Because it is about this game and this is the thread for this game!benglenton wrote:interesting questionHenry Norris 1913 wrote:anyone else get involved in the crowd surge after the 4th goal? absolutely mental!
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Because this is modern football, where passion is frowned upon & fans are not allowed to get near the pampered, protected footballing superstars incase they should be wanting to cause harm to players of their own team.Rosie_titters wrote:why the heavy handed tactics from the stewards

More PC, leftie, health & safety overkill. In the same way that celebrating with your own fans can get a player a yellow card. Sad times.
I'm in 2 minds about this. I'm old enough to remember lots of pitch invasions and players being threatened or hit by opposing fans. How do the stewards know if it is a "friendly" invader or someone out to injure a player? And even if it is one of your own, if you were AA would you want to be at risk of Mr "I love him" ****, chasing him naked down the pitch waving his 2 inches?Dan_85 wrote:Because this is modern football, where passion is frowned upon & fans are not allowed to get near the pampered, protected footballing superstars incase they should be wanting to cause harm to players of their own team.Rosie_titters wrote:why the heavy handed tactics from the stewards![]()
More PC, leftie, health & safety overkill. In the same way that celebrating with your own fans can get a player a yellow card. Sad times.




How were they heavy handed?Rosie_titters wrote:why the heavy handed tactics from the stewards, there were four gooners on the pitch celebrating with there team
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I was at the game, and thought I'd seen what happened fairly well, but I wasn't aware of any drama unfolding?
My experience was that the stweards were ok - obviously they wrestled a bit with the gooners who made their way onto the pitch, but that's to be expected - after all, if stewards weren't strict about fans being allowed on the pitch and celebrating with the players, then there would soon be mahem.
I would imagine it can soon become quite daunting trying to control the away fans once they start breaking out and onto the pitch - that's bound to get your adrenaline going, and from my view they seemed to deal with it quite well....

Also., no mention of it on the match thread??? - so was it really all that serious??
Ah well, you've probably seen a close up of it on tv, so you'll know more than me... my view of it wasn't that great - but I'm still surprised.
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