Mine and Lynn's pre-match rituals take us to very different areas of the City during match days.

While Lynn is dispatched down to the ground early to take photos, find out if anything interesting is happening and generally do some work (and usually get some tickets for the next away match), I'm forced to go down the pub with the lads.

Now this isn't the pleasure that you may think it is seeing as I'm one of those strange folk who doesn't drink alcohol meaning that my time in the pub is spent drinking Diet Coke and talking alot. This obviously means that I'm of perfectly clear head (well as clear as my head gets) for the whole day meaning that I seemed to notice the heavy handedness of the police more than most on Saturday.

Now maybe it was just me but I'm almost sure that I've never seen so many police officers in town at the same time in my life. They made regular visits to the Last Plantaginet (the preferred cheap drinking venue of die hard City fans and the women in there ain't too bad neither ;-0) which was all fair and well, made me feel very safe.

There was plenty of them traipsing the street. A couple even engaged us in gentle banter. It was all very nice and pleasant until they decided that they weren't doing enough to earn their pay and proceeded to stop and search anyone who looked like they may be going to the football.

It probably had something to do with the recent NCIS Football Criminal reports that said violence had moved away from stadiums and into town centres that caused the increase of the police. But am I the only one who thinks that they should be there to make you feel safe and not to make you feel uncomfortable?

Now I'm sure that stop and search is very useful in some situations. Just not to stop and antagonism someone for the sake of it such as what was happening on Saturday.

The same continued as we were basically escorted from the Plantaginet all the way to the Courthouse on New Walk. Fair enough you might say, a group of lads could be out to cause trouble. That is until you relise that there was 6 of us, looking about as dangerous as a wet paper bag. We were even watched by 8 police officers while we drank.

Thankfully they obviously realised that they weren't following the ring leaders some kind of massively active football hooligan unit and decided to leave us alone as we walked to the ground.

On arrival at Filbert Street it looked like the mass police presence was continued inside the ground along with ShoSec not very secure-ity.

After a dire game and from what I could tell, no trouble inside the ground, the police moved outside where they had half of the Leicstershire constabulary along with selected members from Manchester's fine force obviously on an away day to watch their team beat the shite out of us on the pitch.

Again stop and search was used to laughable proportions as Leicesters fine police force decided to release the hounds upon Muz's Bar. The crime, as far as I could see? Too many people in one place. The police don't like that.

I'd had enough by then so decided to go straight home but I would be interested to find out how many people were actually arrested. Although I'm sure that the police will argue that the reason there was no trouble is because of their presence.

Now I'm not anti police. I don't want a return to the old days when you were scared to walk down the street on match days. But I was always taught that the police were there to make you feel safe, not uncomfortable, which is what happened to me this weekend.

I also believe that Stop and Search powers are now being used by the police to basically take the piss with many fans being arrested for nothing more than being loud.

Needless to say that I'll be very interested in what the police presence is like at the next home match.

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