'Clubs should pay for fan policing'

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Alan Pacey said clubs should contribute towards the costs of policing transport links near grounds.

Fans who cause trouble on public transport should be banned by their club or have their season ticket withdrawn, he said.

Such sanctions would send "a really good message to the rest of the football fans that are thinking of potentially behaving this way", he told the BBC.

He said other passengers, including law-abiding fans, did not have an escape route from anti-social behaviour on public transport.

"If they see this sort of behaviour in the town centre, they can at least walk in the other direction and get some help. On a train they are stuck until they get to the next station," he said.

"A number of football clubs who at the moment fully accept what goes on in their stadia - and they're dealing with it really well - they won't accept what's happening in the local town centres and transport systems which involve their own football supporters."