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Football should be about Football and not the 'rights' of Chavs who are hellbent on satisfying their own personal 'enjoyment', whilst annoying the vast majority who take a more adult and sensible approach to the sport.
You may like to consider all this if you watch the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, next year ? Pretty much a good example of how to conduct yourself at a public sporting event.

 

Take it by your comment you don’t attend games anymore? Did you see the incident people are talking about?

 

Come on @Futchers tache get yersen a season ticket bought we know your missing the football.

 

Don't feel like it's a big deal as long as it's the players approaching the fans instead of the other way around. Creates a bit of atmosphere as opposed to some old farts sitting down clapping over a 90th minute winner. If however the fans go on to the pitch itself then they should be punished, if its just the walkway that a players entered to celebrate with the fans then I don't mind

 

Hard to disagree with this. It does seem that the couple of incidents of pitch encroachment over the past couple of home games do seem to have an element of premeditation to them. I've sat in the lower kop for years and don't recognise most of the faces of the mob that seems to have turned up to the left of the goal in the past few games. Its a fine line between creating an atmosphere which is badly lacking in football these days and it turning into a free for all.

 

He should have kept it to WhatsApp, a private bit of ‘bantz’ between mates. Posting it on Twitter was the dick move...But you’re right, now there’s no room for error of judgment anymore, or benefit of the doubt, same with Danny Baker the other month.

 

Seemed like a loaded third question

 

I'm not against an instant ban, I was trying to be reasonable.
You are right though, when the penalties are 100k and upwards you need to take significant measures.
There is no way a club of our size and stature could afford those sort of penalties.

 

It's not difficult to get over, just ask Millwall for their textbook as they seem to do it quite a few times in a season!

 

His daft mug was all over the Quest highlights.. so he'll be getting banned

 

Working class rugby league fans manage to behave themselves.

 

Majority of football fans behave themselves, Rugby league has it's fair share of crowd violence. Bloody hell, a dozen or so ran on edge of pitch celebrating, hardly a crime.

 

Everything past the edge of the stand including the perimeter

 

Going onto the playing area.

It is an offence for a person at a designated football match to go onto the playing area, or any area adjacent to the playing area to which spectators are not generally admitted, without lawful authority or lawful excuse (which shall be for him to prove).

 

So you shouldn't punish rule breaking unless you're going to hang people?

I'm sure there's a point to what you're saying, I'm just not seeing it.

Everyone in that stadium knows not to encroach onto the pitch area, except anyone under 2 years old maybe, and no, being overjoyed at opening up a two-goal cushion with seconds to go does not excuse it. It's not a rush of adrenaline any more than any other game, it was just a nothing goal in an otherwise unimportant fixture (three points notwithstanding), so seeing as there aren't any valid excuses for encroaching onto the playing area, what's wrong with enforcing the rule with the relevant consequences?

It's hardly martyrdom, they're hardly going to get persecuted, if they get banned, well, they knew that was a possibility and that's how society works.

No idea why you're overreacting, to be honest. Break rule, receive slap on the wrist, back to normal.

 

How about Pete being an umpire at Wimbledon @Futchers tache , and John McEnroe saying to him "you can not be serious", just give me a minute to get out of this f*****g chair, climb down and we can discuss who's right and who's wrong .
Certainly a character was our Pete.

 

On tv it looks a bit embarrassing tbh. And as tarty says, totally premeditated. It wasn’t like it was a proper 90th minute winner, it’s all done for show, not spontaneous. They just want on tv and the players running that way gives them
a bit of a window of opportunity.

However, I do agree that the day there is no way fans could possibly ever celebrate with players, on the odd, rare occasion of a really thrilling late goal would be a shame. Now i’m not saying fans going on the pitch, but if a player goes in to celebrate with supporters then I don’t really see the problem with that. But what we are seeing at VP isn’t this and if identified they have to accept the punishment. Whatever that may be.

Having said that, i wonder how many posters have ever been on the pitch? I realise maybe not in the same context as what we are discussing above, but i bet there are a few. Myself included. I’ve gone and done it now....

 

Dear God. One of Fagley's offerings to society, working class. Product of St. Clare's, George's and Bede's. Had exactly the same chance as any other working class kid. Did I choose to take it though?
Got to say though tache, you got me to bite but that is some dog shit you just posted.