Victoria Police tweets know the score
Even police tweeters have a sense of humour, Dr Mumbo is pleased to see.
Last night saw a soccer friendly between Melbourne Victory and Celtic.
And Victoria Police helpfully tweeted the score…
Dr Mumbo looks forward to a similar service during the cricket.
(Hat-tip: Footy Fans Downunder.)
I agree – good to see. The only negative reactions are coming from soccer fans who think this is playing to the stereotype of soccer hooligans.
The Vic police did the same thing during the Boxing Day test last year (tweeting evictions).
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That’s great. Funny and creates awareness. Big ups!
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I saw this – and did think it was a friendly game ….. mayhaps it wasn’t as friendly as I thought! Good on ’em.
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I hope they do an AFL one all though there is a character limit on twitter.
Anti-Soccer bias as usual in this country
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I think you’d find if there were as many police and security at AFL games, looking for trouble, they would find it.
There is a greater police/security presence at a standard Melbourne Victory home game (ave crowd of maybe 10-15K) than there is at an AFL final or ‘blockbuster’ (crowd of 60K+).
Not sure of the need to have security and cops mingling amongst supporters of the same team, telling them to stop screaming or to sit down and generally causing trouble were there is nothing at all going on.
Put those same cops and security in the middle of opposing AFL fans and see what happens
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Cathy – 14 evictions IS a friendly game!
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Debbie Downer – as a well behaved soccer fan who attends both home games and away games (yes, I travel interstate just to watch), I am sick of police and security perpetrating the perception that we’re hooligans.
We’re not. Yes, we sing. Yes, we make a LOT of noise – but have you ever been to a game? We make the atmosphere electric.
It’s unfair that we soccer fans are singled out in this manner. When is inciting the public part of the police’s role?
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Think you’ll find that at AFL game fans of opposite teams can sit together will little trouble. Not possible with Soccer.
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@Dan – not sure…are you agreeing with me?
I have no doubt the stigma of “hooliganism” comes from overseas games more than here. At the Socceroos vs Serbia game at Etihad I attended last month, I saw a few fans ejected (maybe 3, but no more), and I also saw more flares thrown than goals.
But I think “all soccer fans are hooligans” is incorrect, and not the issue at hand. I like that the coppers can have a sense of humour via twitter and inforce a message at the same time – “don’t be a d_ _khead in public”.
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How embarrassing that Victoria Police force did this, they exist to protect and serve and not write ‘funny’ tweets, bunch of absolute brain dead buffoons
And coexist talks out of the rear end also
Over.
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Just an off shoot of racism that plagues this country.
They’d never do it with other codes, ’cause wogs follow sokkah
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What rubbish, they have made the exact same sorts of tweets at other sporting events.
The soccer fanboys need to harden up. The universe does not revolve around them.
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Superintendent Rod Wilson comes out against soccer all the time with no facts. When he was called out on this on SEN he had no response. Obvious bias against the game here from Channel 7 buying the rights not to show it all the way to police.
Can you please give us evidence of them doing it at the AFL or cricket which sees 10 times the evictions?
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And if they do in fact do it WP, is it in the same antagonistic fashion?
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Only 14 evictions – Celtic must be getting soft in their old age
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