Pitch Invasion

[Les Lawrence]

I'm so angry with the pitch invasions,I'm gonna rip 2 tissues,and crush 3 grapes.Ive never seen such appalling thuggery at Burnley.

[Conroy92]

They aren't alienating anybody. There isn't a single fan out there who would decide to support a.n.other club because they aren't allowed to go on the pitch. It's just as easy to celebrate from your seat.
As Josh said this week, the players themselves want to come out and celebrate in front of the fans, and enjoy the lap of the pitch. They can't do that while some entitled pricks think rules only apply to others.
I get the excitement, I even get that some will be disappointed, but it really is as simple as, if you are told not to do it, you don't do it.
If you don't like the rule of law, you change it, you don't break it.

Unfortunately sometimes rules have to be broken before they are accepted as rubbish.

There will be thousands of Emily Davison's running into the field of play this afternoon.

[Colburn_Claret]

Unfortunately sometimes rules have to be broken before they are accepted as rubbish.

There will be thousands of Emily Davison's running into the field of play this afternoon.

It's only rubbish in your opinion though. Plenty of people think the rule is there for good reason. This is the issue here. People who think they only have to obey the rules they agree with. It's a slippery slope to anarchy. No matter how many times people break the rules of pitch invasion, they are never going to be changed, never. It will only lead to the club getting into bother with the FA or the Police. If you are a true fan, why would you wish that on the club.

[Claretitus]

It's only rubbish in your opinion though. Plenty of people think the rule is there for good reason. This is the issue here. People who think they only have to obey the rules they agree with. It's a slippery slope to anarchy. No matter how many times people break the rules of pitch invasion, they are never going to be changed, never. It will only lead to the club getting into bother with the FA or the Police. If you are a true fan, why would you wish that on the club.

The clear answer is selfishness.

[Les Lawrence]

Question
If your at the game,and don't want to break the law by going on the pitch,how does a few enthusiastic young fans, going on the pitch to celebrate affect your enjoyment.The pitch will clear after 15/20 minutes,Players back out in another 15 minutes lap of honour, everyone happy

[daveisaclaret]

Bloke named after a player from 1985 calling himself a young fan. Seen it all now

[Les Lawrence]

What you on about,he was my dad's favorite player.Dave

[Les Lawrence]

Where do I say I'm a young fan Dave??

[Les Lawrence]

Anyway,no time to bicker,I'm getting my Stone island jacket on,picking up my pyro,and off to spoons for a breakfast.UTC.Les Lawrence fan club president.

[LincsWoldsClaret]

Question
If your at the game,and don't want to break the law by going on the pitch,how does a few enthusiastic young fans, going on the pitch to celebrate affect your enjoyment.The pitch will clear after 15/20 minutes,Players back out in another 15 minutes lap of honour, everyone happy

The effects are pretty obvious, the first 10 that spring to mind-

Delays for travelling fans
Potential damage to property
Potential fines for the club
Possible points deduction
Our fans look like halfwits on national tv
Goads opposition fans leading to violence
Danger to players and staff
Lots of young fans facing banning orders
The club have asked fans not to go on the pitch
And - It’s against the law

[LoveCurryPies]

Unfortunately sometimes rules have to be broken before they are accepted as rubbish.

There will be thousands of Emily Davison's running into the field of play this afternoon.

And if the Club get fined 10 points at the start of next season, will running onto the field have been worthwhile?

If a player gets injured by someone running onto the field, will that still be ok?

The FA’s rules are clear.

[Claretitus]

Question
If your at the game,and don't want to break the law by going on the pitch,how does a few enthusiastic young fans, going on the pitch to celebrate affect your enjoyment.The pitch will clear after 15/20 minutes,Players back out in another 15 minutes lap of honour, everyone happy

Who said anything about disagreeing with a pitch invasion spoiling anyone’s enjoyment ? It’s a clear matter of ignoring the request from the club NOT to enter the pitch. The fact you can’t accept this really says it all .

[TPClaret]

How hard is it. Just stay off the pitch. Let everyone enjoy the celebrations. Simple

[RicardoMontalban]

Unfortunately sometimes rules have to be broken before they are accepted as rubbish.

There will be thousands of Emily Davison's running into the field of play this afternoon.

Comparing the need of some to run onto a football pitch to the campaign for women’s suffrage is quite the look.

[Volvoclaret]

Machine gun the little barstewards , they won't do it again!

[forzagranata]

Ashton Gate today

[colne-claret]

Anyone else think they killed the atmosphere off today with the overkill of stewards at the final whistle? Players looked to be a bit miffed as well as they seemed to be hemmed in.

[Hibsclaret]

Ashton Gate today

Imagine if they actually achieve anything

[Bordeauxclaret]

Ashton Gate today

Disgusting. Life bans for every single one of them. We don’t go to football for this sort of thing.

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Disgusting. Life bans for every single one of them. We don’t go to football for this sort of thing.

Equally horrific scenes at Bradford after their 96th minute promotion winner. We really don’t want to see these sorts of emotions on display a football game. Polite applause then home for tea.

[agreenwood]

Ashton Gate today

Tinpot

[GetIntoEm]

The games gone. Sad scenes. How dare people celebrate.

[forzagranata]

The games gone. Sad scenes. How dare people celebrate.

Fear not:

[GetIntoEm]

Fear not:

Lads on here out banging pots and pans in aid of the stewards and security later tonight

[mikeS]

Never seen as many stewards as today.
Stopped all us old gimmers leaping over the Bob Lord wall and causing mayhem.
Well done chaps.

[Spike]

The Stewards in the yellow hats must have been surrounded by imaginary pitch invaders!

[Quickenthetempo]

The atmosphere seemed to change after repeated warnings to stay off the pitch. It died after people just sat in the stand doing nothing (behaving).
At the final whistle Scott Parker was going mental that the fans weren't showing passion.

Can't have it both ways I'm afraid.

[Inchy]

I suspect if we won’t the league the celebrations would have been better, but we already celebrated promotion last week. Was never going to be up to much today

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

I suspect if we won’t the league the celebrations would have been better, but we already celebrated promotion last week. Was never going to be up to much today

Agree all a bit of an anti climax at the end with Leeds scoring and as above the celebrating was done two weeks ago. Obviously nowadays you have to also wait around for the choreographed celebrations.

[Andingle]

If you add in the Stewards today , attendance must have been 30,000

[ChristheViking]

Incredible how the pitch invasions today at Bristol City and Bradford don’t appear to have had any safety issues. The risk was all at Turf Moor apparently.

A big wet towel thrown over what should have been well deserved exuberance. We didn’t get too many own goals this season but we did get one today.

[agreenwood]

Incredible how the pitch invasions today at Bristol City and Bradford don’t appear to have had any safety issues. The risk was all at Turf Moor apparently.

A big wet towel thrown over what should have been well deserved exuberance. We didn’t get too many own goals this season but we did get one today.

Apart from the Fleetwood manager saying him and his players had to contend with nobheads confronting them, aye.

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Apart from the Fleetwood manager saying him and his players had to contend with nobheads confronting them, aye.

Confronting or running past them after a 96th minute winner?

[Steddyman]

Don't you all realise the reason the warnings were there today is Natasha wouldn't have been able to come out to sing if it had happened again.

Give the club some credit.

[agreenwood]

Confronting or running past them after a 96th minute winner?

Absolutely no idea. I wasn’t there.

Just going off Peter Wild’s comments and the fact that he was apparently unhappy after the pitch invasion following the winning goal:

Fleetwood manager Pete Wild claimed he was confronted by home fans as were some of his players.

He said: “It was madness. I understand it, you are excited and you want to run on the pitch when you’ve scored but don’t get involved with the opposition players and the manager.

“Our players have been confronted, I’ve been confronted and it’s just disappointing because it didn’t need to happen.

[Bosscat]

Incredible how the pitch invasions today at Bristol City and Bradford don’t appear to have had any safety issues. The risk was all at Turf Moor apparently.

A big wet towel thrown over what should have been well deserved exuberance. We didn’t get too many own goals this season but we did get one today.

Perhaps the pushing over of the Electronic advertising boards and damage might have been a dampener on the "well deserved exuberance" during the pitch invasion the other week

[aggi]

At least the lack of pitch invasion meant there was no delay getting the players back on the pitch for a lap of honour.

[CrosspoolClarets]

A crazy day.

Started with a wake up then a 2 hour drive, got to the Turf by 12pm with no time for a beer (thanks Sky), Haffners booth had shut so no pie and peas, it was a mouth scorching steak pie in the JHU instead. Then we get a topsy turvy game of offside goals, nerves, glory then last minute snatch aways. Then we get the world’s biggest tug of war with the stewards and the much dreaded pitch invasion……..by the stewards in yellow hats . Players were kettled away from us, they looked infuriated. Then they go off, start to set up the promotion stage as far away from the fans as possible, must have accidentally put a “champions” bit on it because a player ripped it off and threw it away. This after one of our squad is booed onto the pitch by idiots. They then lift the trophy…..with their backs to the fans. A trophy that Josh walked over with it in his hands rather than getting it given to him. At least it wasn’t inflatable. Then Natasha Bedingfield came on, unannounced until the moment, to a dead atmosphere. She did OK to be fair. Then to top it off, we headed home and after some crazy bikers roared past us on Snake Pass we got held up cos one then came off after hitting a car.

A mad 15 hour day. Did it have to be this crazy? But seriously BFC, if I want clowns (in the form of stewards), I’ll go to the circus. Crackers. But well done Scott and the team.

p.s. the extended story is to show sometimes we just need the basics, not craziness and overzealousness.

[nil_desperandum]

Confronting or running past them after a 96th minute winner?

Just because you score late in the game doesn’t give fans the green light to go on the pitch
It was a complete mess and was difficult getting the game restarted

[Les Lawrence]

Well done Burnley fans today.
No 10 points deduction
No machine gunning of fans
No confrontation with players.
No delayed travel.
No looking tinpot
No atmosphere,all round top day.Everyone home with slippers on and mugs of horlicks

[agreenwood]

Don’t know if anyone has seen the footage of the Bradford pitch invasion, but you can see Fleetwood players being pushed around by fans and goaded as clear as day.

After Billy Sharp was head-butted by a Forest fan a few years ago, it’s not hard to understand why clubs don’t want pitch invasions.

[bobinho]

We managed to go from totally underprepared and surprised anyone wanted to be on the pitch, to protecting the pitch better than ze Germans protected juno beach.

At least it seemed plod had prepared well.

[Row x]

Well done Burnley fans today.
No 10 points deduction
No machine gunning of fans
No confrontation with players.
No delayed travel.
No looking tinpot
No atmosphere,all round top day.Everyone home with slippers on and mugs of horlicks

No atmosphere?...I take it either you didn't go, or are just attention seeking.

[pureclaret]

No atmosphere?...I take it either you didn't go, or are just attention seeking.

I think hes either attention seeker or some one who has never done any of the things hes going on about. Or just another would be criminal

[Bosscat]

Well done Burnley fans today.
No 10 points deduction
No machine gunning of fans
No confrontation with players.
No delayed travel.
No looking tinpot
No atmosphere all round top day.Everyone home with slippers on and mugs of horlicks

What do you mean "No Atmosphere"

Turf Moor was rocking all round throughout the game ... It only really went flat when Weeds scored in injury time at Holme Pk.

Perhaps you weren't at the game

[Bosscat]

There was a "Stand invasion" by a member of our coaching staff in the JHU at gate 3 onto the seats...

Jack Cork was shaking hands with us all as we left at 3pm ... What a great lad Jack is having selfies with the youngsters.

[fidelcastro]

What do you mean "No Atmosphere"

Turf Moor was rocking all round throughout the game ... It only really went flat when Weeds scored in injury time at Holme Pk.

Perhaps you weren't at the game

He envisaged not being able to get on the pitch, so had to explain to his kids that it would be better not to bother!

[jrgbfc]

Bit of a joke if they're dishing life bans out. When we're getting beat every weekend next season they'll be wondering why the atmospheres crap.

[blatherwickstattoos]

The letter is fake. It’s edited in the first paragraph. It’s from the lad who ran on the pitch earlier on in the season

[gawthorpe_view]

Hamburg last night.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 42dr744eyo

My son was in the middle of the pitch but thankfully not injured.