The law regarding running onto the pitch is in place so that clubs can charge fans more money. </p> Today I will run on the pitch and then go to the box office and ask for part of my admission money back.</p>
I preferred the "policy of a nanny state" idea trundled out yesterday It's obviously more to do with a government obsessed with regulation and state control as opposed to laissez-faire, unbridled, capitalist profiteering by the club. Obviously... Nowt to do with common sense and consideration for others...
I was quite taken with the notion that it is only a few kids and that it would be different if those on the pitch were abusing the opposition fan.</p> This came from a grown man who said he'll be going on the pitch (so not a kid then) in a reply to a video of barnsley fans on the pitch at the last home game of last season racially abusing Bradford city fans.</p> </p> I struggled to find any flaws in his argument at all.</p>
Of course... But I think football hooliganism is only a bit of banter and black footballers should stop being so touchy about their colour - it's only a bit of a laugh, like... You'd think, following season after season of being booed by the majority, the pitch invaders would, sort of, get the message...
You would but then you would also think that somebody at oakwell would have worked out which area of the ground is the most likely to start running onto the pitch.</p> Seems that people just never learn.</p>
I've got an idea People who buy tickets in the upper tier are obviously not going to be fans who want to run on the pitch, so when someone goes to the ticket office to buy their ticket they should be given a ticket instead for the lower tier/bottom rows of the Ponty....similarly people requesting tickets near the front of Pomty would get upper tier seats. Hopefully they don't spot the "mistake" until they turn up for the game.
