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Football league table of shame reveals more troublesome fans

Xinhua, March 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

It's a league table no club in English football wants to read: a list of shame detailing the worst troublemakers published by British Transport Police (BTP), revealing more than 1,000 incidents over two seasons.

Topping the Premier League shame list is Manchester United (MUFC), whose football fans sparked more trouble on trains than any other top-flight club. Over the past two seasons, MUFC fans were involved in 37 incidents. Their close neighbors, Manchester City came second with fans causing trouble on 30 occasions over the same period.

Sunderland, with 28 incidents, took third spot. But the worst troublemakers were in the second-flight Championship League. Fans from Leeds crowned the national list, involved in 77 incidents over two seasons, with Sunderland coming next in the championship with 40 incidents.

BTP said the most serious cases were four people wounded and four attacks causing grievous bodily harm to victims as fans made their way by train to and from matches involving their clubs.

BTP commented that only "a small minority (of fans) engage in violence."

The rest of the clubs in the Premier League who caused trouble for the BTP were: Newcastle United, 27, Aston Villa and Chelsea, both 24, Stoke, 21, Everton, 19 and London clubs Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, both 18.

During the two seasons, police attended to 1,027 incidents involving football fans on trains and at railway stations.

The figures were released by BTP to a national tabloid newspaper in response to a Freedom of Information request. Endi