KUMB.com
Filed: Tuesday, 9th August 2011
By: Staff Writer
Supporters intending to visit West Ham's Boleyn Ground today are advised to
re-arrange their trip. On the advice of police, the club have now closed the
ground to visitors for the day as a result of escalating problems in and
around Green Street. Having been forced to postpone tonight's planned
Carling Cup tie with Aldershot, the club were forced to comply with police
requests this afternoon following sporadic outbursts of trouble in and
around the ground. At least one pitched battle is understood to have been
fought between Green Street market traders and rioters intent on breaking
into a local jewellers this morning. Trouble has also erupted in other
boroughs close to the ground, whilst shopping centres as far away as Romford
and Basildon have advised their tenants to shut shop early. Police are also
understood to have intercepted a train packed with youths bound for the
Lakeside Shopping Centre at Thurrock this morning.
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