A Premier League football club in London has issued security staff with iPhone and iPads in a high-tech clampdown on troublemakers.
Fulham FC has also installed 63 HD cameras.
The Apple devices allow staff to remotely control the cameras, which can be moved by swiping the screens and even pinching to zoom in.
Images of troublemakers can be instantly sent to police and the club's own crowd-control team.
The club says face-recognition technology could also be introduced to alert security staff to known hooligans.
"Incidents that happened were taking days to recover. We can now do that within seconds," said Nicolas Pendlebury, Fulham FC's head of IT projects.
"Say there are five fans in the away end breaking seats, we would bookmark the image in the application, email those photos to one of our response team and say 'please eject these people'.
"They can't argue it is not them. It stands up in court if we need to take it there."(Via: BBC)
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