Police have decided to ban Tel Aviv football fans from a match in Birmingham on the grounds they cannot guarantee anyone's safety. Fleet Street Fox wonders what the point of policing is Once upon a time, every football fan was a mindless hooligan just begging to have his head cracked open with a police baton. Then we grew up. There were tragedies of policing failures like Hillsborough, club neglect and abdication of responsibility. Stadia were rebuilt, training improved, laws tightened. Forty years after the beautiful game was so regularly violent that families stayed away, it is now commonplace again for...