I've had a look.
You can see Woking players shouting at fans in the East.
You can see Mr Follically Challenged charging on to the perimeter presumably as a reaction.
It's unclear whether there's any physical stuff going on between fans and players.
Woking players were initially focused on a punch up with our players. I would say initially there were 3 aggressors. 2 Woking and 1 Southend. Wilkinson was pushed against the barrier and the confrontation between him and the Southend player continued. At this point, a fan tried to grab no 6 Wilkinson and then landed a punch, allbeit not a very good one but still not acceptable. This led to more players and the Woking management team piling in. That's when the abuse towards the fans occurred, namely number 6 who was angry at being punched and used the word c###s, and number 10 who was more so provoking the fans and by far the worst offender, after he was grabbed by another Southend fan. He was then intent on causing trouble and targeting Southend fans. I certainly heard the words "come on" at least twice come from his mouth.
Following that, the number 10 increased the incitement, joined by the goalkeeper. This is clear on Liams video. At no point did any Woking players touch fans. In fact they were quite clever.... they stired up trouble but didn't touch anyone. The manager was very aggressive and saying he wanted the police to arrest the fan.
There was a lot of heat of the moment comments and high tensions. From an experienced martial arts instructor, my observation is that in heat of the moment, players do ruck sometimes but rarely throw punches, even when angry. But the fan who hit the player, never shouted once, was calm and just smiled which wound up the Woking players. He moved away so it didn't look like police got involved despite the Woking request.
The game continued and full time blew up 1 minute later. At this time, Woking players were still wound up and one player was clearly looking for a fan to pick on in the stands, which as it turned out, was towards an elderly gentleman who made the cage comment which I didn't hear, as it was the other side of the dugout. Personally, I believe the Woking player (Daly) wanted to target anyone and picked up on a comment of a fan who felt we had been unjustly treated an made an alledged comment which I am sure had no racist intention. On the young Woking players part, I believe it was just a pure revenge opportunity. If the word 'animal' was used, again its about context towards behaviour not race. I would describe their behaviour more specifically compared to wolves, hunting down individuals to attack in packs. However, only the gentleman arrested (if he was) knows the context of his comments so we can only speculate.
Woking certainly played their part, but so did the officials. After the punch up, it was ridiculous to restart the game for one minute. They were poor all night and totally lost control of the game and players.
It all started when we tried to take a throw that was awarded and a Woking player (Daly) snatched the ball of us. The 4th should have dealt with it but was completely useless all night. The worst 4th I have ever seen in any fixture and time and time again neglected his duties.
If he had dealt with it, there would be no aftermath that occurred.
The league if anything should look at the behaviour of the both teams for failing to control themselves, the Woking players, reminding them of their professional responsibility to avoid fan clashes . 2 perhaps 3 Southend fans in the East, the Woking management team, and the officials, specifically for lack of control and competence throughout the game. And finally, separately, the 4th for continually neglecting his duties.
The league also takes responsibility for appointing an inexperienced ref and 4th in the same game.
One common denominator - James Daly (Woking).
Started the brawl and then stayed looking for fans after his team had gone down the tunnel, claiming a racist comment. Nasty piece of work.