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Quoted from LH

A prime chance for the justice system to make a proper example if someone. The Leicester fan who attacked the Forest players in the cup got 4 months in YOI, this one was far more brutal and deserves years behind bars.

Football fans are generally “made an example of” at every possible opportunity. This bloke will definitely be going down.

On a slightly related note, this tweet from Amanda Jacks at the FSF is worrying - looks like banning orders are going to go through the roof in the next few years -

https://mobile.twitter.com/FairCop_/status/1526453028085280768

Arrest made.

[url]https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61488095[/url]

Diabolical scenes

Throw the book at him

Looks like everyone needs to be on their best behaviour Monday night!

That is horrendous to watch. I hope Sharp is ok.

Firstly shocking, That was no accident, no sorry or concern for BS, its people like this that ruin it for everyone else. What a thick knucklehead.

Where was the stewarding, surely they would have known something like this would happen (pitch invasion). You actually see a bald headed man with a yellow top during the highlights on Quest.

I can see the metal fence being put back up, maybe temporary fence during the last game / playoff.

Simpleton isn't strong enough for that utter waste of breath

Here is a different video.

How do you limit things like this happening, without killing the occasion for fans. Do you install a motorised fence that can be erected at a touch of a button. Do you know allow fans to buy tickets that don't have a police record relating to football. I don't know anything about the fan that did it, he could be a family man for all i know, off his head on drugs.

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He's fortunate he only required stitches, what a cowardly thing to do.

It’s an obvious ban for life. But, surely a ban and prison sentence isn’t enough. It’s GBH, which is 2-16 years at liz’s b&b, but then, do forest get sanctions etc

These sorts of incidents are happening too frequently. It's hardly the crime of the century to invade a football pitch uninvited but something needs to be done. If that means clubs and authorities treating it as the offence that it is (it's not like there aren't signs posted around grounds)- decent fines for every identifiable person on that pitch. 1 year bans if it happens again. Will send a strong message that it's not okay to invade a football pitch regardless of how ecstatic you are or how many other people are doing it. There has to be legitimate consequences.

Quoted from immariner

These sorts of incidents are happening too frequently. It's hardly the crime of the century to invade a football pitch uninvited but something needs to be done. If that means clubs and authorities treating it as the offence that it is (it's not like there aren't signs posted around grounds)- decent fines for every identifiable person on that pitch. 1 year bans if it happens again. Will send a strong message that it's not okay to invade a football pitch regardless of how ecstatic you are or how many other people are doing it. There has to be legitimate consequences.

Wasn't Grimsby fans singing We're Gonna Invade The Pitch If We Score at Meadow Lane and from where I was sat tried to do so?

Quoted from ncfc_chalky

Wasn't Grimsby fans singing We're Gonna Invade The Pitch If We Score at Meadow Lane and from where I was sat tried to do so?

noone tried to invade the pitch. urine off man

Quoted from ncfc_chalky

Wasn't* Grimsby fans singing We're Gonna Invade The Pitch If We Score at Meadow Lane and from where I was sat tried to do so?

*Weren’t

But please don’t believe everything you hear from the football stands, otherwise you’ll start believing there’s things like a blue moon, football players go home in local ambulances and my personal favourite, that scunny are the pride of Lincolnshire and/or the best team the world has ever seen

Quoted from Hagrid

noone tried to invade the pitch. urine off man

I've got to say that I like the alternatives for swear words on here,far better than the usual asterisk that you get on other forums,well done to whoever thought of that 😎

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

*Weren’t

But please don’t believe everything you hear from the football stands, otherwise you’ll start believing there’s things like a blue moon, football players go home in local ambulances and my personal favourite, that scunny are the pride of Lincolnshire and/or the best team the world has ever seen

But overnight marinating of cod in urine before frying does give it an extra delicate flavour...

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

*Weren’t

But please don’t believe everything you hear from the football stands, otherwise you’ll start believing there’s things like a blue moon, football players go home in local ambulances and my personal favourite, that scunny are the pride of Lincolnshire and/or the best team the world has ever seen

I’ll be honest, I’ve never understood why an ambulance would be taking anyone home from the football.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

*Weren’t

But please don’t believe everything you hear from the football stands, otherwise you’ll start believing there’s things like a blue moon, football players go home in local ambulances and my personal favourite, that scunny are the pride of Lincolnshire and/or the best team the world has ever seen

If there's one thing that I've learnt about posting on here is that Grimsby fans are god fearing,church going,do gooding saints 👍

Part of the problem is that there are always people trying to make pitch invasions acceptable. "It happens everywhere", "just a show of emotion" etc. etc.
That means that when it happens real idiots like this guy seize the opportunity. When I saw the video it made me grateful we didn't have a similar individual go on the pitch at Barnet because he could easily have attacked their keeper who'd been winding us up with time wasting antics.
Bottom line is we have to educate people that there are no circumstances where going on the pitch is acceptable. It's a cultural shift and the people at the top of football need to get their wagons in a circle

It was bound to happen. I thought you weren't allowed on the pitch. If there are no consequences, people will still be doing it. We will all end up behind bars again. It's crap watching for a metal fence.

Quoted from ska face

Football fans are generally “made an example of” at every possible opportunity. This bloke will definitely be going down.

On a slightly related note, this tweet from Amanda Jacks at the FSF is worrying - looks like banning orders are going to go through the roof in the next few years -

https://mobile.twitter.com/FairCop_/status/1526453028085280768

Would agree generally speaking but four months for milling with three opposition players seens fairly lenient.

We need to bring back fences and maybe even electrify them if this sort of behaviour continues, it is so unnecessary

Quoted from ncfc_chalky

If there's one thing that I've learnt about posting on here is that Grimsby fans are god fearing,church going,do gooding saints 👍

If there's one thing I've learnt from reading your posts on here, is that you're a massive girl private.
Why don't you intercourse off round Lee Hughes house and rim him, you whiter than white gobshite 👊💦

If you go on the pitch and are identified, you'll be banned from attending all future games.

This should be the standard punishment, right across the board, so there's no misunderstanding. Everyone knows the rule, no matter which ground they're at.

I appreciate for the vast majority of fans, invading the pitch is just an expression of joy and a chance to share the same space as the heroes that achieve promotion or whatever.

But you'd hope it'd make fans think twice. The bloke who butted Sharp last night won't be able to go to Wembley now. In fact he won't be able to go back to watch Forest again any time soon. he's just lost his Saturday afternoons.

And if they go up, he'll miss out on their games against Leicester, Man City, Liverpool, Spurs, etc.

Quoted from coddy60

If there's one thing I've learnt from reading your posts on here, is that you're a massive girl private.
Why don't you intercourse off round Lee Hughes house and rim him, you whiter than white gobshite 👊💦

Have you got anger issues? 🤔

Tbh I prefer the more subtle wum who slowly reels you in and you don't realise that you've been had until it's to late,I've been posting on forums for far to long to take the bait of the sledgehammer wum

Quoted from coddy60

If there's one thing I've learnt from reading your posts on here, is that you're a massive girl private.
Why don't you intercourse off round Lee Hughes house and rim him, you whiter than white gobshite 👊💦

Your post will undoubtedly satisfy his new found love for the swear filter Coddy.

How the text "Lee Hughes" escaped censorship, I'll never know.

Quoted from ivanosandwich

Your post will undoubtedly satisfy his new found love for the swear filter Coddy.

How the text "Lee Hughes" escaped censorship, I'll never know.

Tbf I did find the post to be highly amusing with the alternative swear words

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

It’s an obvious ban for life. But, surely a ban and prison sentence isn’t enough. It’s GBH, which is 2-16 years at liz’s b&b, but then, do forest get sanctions etc

If you sanction Forest for that, surely clubs like ourselves need sanctioning for letting fans run on the pitch after the Boreham Wood game too?

Not sure why the club would need sanctioning because of one moron…

These incidents are few and far between given the numbers that attend football and he will, as usually happens with football fans, have the book thrown at him. Most would agree with that.

What a cowardly piece of excrement. Hope he goes to prison in Yorkshire with a few blades fans...

Forest supporting friend just told me he's been arrested - family man apparently FFS! Lifetime ban, prison, loss of job probably all coming. What defence will his solicitor come up with - insanity? Headbutting a player in front of 30k people with Sky cameras everywhere whilst wearing a bright yellow top - the lawyer might have a case...

The big fear for me is a player/manager will get knifed - I really think it could happen
It happens elsewhere (eg: nightclubs) so why not at a footy match, God forbid
There are no limits to a mindless few
Pond life
15 minutes of fame
A few likes and smiley emojis on Facebook
It's like they live in an alternative universe where they have lost all moral responsibility
Starring in their own shitty movie

Frightening

Lifetime bans for anyone who runs onto the pitch - then everyone would know the score
No excuses

i watched it all on Quest, you could see Cooper looking rather anxious to get to the tunnel and thats with his own fans grabbing him etc wanting selfies, he looked worried and nervous.

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

Forest supporting friend just told me he's been arrested - family man apparently FFS! Lifetime ban, prison, loss of job probably all coming. What defence will his solicitor come up with - insanity? Headbutting a player in front of 30k people with Sky cameras everywhere whilst wearing a bright yellow top - the lawyer might have a case...

One of my workmates says the Sheff U fans think it might be a case of mistaken identity ..... and that he wanted to attack the Blades' manager for his wind-up antics during the game and not Sharp

Can't imagine that would be a good defence line.... "I assaulted the wrong man your honour" ::)

On another note if he's a "family man" then what sort of guidance and example is he setting? If anything that could weigh even heavier against him than if he was just a one-off nutjob :-/

Quoted from pizzzza

Arrest made.

[url]https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61488095[/url]

Good. Please to see they have got the culprit.

Shocking. Against and ex-player of their too.

Heckingbotton didn't help with his antics in the first half but definitely no excuse for what happened

I for one love a good pitchy and have done all my life, never attacked a player during my many encroachments on to the hallowed turf so calls for carpet bans on all who make the move from terrace to turf at the end of season is such a knee jerk statement it deserves headbutting into the long grass.

Perimeter fencing was like being a contestant on krypton factor having to scale those and drop the other side so I would not mind a return to them at all even if it was just for my cardio.

There were a 1000's of pitch invaders all over the country and only one flying headbutt so give the lad a good bit of shovel and lets move on.

Quoted from ncfc_chalky

Wasn't Grimsby fans singing We're Gonna Invade The Pitch If We Score at Meadow Lane and from where I was sat tried to do so?

Thought you were ok. Right up to that 100% pure BULLSHIT comment.     From where you were sat ???
You must have been sat at home listening on the radio then.
We did score (I’m sure you remember that bit  I certainly do).
But we did NOT attempt to invade the pitch in any way, shape, or form.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Thought you were ok. Right up to that 100% pure BULLSHIT comment.     From where you were sat ???
You must have been sat at home listening on the radio then.
We did score (I’m sure you remember that bit  I certainly do).
But we did NOT attempt to invade the pitch in any way, shape, or form.

Absolutely. I was way too busy terrorising the disabled supporters down the front to even think about invading the pitch.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Thought you were ok. Right up to that 100% pure BULLSHIT comment.     From where you were sat ???
You must have been sat at home listening on the radio then.
We did score (I’m sure you remember that bit  I certainly do).
But we did NOT attempt to invade the pitch in any way, shape, or form.

Yes I was at the game and heard Grimsby fans singing about invading the pitch if they scored and there being a rush to the front when they did,I know what you are going to say,that fans rush to the front when a goal is scored (especially so late) but I was only going on memory,I could have looked on YouTube at the goal celebrations I suppose but just tapped it what I remembered

Quoted from ncfc_chalky

Wasn't Grimsby fans singing We're Gonna Invade The Pitch If We Score at Meadow Lane and from where I was sat tried to do so?

And how many times have you sung your going in the Trent yet for one minute I don’t believe you have ever thrown anyone in the water

Quoted from male private Nale

I for one love a good pitchy and have done all my life, never attacked a player during my many encroachments on to the hallowed turf so calls for carpet bans on all who make the move from terrace to turf at the end of season is such a knee jerk statement it deserves headbutting into the long grass.

Perimeter fencing was like being a contestant on krypton factor having to scale those and drop the other side so I would not mind a return to them at all even if it was just for my cardio.

There were a 1000's of pitch invaders all over the country and only one flying headbutt so give the lad a good bit of shovel and lets move on.

You certainly picked the right username.

Quoted from rancido

You certainly picked the right username.

It was given to me at birth so alas I cannot take the plaudits

Rancido...... if that is your real name

Quoted from devs

The big fear for me is a player/manager will get knifed - I really think it could happen
It happens elsewhere (eg: nightclubs) so why not at a footy match, God forbid
There are no limits to a mindless few
Pond life
15 minutes of fame
A few likes and smiley emojis on Facebook
It's like they live in an alternative universe where they have lost all moral responsibility
Starring in their own shitty movie

Frightening

Lifetime bans for anyone who runs onto the pitch - then everyone would know the score
No excuses

Wow surprised you dare leave the house to attend a football match

Quoted from crusty ole pie

And how many times have you sung your going in the Trent yet for one minute I don’t believe you have ever thrown anyone in the water

And has he ever had a wheel fall off his wheelbarrow?

Quoted from male private Nale

It was given to me at birth so alas I cannot take the plaudits

Rancido...... if that is your real name

Unusual Christian names - Male Private.
Rancido is actual a nickname given to me at my last workplace inspired by killer flatulence !

Quoted from rancido

Unusual Christian names - Male Private.
Rancido is actual a nickname given to me at my last workplace inspired by killer flatulence !

Not the iconic punk band then?

Quoted from rancido

Unusual Christian names - Male Private.
Rancido is actual a nickname given to me at my last workplace inspired by killer flatulence !

You must have a filter on your posts where words that could be offensive are altered to be described in a neutral fashion, my name is a shortened version of Richard.

Lovely moniker.

Quoted from male private Nale

You must have a filter on your posts where words that could be offensive are altered to be described in a neutral fashion, my name is a shortened version of Richard.

Lovely moniker.

I thought it was a play on Nick Dale 🙄

Quoted from male private Nale

You must have a filter on your posts where words that could be offensive are altered to be described in a neutral fashion, my name is a shortened version of Richard.

Lovely moniker.

I forgot about the alternative text when reading your username on your posts so I nearly spat out my tea when you pointed out that your name was Richard,whoever developed it deserves a medal as it's comedy gold that keeps giving

Quoted from ncfc_chalky

If there's one thing that I've learnt about posting on here is that Grimsby fans are god fearing,church going,do gooding saints 👍

Be honest now, did you actually come up with an opinion all by yourself or did you just get that one from The Times as well?

Quoted from Meza

i watched it all on Quest, you could see Cooper looking rather anxious to get to the tunnel and thats with his own fans grabbing him etc wanting selfies, he looked worried and nervous.

Haha yeah I found that amusing at the time, watching him slink straight off down the tunnel basically ignoring his own fans but now it seems like quite a savvy move.

The simple fact is, it happened, he’s been arrayed and will no doubt face his punishment. End of story.

We can debate all we want but the reaction from some proves why this will always be a weird thing to discuss. We’ve got people on here paranoid someone’s gonna get shivved up without any real evidence rod that ever happening to a player again a sporting event in this country and then we’ve got folk who literally don’t seem arsed and are indifferent.

Pitch invasions like that one at forest have been part of the game for donkeys years. It won’t go away, and this is an isolated incident. I wonder if the United player will be dealt with by the police for assaulting a fan? Either way, the pitch invasion looked mega and it’s safe to say that apart from those in the upper tiers pretty much everyone was on the pitch having a good time.

There’s always a level of hysteria when something like this isolated incident happens, perhaps because they’re so rare they magnified beyond sensible levels?

Anyway, remember, blue and red smokies for Monday, keep your Gak safe and remember, best running shoes to get over the train barriers and the predictable pitch invasion as town run out 8-0 winners…

24 weeks! Sweet Jesus that’s terrible

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/19/man-admits-assault-on-footballer-billy-sharp-at-play-off-semi-final

So will his 24 weeks become 12 weeks if he behaves himself in the nick....

I've a feeling there'll be further punishment handed out to him when he's on the inside & he won't be looking forward to that

Quoted from aldi_01

The simple fact is, it happened, he’s been arrayed and will no doubt face his punishment. End of story.

We can debate all we want but the reaction from some proves why this will always be a weird thing to discuss. We’ve got people on here paranoid someone’s gonna get shivved up without any real evidence rod that ever happening to a player again a sporting event in this country and then we’ve got folk who literally don’t seem arsed and are indifferent.

Pitch invasions like that one at forest have been part of the game for donkeys years. It won’t go away, and this is an isolated incident. I wonder if the United player will be dealt with by the police for assaulting a fan? Either way, the pitch invasion looked mega and it’s safe to say that apart from those in the upper tiers pretty much everyone was on the pitch having a good time.

There’s always a level of hysteria when something like this isolated incident happens, perhaps because they’re so rare they magnified beyond sensible levels?

Anyway, remember, blue and red smokies for Monday, keep your Gak safe and remember, best running shoes to get over the train barriers and the predictable pitch invasion as town run out 8-0 winners…

It may be an isolated incident but how often does an "isolated incident" have to occur before something serious happens and action has to be taken?

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

24 weeks! Sweet Jesus that’s terrible

Hard one isn't it. Very lenient sentence, but then there's not much benefit to keeping someone locked up in terms of rehabilitation or effectiveness at reducing crime (it is literally just for the punishment part).and we simply don't have the space or staffing in the prison system at the moment to give people lengthy sentences as a deterrent

"Mr Biggs has, to his credit, turned himself in."

Yeah fair play, Biggsy. They'd never have caught him otherwise.

Quoted from Abdul19

"Mr Biggs has, to his credit, turned himself in."

Yeah fair play, Biggsy. They'd never have caught him otherwise.

He should have been straight on the plane to Brazil!

Quoted from Marinerdan

He should have been straight on the plane to Brazil!

No doubt a single with the Sex Pistols will on the cards.....

Quoted from golfer

Birch the bstard

And the head butter

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/19/man-admits-assault-on-footballer-billy-sharp-at-play-off-semi-final

So will his 24 weeks become 12 weeks if he behaves himself in the nick....

I've a feeling there'll be further punishment handed out to him when he's on the inside & he won't be looking forward to that

He will effectively be out by the start of next season and probably going to Forest games under a disguise of some sort.

Quoted from MarinerWY

Hard one isn't it. Very lenient sentence, but then there's not much benefit to keeping someone locked up in terms of rehabilitation or effectiveness at reducing crime (it is literally just for the punishment part).and we simply don't have the space or staffing in the prison system at the moment to give people lengthy sentences as a deterrent

I think there is a strong case for a longer sentence and I'm genuinely surprised at the leniency. The fact that Billy Sharp only needed 4 stitches and no lasting injury is irrelevant and just pure luck - if the head butt had struck the cheekbone / eye socket area it could have been much more serious. This sentence is more like that for a drunken street brawl than a serious assault on someone in their place of work.

If someone is banned from attending football matches for a period of time - how is this enforced?

Quoted from RonMariner

No doubt a single with the Sex Pistols will on the cards.....

Ronnie Biggs was doing time
Till he done a bunk
Now he says he’s seen the light
And he’s sold his soul to punk.

I won’t quote the more offensive lyrics

Quoted from Heswall Mariner

If someone is banned from attending football matches for a period of time - how is this enforced?

Exactly, grow a beard/have a shave, buy tickets in cash or get a mate to do it and hey presto, you're back in the ground!

Just noticed on a vid on Facebook they were talking about an increase in violence at America High school sports events and at wrestling matches by spectators (not the cometorors!) Since covid. Think that has been mentioned in the UK too for sports events, maybe its a worldwide and sportswide phenomenon.

Quoted from toontown

Just noticed on a vid on Facebook they were talking about an increase in violence at America High school sports events and at wrestling matches by spectators (not the competetors!) Since covid. Think that has been mentioned in the UK too for sports events, maybe its a worldwide and sportswide phenomenon.

People around the world locked down through no fault of their own, politicians taking the urine left right and centre, cost of living through the roof in most countries…not a surprise really…frustrations manifest and usually come out, and sadly, for some that is violence or aggression…

Quoted from toontown

Competitors

Quoted from toontown

.......not the cometorors!

For a minute there, I thought Donald Trump had joined the Fishy

Quoted from RichMariner

If you go on the pitch and are identified, you'll be banned from attending all future games.

This should be the standard punishment, right across the board, so there's no misunderstanding. Everyone knows the rule, no matter which ground they're at.

I appreciate for the vast majority of fans, invading the pitch is just an expression of joy and a chance to share the same space as the heroes that achieve promotion or whatever.

But you'd hope it'd make fans think twice. The bloke who butted Sharp last night won't be able to go to Wembley now. In fact he won't be able to go back to watch Forest again any time soon. [/b]he's just lost his Saturday afternoons.[b]

And if they go up, he'll miss out on their games against Leicester, Man City, Liverpool, Spurs, etc.

He should lose his rights to walk the streets for a very long time.

Quoted from Grimal

He should lose his rights to walk the streets for a very long time.

He has. 6 months in prison.

Quoted from Poojah

He has. 6 months in prison.

Except he will not spend 6 months in prison. Probably 2 months and then out on licence. It's a joke. All prison sentences under 2years should be full term.

Quoted from rancido

Except he will not spend 6 months in prison. Probably 2 months and then out on licence. It's a joke. All prison sentences under 2years should be full term.

You’d need to significantly overhaul a system nobody cares about…

Then if they released those serving sentences way over tariff, you’d then potentially have the space…

Quoted from Poojah

He has. 6 months in prison.

Nowhere near long enough for an attack like that.

Quoted from Grimal

Nowhere near long enough for an attack like that.

If you did the same thing in the street to a random stranger you’d be unfortunate to get a prison sentence at all…

Quoted from aldi_01

If you did the same thing in the street to a random stranger you’d be unfortunate to get a prison sentence at all…

I agree, this talk of it being a lenient sentence confuses me. Stuff like that and worse happens all the time with people not getting time. I know of a guy that beat somebody up badly, was on top of him on the floor literally punching his head in, all in front of a police officer. He pleaded guilty and got a couple of months community service.

I'm much more annoyed at the lenient sentencing towards rapists, murderers and nonces that ruin people's lives forever and get hardly any punishment in relation to the damage caused.

Quoted from pen penfras

I agree, this talk of it being a lenient sentence confuses me. Stuff like that and worse happens all the time with people not getting time. I know of a guy that beat somebody up badly, was on top of him on the floor literally punching his head in, all in front of a police officer. He pleaded guilty and got a couple of months community service.

I'm much more annoyed at the lenient sentencing towards rapists, murderers and nonces that ruin people's lives forever and get hardly any punishment in relation to the damage caused.

We don’t always agree but on this I’m inclined to agree. 100% had this happened literally anywhere else in any other context the guy doesn’t get a jail sentence…not saying that right but it wouldn’t happen.

As you say, there’s far worse examples of folk doing things far worse and not even getting a prison sentence. A friend got jumped, completely unprovoked spent a week in ITU, the person that did was found and sentenced…got 12 weeks…