Fined £260,000 for Villa pitch invasion.

No fine for Utd when their fan behavio(u)r cancelled a match and forced re-scheduling. Cost to the league, the TV networks, Liverpool: all caculable, had to run in the millions of pounds.

Fine for City for fans actually celebrating winning a Championship. Costs: nothing. If anything, it's a visual benefit to the game to see such scenes, played worldwide, creating more excitement and interest.
 
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kaz7 said:
You saw what happened just this week when fans take to the pitch , it is not a risk worth taking and the club get in trouble , people need to grow up and stop doing it and breaking stuff
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Most are kids. Let them have fun I say.

Love it watching them celebrate and getting involved from the 3rd tier

My lad was on the pitch, waved to him as he and his mates took it in.

£200k, fuck it, these moments are priceless
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
No fine for Utd when their fan behavio)ur cancelled a match and forced re-scheduling. Cost to the league, the TV networks, Liverpool: all caculable, had to run in the millions of pounds.

Fine for City for fans actually celebrating winning a Championship. Costs: nothing. If anything, it's a visual benefit to the game to see such scenes, played worldwide, creating more excitement and interest.
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They aren’t the same though.
 
its a Barm said:
I think that's the last time that happens we've had our fun time to behave and not get the club or more importantly the team in trouble
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My first thought is that; it didn’t need to happen and was down to nobs letting their children off the leash and some actual adults suffering from that ‘oooh look at me I’m being naughty’ syndrome.
When the dickheads get giddy, all it ever does is delay general proceedings and tarnish the clubs name.
If it happens again this season then the fine will be bigger and we could even end up with an enforced reduced capacity or other such punishment that those with their heads screwed on will have to suffer due to those who never grew up.

My second thought is; if that fine is appropriate to some childish nob heads doing nothing more than running around on the green stuff like demented tellytubbies, then how come liverpoo didn’t get fined 1000x that amount for their violent nob heads variously smashing up coaches and setting their monument to the slave trade alight etc?
 
asahartford1 said:
The thing is some still don't understand it is wrong, they don't get that the club don't want it, it doesn't look good, it's petty and selfish.
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Yeah. I kinda see both sides of this. Our pitch invasions are almost exclusively celebratory where opposition players aren’t ever targeted, but having had a few players and managers assaulted recently, the powers that be need to show a robust stance for their protection.

What won’t happen is this stopping it happening the next time we win the league on the last day at home.

Who knows what the punishment will be by then!
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
They aren’t the same though.
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I didn't say they were. But I'm not wrong either. One incident cost third parties millions, the other didn't. Why wouldn't you fine the club whose incident cost millions to sponsors and partners?

We have field/court invasions in US sports at the university level pretty regularly, mostly when big upsets happen. So I'm kind of desensitized to it. Sure, it's probably foolish. But a fine of this size? Dumb.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I don’t agree with that. After aguero scored the emotion of the game took over large amounts of people. Running on the pitch was natural.

It’s been kinda a tradition for the last 100 years or so and is ingrained in English football culture. Obviously idiots causing violence or abusing players or are idiots, but I wouldn’t call everyone who runs on the pitch a moron.

The old fella with dementia - I think- that went viral. Ran on the pitch at the end of the game with his son. He definitely wasn’t a moron and was a genuine fan. Just like the thousands that went on against qpr, Wigan, Blackburn, villa.
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you use one instance of a poor guy who has dementia to support the issue! That's low. If he had gone on alone then nothing would have been done. We're not talking about him as you well know - we are discussing those fans who run wild on the pitch, damage the goal posts and have a go at opposition players.

Look, whether is has been a tradition or not (& I disagree with that statement because most fans DON'T invade the pitch - it's just those that feel they have a right to coupled with the fact they sit in the lower tier) it is now illegal and ALL fans have to move forward and embrace the new legislation. Recently, it has become less of an emotional, spontaneous reaction and more of a tribal and - sometimes bordering on - violent (breaking goal posts) situation.

Fans can look back fondly and remember those Agureroo invasions but they have to accept that it is no longer the done thing by sensible fans. I agree that fans in the past were not morons - they were emotionally driven - but now, it is definitely the remit of the morons to do what they believe they have a right to do.

The club will continue to get increasing punishments and - God forbid - maybe points deduction if it continues but even this will probably not sink in with some fans. Accordingly, the club will have to take action and will be criticised by said fans as being 'uncaring of 'the ordinary fan'
 
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