Brother in law attacked at match

Horrendous that an innocent football fan with his young kids in tow would be attacked like this. Hopefully the fans can be identified and brought to justice.
 
This is absolutely terrible. Feel for the whole family. I hope the culprits can be found and barred being any part of watching Boro at Riverside.
I know from personal experience that the police and security at Riverside will take reports of attacks very seriously.
Shameful episode isn't it.
 
Be nice if the Boro organised a means of having them back on a courtesy visit to the Boro to illustrate we predominantly are a canny club .
Easy for me to suggest this but it's not too incomprehensible as thankfully this type of action is rare .
 
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So sorry to read this but not surprised i heard a similar thing happened at a the Blackpool game one of our so called fan attacked a Blackpool fan in front of his elderly mother she was distraught. I bet if it was 1 on 1 without his kids or the lad without his mother next to him they wouldn't feel so brave.
 
Horrendous and cowardly act and hope the BIL and kids recover from it.

Also like other have said hope they are caught, charged and then banned from football for life.....no place for it in football
 
Absolute cowardly, vile scum. Attacking anyone is bad enough, a group attacking a single fan whilst with his 2 kids is despicable. Utter vermin.

Hope your family are ok. And also the perpetrators are identified, imprisoned, banned for life from football and made to pay significant damages.
 
Joy_Division_Oven_Gloves said:
He’s local but a Pools/QPR fan (long story but chose QPR when he was a kid as his ‘big club’) nice lad never been in a spot of bother.
Anyway he was with his two kids, 9 and 7, walking back to the car chatting with Boro fans when bunch of young lads attacked him, hit him on the back of the head with a can then set upon him. He has an emergency dental appointment this morning to see what they can do with what’s left of his teeth.
His biggest concern is his kids and what they witnesses - they saw their dad beat up at a Boro match. He said there was plenty of Boro fans who were sound and helped him out but it’s left a nasty taste. It was the youngest son’s first match at a ‘big stadium’ and one he’ll never forget unfortunately.

So big up to the fans who helped out but the less said about the scumbags the better
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I noticed near the south-east corner a group of young lads were squaring up to these two QPR fans who were both wearing QPR tops, but to be honest most fans just laughed at them, including the two QPR fans. Don't suppose it would have been them who were responsible for the attack.

I do remember a strange moment though. As we passed by the QPR fans outside the east stand, I heard somebody with a distinct Teesside accent shout "We only had 10 men". Remember thinking to myself "why is a Boro fan shouting that?" but thinking back now it could have been your brother-in-law.
 
Totally shocking to hear this. Hope your brother in law is going to be ok and also hope his children haven't been too traumatised by it. Please let them know that we are all thinking about them and that the vast majority of football fans are good law abiding people.
 
rob_fmttm said:
This is absolutely terrible. Feel for the whole family. I hope the culprits can be found and barred being any part of watching Boro at Riverside.
I know from personal experience that the police and security at Riverside will take reports of attacks very seriously.
Shameful episode isn't it.
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Rob - Any chance you could report this to Yvonne Ferguson and see if the club could turn this awful experience into a positive.

It would be a nice touch from the club.
 
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A couple of years ago I saw some young lads following a couple of away fans through the subways. I wasn't sure what was going on exactly until one of the Boro lads blocked the path of one of the away fans and another tried to trip him. I was right next to them so was able to step in, shout a lot and get the thugs to move away. The away fans were able to slip away somewhat shaken no doubt but the the Boro louts turned back towards the Riverside. I managed to catch up with the away fans and make sure they were OK. But it was horrible to see this. Sad to see youngsters behaving like that.
 
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