Are You Trying To Mug Me Off in Front of my Pals??!!

So it’s been a little while since we’ve covered good old fashioned football hooliganism, mainly because there has been a real lack of decent action in the press of late. However, do not fear that as a country we are softening, rather instead that the media big-wigs just have more pressing crusades at the moment. Everyone that had ever even heard of Baby P before he died should be considered public property and available for mass lynching and general torture by the way; in fact, why don’t we all just meet up with burning stakes this Saturday and go door-to-door in Haringey? Anyway, according to figures announced today by the Home Office, there were an impressive 3,842 arrests made for football-related violence at domestic and international matches last season in England and Wales. For all you mathematics heads out there, that’s 1.21 arrests per game. Sometimes my heart just swells with national pride.

More importantly though, the figures also revealed how many court orders were dished out to individual club’s fans, and I bet you won’t be able to guess the top three. Ok, being facetious doesn’t really work over the internet, so here are the bronze, silver and gold medal winners:

1. Leeds United (152 orders)

2. Cardiff City (136 orders)

3. Millwall (117 orders)

Bad news for some of the other established firms from back in the day that clearly have work to do. We’re looking for a big push in 2009 from the Birmingham Zulus, the Chelsea headhunters, the Stoke Naughty Forty, the Portsmouth 6.57 Crew and the West Ham Inner City Firm. Step your game up boys, you slipping.

Thanks to The Spoiler for the heads up and the ace Cardiff picture.