When your local team is sure to get hammered by the more professional invaders from Scotland, what better way to seek revenge than to keep tally of the number of their "fans" you have ejected from the ground.
But of course this was a massive misunderstanding, they weren't spiteful tweets at all, nor humourous tweets, just run of the mill info for a special event.
Thursday, 14 July 2011 14:20
Victoria Police regularly sends tweets in relation to major events including sporting events and significant police operations. Given the significance of last night's soccer match the Media Unit made the decision to send out specific tweets in relation the event.
A number of the tweets included information on the evictions from the ground. This is no different from information provided at other sporting events including the Ashes where we gave information on the number of people who were removed from the MCG. At the time we received no feedback that people were unhappy with information being provided about evictions or other crowd behaviour.
Victoria Police doesn't regularly tweet from AFL or A-League round matches as they are regular, ongoing events. We have tweeted from the cricket, Australian Open and AFL finals to name just a few of the major sporting events.
We also regularly tweet information and figures such as arrests or the number of drink drivers detected from major police operations such as Operation Unite and Operation Aegis.
If people misunderstood our intent then that is regrettable. We certainly did not want to antagonise soccer fans who were generally well behaved at last night's game.
This was never about soccer and again, we tweet from any number of high profile events and operations. It’s a about getting a safety message out.
H/T MarkGeary
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