Pitch invasions

I saw parents bringing their small kids down to the front wall of SS and standing them on it 5 mins before the whistle ready to get on first. There were people in the main stand who kept opening the front gates ready to go on. There were people leaving SSL1 to try and get down before the final whistle to go on. There were people heading straight over to goad the few Chelsea fans that decided to stay back and peacefully observe the presentation. This wasn't about emotion, this was pure pre meditiated self indulgence, I want I want I want. There are many on here trying to justify it, the same ones that will play the victim card if punishment is dished out (not far off the behaviours of some of our local rivals from up the M62.......)
 
After the Villa pitch invasion the Club were fined £260.000 and warned about future behaviour.


Supporter behaviour
E21 A Club must ensure that spectators and/or its supporters (and anyone purporting to be its supporters or
followers) conduct themselves in an orderly fashion whilst attending any Match and do not:
E21.1 use words or otherwise behave in a way which is improper, offensive, violent, threatening, abusive,
indecent, insulting or provocative;
E21.2 throw missiles or other potentially harmful or dangerous objects at or on to the pitch;
E21.3 encroach on to the pitch or commit any form of pitch incursion;
E21.4 conduct themselves in a manner prohibited by paragraph E21.1 in circumstances where that conduct is
discriminatory in that it includes a reference, whether express or implied, to one or more of ethnic origin,
colour, race, nationality, religion or belief, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation or disability.
E21.5 it shall be a defence to a Charge in relation to Rules E21.1 to E21.3 (only) if a Club can show that all
events, incidents or occurrences complained of were the result of circumstances over which it had no
control, or for reasons of crowd safety, and that its responsible officers or agents had used all due
diligence to ensure that its said responsibility was discharged. However, when considering whether
this defence is made out a Regulatory Commission will have regard to all relevant factors including:
• The extent to which the Club has discharged its duty;
• The severity of the issues involved;
• The extent to which similar issues have occurred previously in which case whether the Club took
sufficient action in preventing further such incidences.
E21.6 For the avoidance of doubt Rule E21 shall apply to the conduct of both a Club’s home and/or away
supporters
 
fulabeer said:
There are two times an invasion could be justified and even then it would have to be the last match of the season.

1: Winning THAT match meant avoiding relegation/ Or getting promotion to the next league

2: Wining THAT match won the league

Yesterday was just pre planned by knobs/chavs who just wanted selfie's to post on facebook. It was all about them, not the club/players!
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It's embarrassing and small time. People can create whatever mental gymnastics they like to construct their justification for it, when there clearly isn't any.
 
As has been said, yesterday felt a bit forced but I don't particularly mind the pitch invasions. I prefer it to the club's staged "you will sing whatever we play over the speakers" approach and waiting 15 minutes for a pointlessly convoluted purple stage to be constructed.
 
Roachy said:
It's embarrassing and small time. People can create whatever mental gymnastics they like to construct their justification for it, when there clearly isn't any.
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So what if it’s considered small time?

Do we really wann be like the rags or Liverpool?
 
Benzino said:
That guy ran on the pitch before the end of the match, when Gundogan scored. Didn’t get caught, and then emailed the club apologising, so was banned, very harshly.

I work in sport and event finance. I know how clubs are run in and out and it’s not like a normal business. We have already released the new ticket prices, we are not going to add on 5p to everyone, because the groundsman has to add some seeds to the 99% artificial turf.
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He got banned because he broke the regulations that's the point. Bleating on about the punishment is tough titty for any crime or misdemeanour in my book. What I was pointing out was the fact that you'll never get another seasoncard if you lose your current one.

So you're an expert in sport and event finance, tell us then, where do the extra costs disappear to? Those stewards are working for free are they?
 
The only thing that surprises me is that enough people hung around to the final whistle to go on the pitch, as the law of odds would suggest that a large chunk of those that went on are the same who fuck off early every other game to get the bus, go to the pub or whatever. If you can hang around to pitch invade why not try hanging around to support your fucking team to the end in every other game
 
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Benzino said:
That guy ran on the pitch before the end of the match, when Gundogan scored. Didn’t get caught, and then emailed the club apologising, so was banned, very harshly.

I work in sport and event finance. I know how clubs are run in and out and it’s not like a normal business. We have already released the new ticket prices, we are not going to add on 5p to everyone, because the groundsman has to add some seeds to the 99% artificial turf.
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He did get caught that is why he wanted to apologise as he was being charged.

There just needed to be people with hi-res cameras dotted about like the police used to do, it would put a lot off, but maybe not the ones from abroad in their only game.
 
Cielo Azul said:
So what if it’s considered small time?

Do we really wann be like the rags or Liverpool?
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That's EXACTLY how they are behaving, like scousers!

"We want to go on the pitch so that's what we'll fucking do, who cares about safety or what happens to others who have to deal with the fallout. Not us! But guess what, we'll be back around later on to play the 'everyone hates us' card when the club gets fined or the papers start slating us"
 
Eccles Blue said:
Well actually I woke up to a text from a friend with a headline from the Daily Fail!!:

www.dailymail.co.uk

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 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. :-(
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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*
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If there hadn't been a pitch invasion there'd have just been a different headline that was detrimental
to the club, you know that.
Daily Mail are also running a piece that puts the price tag of each player on the City bench. The irony being that Chelsea probably had a dearer bench and they weren't resting three quarters of their team
 
Gingers Dad said:
If there hadn't been a pitch invasion there'd have just been a different headline that was detrimental
to the club, you know that.
Daily Mail are also running a piece that puts the price tag of each player on the City bench. The irony being that Chelsea probably had a dearer bench and they weren't resting three quarters of their team
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Lol, the Mail headline and story is factually right mate, you are wrong for trying to explain it away. What fans did was wrong,plain and simple. There are so many things that we can rightly challenge back against the media, this is not one of them
 
Kaini Industries said:
As has been said, yesterday felt a bit forced but I don't particularly mind the pitch invasions. I prefer it to the club's staged "you will sing whatever we play over the speakers" approach and waiting 15 minutes for a pointlessly convoluted purple stage to be constructed.
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Absolutely with you with the contrived sing along bollocks. We even have a band that creates citified versions of songs now. It's as bad as the bloke on the tannoy leading the chants.

Ffs, I think we know how to chant don't we?
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
Trying to bring down the goal posts again. What the fuck is wrong with them? Delaying everything.

Really fucking winds me up.
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Not that arsed about the actual pitch invasion to be honest.I am row 2 South Stand Lower, could of gone on but chose no too. I agree that trying to bring the goal post down is out of order though, what the fuck is all that about.?
 
Gingers Dad said:
If there hadn't been a pitch invasion there'd have just been a different headline that was detrimental
to the club, you know that.
Daily Mail are also running a piece that puts the price tag of each player on the City bench. The irony being that Chelsea probably had a dearer bench and they weren't resting three quarters of their team
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That's true. Everyone would be sat in the stand waiting for the shitty PL set to be put up, looking bored as fuck.

Maybe that could have been the time for a ten minute Poznan. The club could have stuck goals from loads of the matches on the big screens, there could have been singing. We could have unfurled some champions banner in the crowd.... I dunno... There are things we could do other than look bored, but it doesn't appear the club had any plans for that time - maybe they should have done?

Mind you, any plans would have gone out the window when everyone went on the pitch anyway.
 
£260,000 fine for the last pitch invasion, who knows how much fine it will multiply to for a repeated violation, or worse.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
He got banned because he broke the regulations that's the point. Bleating on about the punishment is tough titty for any crime or misdemeanour in my book. What I was pointing out was the fact that you'll never get another seasoncard if you lose your current one.

So you're an expert in sport and event finance, tell us then, where do the extra costs disappear to? Those stewards are working for free are they?
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Yeah I don’t dispute that. I can’t help but feel sorry for him though. But yeah, City are not going to ban thousands of people. But if you’re crazy enough to email them and tell them, you might get banned. Obviously that would be terrible for anyone.

The security and stewards are a separate company, they do the areana and lots of festivals. Just as the bar staff are a separate company, and the ticket and access control tech is a separate company. They would not dare try and add money, they’d lose their contract in a heartbeat. It’s such a competive market.

I know where you’re coming from, but the financial implications won’t impact the fans. This is like the 6th time we’ve done it, they expect it, it’s prepared for. I thought they did a great job of speeding up. My point is simply that I like it, because it separate us from the prawn sandwhich brigade.
 
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