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Yep, sure was.
Ha. -Aah! They have Latics flares! I’ll wager that flare has never been used as a champions celebration. I’ll wager it’s never had 4,300 ‘Tics storming the pitch with it.”
Perhaps clubs could provide guaranteed seating in their away ends specifically for parents with young kids and the older fans? Away contingents invariably stand, that’s the way it is!
Any away end these days tends to be guaranteed seating! It’s just people are awkward and choose to stand, usually not where they are supposed to be sitting. Police and stewards are not tough enough and people get away with being dick heads.
Glad we won and all that yesterday but the rest of it was a shite experience. I said we wouldn’t go away again. But if we do, I’m not sitting anywhere near the front. No good with little ones.[/quote]
I meant a designated area, say the end 4 or 5 seats top to bottom on either the left or right! Better idea, the first few rows, sorted!
By the end of the game, when the presentation was going to happen, we had no choice other than to get onto the pitch perimeter with the kids, FOR THEIR SAFETY. Otherwise, they wouldve been crushed against the boards. Some dwarf of a bloke, Latics fan, didn’t like me doing this and started muttering. Told him to get lost. Loads massing behind us, obviously to go into pitch, so I did what I thought was best for my kids.Kids safety is the paramount importance.
Give it a few years Vat and your kids will be bigging it up being there the day we won the title. There will be no harm done in the long run.
A few went on the pitch but I didn’t see any trouble other than that and they came off the pitch when they needed to. Pitch invasions have always happened and always will happen.
I think it’s time we put to rest this pitch invasion fine of ours and the idea we’ve been harshly treated. In today’s football world a £12,500 fine is not even a slap on the wrist, more a bit of finger wagging, so stop looking for comparisons with other pitch invasions in some desperate attempt to show how much we’ve been hard done by otherwise we might start tripping over our bottom lip.
The difference with the City game was its high profile, the fact it was beamed around the world to multi-millions of people. However you may judge the severity of what went on it was unsavoury and to dismiss the Aguero incident and the stand-off with the City fans with objects being thrown as some incidental event is to completely miss the point of why the fine was imposed. Those after match antics were not something the authorities would seem to condone by not imposing some kind of punishment. To argue Aguero didn’t get off the pitch quick enough or that the City fans were as much to blame is a lame excuse. It was Latics fans who were on the pitch.
Get over it!
If people want to carry on posted about this topic let it be ….who are you Sammy mayor of Wigan.What’s being the mayor of Wigan got to do with anything?
And if I want to post about this topic then let that be as well.
If people want to go on the pitch after a game then fine, I get that up to a point, but there are potential consequences so don’t go bleating about it when it backfires and the club gets a fine or play the we’re being persecuted card because some other club hasn’t.
We’re starting to sound like mard-arses.
End of the day we had a good season…..so as the fines go….its nothing to what it could of been fans have a right to ask questions..its funny how arguero and his team mates didn’t kick off about their coach being ambushed. But that’s the parcel of us being a small club and I’d hate to changed it.im more pissed off with the klumps chairman being at Doncaster. Lol.
End of the day we had a good season…..so as the fines go….its nothing to what it could of been fans have a right to ask questions..its funny how arguero and his team mates didn’t kick off about their coach being ambushed. But that’s the parcel of us being a small club and I’d hate to changed it.im more pissed off with the klumps chairman being at Doncaster. Lol.I don’t know why a shareholder in London Broncos would be there, unless it is because he is the Chairman of the Football League, and wanted a bit of glory and worldwide exposure in presenting the League One Trophy to the premier sporting club from his home town.
Point is Sammy the fixture itself should be irrelevant however much I agree with you about the City game. It is against the law to go onto a pitch whether it is a league game cup game or league decider. We were rightly fined for breaking the law so now parity must ensue. Blackburn fans stopped the game thinking the ref had blown for full time instead of a free kick. Either every pitch invasion is punished by a fine or scrap the law and view every incident separately. I don’t think we are being mardy arsed just looking for consistency.
Point is Sammy the fixture itself should be irrelevant however much I agree with you about the City game. It is against the law to go onto a pitch whether it is a league game cup game or league decider. We were rightly fined for breaking the law so now parity must ensue. Blackburn fans stopped the game thinking the ref had blown for full time instead of a free kick. Either every pitch invasion is punished by a fine or scrap the law and view every incident separately. I don’t think we are being mardy arsed just looking for consistency.But the nature of the fixture isn’t irrelevant.
So the Blackburn fans invaded the pitch because they thought the final whistle had gone? The media coverage was low key, the game wasn’t being televised all over the world and it didn’t really matter if the game didn’t go the full distance anyway. If it had been Blackburn or anybody else beating City in that cup match with the same pitch invasion they too would have been fined.
And let’s put the fine into some kind of context. I don’t know what the minimum fine is for a pitch invasion, if there is one at all, but £12,500 is hardly worth bothering about. City got fined £50k for failing to control their players.
Yes, the media made more of it than was necessary but that’s the way of things today. The talk after the game was more to do with the antics of the fans on the pitch rather than the fantastic result, a situation which the football authorities could not overlook.
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