packoman Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Wigan fans also ran the on the pitch after they got relegated in 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Ive seen four games in the last three years. One was a particularly harrowing 3-0 defeat to Everton at home where i very much wanted to leave at half time. In those three years ive been disappointed to the end of existence by Villa. So imagine how the season ticket holders of the last three years have felt. Miserable, angry, frustrated and utterly powerless I presume. Then imagine their celebration at Villa actually achieving something today, FA Cup Semi-Final, at Wembley, having beaten local rivals in the process. Pitch invasions are rare beasts, but this one was **** long overdue. Give them their moment in the sun, their support, passion, patience and £££ deserve it. They can all chip in and pay the fine then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 (edited) It was very moronic running on before the final whistle had even blown, that dosen't shed us in a good light at all so no issue with us being fined. Most clubs do this though, Man. United fans have their yearly pitch invasions at VP whenever they scored, Chelsea fans were on the pitch when Lampard broke the record here. It's not right but it happens when football fans get carried away. Edit: Was in a pub watching so couldn't hear the comms but I believe the BBC were on their high horse about this. They need to have a word with themselves at scheduling it at half 5 ffs. Edited March 7, 2015 by VillaChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Ive seen four games in the last three years. One was a particularly harrowing 3-0 defeat to Everton at home where i very much wanted to leave at half time. In those three years ive been disappointed to the end of existence by Villa. So imagine how the season ticket holders of the last three years have felt. Miserable, angry, frustrated and utterly powerless I presume. Then imagine their celebration at Villa actually achieving something today, FA Cup Semi-Final, at Wembley, having beaten local rivals in the process. Pitch invasions are rare beasts, but this one was **** long overdue. Give them their moment in the sun, their support, passion, patience and £££ deserve it. They can all chip in and pay the fine then Our share of a five billion pound tv deal should cover it. Live a little my friend. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 If the semi final wasn't at Wembley then there wouldn't be a pitch invasion IMO. Unfortunately for most fans football is going to suck. It's not like Man utd fans where they don't even care about winning the League Cup enough to stay after the game and watch their team lift the trophy. If a lower league team beat a prem side, there's a pitch invasion. If a team avoid relegation, there's a pitch invasion. We now have fans that haven't seen much success here, getting to Wembley is worth celebrating for us now, that's where we are at. I don't like the invasion but understand it, when a few do it loads more join in. We should have had police all the way around the ground to stop that. The stuff before the final whistle was very silly but I feel the media are blowing it up to be more serious than it was. It was pretty similar to when we beat Blackburn in the semi finals and then I remember MOTD saying 'Look what it means to the fans'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 The BBC played no small part in ensuring that thousands of people turned up to the game pissed. Two clubs separated by four miles, lets have a 5:30 kick off on a Saturday in spring. Nobody will be out on the all dayer before the game, right? They got the atmosphere they wanted and they got the controversy they wanted, the win bonus covers our inevitable fine and I actually get to go to work happy for the second time in a week. I can't remember the last time that happened so who cares about what Mark **** Lawrenson thinks? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted March 7, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 7, 2015 Not read the whole thread but it seems like people's opinions of this incident is well and truly completely over the top. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lions_Roar Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Blown way out of proportion, I was in the upper holte so had no chance on getting on the pitch. Before the final whistle was stupid, I can't help but think a few thought the game had ended and went on and then people followed. They didn't go on to cause trouble FFs! The scheduling was ridiculous, I saw people that could barely stand up! But I also saw kids on e hallowed turf for the first time and memories they won't forget telling their friends at school on Monday. Anything that wasn't done in celebration is to be ashamed of but thats a very small minority as always. Most of the Albion fans had gone by this time and those that stayed couldn't contain themselves and threw seats. After what we've been through the last 4 years, a trip to wembley is something to look forward to, a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Are those that went on the pitch during the world cup final idiots as well? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivahate Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 (edited) Most of the premature pitch invaders seemed to be from the Lower Doug Ellis. It's funny how they couldn't muster up the energy to sing all game but then couldn't wait until full time to enter the pitch. Edited March 7, 2015 by vivahate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivahate Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Just caught up with the BBC highlights, the commentators really need to get over themselves. If that was Bradford fans invading the pitch they would be talking about the 'magic of the cup'. Pathetic hyperbole. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Our share of a five billion pound tv deal should cover it. Live a little my friend. If running onto a football pitch is your definition of "living" then I'm glad I don't have your life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Not impressed by the invasion during the game, but even less so with albion fans chucking seats on people in the lower north. That is a far more dangerous act IMO. 5.30 KO is probably about 50% to blame for all this unpleasant actions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lions_Roar Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Our share of a five billion pound tv deal should cover it. Live a little my friend. If running onto a football pitch is your definition of "living" then I'm glad I don't have your life Tell that to some of the kids that went on and can't wait to tell their friends about it t school and show them photos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Our share of a five billion pound tv deal should cover it. Live a little my friend. If running onto a football pitch is your definition of "living" then I'm glad I don't have your life Tell that to some of the kids that went on and can't wait to tell their friends about it t school and show them photos. If it was just kids running on there'd not be an issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Our share of a five billion pound tv deal should cover it. Live a little my friend.If running onto a football pitch is your definition of "living" then I'm glad I don't have your life Tell that to some of the kids that went on and can't wait to tell their friends about it t school and show them photos. If it was just kids running on there'd not be an issue Explain to me the difference and what is the age limit of acceptability please. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Our share of a five billion pound tv deal should cover it. Live a little my friend. If running onto a football pitch is your definition of "living" then I'm glad I don't have your life Tell that to some of the kids that went on and can't wait to tell their friends about it t school and show them photos. If it was just kids running on there'd not be an issue Explain to me the difference and what is the age limit of acceptability please. Kids are kids and are highly unlikely to contain drunk thugs in their numbers. Adults are not kids, though they do act like it sometimes, and are very likely to include drunken thugs in their numbers (the kind who, allegedly, assaulted some WBA players, stole our own captain's armband and boots and bit him, and decided swinging from the crossbars was somehow a good idea). The FA would be unlikely to fine a club for a spontaneous post-match pitch invasion by 11 year olds is another important factor, nor would home or away players feel in any way endangered. Gloss it up however you like, you did something incredibly stupid with a lot of other people. The only real difference is that you've dropped yourself in it by saying it on the board, which Limpid will be obliged to turn over to the police along with your email/IP address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova26 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Thank goodness Sky are still pretending the FA Cup does not exist or we'd have never heard the end of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 I am utterly blown away by your reaction here P3te. Maybe best to leave it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Gloss it up however you like, you did something incredibly stupid with a lot of other people. The only real difference is that you've dropped yourself in it by saying it on the board, which Limpid will be obliged to turn over to the police along with your email/IP address.What a **** travesty of a world when this is the case (the glee in your post is so barely contained, btw), i.e. that running on the pitch after a sports match carries with it so many problematic implications that it is deemed 'incredibly stupid'.It's a world that deserves to eat itself through its own arsehole as that's where its head is. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Our share of a five billion pound tv deal should cover it. Live a little my friend. If running onto a football pitch is your definition of "living" then I'm glad I don't have your life Tell that to some of the kids that went on and can't wait to tell their friends about it t school and show them photos. If it was just kids running on there'd not be an issue Explain to me the difference and what is the age limit of acceptability please. Kids are kids and are highly unlikely to contain drunk thugs in their numbers. Adults are not kids, though they do act like it sometimes, and are very likely to include drunken thugs in their numbers (the kind who, allegedly, assaulted some WBA players, stole our own captain's armband and boots and bit him, and decided swinging from the crossbars was somehow a good idea). The FA would be unlikely to fine a club for a spontaneous post-match pitch invasion by 11 year olds is another important factor, nor would home or away players feel in any way endangered. Gloss it up however you like, you did something incredibly stupid with a lot of other people. The only real difference is that you've dropped yourself in it by saying it on the board, which Limpid will be obliged to turn over to the police along with your email/IP address. Sheeze, its the rozzers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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