Pitch Invasion?

[johnnytapia]

The club asks people to stay off the pitch. What makes anyone so important so as to defy this polite request?

The police ask everyone to drive at70mph on the motorway.

 

[johnnytapia]

10 minutes? The pitch wasn't cleared of fans until about 6-15 and it took another 20 minutes to erect the presentation stage.

It was certainly the longest erection I’ve ever experienced.

 

[Superace]

Loved the pitch invasion, didn't go on myself but did last year. It was harmless fun and cleared quickly. I don't think the club are arsed by it, they have to been seen to be warning fans but they know it's harmless fun .

 

[gocity]

The club has to do that.

In reality they know like we know the fans are still going to invade the pitch, that’s why the club plans it out. GMP in front of the away fans. Stewards forming a security cordon in front of the players tunnel.

none of which stopped invaders going on the playing surface when the game hadn't finished. Do not think the league will look kindly to that

 

[daveyboybluemoon]

Have just been trying to remember all the pitch invasions in my life time (Born 83, first match 88), I'm sure there was many before this (Newcastle away 68, Old Trafford 74 after Laws goal but that might have been them?) but 40 years plus seems a good chunk of time

1985 v Charlton Promotion (during the game after the first couple of goals and after the match)
1989 v Bradford Promotion (Away)
1993 v Spurs (I assume we just wanted to celebrate that Terry Phelan goal!)
1999 v Wigan Play Off Semi
2000 v Birmingham last home game of the season, nearly up (went too soon on this one)
2000 v Blackburn Promotion (Away)
2012 v QPR Aguerooooooooo
2014 v West Ham - Champions on last day
2018 v Swansea - 1st game after we'd been crowned Champions
2022 v Villa - Champions on last day
2023 v Chelsea - 1st game after being crowned Champions/last home game
2024 v West Ham - Champions on last day

Any more to add? Was there one v Chelsea last game of the 2000/2001 Season when we got relegated that stopped the match early, possible because of fighting?

 

[shevtheblue]

Loved the pitch invasion, didn't go on myself but did last year. It was harmless fun and cleared quickly. I don't think the club are arsed by it, they have to been seen to be warning fans but they know it's harmless fun .

After the game is done, yeah maybe. The nobs that ran on while the game was still going on are fuckwits. Personally i think it would have been better to see the players getting a chance to have a moment with each other on the pitch, after they have achieved another huge feat. Imagine all the emotions, all the things that have happened throughout the season and you can just let it go in that one moment with the guys that have been by your side through it all? It's not the same having to fucking cane it off the pitch and do it in the dressing room imo. I can understand when we did it the first time, or even against Villa because that was an insane moment in the stadium. But this was done, let them enjoy.

 

[Alfie Budd]

Have just been trying to remember all the pitch invasions in my life time (Born 83, first match 88), I'm sure there was many before this (Newcastle away 68, Old Trafford 74 after Laws goal but that might have been them?) but 40 years plus seems a good chunk of time

1985 v Charlton Promotion (during the game after the first couple of goals and after the match)
1989 v Bradford Promotion (Away)
1993 v Spurs (I assume we just wanted to celebrate that Terry Phelan goal!)
1999 v Wigan Play Off Semi
2000 v Birmingham last home game of the season, nearly up (went too soon on this one)
2000 v Blackburn Promotion (Away)
2012 v QPR Aguerooooooooo
2014 v West Ham - Champions on last day
2018 v Swansea - 1st game after we'd been crowned Champions
2022 v Villa - Champions on last day
2023 v Chelsea - 1st game after being crowned Champions/last home game
2024 v West Ham - Champions on last day

Any more to add? Was there one v Chelsea last game of the 2000/2001 Season when we got relegated that stopped the match early, possible because of fighting?

Not that memorable due to the relatively low attendance but there was an invasion following our penalty shootout win over Sunderland in the Northern semi-final of the Full Members Cup in 1985-86. From memory, Paul Power scored the winning pen.
We were easily excited in those days!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

The few dickheads encroaching before the end of the game need a ban.

I'm up in SS3 and quite a few 'left early' I assume to try and get back in to level 1.

As for the invasion itself, no damage was done, I took a few piccies of fans on the pitch, went for a slash & a vape then back to my spot, 10 mins or so, it was all good.

 

[Maybeinanothergeneration]

This has been a fun read. I guarantee 99% of the people complaining don't sit in level 1 ;)

Just to call out a few myths, this crap about the players didn't get to celebrate and have to head straight down the tunnel. I guarantee there wouldn't be much more than a few cheers before they headed down the tunnel anyway. The stage would be getting set up so they are probably instructed to get straight off. That being said why do blues begrudge other blues that chance to do something a bit different and enjoy the moment. I agree nobody should enter the field when the game is still playing and that was down to poor stewarding but the cub absolutely love the pitch invasion. They send the club photographers on the pitch to capture it and because of all the crap of having no fans and no passion, I believe the club enjoy it as long as it is carried out safely. They have to be seen to trying to stop it with the announcements but if they genuinely didn't want it to happen then they would do a lot more to stop it. Look at Wembley and how they combat this issue, very easily done.

It delays the trophy lift - and? For those sat in south level 1 or certainly lower down it's a complete circus anyway. The hundreds and hundreds of media there blocking the view of the fans was a farce yesterday. I don't pay for a season ticket to have to watch the screen when they lift it. At least with the invasion them fans who were blocked from watching our team lift the cup got to have a bit of their own fun.

I have read people calling it selfish? Were you selfish at Blackburn? Were you selfish at home to Birmingham? No, it was fun for the fans, is it not selfish that you want proceedings hurried up because you are too posh to sit on the first tier? It is in our identity to celebrate on the pitch, it's been claimed we don't are and are bored of winning. Not a chance. You can equally not like the invasion and think it is smalltime or whatever you want. Calling for bans and blues to be punched in the face suggest you are more of a problem than anything else though.

100% hit the nail on the head, probably going to annoy the boring pitch invading police on ere tho.

 

[RayCTID]

Damage isn't the issue it is more to the club warning supporters before hand.