Screwer was unabashed. "You won't have any once they've got wind of the police marksmen, that's for sure." He gave George the benefit of a smile that wouldn't have looked out of place on an undertaker viewing a multiple motorway pile-up, then carried on. "Where is the Police Operations Centre?"
    "We don't have one."
     Screwer's head was about to shoot back again but, remembering the painful encounter with the wall the last time he affected surprise, he just managed to stop himself in time.
    "I could get you a portakabin, I suppose," George offered. "Or a caravan maybe."
    "A caravan?" Screwer almost shrieked it. "I'm a police officer, not Gipsy fucking Petulengro! Or perhaps you'd like me to start telling fucking fortunes at half time?"
     George tried to pacify the police chief. "They can be quite roomy."
     Screwer fixed George with a baleful glare. He was even more stupid than he looked. "It isn't the room I am concerned about it is the construction. It takes more than a bit of plywood to contain drug-crazed hooligans." Fortunately he had just the thing for contingencies like this. "I'll use one of our mobile armour-plated jobs until you've had time to build something proper out of reinforced concrete." He referred to his list. "I've priced some barbed wire. That razor stuff they use for cattle."
    George didn't really want to ask. "What for?"
    "Round the perimeter fence, of course." Christ he might be the secretary of a football club but he wouldn't last five minutes in the police force. "You haven't got any. Unless some has suddenly rooted and flowered while I've been in here with you finding out all about your non-existent ways of dealing with football hooligans and informing you what you're going to have to do about it, and bloody sharp."
    "We haven't got any hool......." George stopped himself. What was the point?
    "It'll cost you two thousand two hundred pounds," Screwer went on. "If you go through me." He explained. "I can get you a good discount as a long time valued customer. You'll have to erect it though. To my specifications of course."