Frisking powers for soccer special coach drivers?
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• Mr Stanley Lambert, chairman of Sunderland Football Club Supporters' Association, has criticized coach owners who "did not give a hoot" about the type of passengers they carried on football specials so long as they could make a profit. Mr Lambert, who was commenting on rowdyism on buses hired to carry football supporters to matches, said that his Association allowed only its members to travel on coaches and anyone misbehaving was removed from the coach and expelled from the Association. He maintained that other coach drivers should be given authority to inspect intending passengers to see that no weapons were being carried.
Commenting on the criticism, Mr Ray Hardwick, of Bee-Line Roadways Ltd, Middlesbrough, said that no coach owner would deliberately jeopardize his business by carrying louts. On football buses they took the names and addresses of passengers and the numbers of their seats. If there was any trouble on board this information was given to the police.