Licensing to beat the soccer thugs?
4th May 1985, Page 54
4th May 1985
Page 54
Page 54, 4th May 1985
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WOULD a licensing system for football grounds similar to that governing road haulage help to prevent soccer hooliganism? lain Sherriff, editor of Commercial Motor and a rugby man, believes it would and said so in a letter to The Times.
His paraphrase of the mechanics and penalties of haulage licensing in soccer terms made the use of electrified zoo fencing to cage the wild animals seem positively indulgent. lain in convinced that alcohol is not the cause of violence. On the other hand, restriction on its sale in his native Scotland has done much to eradicate thuggery at soccer grounds. When it comes to common sense, Scotland can sometimes teach England a thing or two.