Why is running onto the pitch banned?

I don't even think it's a good idea. If they cordon off a little area and let the morons go on the pitch how do they do a lap of honour?

I also don't understand why we have stuck with Doyle if the feeling that they are not doing their jobs is genuine

 

I started going when I was 5 or 6. And I think apart from possibly 1 season. It's happened every season for about 32 years. (If I've worked out our old I am)

 

Yet try and get in Redfearns if your the 151st, don't have ST or Trust sub and then your in trouble. I would put that lady on 'pitch invasion watch' duty instead of the door at Redders.

 

No matter what. The club will struggle to stop it. Rock and a hard place.

People have done it for years.

Totally can see both sides.

Best idea further up. Corden off.

Or as daft as it may sound. Corden off from the tunnel to other part of west stand. The one we never use. Let the players come out and appear in that. Everyone can do which one they want irrispective of if it's right or wrong.

Then Sam can slip on the concrete and knacker himself up for the playoffs..... so maybe not then.

Can't we just bring up the same conversation copy and paste and save the arguments every season end

 

The club doesn't want folk on the pitch.

It is a criminal offence to do so.

Going on the pitch is a completely pointless and aimless activity.

Doing so will have an adverse effect on the pitch for any potential playoff game.

Given all of the above, why the **** does anyone bother?

To prove how big and hard you are?

What about the kids who behave themselves not getting to see their heroes? The family stand is upper tier, are they jumping down, or coming down the stairs and into the Lower tier to join five minutes after everyone else?

Quick suggestion. Don't be a brain dead selfish pillock, stay off the fecking pitch and don't ruin it for every body else.

 

Good old June.

She's a character.

 

Trespass is a civil not a criminal matter

 

And what about the majority of fans who don't go on the pitch?

 

Totally agree Andy. The adults who stroll on and stubbornly refuse to come off despite being booed and told they're utter bell-ends by the Ponty end (those still left in the stand) do my nut in.

 

I just don't get it. I've been going to Oakwell since I was 3 years old, and it happens year upon year. I've never once, even as a kid, thought about running onto the pitch. I don't get what the fuss is all about.

My dad took me on when we got promoted to the Premier league and that's the only time I've been on, and I won't lose sleep over knowing I've not been on since. What I really don't get is the middle aged blokes doing it. That's just weird.

It's just grass at the end of the day.

Sent from my I-Oven using the internets

 

There isn't any harm really

it's just paranoia on behalf of the authorities (Police) that there will be trouble. I have been on the pitch at the end of games a few times (vs Bradford 1996 and at Walsall when we made the playoffs in 2006) and have never seen the slightest hint of trouble on these occasions.

The law was made because on a number of occasions (many years ago) some fans went on the pitch to get to the opposing fans and have a pitched battle. Basically it's lazyness on behalf of the Police, they don't want to get involved in trouble so they ban anything which might result in it. It's about time Football fans were treated as human beings and the Police did their job properly and root out the trouble makers and punish them.

Alternatively (and this is an old idea of mine), before every game, set up a sort of boxing ring in the centre circle and get a dozen or so idiots representing each team to have a scrap with the ambulance men standing by to cart away the casualties. This would provide an outlet for the numpties and entertainment for the rest of us sane people. The numpties would of course be expected to pay for their hospital treatment....

 

Re: There isn't any harm really

Don't act like a lovely person and you won't great treated like a lovely person. Seems simple enough.

 

Re: There isn't any harm really

If the club get a fine from the FA/FL I'd make the idiots who run on pitch pay it.

So let's say we get a £200,000 fine and 50 pitch invaders thats £4,000 each

 

You know when we got called dingles & inbreds by Leeds, Sheff Utd & Wednesday fans? This sort of behaviour is part of the reason. It's embarrassing

 

Re: There isn't any harm really

Laziness? Really?

If it wasn't banned and there was bother the Police would be the first to be blamed for allowing it. Get a grip.

 

Re: There isn't any harm really

I quite agree, but I have never acted in such a way and yet I get herded about by the police like an animal. Innocent till proven guilty? Not if you're a football fan.

I bet they don't confiscate the tops off pop bottles when you go into Royal Ascot.

 

There will be fans on pitches throughout the country this week and next.

I very much doubt fans of say york are screaming blue murder as much as some on here.

Theres a lot of stones flying around glass houses.

 

Re: There isn't any harm really

I wasn't calling you a c-bomb, by the way

Only place I've ever had a bottle top confiscated is at an English football match to be fair. I got to the point where I just stopped wearing colours to games and nobody seemed to notice me so I could go about my business and enjoy my day out.

 

Re: There isn't any harm really

My son follows Atletico Madrid as well as the Reds, and once when we went to the Calderon, they confiscated bottle tops on the way in. However, just inside the ground, there were some people with bags full of bottle tops giving them out to anyone who'd had theirs taken. Smart people in Madrid.