https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62293635
Pitch invaders at Premier League and English Football League matches will receive an automatic club ban under new measures to tackle fan behaviour.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62293635
Pitch invaders at Premier League and English Football League matches will receive an automatic club ban under new measures to tackle fan behaviour.
Plus anyone with a flare.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy
Damn. That's ruined my plans for Saturday afternoon....
That would have been the end of it for 11-year-old me in 1968.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy
I have sometimes thought I'd like to meet John Toshack someday. 'Tosh,' I'd say. 'Lovely to see you again after so long.'
'I'm sorry, I don't, uh .. . . .'
'Tosh, I was that kid who ran on to the pitch and patted you on the back after you scored that goal against QPR in '68. Great goal, Tosh! I said, before running back to the Grange End.'
'Oh, yeah. Nice to see you, again.'
(I hear Tosh is a nice guy.)
So, if city win promotion and 20,000 fans invade the pitch to celebrate, is the club going to decimate its fan base by banning them all forever?Quote:
Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy
Remember that League Cup game last season? A few extremely random one man pitch invasions, one actually taking a selfie alongside Colwill while the game carried on around them. Weird!!!!
I imagine this new rule will be conveniently forgotten in such circumstances even though it's the same scenes end of last season that have instigated these decisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyscoular
Unless they think this would put people off.
Can see far more relegation pitch invasions, please ban me, it's an addiction.
Would this count as a pitch invasion? https://mobile.twitter.com/RothmansY...35631762526208
Actually, he doesn't quite make the pitch does he.
I ran onto the pitch at a charity game once. I think it was Corinthian Park, which is now Cae Syr Dafydd.
As a sweaty and aged John Charles left the field I thrust my autograph book under his nose. “ Not now sonny” he breathlessly replied.
John Charles called me “Sonny.” My father was over the moon.