Cowardly Cover Up

Russell Yorkshire

January 9, 2026

It was a football match that triggered it. But was that the real threat?

Let’s talk about the actual threat we’re facing, because this wasn’t an isolated wobble — it was a flashing red warning light.

The threat isn’t football fans. It isn’t away supporters. It isn’t people lawfully attending a match.

The threat is organised intimidation, backed by the growing assumption that if you scream loudly enough, threaten violence aggressively enough, the British state will step aside and accommodate you.

That is how authority collapses.

West Midlands Police knew extremists were planning violence. That should have triggered arrests, surveillance, visible deterrence — policing. Instead, they chose the path of least resistance: remove the people being threatened and call it “safety”.

That decision alone is cowardly.

What comes next is dangerous.

Because once the ban was made, the evidence suddenly had to fit the decision. Intelligence was stretched, repackaged, contradicted by foreign police, and still pushed forward as justification. That’s not a mistake — that’s a mindset. And if a force is willing to manipulate or selectively present evidence to protect itself here, then the obvious question follows:

How many times has this been done to innocent people with less publicity, less support, and no MPs watching?

That’s the real scandal.

This isn’t about one match or one community. It’s about whether evidence in this country is something to be discovered or manufactured when leadership gets nervous. Once police cross that line, they’re no longer enforcing the law — they’re managing optics.

And let’s be very clear about accountability.

The Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, Craig Guildford, doesn’t get to quietly “do the decent thing” and resign. Resignation preserves reputation, pension, and plausible deniability.

That is not accountability.

This requires a public sacking, with reasons stated clearly: failure of judgment, failure of leadership, and failure to uphold policing without fear or favour. Not as revenge — but as a warning.

A warning to extremists that mob rule will not be rewarded.

A warning to police leadership that cowardly cover-ups will not be cushioned.

And a warning to everyone who sits uncomfortably between enforcing the law and appeasing those who threaten it.

Because if the message now is “threaten violence and the state will bend”, then we are training the next generation of radicals how to win.

The UK cannot afford that.

And the public should not tolerate it.

© Russell Yorkshire 2026

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