Pitch invasion

Manchester33 said:
God there’s a load of mood hoovers in this thread.

We have just completed the second greatest final-day-comeback in Premier League history.

Fans are obviously going to run on the pitch and celebrate. I thought the scenes were glorious.
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The problem is that we have some absolute knobs within our fan base, as all clubs do, and the idiots who taunted the away fans, confronted Villa players and wrecked the goals give the whole thing a sour vibe. Its very easy to see how it could get out of hand.

Absolute bell ends spoiling it for others.
 
youngbob said:
Yeah!

Never done it myself (I've sat on the 2nd tier since 2003) but it's a great visual spectacle and captures a lot of the wonderful feelings football can give you. It fills you up with so much emotion that you want to burst, and you can't really express it in any clear, articulate way, so you just run as fast and as far as you can. Like a child. It's a beautiful human reaction to complete chaos. In a crowd of thousands you'll always get a couple of dickheads who want to make it about themselves or want to push the opposition goalkeeper, but 99.9% of the crowd just wanted to sprint into an empty space and shout a bit. No harm in that.

Pitch invasions have been a thing in British sport since the 60s. Possibly before. No idea why this last week has suddenly turned half the country against them.
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Simple really, because players have been twatted, shoved, spat on, goaded, all in a single week, surely you can see that this will only escalate if unchecked.

The club requested fans to stay off the pitch but thousands ignored the request as they have done for years previously, the stakes just got higher this week and it's a habit that will have to be stopped due to a few dicks taking it to new levels.
 
Octavian said:
That’s some almighty stretch to even put those two incidents in the same sentence.
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It may be ... but then some other cowardly cnuts like Abedi bothers, may well see such and see an opportunity. Players and fans in one blow. Wouldn't put it past them.
 
DiscoSteve said:
In the current climate, invading on the pitch is f*cking stupid

You're all going to get the bloody nets, cages, perspex sheets return because you simply can't f*cking behave

And the dickhead who twatted the VIlla keeper deserves the book thrown at him - and should be sh**ting himself after what's happened to the guy he did Billy Sharp a few days ago
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Twatted the villa keeper.
Really?
Strewth.
If i ever get in a fight i hope I'm twatted like that,i might win .
 
youngbob said:
Yeah!

Never done it myself (I've sat on the 2nd tier since 2003) but it's a great visual spectacle and captures a lot of the wonderful feelings football can give you. It fills you up with so much emotion that you want to burst, and you can't really express it in any clear, articulate way, so you just run as fast and as far as you can. Like a child. It's a beautiful human reaction to complete chaos. In a crowd of thousands you'll always get a couple of dickheads who want to make it about themselves or want to push the opposition goalkeeper, but 99.9% of the crowd just wanted to sprint into an empty space and shout a bit. No harm in that.

Pitch invasions have been a thing in British sport since the 60s. Possibly before. No idea why this last week has suddenly turned half the country against them.
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This is a joke, right?
 
Gaudion M said:
The problem is that we have some absolute knobs within our fan base, as all clubs do, and the idiots who taunted the away fans, confronted Villa players and wrecked the goals give the whole thing a sour vibe. Its very easy to see how it could get out of hand.

Absolute bell ends spoiling it for others.
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As if we need to give 'them' more ammunition!
 
It's such a shame I think. 80%, probably more, of people who did that yesterday will be too young to remember all the barriers and fencing at football and have only known it like it is now. Its better now. If they bring them back it will be a step backwards. An alternative is for the authorities to take the first few rows out and put meshing or something in. That will mean less fans can go and prices for everyone else will go up.
 
Lavinda Past said:
I ran on the pitch at Maine Road when we won the 2nd division title in 1966, at Newcastle when we won the league in 1968, and at Maine Road when we won the Cup Winners Cup semi-final in 1970, when I was 15. That's my personal history of 'pitch invasion'.

I never felt the need to climb on the goals or hit or otherwise taunt an opposition player.

Watching thousands of attention seeking idiots yesterday, not least those 'adults' dragging small children around for photos, left me in no doubt that many people in our society simply need to grow up.

The calls for Wembley style barriers at all top level grounds must be near.

Idiots.
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We invaded the pitch at Caernarvon in 1969 for the pre-season friendly with a Welsh XI and City brought the FA Cup round. When I say "we" there were about a dozen of us. I touched the FA Cup...
 
Seeing as 2 arrests have been made can we not assist the investigation by carrying out a witch hunt on the other mindless fuckwits who broke the law?

Surely there are people on here that we can dob in?
 
MCFCTrick said:
It may be ... but then some other cowardly cnuts like Abedi bothers, may well see such and see an opportunity. Players and fans in one blow. Wouldn't put it past them.
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I don’t even know why that’s being brought up in relation to the pitch invasion but they wouldn’t get weapons into the ground with the checks now. Any would-be-terrorists would be best placed to do it at full time just outside the ground.
 
mosssideblue said:
This is a joke, right?
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You always get stuff like this when pitch invasions happen. Players getting pushed over, fans acting like dickheads - there's just been a bigger focus on it this week because so many have happened in a short space of time. It's all getting a bit pearl-clutchy. Pitch invasions have always been, and will continue to be, one of the best sights in football. Don't let a couple of dickheads ruin a great tradition. It's also worth bearing in mind that, for all the concerns about violence from fans, players and managers have been seen on camera committing violent acts towards fans - Oli McBurnie has even been arrested this week. So who's more out of control?
 
willipp said:
It was obvious with whats happened in the last week that our inevitable pitch invasion would create bad press. We didn't exactly cover ourselves in glory though once we started vandalising our own fucking nets. Whoever that was snapping the bar should never step foot in the Etihad again.
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Not to mention the dolts who threw the flares on the pitch when we were trying to win the game!! It could have halted the momentum
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
im defending the pitch invasion. Not assaults or criminal damage.

you’ll be banning thousands of fans/ half of level 1.
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So what?

A short ban would teach them a lesson. Actions have consequences. People can't just do what they want in life.

While I may understand a bit of youthful exuberance, it's been very clear from social media etc that large numbers of fans were planning to go on the pitch for ages.

It's just blatant rule breaking by attention seeking idiots for the sake of it. As I say monkey see, monkey do. They probably have little or no respect for others or authority at any level.
 
As well as being cringy, small time and fucking dangerous, what it has done is detract from our brilliant team, making a brilliant come back. I have friends in Germany, France, USA, South America and Poland. Guess what most media is showing….. yep, a bunch of fucking idiots, smashing goal posts up and a little girl having photographs taken. As well as the alleged assault on a player. in some countries they have rolled the Forrest incident in with us. Who in their right fucking mind thinks our players and club deserve that after the effort and energy they have put in? Sometimes I fucking despair. The social media, look at me, I can do anything and fuck everyone else culture is sickening. That’s without giving every UK media outlet a way to diminish our achievement. Some of those same pricks that were on the pitch and causing mayhem will be on threads whinging about how we are portrayed. It’s like self harming and blaming someone else…..
 
paulchapo said:
Ahh probably why you don't like them as you're too high up to get down there.

You asked, I answered That's how it makes me feel. It's called emotion. Actually I did none of that if you reread my post. If you're talking generally then yes the first few on would do so. After that and by the time I went on I walked calmly onto the pitch, through a gate past the stewards. I then did my bit of letting out emotion, breathing in the fresh air and yes smelling the grass, funny you kind of forget watching the game from the stands about the grass until you're stood on it and smell it.

Nothing small time about it, it's called emotion and celebration, too many killjoys in the world and people trying to suck every bit of joy out of life. They won't me, I'm going to do the Poznan, dance on the pitch and smell the grass.
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Really glad you were fulfilled doing those things, enjoy the parade later.
 
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