Pitch invasions

[PhilM]

Police got what they deserved yesterday allowing a highly charged local Derby with a place at Wembley at stake to kick off in the evening.

People wou and have been on the ale since around 9/10 in the morning

Isn't that what Merseyside Police were to some extent complaining about (not a QF), yet most of our fans thought their claims were unjust?

I cannot condone pitch invasions and it's not something I've ever done, however sometimes on rare occasions I can to a degree understand them

Winning the league... survival in the league... giant killing against top opposition; then maybe. During a match to incite your opposition? Nope.

Especially when the atmosphere was not one of relief or success, but rather purely of aggression and anti-social behaviour.

West Brom fans were throwing seats onto home fans and the Villa fans were then threatening opposition players. They even bit their own captain!

 

[Fearthainn]

Under the right circumstances its understandable. Yesterday it was just small time, but then again it was Villa.

 

[Jimmy Flangemoth]

 

[sageyefc]

Was boss that day

 

[Bilko]

funniest is the speed of the linesman at the final whistle,fairly flys it !

 

[ste d' indica]

Terrifying to be fair:

 

[SH1958]

The linesman from the Villa vs WBA FA cup match just did 0-60 in 1 second to escape the pitch invasion

 

[Merseyzig]

I think that, yes, pitch invasions do still have a place in football. If only to show that a professional football match is closely intertwined with the emotions of supporters in attendance, that we don't exist in a benignly totalitarian state where we're told what me must or must not do at every step of our journey through a day and that the FA cup really does matter to people. Much worse was the violence in a pub before the match (17 arrests!!!).
A lot of the people on the pitch last night will get punished rightly for some of their stupid actions (baiting the opposition, swinging on the crossbar and so on) but most of the people there were there out of an innocent spirit of jubilation. The BBC did on-pitch commentaries in the midst of a pitch invasion earlier this season (Warrington Town) and it was fine.

 

[SH1958]

Sherwood defends Aston Villa pitch invasion: "You want to celebrate with the whole crowd," Sherwood told BBC Sport . "I don't think it's scary, it probably is for a West Brom player.

 

[SH1958]

Funniest Match Invaders of All Time

 

[craigw]

We should have invaded the pitch when Tim Howard scored that goal v Bolton. That was a one off thing. Worthy of it ?.

 

[TheFinnFan]

What do you guys think? What kind of sanction to Villa?

 

[Lionel Naismith]

Villa are a so called big club hahaha

 

[Ashtonian]

Nothing wrong with a pitch invasion if the calling is right. Villas game was not reason to have one.

team staying up / team going up / david beating goliath

its emotion, its relief, its happiness. I dont think in all my knowledge i have heard of anything bad happening away from a bit of vandlism in one which over the years speaks volumes!

 

[summerisle]

We should have invaded the pitch when Tim Howard scored that goal v Bolton. That was a one off thing. Worthy of it ?.