Women forced to lift up tops before entering football ground.

and most underpants are not underwired

but zips are...you know, those metal things in trousers that equally could set off any metal detectors.

I like that man thinks multiple women's "stories" count as one side.

Let's give equal time to the club who have quite a bit to lose with this in the news.

Well I believe ALL of them

Yes, I'm sure my 75-year-old mother-in-law will be delighted to lift up her top before taking her grand sons to a football match. Or a golf tournament. Or Wimbledon.

Is it inappropriate to ask a woman to lift her top in public? Yes

Were they targeting just women? No but an underwire bra will set off metal dectors and most underpants are not underwired

Do we just have one side of the story? Yes, I would wait till the club replies in full before criticising. For all we know the woman could've been asked to move to a descrete location but refused to do so. Just as equally it could've been an abuse of position.

I've just seen copper on another thread. It seems they like to be goady controversial.

I'm always surprised by the lack of empathy on threads like these. Posters saying 'well I don't mind lifting up my top/showing my bra, so it's no big deal.' If you personally don't mind, good for you, but that's not a good enough reason to say that authorities should be able to insist on it. For plenty of women it's an invasion of privacy and dignity, and these things matter.

many many many violent crimes are carried out by women and children every day in Europe

not just many, but many many many? wow, thats loads. lets just lock all women and children up just in case.

If you are interested, all the checks were done by women, and part of the complaint is that female stewards were also checking

in front of men

many many violent crimes are carried out by women and children every day in Europe

Are you on glue?

Is that right DJBaggySmalls?

Quicker, too, I imagine. As they could sniff down the line of people queueing.

Not one of the recent attacks in Europe have been carried out by a woman, let along by a child and many many many violent crimes are carried out by women and children every day in Europe

Detection dogs are more efficient than strip searches.

I can't see how any of the recent terror incidents could have been stopped by searching under women's tops

Children used in suicide atttacks are victims not perpetrators (and an adult is often holding the detonator).

If you are interested, all the checks were done by women, and part of the complaint is that female stewards were also checking men.

The club has said there was a raised security level

Good lord. We don't expect women to expose themselves when they go into shops, railway stations, theatres.

Tons of women have underwires.

It's simply not feasible.

that is a stupid thing to say, many women and children have carried out terrorist attacks, mostly I would think they have been forced or tricked, by men

Not one of the recent attacks in Europe have been carried out by a woman, let along by a child.

Are you able to pull a screen out from behind your ear or something? Is it a magic trick? it would be very quick and simple to set up, did anyone even ask for it?

Dh takes our teen Dds to football
matches at much bigger stadiums. If they were subjected to this they wouldn't be going. Absolutely humiliating and unnecessary.

I get stopped every single time I fly.

Me too, but it is the metal in my elbow that triggers it.

I'd rather be searched than blown up but only behind a screen, they cannot expect you to take you top off or lift it up in front of other people.
i caused a row at the airport when I refused to take my cardigan off, I am not thin and was wearing a very skimpy vest top underneath and I refused to take it off in front of all the other passengers and expose everything. We had a right set to and I insisted it was done in private.
I'm 55 for Gods sake, I'm not taking clothes off in public.
Would they ask a muslim woman to do that, I think not.

Are you able to pull a screen out from behind your ear or something? Is it a magic trick?

I'd suggest you consider your "privilege" if you honestly can't imagine why someone women aren't comfortable with being strip searched in front of men

then they can get woman and a screen, can't they! job done!

what a huge storm in tea cup

It's only bras and breasts.

It is if you feel comfortable that way. But as from another thread running many women aren't comfortable being topless. And that's at a beach, I think most women wouldn't feel comfortable being topless in front of an audience of mostly men, many of whom will be drunk and in an environment that is prone to violence