Ok, own up…

Trying to bring some much needed atmosphere to the riverside. His punishment? Five years of not being able to contribute to the atmosphere at the riverside stadium.

Dome sort of community service would be a better fit for me personally for this sort of thing.
Everyone knows the rules and there are massive signs outside the south stand saying no pyrotechnics allowed. Absolutely no sympathy the punishment is entirely consistent with what you would expect.
 
a) £2000 fine and a 5 year ban
or
b) paying for season tickets for disabled kids who cannot afford tickets.. and may have been adversely affected by the flare (had they been there)

let’s say 8 kids or 4 kids over two seasons.
£1832.. £916 a season.

and community service of 300 hours?
that would be 50 6 hour sessions.

That works.

Even two two kids tickets and a workshop before every 3pm kick off on a Saturday for one season.

The fine and the ban dunt make anything better imo
 
a mates kid got a 3yr banning order for lighting a flare at Anfield he was only 14 at the time, he was with his scouse cousins who gave him it and egged him on, after about 6 months he started going back to matches, continued going for the remainder of his ban, just kept his head down and dodged the police spotters, he'd changed so much in the next year you prob wouldn't have recognised him for the original mug shot, easily went to 10/15 matches over his ban, including going to Millwall in the Boro end with his Dad & myself, only ever went to games away from Anfield mind
 
a mates kid got a 3yr banning order for lighting a flare at Anfield he was only 14 at the time, he was with his scouse cousins who gave him it and egged him on, after about 6 months he started going back to matches, continued going for the remainder of his ban, just kept his head down and dodged the police spotters, he'd changed so much in the next year you prob wouldn't have recognised him for the original mug shot, easily went to 10/15 matches over his ban, including going to Millwall in the Boro end with his Dad & myself, only ever went to games away from Anfield mind
I would question why his parents allowed him to attend.
 
Jesus christ, that looks insane.

It does look like fun though, if people were going there to do that at their own risk. This looks like a planned event I assume? This would never happen in the UK of course, not even for a planned event.

Setting off flares in places which they are banned etc, and people are not expecting them is silly though, and puts people who don't want the health risk, at increased health risk, so others can have more "fun". I don't think that's a fair trade, but wouldn't know how to measure it, especially when you couple that with the number of people A&E would need to treat for burns and the likes.

Personally I would love to go an see something like that, but would want to know it's happening in advance so I could plan accordingly (I would be going in my flame retardant overalls and hat, and wearing eye protection and gloves). It would need to be a one off though, can't have that every week or whenever some people want, as it's unfair on the others who don't want it. Overall you have to air on the side of caution if you want to cater to the masses and there's a health and safety liability/ risk at play.
 
I would question why his parents allowed him to attend.
cos he was 14 and wanted to go anfield with his older cousins, bit of an odd thing to questions, there's plenty of 14 yr olds at the Riverside every other week, different times but I started going to Ayresome park from the age of 8 on my own, and they were much more troubled times in terms of fan behaviour
 
i bet the pyro lad puts on a good show for bonfire night!!

Better than watching a vhs of a log fire.

Let’s not forget if some folks on here had their way we’d be caged in at the games subject to sniffer dog searches before the in memoriam videos.. not exactly a laugh a minute.
 
i bet the pyro lad puts on a good show for bonfire night!!

Better than watching a vhs of a log fire.

Let’s not forget if some folks on here had their way we’d be caged in at the games subject to sniffer dog searches before the in memoriam videos.. not exactly a laugh a minute.
Ah the good old days. well, I strongly disagree with your view here, so come an ‘av a go if you think you’re hard enough.

Pyro’s add zilch to the atmosphere apart from risks and danger. The lad was a bloomin idiot and has his comeuppance. If the club and police units don’t clamp down, they are complicit in the crime itself. If it became legitimised in football stadia, what do you think the knock on effect would be for their presence and use within wider communities and society in general?
 
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