Hooligans convicted of public order offences at Bradford City's derby clash with Leeds United could be banned from every football stadium in the land, police warned today.
Eleven people were arrested during or immediately before Bradford City's crunch match with Leeds United on Sunday. Six were arrested for public order offences, one for pitch invasion and three for drunkenness.
All have now been charged, said Inspector Jeff Baker, of Bradford Central Police.
"We will be pressing to have a banning order imposed on them which will prevent them from going into any football stadium in the country," he said.
"We want to send out a strong message that police will not tolerate this sort of thing."
Another person who was arrested before the game in connection with an alleged assault on an anti-racism campaigner has been released on police bail pending an investigation.
Some Bantams fans have also accused their club of greed for selling tickets in the home stands to Leeds United supporters. Seats in the Ciba stand were put on open sale and up to 500 were snapped up by Leeds fans.
Areas exclusively for Bradford season ticket holders were also invaded by Leeds fans who bought up unused tickets.
"It was just greed," said Paul Snowden, secretary of the Queensbury branch of the Bradford City Supporters Club. "They didn't need to sell them to Leeds fans, they could have easily sold out if they had just sold to Bradford fans."
A system where vouchers were handed out to people who had attended other City games in the season would have ensured that Leeds fans were excluded, he said.
Mr Snowden, who is writing to Bantams chairman Geoffrey Richmond, added: "In all my years as a Bradford City fan I have never seen anything like it in the ground before. It was scandalous. There were at least 500 Leeds fans in Bradford stands."
Mr Snowden added that his 12-year-old daughter, Kemma, who is a season ticket holder, was too scared to go into the ground.
Shaun Harvey, Bradford City's managing director, said it was standard procedure to review the events of each game and the Leeds match would be no different.
"We will be looking at everything from how tickets were distributed to the events of the day. We always look at how things could have been done differently."
But Mr Harvey said preventing Leeds fans from getting into home stands was an impossible task.
Police had been expecting most of the Leeds fans to be in those three blocks, but in the event found they were dotted all over the ground.
l Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was assaulted as she handed out Anti-Nazi League leaflets before the match.
She was hit on the head by a bottle allegedly thrown by a person in a nearby group.
Witnesses to the incident at 3.40pm are asked to contact Bradford Central Police on 376459.
A man has been arrested in connection with the incident and released on police bail.
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