Football clubs ask for help to fund facial recognition technology

[ian1964 10,613]

Michael Gannon: The SPFL want to bring facial recognition in for people they've treated as invisible for years.. THE FANS

 

LATEST ramblings to come out of Hampden makes you wonder if they've replaced the tea and biscuits with some Class A drugs.

 

IT used to be biscuits that were passed around the table when the SPFL chiefs assembled for their occasional get-togethers.

 

Now it looks like it’s Class A drugs doing the rounds.

 

That’s the only explanation for the acid-trip nonsense that tumbled down the Hampden stairs on Tuesday like an out-his-box Leonardo Di Caprio trying to get in to his Lamborghini in Wolf of Wall Street.

 

We wanted to hear justification of their refusal to implement strict liability over fan behaviour.

 

We wanted to find out where we’re at when it comes to reconstruction.

 

We wanted to get an idea of where we are and where we are going.

 

Instead we get facial recognition technology and Welsh and Northern Irish teams in the Challenge Cup.

 

Pass the magic mushrooms.

 

The SPFL are planning to go cap in hand to the Scottish government to ask for up to £4million so they can bring in gadgets that will pick up the punters singing naughty songs and sneaking smoke bombs into grounds.

 

IT used to be biscuits that were passed around the table when the SPFL chiefs assembled for their occasional get-togethers.

 

Now it looks like it’s Class A drugs doing the rounds.

 

That’s the only explanation for the acid-trip nonsense that tumbled down the Hampden stairs on Tuesday like an out-his-box Leonardo Di Caprio trying to get in to his Lamborghini in Wolf of Wall Street.

 

We wanted to hear justification of their refusal to implement strict liability over fan behaviour.

 

We wanted to find out where we’re at when it comes to reconstruction.

 

We wanted to get an idea of where we are and where we are going.

 

Instead we get facial recognition technology and Welsh and Northern Irish teams in the Challenge Cup.

 

Pass the magic mushrooms.

 

The SPFL are planning to go cap in hand to the Scottish government to ask for up to £4million so they can bring in gadgets that will pick up the punters singing naughty songs and sneaking smoke bombs into grounds.

 

They’ll be stuck on some bampot database and alarms will go off when their coupons are clocked by the cameras on the turnstiles.

 

Football grounds will become like passport control at Gatwick.

 

There’s nothing wrong with trying to get to grips with anti-social behaviour, let’s get that straight right way.

 

We need to weed out the slack-jawed, brain-dead element who put kids in danger with their pyro nonsense and pollute the air with vile language and offensive chanting.

 

But to ask the government to throw £4m at it? Behave yourselves.

 

The biggest irony of the lot here is the fact they want facial recognition for people who have been practically invisible for years.

 

The fans.

 

The SPFL want to spy on the very people the have been ignoring for a generation. Supporters have been screaming out for cheaper pricing, better facilities, sensible fixtures and kick-off times and a bigger league.

 

You name it, the fans have demanded it and had nothing back but a rubber ear. Now the league wants to give them all their full attention. Yeah, all of them.

 

They want a fancy new megabucks system that will assume they are all criminals until proven otherwise. Big Brother’s not got a look in when it comes to Scottish football. The vast majority of fans simply want to go to the game to support their teams.

 

It’s a minority of eejits who are causing the problems. They are not hard to spot. They are the ones with the vacant looks in their eyes and the drool running down their chins.

 

We don’t need fancy cameras and futuristic software. We just need the police to do their jobs. Step in and lift the offenders. There’s as many folk at T in the Park as there are at football matches each weekend and the bobbies have no problem strapping the bracelets on any festival fools who are caught up to no good.

 

There were 54 arrests over one weekend at T in the Park last year – a quarter of the number of charges under the controversial Offensive Behaviour at Football Act all season.

 

Of course there are problems with the behaviour of some fans in Scottish football, but the SPFL should be looking after their customers – not criminalising them.

 

We’re in danger of turning away the very people – the thousands of ordinary punters – who prop up the game.

 

They go to the game every week, buy a pie and a programme, cheer on their team and go up the road without trashing the place, win, lose or draw. It’s bonkers to suggest we need four million quid of taxpayers’ poppy to do a job that is already being done by the cops and clubs.

 

Not to mention the fact the Holyrood suits have barely got ten bob up their cuffs for more pressing matters – real stuff like health, education and housing. Maybe even drug problems.

 

Meanwhile our football leaders are doing a grand job of talking our game down just when it seems to be back on the up. They should be showcasing what’s good about our game – not shinning a spotlight on the dark corners.

 

There are some positives out there. While Liverpool v Man Utd sent most folk off for a Sunday nap at the weekend, the recent Scottish games on the telly have been barnstorming.

 

We all know there are problems but tackle the real ones – structure, development, facilities, ticket pricing, even goalline technology – not the lunatic fringe issues.

 

This Challenge Cup corker, with teams from Wales and Northern Ireland coming in, is another

hare-brained fag packet idea that needs to be torched.

 

The Welsh league is a lower standard than the Highland League. There is zero benefit in bringing them in or the Northern Irish.

 

No offence to our Celtic cousins, but the sight of 35-year-old fat midfielders with a slightly different accent is not going to cut it.

 

The Challenge Cup was fine before. It’s been great with the likes of Rangers and Hibs involved but when the dust eventually settles it will go back to being fine.

 

You’d need to be smoking industrial strength dope to think broadcasters and sponsors will be lining up for a slice of Airbus UK against Arbroath.

 

The SPFL need to be aiming high – not sitting at Hampden getting high.

 

Read more at http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/sport/michael-gannon-spfl-want-bring-7214619#P0PDiQy4qHld5UXL.99

[ian1964 10,613]

Surprise surprise. Protests against facial recognition by the group who have most to fear from it

[craig 5,199]

Surprise surprise. Protests against facial recognition by the group who have most to fear from it

 

Can you use facial recognition technology on empty seats ?

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Should it not be "Feacal Recognition" for the shite throwers?

[Bluedell 5,471]

 

Makes me think I should be in favour of it.

[Blue Moon 1,188]

The very thought of facial recognition in football grounds makes me so sad, in the same way the Offensive Behaviour in Football nonsense does. We live in a country where our freedoms are being gradually eroded. There must be a better way to end this than this overreaction.

[Bearman 9]

I think if they introduced facial recognition at the piggery - It would break? Just my opinion, but should be considered.

Edited January 25, 2016 by Bearman

[ranger_syntax 4,013]

The Scottish public have consistently voted for authoritarian governments. Dog bites man.

 

It will be a disgrace if the taxpayer is made to pay for this. If football clubs really want to do it then football clubs can pay for it. Enough money comes in to clubs to pay for it. That the taxpayer should fund this pastime in any way at all is completely idiotic.