West Ham wants the public to identify hooligans.

[Geraint]

I know loads of people always get banned but how do these bans work?

How do they know if a person is banned e.g. whats stopping the person from going the game?

To be honest, they don't. Just miss a few games then they won't recognise you and you can get in. Some clubs check your cards though so they could see if you're banned or not and you won't be able to buy tickets for yourself but nothing stopping your friend getting it for you, although, if caught, you're friend could get banend aswell(not sure though) If you were to persistently break it, could end up in jail, probably.

[lBlue]

yeah but he was pointing out that he clicked on the thread link cause he saw united, no where to be seen

lol? Click the link, tabs named "West Ham United". Like I said, he saw the word "United" and it clicked that part of his brain...