Villarocker Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 what a disgrace, ban them all I work with that bloke in the light blue training jacket. Good job he's a good lad or I'd have grassed him up lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I don't know if it still happens but Italy on the last game of the season it was customary for fans to run on and strip all the players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 I really dislike Jonathan Pearce. The worst commentator in the history of sport. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 This pitch invasion is not that much of a big deal. It's more an example of how starved of any sort of success Villa have been that the emotions could no longer be contained. Now bring on Sunderland!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danishlad Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Running on the pitch before the final whistle was wrong. But I've seen Chelsea, Liverpool, and Man United fans on the pitch celebrating goals at villa park. They all do it. Ripping up seats and throwing them at people. Now that's disgusting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Running on the pitch before the final whistle was wrong. But I've seen Chelsea, Liverpool, and Man United fans on the pitch celebrating goals at villa park. They all do it. Ripping up seats and throwing them at people. Now that's disgusting! What the Albion fans did is an act of violence that could have seriously injured somebody. It should be the duty of the police and club to identify the culprits and make arrests. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 There doesn't seem to be a distinction about Albion fans ripping out and throwing seats and the villa fans running on the pitch. Villa fans getting the blame for it all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Why are you surprised by that? West brom have the image of a well run club with the media favourite Pulis in charge. They can do no wrong. Fans of other clubs will fall for the click bait with anything that is Sherwood involved especially if it is negative. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calcifer Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Well when we got knocked out by the noses in the 2010 QF carling cup game they got a fine Birmingham City have been fined £20,000, with an additional £20,000 suspended, and warned as to their future conduct following the pitch invasion at their Carling Cup quarter-final victory over Aston Villa in December. Birmingham accepted the charge of failing to ensure no spectators or unauthorised persons were permitted to encroach on to the pitch and were handed the punishment by a Football Association independent regulatory commission. I think that picture of the villa fan with the **** on his head doing the rounds summed up the 1st lot of pitch invaders. The 2nd lot well thats different we are going to Wembley!! After the last few years of depression we finally have a day trip to Wembley hopefully against Bradford/Reading. This should NEVER have been a 5:30 kick off, looks like 12pm kick offs for derby games will be returning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 This kind of stuff is way over the top. flavour of the month, they're desperate to label us all as drunken racist idiots who will harm women and children at any opportunity we invaded the pitch, no doubt someone somewhere could have been killed like i said before the main issue for us is how small time it is that we invaded the pitch for making a semi final there it was, MOTD, kevin phillips "could have killed someone" **** off Killed someone? I hope he was making that gesture to the disgusting violent thugs ripping up seats in the upper north stand and throwing them 30/40ft on to the people below rather than a few success starved excited numptys running on the pitch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 A few fans got injured when the seats were being ripped out an thrown from the upper North. I saw one guy escorted out with his head cut open. Fans on the pitch, well we have previously been deprived of success and it was all in good spirit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 When I heard about what Delph said I was a little concerned but now I've just seen he was laughing while saying it. It's just a bit of harmless fun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ponky Posted March 8, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2015 (edited) My only complaint about the post match shenanigans as one watching on TV from afar is that robbed everyone at the ground of the chance to celebrate a great win with the players as a group. Also we didn't get to see Craig Gardner's moronic face looking aghast. Edited March 8, 2015 by Ponky 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 When I heard about what Delph said I was a little concerned but now I've just seen he was laughing while saying it. It's just a bit of harmless fun. I actually think he loved it but was trying to be PC for TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 This kind of stuff is way over the top. flavour of the month, they're desperate to label us all as drunken racist idiots who will harm women and children at any opportunity we invaded the pitch, no doubt someone somewhere could have been killed like i said before the main issue for us is how small time it is that we invaded the pitch for making a semi final there it was, MOTD, kevin phillips "could have killed someone" **** off Killed someone? I hope he was making that gesture to the disgusting violent thugs ripping up seats in the upper north stand and throwing them 30/40ft on to the people below rather than a few success starved excited numptys running on the pitch! He was referring to the seat throwing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted March 8, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2015 Watching Sunday Supplement and this pitch invasion is being taken well and truly completely over the top. Back to the dark ages? **** off... we've just got to Wembley after 4 years of watching truly awful football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hev Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 It stopped the rest of us having the chance to applaud the team and manager which i wd have loved to have done. Dont agree with the pitch invasion but the media are going well OTT. How wd the ones that did it feel though if we were all to be banned from attending the SF because of the minority Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 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. This made me chuckle. What is it with people in the Lower Doug Ellis...is it a condition of their ticket that no singing is allowed!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 what the pitch invasion apologists aren't prepared to admit, is that if one of those balloons had popped with so many people around somebody could have been temporarily deafened does nobody respect health and safety any more? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekka Posted March 8, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2015 (edited) Clicky The return of football's ugly face "This was a game that always had the capacity to be, to use West Brom manager Tony Pulis's word, "tasty" given the obvious deep ill-feeling between the two sets of supporters separated by less than four miles. The antipathy was evident from the kick-off and provided an uneasy undercurrent throughout inside a thunderous Villa Park that reflected the tension and importance the FA Cup still carries, especially with a semi-final at Wembley as the prize. And when Fabian Delph gave Villa a 51st-minute lead the first signs of the behaviour that will surely lead to a Football Association investigation were detected as the sight and smell of smoke from a flare, claret in colour, filled the air. Sadly, the inevitable happened as the frustrations of Albion's fans at a harsh red card for Claudio Yacob and Villa's second goal from Scott Sinclair manifested itself in casual, mindless vandalism as claret seats were ripped out and hurled on to the pitch and in the direction of home fans housed directly below. This was the signal for an unsavoury response from Villa supporters, goading their opponents mercilessly before embarking on scenes plucked from the dark days of the '70s and '80s. It was an atmosphere heavy with threat. There was a mini-invasion before referee Anthony Taylor sounded the final whistle which held up play while stewards attempted to restore order, accompanied by the soundtrack of Villa supporters loudly jeering their own. And as fans congregated on the perimeter before the official conclusion, it was only too obvious this game would not end well. In truth it could not end soon enough once Villa went two-up. Ground authorities were powerless to stop thousands of Villa supporters pouring on the pitch as referee Taylor headed for cover, not just celebrating with their own players but also surrounding and taunting members of the beaten Albion team. Pulis understandably called for greater stewarding but it is also hard to judge how many you would actually need to halt that human tide intent on getting on to the pitch. Many Villa fans were on the pitch in jubilation but this misses the point entirely. This is still an offence and it was clear that the safety of some West Brom players was threatened and compromised. Goalkeeper Boaz Myhill had already been mocked and subjected to abusive gestures by a fan and at the final whistle Callum McManaman was one who was jostled and provoked, getting involved in angry altercations before finally being led away. Irrespective of, as Sherwood said, "emotions running high" these fans should not have been on the pitch and it was clear plenty were not offering words of commiseration to McManaman and his cohorts. It was a throwback image. And it may have been wise to wait before slipping the celebratory song "Que Sera Sera" on to the public address system while such a toxic environment was still being brought under control. Pulis was correct when he said: "It's disgraceful. We don't want to see those scenes. They've beaten us and for that to happen, that's just mindless idiots. If you're Villa you need to look at the stewards as they came over to our fans and there was nobody there." Former Villa and West Brom forward Kevin Phillips, an analyst for BBC Radio 5 live, was concerned for the visiting players as he said: "I can see West Brom players still on the pitch which, for me, is very dangerous. For me this has been very badly policed. Why are there still away players on there? "They should be punished for it." And BBC Sport's Mark Lawrenson told Match Of The Day Live: "It's like a scene from the 1980s all over again. Absolutely ridiculous."" BBC Sport (link to article above). Edited March 8, 2015 by trekka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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