Pitch invasions

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Haven’t got a fucking clue what this post means..

Had no idea my post was going to be that complicated. Simply put, there are worse things than running to the pitch to celebrate your team's success. Just last week we saw AZ fans assault fans of English team and yesterday we had the Vini incident.

 

[Gray]

Rather than buffoons poncing on the pitch, I saw ‘City fans‘ enjoying another PL title. It was always going to take an age to get Sky‘s cameras in place and get the production going for those at home.

All I now see is Blue on Blue anger which I cannot understand. It was a wonderful afternoon where Blues were encouraged to enjoy the party atmosphere, which they did, and as there was no incidents then all the better.

At least it’s not a big story in the media, probably because we weren’t fighting with United or Liverpool, because if we were then there would’ve been slapped-arse uproar from the miserable twats.

Come on mate, most were self indulgent twats taking selfie's and TikTok videos, loads of them were not lifetime fans like myself just day trippers. Also they had been requested not to come onto the pitch so they ignored what the club had requested.

Ignored = ignorant.

 

[Coatigan]

Love pitch invasions me. (No wasn’t there meself today)

Good, I love seeing a good one too.

People are defending pitch invasions in general (and a few weirdos using it as another battle line in their obsession for a culture war).

My issue is the one yeaterday, which could and should have been avoided. Sure, no real harm was done, other than reputational damage and club losing money. Added absolutely nothing either. Other than some laughable scenes and a stick to beat the club with.

 

[MadchesterCity]

If it makes the fans happy and builds the spirit of togetherness then I'm all for it. Some fans bond over calling other players monkeys. There are worse things

It doesn’t though, it divides fans, the delays spoiled the occasion, why should we have to wait 30 minutes for these self obsessed clowns. After the Aguero moment or similar outcomes which brought emotions pitch invasions were great but today was selfish and totally shit. It not only spoiled the title celebrations for majority of the fans but also the players on the pitch and will lead to further club charges.

Perhaps the answer is first ten rows of stadium are removed to stop the invasion, again this would hurt fans as we will receive a reduced allocation

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Come on mate, most were self indulgent twats taking selfie's and TikTok videos, loads of them were not lifetime fans like myself just day trippers. Also they had been requested not to come onto the pitch so they ignored what the club had requested.

Ignored = ignorant.

I’m not judging on who they are or what they were told, just that it was always going to happen and the club managed the situation very well.

There is absolutely no reason for me to get angry with something that was always going to happen. Was I angry when this happened after the Aguero moment, no I wasn’t but I did lead the way in telling them to get off the pitch so we could see the presentation. That took much longer than yesterday’s so don’t see too much harm and definitely don’t see the need for the amount of anger in some.

Anyway, up the Blues, we‘ve only gone and done it again ;-)

 

[Coatigan]

Unless you have 2 full rows of stewards stood next to each other backed up by police, there will be a break point where the first wave of fans get on to the pitch. Once they do that all the other fans follow.

I saw the police on at the front of SSL1. I thought they were going to back the stewards up. As soon as the final whistle went they all got up and formed a cordon in-front of the away end. They weren’t interested in stopping the pitch invasion.

If some of you complaining actually saw how it all played out and unfolded, you will have known the pitch invasion wasn’t going to be stopped.

I’ll repeat that again. The pitch invasion wasn’t going to be stopped.

What was planned, was the away end was going to be protected by the police, and so was the goal next to the South stand by the stewards. The other stewards helped the players off. And they formed a barrier infront of the players tunnel.

That’s how the plan unfolded and worked.

All that being true, only one or two here are actually arguing it should have been stopped.

Most are arguing people simply shouldn't have put themselves first and gone out.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

We invaded the pitch because if we’d have stayed in the stands we’d have been slated for being plastic fans.
FWIW I’m in L3 so I didn’t get on.
Absolutely no problem with pitch invasions at the end of the season - it’s a City tradition going back to Newcastle in 68. Just the woke pc and killjoy police wankers who have jumped on it as another thing to stop people having fun in this world. We’ll all be dead one day soon so ffs let yourself go and be free. Up the Blues!

 

[Eccles Blue]

At least it’s not a big story in the media, probably because we weren’t fighting with United or Liverpool, because if we were then there would’ve been slapped-arse uproar from the miserable twats.

Well actually I woke up to a text from a friend with a headline from the Daily Fail!!:

Man City players FLEE the Etihad pitch as fans surge onto the pitch

Thousands of fans surged onto the pitch to celebrate and a number of players including Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne had to flee amid security concerns.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I think everyone on here by now, who reads my posts before during and after each match, knows my feelings about our biased, Specsavers needing media etc. but I definitely do not like waking up to the headline that the players that I admire and pay good money to go and watch (when I am able) are FLEEING the pitch!!

So actually it is a story, albeit not yet a big story but it will probably gather momentum!! And not one I like being woken up to thank you. :-(
:-)


EDIT: p.s. luckily my laptop has an aversion somehow to our media and appears to freeze if ever I try to access the media.
I get a message stating that the page is not responding whenever I try and read anything apart from BBC on my laptop, although my iPad and iPhone do not appear to share this aversion!!! *lol*

 

[Cielo Azul]

Most of us in Colin Bell level 1 couldn’t see the presentation anyway due to hordes of officials on the pitch blocking the view

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Well actually I woke up to a text from a friend with a headline from the Daily Fail!!:

Man City players FLEE the Etihad pitch as fans surge onto the pitch

Thousands of fans surged onto the pitch to celebrate and a number of players including Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne had to flee amid security concerns.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I think everyone on here by now, who reads my posts before during and after each match, knows my feelings about our biased, Specsavers needing media etc. but I definitely do not like waking up to the headline that the players that I admire and pay good money to go and watch (when I am able) are FLEEING the pitch!!

So actually it is a story, albeit not yet a big story but it will probably gather momentum!! And not one I like being woken up to thank you. :-(
:-)

Fancy being woken up to a Mail article. You need to get new friends ;-)

 

[Eccles Blue]

Fancy being woken up to a Mail article. You need to get new friends ;-)

Oh don't fret, that one has received a feisty reply....a Southampton fan as it happens, who lives in Southampton but I do not think he has ever graced their ground with his presence!!! :-)

 

[BlueRockape]

The 74 Old Trafford invasion was United knobheads.

There were a few of us blues having a go back

 

[TINY]

Tradition?

Lol

 

[Indaparkside]

76 pages ffs some one needs to invade this thread and fuck it off, we’re champions of England ffs

 

[Keeper!]

The pitch invasions after QPR and Villa were very different from yesterday, they were emotional reaction and pure joy, yesterday was entitlement at it's finest and very different.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

What's it like to stand on grass? Looks amazing from the upper tiers. V jealous.

 

[The blue phantom]

There were a few of us blues having a go back

My old fella was one of them.

 

[mattcity5]

Let’s make it easier for the PL. Just tell them to add whatever they come up with to the 112 charges.

Like 1000’s of other City fans I’ll boo their fucking anthem even more.

TBH I couldn’t give a fuck what the PL come up with, but it certainly won’t be a points deduction or matches being played behind closed doors.

I really don’t know where you’re getting these hypothetical PL punishments from.

The club will justifiably say they put stewards around the pitch, put police in-front of the away end, and did every thing could to stop a pitch invasion, but the number of fans invading the pitch couldn’t be stopped.

Agree that the club has a bit of a defence by saying it handled it well. Also, it was calmer than previous ones, because it was won a day previously.

In terms of punishments, I'm just thinking what could happen if the PL decide as 'repeat offenders' they need to increase the punishment. Part of the reason for punishments is to serve as a deterrent - if they see the fines make no difference, they may move on to something else. I'd hope that maybe they'd give us some kind of suspended punishment which would only be enforced if we did it again - but it seems like this would only be delaying the inevitable, as nobody can manage to control themselves anyway.

If it's a similar sized fine with nothing else, then it's almost saying it's okay to do that. Which would then mean everyone should just go on the pitch - but if everyone went on the pitch, it'd be chaos and we'd get in deep shit for it.

So basically it's because 95% of the crowd can control themselves, think of the team, follow instructions and be patient, that the other 5% can manage to ignore what anyone else thinks and do what they want.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

So why did the stewards infront of SL1 move away?

Email the club and ask them. On the match ticket it is a condition that any supporter does not encroach onto the pitch. So anybody who does risks being banned and having a criminal record. Plus any extra costs involved in policing or stewarding and club fines will be passed onto all supporters.

 

[Coatigan]

It’s not now become a tradition… a City pitch invasion has long been a tradition.

Bert Trautmann testimonial, 1964
League title win, 1968
European Cup Winners Cup final, 1970
Relegating United at Old Trafford, 1974
Relegation v Luton, 1983
Promotion v Charlton, 1985
Promotion v Bradford, 1989
FA Cup quarter final v Spurs, 1993
Last game of the Kippax v Chelsea, 1994
Play-off semi v Wigan, 1999
Second to last game v Birmingham, 2000
Blackburn away, 2000
Agüerooooo!, 2012
League title win, 2014
First home game after league title win, 2018
League title trophy presentation game, 2018
League title win, 2022
First home game after league title win and league title trophy presentation game, 2023

I’m sure there’ll be more I’ve missed and I’m sure they go back further than 1964, that’s just the earliest my Father can remember of them.

City released a documentary about our fans swarming to Blackburn and invading the Ewood pitch.

I didn’t go on the pitch yesterday but I wasn’t particularly arsed that people did. It lasted 11 minutes (I did keep an eye on the time of it), it’s not like it was a 45 minutes delay to the presentation.

I enjoyed reading that post, thanks for that. I mean it.

However, if you are invading the pitch because it is 'tradition', you've pretty much missed the point of a pitch invasion.

If you are invading it to take selfies, pictures of your kids on the pitch, vlogs on a stick, you've missed the point.

If you are invading the pitch to do a few staged shitty knee slides..

If you are invading the pitch to appear on TV..

If you are invading the pitch to try wreck the goal posts, to hold up a shitty banner, to take part in a look-alike contest, to protest ticket prices... you've missed the bloody point.


That's what yesterday's one was, all of the above. The only thing it wasnt, was a spontaneous outburst of joy and emotion. Which is pretty much the main damn point.

And it was obvious well ahead it was never going to be that, this year. It was anything from a piss poor failed attempt at recreating scenes from 2012, to a laughable embarrassment.

The rest, i.e arguing people are miserable, too woke, not working class enough, pitch invasions are good etc etc, is just deflection and a distraction.

Not one person here has said anything of merit about yesterday's one. The only positives noted are, it was fairly short and nobody got hurt. Wow, great!