from a derby fan forwarding another email
Firstly congratulations on reaching the Premiership and hope you had a great day yesterday.
Sadly there was an incident involving Villa fans that spoilt the whole day for quite A few Rams fans before the coach they were on even reached Wembley.
Severe damage was caused to a Big Green Coach company bus and traumatising several people including a young girl when the window they were sitting next to was smashed by an object thrown from Villa Supporters.
Hopefully like myself and all right minded football fans, you find this totally out of order and Would seek to find the purpotraitors. With that in mind, could I ask you to post the email I received from the coach company this morning on your message board. Don't know what reaction it would get but as I said most right minded people would not want their football club tarnished after such a great win by these minority idiots.
Here's the email.
Hello there,
I am writing to you as I am aware that one of our coaches going to Wembley Stadium was attacked yesterday by a small group of Aston Villa fans close to Wembley Stadium.
I have seen a video taken from a Derby fan who was onboard the coach, and whilst considerable damage was caused to the coach, the most troubling aspect of the situation was how upset everyone onboard understandably was. As a father of two young girls (both coincidentally Rams fans) it is personally very upsetting to hear a child crying due to the window they were sat next to being smashed by a flying object thrown from a crowd.
We had a large number of coaches departing Derby that day and I am writing to you as we need to track down the people who were onboard the coach which was attacked. Where you on that coach? If so, please send me your order ID. We need to contact everyone onboard to make sure they are ok and if any additional detail can be provided.
From this, we will be contacting Wembley Stadium to request that for future games, they advise a safe route for supporters coaches to stop anything like this being repeated. The route taken was a public road which was a logical route to take for the Derby County supporter coach parking.
We are truly sorry that the people on this coach had such an experienced.
It is important to point out that the actions of a small number of idiotic Aston Villa does not reflect on the majority of the Aston Villa fans who were there to enjoy the match.
Yours sincerely,
Danny Newby
Director
Big Green Coach
Big Green Coach, The Arch, 48-52 Floodgate Street, Birmingham, B5 5SL
http://www.biggreencoach.co.uk
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