City charged by the FA following the Villa match (22nd May 2022)

[Blue Mist]

Strange timing. Everton were charged almost immediately. The arseholes have waited until the season starts, were top, rags bottom and the dips trying to emulate them.

 

[Whether or not]

Are we guilty of the charge, yes.
Am I bothered, no.
If we are lucky enough to win it again this year, do I want to watch another invasion from my perch in CB3, yes.
Woke bollocks, emotion isn’t a crime.

 

[Paladin]

I know a bunch of people won't like this and will start bringing up entirely different things, but the United game is a totally different set of circumstances. Their ground was broken into, and criminal charges were brought. The club would say they were the victims. Controlling your fans isn't "fans" in the abstract, the club can't be prosecuted if I wear a City shirt and go and rob my neighbour. It's policing and stewarding them as paying customers in the ground itself, which the club does have some control over.

That's a good point, but it's not entirely different from City's situation.

United's ground was broken into and a game ended up being postponed. Surely, United should be charged for failing to control their fans, and for not playing a game on the date specified. It is true that United fans are facing criminal proceedings for their actions.

City fans didn't cause an abandoned or postponed game. They were allegedly responsible for causing criminal damage and for assaulting a Villa player. But the people who did this are being sought by the police and they too will face criminal charges.

It makes no sense that one club should face FA sanctions but the other club should escape FA punishment.

Here is another of the FA's rules, which they apply without consistency.

 

[paulchapo]

Are we guilty of the charge, yes.
Am I bothered, no.
If we are lucky enough to win it again this year, do I want to watch another invasion from my perch in CB3, yes.
Woke bollocks, emotion isn’t a crime.

They are treating a pitch celebration after winning a stressful title race and a final game we were 2-0 down with 15 minutes to go, to a malicious invasion to cause harm or get a game called off. If those couple of idiots hadn't barged into that shitehouse keeper they'd have no ammunition save entering the field of play. Even Villa realised he wasn't attacked after seeing the footage and quickly dropped their assault claim. Sport is all about emotion and spontaneity, take that away and we might as well watch it at home on the sofa.

 

[Bluesince1979]

It would have been if mobile phones were out then. Even so the odd one had a Kodak instamatic or it's equivalent.

But they werent. All these nobs filming themselves … tits

 

[yankblue]

I know we all want to jump to agenda anti-City rhetoric but this seems fair to me

That sort of behavior has to be cut out before it becomes a larger trend

 

[dobingsdobber]

Did the same thing happen after West Ham and QPR title-winning games,seem to remember a few people on the pitch?

 

[Ederson1000YardDrive]

Can we not use the Liverpool party line...

It was all Everton fans?

 

[Shirley]

Did the same thing happen after West Ham and QPR title-winning games,seem to remember a few people on the pitch?

Three strikes and you’re out …

 

[PistonBlue]

Just out of interest, did the rags ever get charged over the dippers game being cancelled?