Flares at the football

People need to realise the difference between flares and smoke grenades because there's going to be an instance where a boat goes down and it looks like a Dortmund game on the deck.
 
Throwing them on the pitch during the game and especially in the concourse is idiotic. My daughter has bad asthma and was really struggling a few months back when one was set off in the concourse at an away game. Was getting panicy as she didn't have her inhaler but luckily she was okay. Some people have absolutely no consideration for others, a mirror of society which has sadly crept into football especially since lockdown finished. Selfish w*nkers.
 
Remembering some lads got done at Burton a few years back for using what turned out to be SOLAS flares, the type I was trained to use on ships as part of my advanced fire fighting/lifeboats duties. So they were designed to be used by select crew only, whilst in a lifeboat in the middle of the sea, not on a crowded football terrace or seating area, and not in the hands of some coked up muppet! But, monkey see, monkey do!
 
Squarewheelbike said:
Remembering some lads got done at Burton a few years back for using what turned out to be SOLAS flares, the type I was trained to use on ships as part of my advanced fire fighting/lifeboats duties. So they were designed to be used by select crew only, whilst in a lifeboat in the middle of the sea, not on a crowded football terrace or seating area, and not in the hands of some coked up muppet! But, monkey see, monkey do!
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The lads using them at Burton weren't on coke.
 
joeydiaz said:
People need to realise the difference between flares and smoke grenades because there's going to be an instance where a boat goes down and it looks like a Dortmund game on the deck.
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True😂

Hopefully anyone of a nautical nounce knows the difference. You wouldn't want to get in trouble with the wrong one.
 
Someone put a smoke device under my seat at Wembley at one of the Cup Finals. Very scary when there is smoke billowing all around you.
 
Some daft lad through one down in to the stands I was stood in at Barnsley when we scored the penalty that meant we were only losing 3-1.

Accrid smoke everywhere and completely unnecessary.
I might have understood if we'd scored a last minute winner, but not a consolation goal.
 
As said, massive difference between live flame flares and smoke cannisters, the latter being a similar health risk to a cigarette.

Lots won't agree but if they were in a segregated area where all fans knew that they were present then I don't see a problem.

They are in stadiums all over the world apart from the UK and do not cause any serious problems. Otherwise they would be banned there.
 
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