Blackburn Fans on the pitch

IndigoLake · Post by **IndigoLake** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:15 pm

The guy who ran on the pitch is a cockroach, nothing more. It takes a special kind of **** to run on a football pitch, assault a couple of footballers and then assault a steward as well. Unfortunately, all football clubs have moron 'fans' such as these. The response was extremely poor and he should never have got anywhere near the Burnley players. There's no defending it.

brigante · Post by **brigante** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:35 pm

Interesting that the moron should single out, in Westwood, a Burnley player who shares a name with an Australian racehorse. Maybe is was actually a mating ritual.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:40 pm

steve1264b wrote:Best quote is from Tony Mowbray who didn't see the incident!

One does wonder what these managers do on the sidelines sometimes, they never seem to be looking at the pitch!

Composing his excuses for the defeat to the bitter enemy (in the fans eyes).

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:50 pm

Lancashire Police Chief Constable Terry Wood said: "I am truly appalled at the behaviour of these few, including the one believed to be from the Blackburn fans who encroached the pitch and thought it acceptable to assault a steward doing his job and two players there to partake in the match."

There was a huge police presence in and around the stadium, with police lining the streets in the build-up to kick-off, but neither officers or stewards were able to prevent two supporters running onto the pitch after Jack Cork opened the scoring for Burnley.

Two players there to partake in the match!!!!!!! What planet is he from? Sounds like a Victorian novelist.
How everyone was so slow to react is just another example of Lancashire Police not getting to grips with serious stuff.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:52 pm

Surely got to do time for this and send a strong message to any other nobs who are also lacking in brain cells

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:14 pm

Meanwhile, a nine-year-old boy suffered minor burns after a flare thrown from among the Burnley fans towards the pitch landed on his back.
A man has been arrested in connection with that incident, while three other people were also arrested following other incidents in the ground.

That is just as bad. 9 yo girl injured. Flare thrown in a jam packed stand? TOTAL MORON who endangered lives.

Flares in a stadium are crazy. Hope he gets a year to cool down and a ban from football, where he doesn't belong.

Spike · Post by **Spike** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:19 pm

MarkGreen wrote:Here is the photo Sparky is referring too

I initially thought he had his hand on Westwood's neck but if you look closer that's just the camera angle and his hand is only on Westwood's shoulder.

I believe you can get those Burberry copy shirts very cheap in Turkey!

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:36 pm

He most definitely as got his hand around his neck. Look closer. Look at westwoods skin below his ear. You can see how much pressure was applied. The fans(i use that loosely) thumb is on the opposite side of westwoods neck.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:46 pm

The thing about this, as with the previous incident with Savage, is that you can see how strong professional footballers are.

Westwood is one of our slightest players and obviously the moron picked him out because of this. But take a look what's happening:

The fat arsehole attacking Westwood is pushing his whole considerable weight and Westwood hasn't budged despite not even having both feet on the floor. It's nothing other than a chubby, fat drunkard up against a professional athlete. He should count himself lucky they were so restrained.

edit - I don't mean to underplay the incident, merely point out that any one of the players on the pitch (but especially the fitter, stronger Burnley players) could have wiped the floor with the arsehole B&stard fan.

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:48 pm

IanMcL wrote:Meanwhile, a nine-year-old boy suffered minor burns after a flare thrown from among the Burnley fans towards the pitch landed on his back.
A man has been arrested in connection with that incident, while three other people were also arrested following other incidents in the ground.

That is just as bad. 9 yo girl injured. Flare thrown in a jam packed stand? TOTAL MORON who endangered lives.

Flares in a stadium are crazy. Hope he gets a year to cool down and a ban from football, where he doesn't belong.

Along with the guy on the pitch these are the sort of people who ensure there'll be no option but to get a coach to a derby match for the foreseeable future.

Barry_Chuckle · Post by **Barry_Chuckle** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:42 pm

martin_p wrote:Along with the guy on the pitch these are the sort of people who ensure there'll be no option but to get a coach to a derby match for the foreseeable future.

Sorry Martin, I see it differently........... The actions of these 2 have nothing to do with the coaches. I see it that the Police/Clubs can force folk to have to travel on coaches, but they can't ensure safety of those fans either whilst in transit to and from the game, or with the actions of these two, whilst fans are inside the ground.

Barry_Chuckle · Post by **Barry_Chuckle** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 2:47 pm

burnmark wrote:Look at the state.....

I saw a shirt like that for sale at Akrams in Keighley market this morning

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 3:28 pm

Jordan Woods, 30, of Cadshaw Close, Blackburn, is accused of two counts of assault by beating and one of pitch encroachment.

Callum Linnane, 24, of Branch Road, Blackburn, has been charged with throwing a missile onto a football playing area.

They are due to appear at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court on September 14th.

Connor Woods, 28, of Wythburn Avenue Blackburn is charged with pitch encroachment and John McQueenie, 42, of Dunoon Street, Burnley is charged with possession of a firework/flare at a sporting event.

They are both due to appear at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court on September 21st.

A 30 year old from Burnley arrested on suspicion of assault has been released under investigation pending further enquiries.

https://www.lancashire.police.uk/news/2 ... c-fixture/

Darthlaw · Post by **Darthlaw** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 3:36 pm

I was thinking how sad a 30 year old Blackburn fan must be to get on the pitch and start a fight with professional footballers...

Then I saw our guy with a flare is 42.

Brain donors, the pair of them.

billyhamilton82 · Post by **billyhamilton82** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:23 pm

The poor lad was obviously desperate for another 5 minutes of fame....

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tim_noone wrote:I didn't realise it was a crime to sh!t ones self?

Apparently yes it is a crime and a 50 Euro Fine.

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timscoot · Post by **timscoot** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:53 pm

Presumably Jordan & Connor Woods - the 2 on the pitch are brothers - parents must be delighted !

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:09 pm

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/sport/foo ... -1-8719505Love the Burnley Express headline who says they don't have a sense of humour

Bfc · Post by **Bfc** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:11 pm

Tony Mowbray is asking whose the agent of the guy who ran onto the pitch, as he's after signing another attacker.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:15 pm

Do they always have armed police on guard at Rovers games?

frankinwales · Post by **frankinwales** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:15 pm

eastanglianclaret wrote:According to the Sky report "Blackburn manager Tony Mowbray did not see the incident......" Is he Wenger in disguise?

Coventry City fans don't think so.........

Up the Clarets......

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:47 pm

eastanglianclaret wrote:According to the Sky report "Blackburn manager Tony Mowbray did not see the incident......" Is he Wenger in disguise?

I think Mowbray could be telling the truth.
He always seems a decent bloke with integrity, and he has unreservedly and firmly criticised the offenders. So why would he lie about what he saw?
He claims that following Cork's goal he turned away from the pitch to have a conversation with his assistants / coaches etc. (or words to that effect).
I think that this is entirely plausible. He's hardly going to focus his attention on Burnley's goal celebrations, and that's where the incident occurred.

Saxoman · Post by **Saxoman** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:04 pm

I'm a rovers fan as you well know and Westwood should have nutted him.

beddie · Post by **beddie** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:25 pm

Well that will cost the Venky's a large fine I would imagine plus a ban for the lad.

Andingle · Post by **Andingle** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:45 pm

A ban from watching that lot could be seen more as a reward than a punishment

Barry_Chuckle · Post by **Barry_Chuckle** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:03 pm

He should be forced every home game until the end of the season as a punishment.

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:40 pm

As Rowls says, who would back themselves against someone who probably trains hard every day of the week?

There was a similar incident at Bristol Rovers years ago. Idiot runs on pitch to confront the goalkeeper in his trainers on wet football pitch. Unsurprisingly he got a right good hiding. Think it might have been Gavin Ward.

Hopefully a prison sentence and a lifetime ban / season ticket in the upper tier.

HuncoatClaret · Post by **HuncoatClaret** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 8:15 pm

Graham Stack the ex Reading and Arsenal goalie shows perfectly how to deal with pitch invaders.

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Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 8:20 pm

The Woods brothers will be dining out on it for years to come up the Shadsworth stables.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 8:46 pm

Bstards will probably get a large fine. It could be the thing that sends them into administration.Hopefully

Longsider · Post by **Longsider** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 9:22 pm

Saxoman wrote:I'm a rovers fan as you well know and Westwood should have nutted him.

Good on ya Saxo.

dpinsussex · Post by **dpinsussex** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 10:17 pm

Barry_Chuckle wrote:He should be forced every home game until the end of the season as a punishment.

Handcuffed to his chair and eyes forced open with clamps. Maybe drop some fluid into his eyeballs to stop them drying out.
Suffer u bstud

Healeywoodclaret · Post by **Healeywoodclaret** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:03 am

All joking apart this could have been serious. The idiot with his hands round Westwood"s throat could have had a knife. We could have had a dead Burnley player on the pitch. Maximum penalty should he given in an effort to deter other idiots up and down the country who might get the same idea.

turbo5 · Post by **turbo5** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:46 am

It all appears to be Woods fault !
A wooden performance by Rovers
At E Wood
Two Woods brothers invade the pitch
Westwood took him down

watched by Burnley's Chris Wood and Rovers Richie Smallwood
and statement from the Lancashire Assistant Chief Constable Terry Woods

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:00 am

Healeywoodclaret wrote:All joking apart this could have been serious. The idiot with his hands round Westwood"s throat could have had a knife. We could have had a dead Burnley player on the pitch. Maximum penalty should he given in an effort to deter other idiots up and down the country who might get the same idea.

By that logic the Burnley fan who threw a flare could have thrown a grenade.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:17 am

I'd like to see all punishments based on what could have actually happened. Be more fun that way.

Caught speeding at 33mph. Could have been doing 100mph etc etc

claptrappers_union · Post by **claptrappers_union** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:50 am

Rileybobs wrote:By that logic the Burnley fan who threw a flare could have thrown a grenade.

The allusion is that someone could easily breach the security and attack an innocent person on the pitch. As for the flare, it could've been a grenade, end of the day it got past police and ground security when it was turned up to 11 and still somebody got hurt with it.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:53 am

claptrappers_union wrote:The allusion is that someone could easily breach the security and attack an innocent person on the pitch. As for the flare, it could've been a grenade, end of the day it got past police and ground security when it was turned up to 11 and still somebody got hurt with it.

It's always going to be easy for someone to enter the field of play if they really want to though - even a bank of stewards would struggle to stop someone intent on getting onto the pitch. The diabolical response time of the stewards or police was the alarming thing.

Being allowed to smuggle a flare into such a heavily-policed game on the other hand is huge incompetence.

claptrappers_union · Post by **claptrappers_union** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:11 pm

Rileybobs wrote:It's always going to be easy for someone to enter the field of play if they really want to though - even a bank of stewards would struggle to stop someone intent on getting onto the pitch. The diabolical response time of the stewards or police was the alarming thing.

Being allowed to smuggle a flare into such a heavily-policed game on the other hand is huge incompetence.

I agree its easy, but I can't believe he walked on to other side the field attacked players, fall on his arse and then allowed to strut around before being apprehended by just two stewards.

The clown should've been surrounded before he reached the centre circle.

If it was Blackburn vs MK Dons I'd understand not during a massive police operation.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:36 pm

Apparently it was his birthday and did it for a bet. You can tell by the way he minced on he was hoping that he would have been detained before the Burnley players put him on his back. The Mr Blobby run on by his brother was pure comedy.
latest update on the clown is that all his four grandchildren are really embarrassed .

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:55 pm

Wasn't at the game so some of this maybe incorrect.

I've seen twitter photos and seen comments that some of the police were armed. Not sure why, were there any please sniffer dogs trying to find flares / pyros?

Before the Middlesbrough away game last season there was clear communication from the police up there that there would dogs sniffing out flares / pyros. You would think that would deter the idiots who deem it necessary to bring these to football matches. At PNE in the championship season there were dogs outside, I'm assuming there were looking for these too.

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:57 pm

I'm more embarrassed that a 42 year old claret took a flare to the game.

What an absolute dogknobber.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:07 pm

Have we had a flare at other games recently apart from this week?

Healeywoodclaret · Post by **Healeywoodclaret** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:16 pm

Rileybobs wrote:By that logic the Burnley fan who threw a flare could have thrown a grenade.

Indeed he could. If he got through security with a flare he could get through with a grenade concievably.

So Rileybobs are you suggesting it would have been impossible for the Blackburn fan to have had a knife on him?

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:33 pm

Healeywoodclaret wrote:Indeed he could. If he got through security with a flare he could get through with a grenade concievably.

So Rileybobs are you suggesting it would have been impossible for the Blackburn fan to have had a knife on him?

Not at all, just that if I wanted to run onto a pitch and stab a player at any game across the country I imagine it would be fairly simple and not something that could be easily prevented.

What I'm suggesting is that the Blackburn idiot's sentence shouldn't be based on a hypothetical event.

Foshiznik · Post by **Foshiznik** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:19 pm

He could have had a fold away sniper rifle or bow and arrow and taken out a player from the stands...

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:22 pm

He could all have arrived on horse and done some John Wayne ****.

Then again, that maybe a bad idea

Healeywoodclaret · Post by **Healeywoodclaret** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:28 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Not at all, just that if I wanted to run onto a pitch and stab a player at any game across the country I imagine it would be fairly simple and not something that could be easily prevented.

What I'm suggesting is that the Blackburn idiot's sentence shouldn't be based on a hypothetical event.

So lenient sentence. No deterrent. Next idiot may choose to tool himself up. Maximum sentence from me I'm afraid.

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 5:06 pm

Healeywoodclaret wrote:So lenient sentence. No deterrent. Next idiot may choose to tool himself up. Maximum sentence from me I'm afraid.

Surely the sentence for stabbing and killing a player would the deterrent in your scenario. If someone manages to get into the ground with a knife and is intent on stabbing a player he's not going to suddenly think 'oh hang on, I could do some serious time for running on to the pitch, better not bother'.

dales_claret · Post by **dales_claret** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 5:11 pm

Back in the 70's there were more flares on the turf than you could wave a shitty stick at

Healeywoodclaret · Post by **Healeywoodclaret** » Fri Aug 25, 2017 5:39 pm

martin_p wrote:Surely the sentence for stabbing and killing a player would the deterrent in your scenario. If someone manages to get into the ground with a knife and is intent on stabbing a player he's not going to suddenly think 'oh hang on, I could do some serious time for running on to the pitch, better not bother'.

Who knows what these idiots think when they are ****** up or drugged up?