Town fans attending the East Anglian derby against Norwich City at Carrow Road on Sunday 10th February will be subject to a list of strict sales conditions outlined to them when they receive their tickets.

Those tickets, costing £40 for adults, which are sold one per customer number via the usual priority scheme, must be used by the supporter associated with that customer number, which is printed on the ticket along with their name.

Fans aged over 16 must take photographic ID to the match, to be shown to officials on request along with their ticket, which supporters are told they must keep on their person at all times, or risk ejection.

As has been the case in recent years, the match, which is being shown live on Sky Sports, kicks off at 12 noon but fans have been told to ensure they arrive “no later than 11.30am as the extensive safety checks will take time”.

While East Anglian derbies have been heavily policed and stewarded for some years, the conditions ahead of February’s game represent an escalation.

On Friday, five men are due to appear at Norwich Magistrates' Court, charged with offences relating to damage caused to the away end at last season’s Carrow Road derby where electrical cables and guttering were pulled down.

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cat added 15:25 - Jan 16 Maybe we should call blueboy ‘SIR' (lol) Is that the same blueboy who keeps calling SWN out to sort out their grievances face to face, Errrr!! what a hypocrite 😂
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Northstandveteran added 15:49 - Jan 16 Pulling down rainwater pipes?! Hearing that Ipswich fans behaved like that is just 'guttering'
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blueboy1981 added 16:34 - Jan 16 ........ Errrr!! - cat - I would much prefer to be called a hypocrite, than condoning irresponsible, bad behaviour from 'so called' ITFC Supporters. Which you, in not so many words, are prepared to condone - shame on you. If the cap were to fit you, in person - WEAR IT.
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blueboy1981 added 17:03 - Jan 16 ...... cat - in addition to the previous, it may be of interest to you, and others (or should be) - that ANY damage done in the away sections of Football Stadia is chargeable to the away Club ........... !!! Still call yourselves FANS ..... ???
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cat added 17:14 - Jan 16 Blueboy - when are you gonna get off with all that pony you spout about ‘true supporters' bollox, it's becoming as tiresome as your multiple & repeatative posting (yawn) Biggest lout at Carrow Rd last year was McCarthy!
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blueboy1981 added 18:12 - Jan 16 ......... cat - continuously showing your 'true' colours ........ !!! I see you have no answer to my previous post about idiots doing damage, and OUR Club having to pay for it. Nothing more tiresome, than a pretender who can be seen through......... more to the point. Like I've told your mate - don't read my posts. I'd prefer certain 'so called Supporters' didn't.
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stuyarmouthblue added 18:24 - Jan 16 I've seen enough bad behaviour from our fans to know this is not unreasonable. We now are 'one of those teams'.
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Swn98 added 19:20 - Jan 16 You don't have to go to Carrow Rd to see idiots there's quite a few at Portman Rd when they do ticket promotions shame realy I expect they are decent people outside of football they must leave their brains and common sense at the turnstiles.
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Swn98 added 19:24 - Jan 16 Shouldn't think they will Royal Ascot but then I shouldn't think the fans will be goading Lambert for 90 mins.
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Swn98 added 19:27 - Jan 16 Bluebore it's hard not to read your posts there's so many of them.
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blueboy1981 added 20:07 - Jan 16 Swn98 .......... stating facts, and being truthful is less of a crime than irresponsible behaviour, and causing wilful damage, which the Club has to pay for - in my book. Apologies to no one, including you, for being totally against embarrassing our Club - which some feel compelled to do.
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blueboy1981 added 22:04 - Jan 16 ......... I rest my case - How the hell can any decent ITFC Supporter disagree with my last post ? Should tell us much about people, it does me.... !!
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Swn98 added 22:58 - Jan 16 Exactly i saw loutish and boorish behaviour at Portman rd on saturday its always the same Derby games and Ticket promotions.
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BlueBlood90 added 10:35 - Jan 17 So frustrating how we're treated there compared to how they're treated here. We open pubs at 6am for them to come and enjoy themselves, yet we don't even have one pub to go to and have to be treated like a terrorist.
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woodster added 11:47 - Jan 17 some of the behaviour our our "fans" at away games has been disgraceful - even in front of kids sitting nearby...
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bugledog123 added 14:46 - Jan 17 I went a couple of years ago by train - treated appallingly by the police (mounted and on foot) and generally a very bad experience as a fan. I gather the police all get double over time so they like to 'escalate' the situation into something it's not.
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Westy added 17:00 - Jan 17 As far as I am concerned both Norfolk and Suffolk Police have spoiled this fixture for the last few years. They have and continue to use a pile driver to crack a peanut. Any trouble is minimal compared with what went on in the seventies and eighties. With such restrictions there is no need to insist on a twelve o'clock kick-off if they know who everyone is. If it has to be twelve o'clock play it on a Saturday when the trains run earlier or if on a Sunday at one o'clock when only a Sunday service is available.

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