Pitch Invaders

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WhiskeyMan

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I’m getting pretty sick of these pitch invaders now. Apparently someone on twitter who attended the Marseille game saw a few kids run into the pitch and the fat bloke being taken by the police for invading. I was pretty annoyed at it last season with kids just running on with no reason whatsoever, and the worst thing is the club is doing little to nothing about it. Like what if the worst case scenario if a kid or an adult has a weapon on them? The stewards have either little to no power to do anything as well. For me, i just want the club to tackle this issue, cause it ruins it for the fans who pay money to attend the games. And the parents encouraging their children to run on the pitch should be named and shamed, and fined and suspended.
 
Its not about "what if...." - its about the responsible adults taking responsibility for the actions of their kids.
Take the adult out the ground, along with the children, and have them charged. The adult wont be coming back and probably the kids neither.
Empowering fans to do the right thing is important.
Is anyone suggesting there is a police line in front of the Family Zone or the West Stand?
Its always been the South Stand labelled trouble causers. There`s those useless scaffold poles in place to prevent (?) encroachment onto the pitch (?!).
Is it time to put them all around the ground to punish the parents or guardians of children who encroach on the playing area?.
No.
Take them out. Ban them.
We all have the duty to report the parents and "responsible" adults.
Point the surveillence cameras at the source of the problem [Family Zone / West Stand / Corners] - the South Stand tends to police itself.(y)
 
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r00fie1 said:
Its not about "what if...." - its about the responsible adults taking responsibility for the actions of their kids.
Take the adult out the ground, along with the children, and have them charged. The adult wont be coming back and probably the kids neither.
Empowering fans to do the right thing is important.
Is anyone suggesting there is a police line in front of the Family Zone or the West Stand?
Its always been the South Stand labelled trouble causers. There`s those useless scaffold poles in place to prevent (?) encroachment onto the pitch (?!).
Is it time to put them all around the ground to punish the parents or guardians of children who encroach on the playing area?.
No.
Take them out. Ban them.
We all have the duty to report the parents and "responsible" adults.
Point the surveillence cameras at the source of the problem [Family Zone / West Stand / Corners] - the South Stand tends to police itself.(y)
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To help you out here.
I sit in the family Zone, have done since the last Premier league appearance.
Not once has any of these morons running onto the pitch , child or adult, came from our section.
It has always been either the West Side of the North stand or from the south Stand.( or away end)

To be fair those in the south who go on the pitch probably don't realise there is a football pitch there.
 
The only way to truly stop this irritating problem is to put all the curmudgeonly owld gits (the type who'd be annoyed that we only won the Champions League final 7-0) in all the front rows.

The forcefield of swearing under their breath, moaning and tutting would prevent even the scruffiest of little sods invading the pitch so that their sad sack parent can put a picture on Snapchat.
 
Cattermole and Leadbitter are currently assembling a group of U16 double hard bstards to work as ‘ball boys’ next season. Electric pace combined with crunching tackles will soon lay waste to this new breed of soccer urchins.
 
Having seen this trend come and go since the late 60s I find it hard to get angry about a few people just running on the grass.

Now if someone is attacked or damage done that's a different matter but a few kids running on the grass at the end?

What's more cringeworthy than kids holding up cards asking for shirts to me is adults staying behind at the end of the season for a 'lap of honour' when nothing has been won. I can understand kids and the occasional grown up wanting autographs etc but I just don't get the lap. What's it all about?
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
Now if someone is attacked or damage done that's a different matter but a few kids running on the grass at the end?
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It’s a very fine line though as to be honest no one knows their true intention when they run on though.

It wouldn’t be a great leap either.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
But it's happening during the match now and that causes real problems.
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It’s becoming very annoying, it’s almost as if they are entitled to it, an idiot who was with a child running on to the pitch was aggressively dismissive of a steward who went to speak to him about in the NE corner.

The pitch should be a no go area. It’s only weeks since Billy Sharp was seriously assaulted. It may have cost us a goal last year in the run in ( against Stoke I think) it needs dealing with properly now.
 
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