Bohs fan fined for threatening Garda

[MMVIII]

If you can't keep off the pitch whilst doing it, even though you know it leads to a fine for the club you're apparently so overwhelmed with passion for, then yes - you are..... :D

How else would you describe somebody who deliberately causes an organisation they claim to feel pasionate about to be penalised as a result of their behaviour ? Moron sounds about right. :)

So you'll say the same for the young kids and men who ran on the pitch at the end of the game played here earlier in the season? Not sure if it was the cup game or the league game.

Footballs a passionate sport, tis hard sometimes to contain it, evident with ye're lad who tried to "attack" Buttimer. I'm sure he might regret it now, but it was spur of the moment. If the worst thing someone ever does at a football match is hop on to the pitch for a few seconds after they score, then there not doing to bad eh?

For those who here giving out about it, stick to cricket. It's not the end of the world ffs

[RoversHead]

The smashing up of the HOOPS SC bus by DCFC scum on our last trip to Derry is far more worthy of your moral indignation than the harmlless pitch side celebrations of Bohs and Rovers fans .If the only crowed related incident at a match is a few away fans celebrating on the side of a pitch with the goal scorer I would call that a result as would most of the football world.The life threatening actions of the Derry scum are also far more worthy of a three page thread but this is foot.ie so we wont hold our breath.Anyone for tennis?

[John83]

It reaffirms my faith in humanity that so many members here consider threatening a garda to be unremarkable behaviour - to be expected from passionate fans.

Rovershead, I see your smashed up bus and raise you the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Obviously, next to this, we shouldn't be talking about any of the incidents mentioned on this forum, except that one time someone made a clever Nazi analogy.

[RoversHead]

It reaffirms my faith in humanity that so many members here consider threatening a garda to be unremarkable behaviour - to be expected from passionate fans.

Rovershead, I see your smashed up bus and raise you the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Obviously, next to this, we shouldn't be talking about any of the incidents mentioned on this forum, except that one time someone made a clever Nazi analogy.Hutus and Tutsis ?which ground this happen at ?must have been some goal .

[BohsPartisan]

It reaffirms my faith in humanity that so many members here consider threatening a garda to be unremarkable behaviour - to be expected from passionate fans.

I don't know about this particular incident but the Gardaí do not know how to police football matches and usually have only themselves to blame if they find themselves in this situation. This insistance on coming up and standing among the hardcore fans is idiocy of the highest order. I've been at a fair few games in European leagues and this simply doesn't happen and wouldn't be tolerated. If they insist on behaving like the idiot uninvited guest at the party they have to expect a hostile atmosphere.

[John83]

I don't know about this particular incident but the Gardaí do not know how to police football matches and usually have only themselves to blame if they find themselves in this situation. This insistance on coming up and standing among the hardcore fans is idiocy of the highest order. I've been at a fair few games in European leagues and this simply doesn't happen and wouldn't be tolerated. If they insist on behaving like the idiot uninvited guest at the party they have to expect a hostile atmosphere.
I resent the implication that football fans are cattle, and that if they get out of hand, incompetent herding is to blame.

[Ezeikial]

I don't know about this particular incident but the Gardaí do not know how to police football matches and usually have only themselves to blame if they find themselves in this situation. This insistance on coming up and standing among the hardcore fans is idiocy of the highest order. I've been at a fair few games in European leagues and this simply doesn't happen and wouldn't be tolerated. If they insist on behaving like the idiot uninvited guest at the party they have to expect a hostile atmosphere.

Yep - the Gardai are clearly to blame for trying to police, monitor or control the "hardcore" - (what does hardcore mean - those most likely to threaten them or assault them?)

[BohsPartisan]

Yep - the Gardai are clearly to blame for trying to police, monitor or control the "hardcore" - (what does hardcore mean - those most likely to threaten them or assault them?)

No it means those who stand and sing. Coming into the singing sections where people are jumping about and throwing their weight around is not the best method of crowd control and you don't see it elsewhere.

Mod edit - trolling deleted.

[MMVIII]

It reaffirms my faith in humanity that so many members here consider threatening a garda to be unremarkable behaviour - to be expected from passionate fans.

Hope your not including me in that. I was talking about the whole running on to the pitch thing.

Guards aren't above the law either, tend to enjoy throwing there weight around a lot of the time. Not to say they should be threatened or assaulted for no reason, as generally they are very good at matches and outside football.

[Ezeikial]

No it means those who stand and sing. Coming into the singing sections where people are jumping about and throwing their weight around is not the best method of crowd control and you don't see it elsewhere.


Maybe you are right, but I can't help but chuckle at the thought that the Gardai should stay clear of places where people are "throwing their weight around" for fear of offending or inciting them.

Maybe the "fan" mentioned in the OP should appeal his conviction ( and sue the Gardai) on the basis of provocation!

[BohsPartisan]

Maybe you are right, but I can't help but chuckle at the thought that the Gardai should stay clear of places where people are "throwing their weight around" for fear of offending or inciting them.

Maybe the "fan" mentioned in the OP should appeal his conviction ( and sue the Gardai) on the basis of provocation!

Sorry just realised that was badly phrased, I meant the Gardaí are throwing their weight around where people are jumping around and just generally having fun. As I said in my first post I don't know anything about the incident in the OP, I was at the game but honestly can't remember it.