True geysir.
Don't get it for the life of me.
Obviously, its totally unacceptable but the crowd weren't agitated and it wasn't likely to happen again if the game continued.
Ref is after creating a bigger issue of it.
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True geysir.
Don't get it for the life of me.
Obviously, its totally unacceptable but the crowd weren't agitated and it wasn't likely to happen again if the game continued.
Ref is after creating a bigger issue of it.
The ref shouldn't of called off the game it was nearly over and it was only the action of one idiot, I'd understand him calling it off if there had been a pitch invasion by loads of fans but to call a game off in the final minutes because one fan ran on the pitch it sheer idiocy.
The first thing i though of when heard this was the likelihood of this happening at Lansdowne Road due to crap stewards. Obviously that ground is being demolished now but you get the idea...
Do you know what is funny about all this.
The Parken Stadium is a class stadium and Windsor Park is a rubbish stadium(in international terms).
Yet Windsor Park has better controls on crowd. It is a hell of a lot harder to get onto the pitch at Windsor than any other ground I have been at.
There is a moat in front of two newer stands then there is barbed wire on top of the fences.
At the other part, the terracing is lower than the pitch and there is a big fence to climb over.
Maybe UEFA/FIFA should think maybe all the old stadiums wheren't all **** ups in designs. The only thing that they would need to do is have a spill out area in case for some reason there is a bigger than capacity crowd in the stadium.
For all the millions they spent on Wembley they really are missing barbed wire. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Bruce
You can't legislate for the actions of a total fcukwit.
God, sometimes I wake up in the mornings racked with guilt over a mildly offence remark I might have made when drunk the previous night. I wonder how this guy feels!
Having watched the footage I can't understand why the idiot wasn't just removed and the game played on. UEFA/FIFA could fine them afterwards.
If the penalty had not been scored, Denmark would have got a point. Bet they must be gutted.
Exactly. There are procedures for dealing with one idiot who runs on the pitch - you take him away and arrest him. Life goes on. Utterly stupid over-reaction, and can't believe people are defending the referee (not here, but officials in the media in general).
Sweden given win after ref attack
Imo, it was the right decision. Hope this guy gets banned for life.
It was not the right decision. You can't go awarding games every time someone runs onto the pitch.
How long before a fan runs onto the pitch in the colours of the opposition now to get their team a walkover?
It's a bit more than running onto a pitch. He approached the referee. He disrupted match. Yes, the referee could easily have just continued the game but when he didn't and left it the way it was (Sweden had a chance to win it) I think it's fair to award them the game as they had a real chance of winning it.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
It's all part of the one decision though - once the game was abandoned, it had to be awarded (seeing as you couldn't realistically arrange to play the last five minutes of an international at a later stage). You can't take the 3-0 decision alone. The whole thing is ridiculous.
That's a pretty fatuous comment. Failure to provide a secure environment (the responsibility of the host association) results in forfeiture, and always has done. If the safety of a player or official is seriously compromised to the extent that the game can't continue, it's the only just and logical course of action. How long until a player feigns injury to force an abandonment? It happened twenty years ago (we all know when and where) and was rumbled more or less instantly.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Don't recall Ireland forfeiting any games when a streaker ran onto the pitch, and there have been plenty. (You can't argue that it's a different case as you don't know what he's going to do once he runs on the pitch)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Don't recall Leeds forfeiting the game against Ipswich (?) when their fans invaded the pitch en masse at the end of last season.
Don't recall the 1989 FA Cup Final being awarded when fans spilled onto the pitch.
I agree that -
- but that wasn't the case here. Drunken fat bloke takes a wussy swipe at the ref, which was never going to connect because one of the players already had half a hold of him anyways. The ref was a fool to call the match off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Interesting question. I suppose it had to be determined that it was indeed a Danish fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
But if it happened to be a drunken Swede (and there are many) protesting, say at the failure of the ref to spot the "penalty infringement", then would Sweden still get their 3-0? I don't think so.
It appears to be a judgement that was made easy by Denmark's public acceptance of a 3-0 result to Sweden.
it didnt have to be awarded. The ref can call for an abandonment after 70 minutes in which the result stands.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Abandoning a match having just awarded a last minute penalty for one team to win would have been just as ridiculous.
yes well we're back to the root cause, that abandoning the match in the first place was ridiculous. you'd say something if it was 500 screaming vikings but one drunk idiot?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Yeah, as I said, having abandoned the match, it had to be awarded barring getting everyone back in Denmark for three minutes starting with a penalty. But the abandonment was ridiculous.