hooligans alliance supporters warn fans &#8216;do not come tooled up&#8217; with weapons as they bid to &#8216;protect&#8217; the Cenotaph from pro-Palestine protest &#8211; and sell out coaches for hundreds to head to London<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mail Sport revealed Met police concerns over planned &#8216;defence&#8217; on Sunday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>March calling for a ceasefire amidst\u00a0Israel-Hamas conflict planned for Saturday<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>CHRIS SUTTON: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is a CLOWN &#8211; 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that would see &#8216;officers coming in from all across the country to help&#8217; London&#8217;s police force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77549573-12724631-image-m-7_1699440592607.jpg\" height=\"410\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Football hooligans alliance supporters have urged attendees not to bring weapons to planned meeting to &#8216;protect&#8217; the Cenotaph on Sunday (Democratic Football Lads Alliance supports pictured in 2018)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77549455-0-image-a-3_1699440100993.jpg\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A message warning of the &#8216;threat&#8217; to the memorial from &#8216;far left groups and pro-Palestine supporters&#8217; circulated this week<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77525449-0-One_group_named_Football_Lads_Against_Extremism_claims_veterans_-a-6_1699440197373.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Football Lads Against Extremism&#8217; claim veterans have reached out and asked for their support<\/p>\n<p>But organisers of the action appeared to warn attendees from bringing weapons to the hooligan gathering on Sunday, with one writing: &#8216;DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT COME TOOLED UP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;WE ARE MUCH BETTER THEN (sic) THAT.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Comments beneath the original post urged dignity from attendees, although one user claimed that &#8216;the snakes will undoubtedly have machetes and what not&#8217; in apparent reference to potential opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A desire for unity between rival supporters groups was also apparent on X (formerly Twitter) with one user sharing that Stoke City&#8217;s firm N40 &#8211; or Naughty Forty &#8211; had organised two coaches to bus group members to the capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;STOKE CITY N40 have organised two SOLD OUT coaches for the weekend,&#8217; the user wrote. &#8216;Standing side by side with other football supporters to protect our British values!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This weekend, NO TRIBES, just ONE loyal British show of solidarity!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At the height of the group&#8217;s support in the 1970s and 80s, N40 had over 700 members and a reputation as one of the most violent firms in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77549695-12724631-image-a-9_1699441094672.jpg\" height=\"184\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the march&#8217;s intent urged likeminded groups not to bring weapons to London<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77549697-12724631-image-a-8_1699441093381.jpg\" height=\"248\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One user shared that Stoke City firm N40 had already sold out two coaches for Sunday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77550065-12724631-image-m-11_1699441103472.jpg\" height=\"409\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tommy Robinson &#8211; who has agitated for counter-protests against a planned ceasefire march on Armistice Day upon his return to X (formerly Twitter) attended a 2017 Football Lads Alliance march &#8216;against extremism&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77549567-0-image-a-1_1699440094453.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2020 Democratic Football Lads Alliance urged supporters to &#8216;defend war memorials&#8217; from Black Lives Matter protests<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77549427-0-image-a-2_1699440096989.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A counter-protest in London saw the hooligans clash with police and protestors in scenes dubbed &#8216;racist thuggery&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, both West Ham and Chelsea will host games in London as they play Nottingham Forest and Manchester City respectively, with Arsenal and Crystal Palace the city&#8217;s teams with home clashes on Armistice Day itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After detailing Sunday&#8217;s plan in their initial statement, the alliance references &#8216;the first 2 Football Lads marches in 2017&#8217; &#8211; the second of which in October 2017 was attended by the founder of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Democratic Football Lads Alliance urged supporters to &#8216;defend war memorials&#8217; from Black Lives Matter protestors, and clashed with protestors and police in Trafalgar Square.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the actions of the far-right protestors as &#8216;racist thuggery&#8217; after six police officers were injured as demonstrators threw missiles and smoke grenades.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12724631\/Football-hooligans-weapons-Cenotaph-Palestine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football hooligans alliance supporters warn fans &#8216;do not come tooled up&#8217; 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