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Date Posted: 03:28:03 05/05/03 Mon
Author: jaf
Subject: Re: fao jaf
In reply to: smell the glove 's message, "fao jaf" on 07:34:57 05/04/03 Sun

This is from the Daily record of the same day. As you will see the link to Thistle is pretty tenuous.

THREE football thugs were told to grow up by a sheriff yesterday.

Sheriff Andrew Murphy said Andrew Philips, 32, and 29-year-olds Mark Wilson and Marcus Daisley were "a bit old to be football casuals".

Then he asked their lawyers: "Are they reliving their youth or something?"

Sam Milligan, defending Philips, agreed and said: "He is a bit long in the tooth for this."

The comments came after a Record investigation showed a rise in older men returning to football violence.

The three had planned a major confrontation when Falkirk met Airdrie last year, Falkirk Sheriff Court was told.

Police had been tipped off about the fight and prevented it getting out of hand.

Philips, a forklift truck driver, of Cumbrae Drive, Falkirk, Wilson, a coach builder, of Moriston Court, Grangemouth, and Daisley, a production worker, of Tiree Place, Falkirk, admitted shouting and swearing, fighting and committing a breach of the peace.

Sheriff Murphy fined them £250 each and told them: "It's a bit pathetic - men your age behaving like youngsters. It's time you grew up."

Graeme McLachlan, prosecuting, said police had learned the fight was being planned following a confrontation earlier in the season between St Mirren and Partick Thistle casuals.

A police intelligence source said: "The problems with First Division clubs can sometimes be worse than with casuals attached to the Premier League sides."

The insider added: "In January last year, there was a disturbance in Central Retail Park, Falkirk, involving Falkirk and Partick Thistle. Intelligence indicated Falkirk was joined by individuals from St Mirren.

"And last March, St Mirren were playing Airdrie in Paisley and there was a fight outside a pub.

"Intelligence showed there were individuals from Falkirk present.

"We have good pre- emptive intelligence on people like this and are ready for incidents like this."

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