Grealish attack

Quoted from jimgtfc

Shocking behaviour, he’ll spend some time at her majesty’s pleasure and probably never step foot in a football ground ever again and rightly so. Personally I’m never sure punishing the club itself is the best way of dealing with it, whether it’s a fine or a points deduction it just seems like an easy way out for the FA (or football league, whoever will deal with this) and just scapegoats the club. It’s a mindless idiot, what could Birmingham City, the stewards or police have genuinely done to prevent a completely random action that they had no idea was about to happen?

Birmingham City have form on this kind of thing in games versus Villa, bit historic but rember the Enkleman incident?

No doubt the bloke has form for being an idiot and will pay the price, at least with a ban. The problem is the precedent. Did he think up this assault all by himself with his own minimal IQ or was he influenced by the one in Scotland? And following on from that - will his stupidity make other thugs aware that security in a ground is now minimal if you really want to be a pitch invader?

Deterrents hardly ever work on the thick and the drunk. I think clubs have to give some serious thought to security and prevention and players have to act responsibly in the way they celebrate by gestures and leaping barriers and charging into fans.

All seater grounds will probably not be able to use the front 3or4 rows of seats now to give the stewards a chance to see those making a run for the pitch. Is this how modern segregation/crowd control works?

Disgusting. Hope he gets a massive fine and banned from all football grounds for life.

The individual in case, let's not bother calling him a football fan because he isn't, is the one to blame here.  No-one else.

This didn't happen because of alcohol or because of poor stewarding, it happened because the individual believes it's acceptable behaviour.  That's the problem of society.  Not football, not Birmingham City, not the stewards or the police who were in attendance.

The stewards and the police are massively outnumbered at games and it doesn't take a genius to work out that each steward/police officer can't contain up to 100 people each.  

The sad thing is that whilst this individual will probably receive a suspended prison term and some community service, the real punishment will be handed to Birmingham City and football fans in general.  The next however many second city derbies will be practically locked down.

What happened was deplorable, but will the fall-out mirror the fall-out to what happens every weekend at Horse Racing events throughout the summer?  You can compare this to any acts at any public event that take place.  Scumbags, unfortunately, attend and it's down to society to make sure the individuals are punished and the message is loud and clear that it won't be tolerated.  What doesn't work is punishing the mass innocent parties who attended to watch the spectacle.  

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

All seater grounds will probably not be able to use the front 3or4 rows of seats now to give the stewards a chance to see those making a run for the pitch. Is this how modern segregation/crowd control works?

The lower findus won’t take long to sell out then.

Quoted from Abdul19

The twit will go to prison for a bit and get a life ban, but Birmingham should be docked points too, serve as a deterrent.

Would you feel the same if a town fan did this at BP and we were in the relegation zone? Docking points isn't the way to stop some knuckledragger doing this sort of thing.

Quoted from Mariner Ronnie

The lower findus won’t take long to sell out then.

They'll have to install a moat containing mutated sea bass with fricking laser beams

Quoted from grimsby pete

Grimsby Town fans have proved time and time again you can have a drink and be well behaved,

That person I will not say fan was just a nutter and wants locking up and banned from attending football for life.

That could be countered by the number of " fans " we have with banning orders. It's also a fact that for the last game of the season at BP fans will come onto the pitch even though a/ they know it is an offence b/ the are constantly told not to come onto the pitch for that game. I've even seen posts on this site defending those who come onto the pitch for the last game. It doesn't matter whatever game it is, any decent, responsible fan should never come onto the pitch , regardless of the situation.

Quoted from rancido

That could be countered by the number of " fans " we have with banning orders. It's also a fact that for the last game of the season at BP fans will come onto the pitch even though a/ they know it is an offence b/ the are constantly told not to come onto the pitch for that game. I've even seen posts on this site defending those who come onto the pitch for the last game. It doesn't matter whatever game it is, any decent, responsible fan should never come onto the pitch , regardless of the situation.

I should have said our regular fans, we have more than the usual idiots that attend games when they think they can cause trouble with a good chance of getting away with it,

A thug is a thug whether he has a drink or not.