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UK: Manchester United soccer team appoints counter-terrorism chief

Jan 21, 2017 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Manchester United have appointed a counter-terrorism manager and believe they are the first Premier League club to do so.

Given lone wolf jihad attacks across Europe, repeated calls for more from the Islamic State, and ongoing warnings of more to come, Manchester United has made a move that will likely serve as an  example for other teams. Europe’s immigration policies have made it no longer possible to take freedom and safety for granted.

“Man United ‘first’ to appoint counter-terror chief”, The Guardian, January 18, 2017:

Manchester United have appointed a counter-terrorism manager and believe they are the first Premier League club to do so, it emerged on Wednesday.

The English football giants, who suffered two embarrassing security blunders in recent months, appointed an unnamed former member of the Manchester police and made the announcement at a fans’ forum recently.

Old Trafford is now subject to some of the most stringent security measures on match days with spectators searched at the turnstiles and cars also undergoing checks when they want to enter the car park.

It comes after last May’s Premier League match with Bournemouth saw spectators evacuated from Old Trafford when a suspect package was discovered in a toilet.
The package proved to be harmless and had been placed there — and then forgotten about — by a security firm during a training exercise. The match had to be played at a later date.

In another breach two audacious United fans on a tour of Old Trafford last November hid in the loos hoping to be able then to gain access to their game with Arsenal….

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  1. Bill says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 9:17 am

    Actually, the club is more in need of a player that can net about 15 goals a year. Hiring a security person makes sense. Making such a big deal of it is fatuous and counterproductive. Although, I do admire their understanding that they must take matters involving personal security into their own hands, as the government is unwilling or not competent to do it, or both.

    English citizens should be waking up and adopting personal measures designed to take responsibility for their own safety.. Because it is clear their government is absolutely unwilling to do it.

  2. Mirren10 says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 9:23 am

    “An unnamed former of the Manchester police”.

    Let’s hope he/she isn’t a Mohammedan …

  3. Keith Gilbert says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 9:25 am

    Only the ‘soccer thugs’ can save Europe now that the islamic horde is upon them…pick axe handles and guns need to be included in every players gear.

    • Bill says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 9:54 am

      Yikes. That is one tough prescription. Not sure it would work now anyhow. Those guys were bad, stood for nothing, and were destroying the game that they had attached themselves to.

    • LB says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 9:08 am

      FOOTBALL (not soccer) fanatics, if armed, are more likely to run at each other than against islamic hordes, because their zeal comes from the love for their team and hatred for other teams — not hatred for muslims. Outside of the games, they are just regular folks, sticking to the usual PC norms like everyone else. The only difference between football hooligans and regular folks outside of football games is that the former (usually unemployed) procrastinate a lot more than the latter.

      • Keith Gilbert says

        Jan 22, 2017 at 1:04 pm

        It is the ultimate cruelty for US to deny islamics their prayed for destiny…they seek death for their hog shit eating allah…we, all of US, must not continue denying them for the cruelty so displayed can not be forgiven in heaven or on earth.

  4. utis says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    This event should definitely go in the “Top Ten Signs of the End of Western Civilization.”
    Actors and other entertainers always attract human trash to their entourages and claques of enemies, but — soccer teams? The owners should be ashamed to admit they did this. Of course, they should do it, just not draw the attention of the feeble-minded loons who are attracted to terrorism.

  5. Angemon says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 2:56 pm

    Surprised it took so long. I mean, football games must rank high there in the list of targets – thousands of people amassed together to watch the country’s favourite sport.

  6. SuchindranathAiyerS says

    Jan 25, 2017 at 3:04 am

    It has taken a long time since the Munich Olympics for sports to acknowledge the existence of Islam.

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