Pitch invasion

[bobbyowenquiff]

Read the law on assault. There was an assault on the Villa keeper, and possibly on a steward. A criminal offence was committed by at least two people.

It's nothing to do with the media 'twisting the narrative', it's about unpleasant thugs carrying out a cowardly attack on an innocent person.

The video shows two potential offences. One is a fan gesticulating at the keeper. It looks more like a wave than a slap. The second incident looks like an accidental collision. I am not condoning it but the evidence so far doesn't show an assault and I think it is being overblown by media. It is nowhere near the scale of the Billy Gilbert attack or the Veirira incident. They are making a bigger fuss of it than they did of the riot at Old Trafford where the police were attacked and the Liverpool match was abandoned. I have not heard of a single arrest for that incident.

 

[nw42]

Personally I don’t have a problem with the media calling this out and making it a bigger issue than we may or may not believe if it raises the issue so that sanctions rules can be set in the future and clubs know where they stand.

True but the clubs already know where they stand, the burning question is how do they stop it, it's not the fault of the clubs, it's down to the fucking idiots who do it regardless of the warnings, in our case "because we're City, we've always done it".
I don't see a way of the clubs stopping it, it's down to the fans to realise the damage they will be doing to their club if they insist on doing it, even then there will still be some who refuse to conform. Times are so different now and it just can't continue.

 

[avoidconfusion]

There are always some bellends who have to taint it

 

[stan bowles]

The video shows two potential offences. One is a fan gesticulating at the keeper. It looks more like a wave than a slap. The second incident looks like an accidental collision. I am not condoning it but the evidence so far doesn't show an assault and I think it is being overblown by media. It is nowhere near the scale of the Billy Gilbert attack or the Veirira incident. They are making a bigger fuss of it than they did of the riot at Old Trafford where the police were attacked and the Liverpool match was abandoned. I have not heard of a single arrest for that incident.

City have said they will issue bans if they can identify the perpetrators. They obviously take the incidents a lot more seriously than some on here.

 

[Roachy]

True but the clubs already know where they stand, the burning question is how do they stop it, it's not the fault of the clubs, it's down to the fucking idiots who do it regardless of the warnings, in our case "because we're City, we've always done it".
I don't see a way of the clubs stopping it, it's down to the fans to realise the damage they will be doing to their club if they insist on doing it, even then there will still be some who refuse to conform. Times are so different now and it just can't continue.

Agree, and I don't know why people are finding this so hard to understand. Grown adults using the excuse of "the emotion of the occasion" to charge about like a fucking dipstick. The club don't want it, enough said.

 

[Vic]

I vaguely remember the match at Bangor City a few years later which I think also involved a small pitch invasion. I was on holiday in North Wales at the time.

Very niche, this. Does attending two friendlies in Wales beat Swindon at home and York away?

 

[Eccles Blue]

I’m pretty sure you was safe

I wasn’t last time!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

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.

How do they keep fans off at Wembley? I’ve never been on the lower tier. I can see something coming in because they won’t tolerate this much longer.

 

[Shirley]

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...

 

[stan bowles]

Topic of pitch invasions is being discussed on Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 atm.

 

[paulchapo]

How do they keep fans off at Wembley? I’ve never been on the lower tier. I can see something coming in because they won’t tolerate this much longer.

They have those barrier things that are very hard to get over. A couple have managed it but very few.

 

[Fordyboy46]

We were ways lined up to be the worst of the worst yesterday with our invasion, and it's playing out to be just that. Didn't look that bad with the alleged ' assault' on Olsen, seemed more like a pat on the head to me and some mimicking in his face which is ridiculous.
No doubt the prem league will come down hard on City, but probably not Everton, we'll see

 

[Centurions]

The video shows two potential offences. One is a fan gesticulating at the keeper. It looks more like a wave than a slap. The second incident looks like an accidental collision. I am not condoning it but the evidence so far doesn't show an assault and I think it is being overblown by media. It is nowhere near the scale of the Billy Gilbert attack or the Veirira incident. They are making a bigger fuss of it than they did of the riot at Old Trafford where the police were attacked and the Liverpool match was abandoned. I have not heard of a single arrest for that incident.

He slapped or punched him on the back of the head (and from behind like a coward), the 2nd one was a deliberate attempt to knock him over (from behind again), there's no defending morons like that. The 3rd one was the only one that may have some doubt over motivation as the video doesn't show his approach.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Slippy G complaining about the "assault" on his keeper. Not condoning it but it wasn't anything like as bad as when he punched that DJ for not playing Phil Collins was it?

 

[Fordyboy46]

Fair point, the police may have arrested a dipper and a rag from yesterday.

One from Knowsley and one from Salford hmmmmm

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Plenty of people in the bottom tier choose not to invade the pitch.

Most in tiers 2 and 3 too…

 

[OB1]

It's a real pain people invading the pitch. I know we are all euphoric but it would be good to see the players celebrating on the pitch at the final whistle rather than a bunch of selfish supporters.

The wait for the trophy lift is a interminable as it is and pitch invasions just prolong it. It's also dangerous and yesterday created totally unaccpetable headlines; although, TBF, it didn't look like an assault on their keeper. However, it is totally unacceptable to go anywhere near the opposing players not even to royally piss off Slippy G.

 

[inbetween]

I don't see a massive problem with the pitch invasion as the team won the league in the last 10 minutes and celebrating it like that would happen anywhere. I ran on with my dad when we beat Wigan at Maine Road to get to the Div 2 playoff final, you just want to be part of it and you can't really blame anyone for that.

The people attacking players or vandalising the goals are obviously a different story and should be banned/charged and they will be. Unfortunately had a minority not behaved like twats then we wouldn't be talking about it.

 

[unicorn]

I was more angry with those flares after the goals that stopped us restarting quickly.

 

[Tb1981]

To be fair the clubs security team ran to each player and brought them off
A few idiots granted, but the club did a good job there