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Dulwich v Worthing, Tues 25th Oct 2022

Sorry that you feel being asked to remove banners by a steward should be a reason to excuse vandalism. Businesses pay good money for their boards and the club gets fined if league sponsor adverts are covered. The stewards removed them because Worthing fans refused to.
Maybe the way to stop it in future is to act earlier but either way they were clearly in the wrong

Bizarre. I said it was a reaction to the removal. Which it was. I didn't say it excused it. It was shitty behaviour.
 
Visiting fans should be allowed to put up their banners. It's an important part of football culture and identity. And if the advertisers' precious banners must never, ever be covered up, maybe we should consider having less of the things, so there's space for visiting fans.

And much as I love seeing Hamlet banners at both ends of the pitch, it seems unfair that we get to hog all the available space.
They were allowed to put up their banners, after they were told to not block the paid-for advertising boards, they found space to the side, and on the banners at the back of both ends, indeed they covered up some of our banners on the wall to the Dog Kennel Hill end, which no one minded
 
The favourite banner that I have seen was one the Met Police supporters had that said "more banners than travelling fans".

And they were right 😂
 
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In photos: Dulwich Hamlet lose 0-1 to Worthing in fractious Champion Hill encounter, Tues 25th Oct 2022


In photos: Dulwich Hamlet lose 0-1 to Worthing in fractious Champion Hill encounter, Tues 25th Oct 2022


In photos: Dulwich Hamlet lose 0-1 to Worthing in fractious Champion Hill encounter, Tues 25th Oct 2022


In photos: Dulwich Hamlet lose 0-1 to Worthing in fractious Champion Hill encounter, Tues 25th Oct 2022


In photos: Dulwich Hamlet lose 0-1 to Worthing in fractious Champion Hill encounter, Tues 25th Oct 2022


 
Nobody stopped them putting up banners as they managed to do in the second half without either vandalising others or covering advertisers. That shows it was a perfectly reasonable request to move them and there was plenty of space to put them up.

Why should the club not sell space to advertisers, like it and every other club has done for years, just so the odd away fan can hang a banner every so often ?

Or maybe we could ask clubs if their fans want to put up a flag when arranging a match and then ask which advertiser wants to take down their board.

League rules regarding not covering their signs are also something we can’t control, much like where we have to put them around the stadium.

Let’s be honest, a few away fans didn’t like being asked to move a banner, threw their toys out of the pram and then vandalised property.

There are a few things the club has got wrong with its stewarding but I don’t believe this was one of them.
 
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