happened. A drunken Leeds fan shoved Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland in the face in 2012.
And the weekend had begun with Friday's confrontation between a Hibernian supporter and Rangers defender James Tavernier on the touchline at Easter Road. Ban the Birmingham fan from the ground for life? Of course. From all UK grounds? If it's achievable, absolutely. Make Birmingham play a number of matches behind closed doors? Harsh on the law-abiding minority, but that may be seen as a price worth paying, for the sake of the message.His team members came to his rescueMaybe not, but it could be held to encourage self-policing by supporters, which is crucial.
Get a grip on reality! What part of football died? Get over yourself!
your kidding this will make clubs more money and get free police help from taxpayers
Ban the attacker from all football stadiums
SoccerAM SkySportsPL shameful absolute moron & nil respect. It is the likes of this pond life that will spoil for everyone and end up with people behind caged pitches. For football really !!!
Only answer is a points deduction. Banning a fan clearly isn't much of a deterrent.
The middle way between saying nothing and utterly losing your mind seems harder to find these days.
Sadly the whole country is falling apart. Stabbings daily and no respect for anything or anyone. What a sad state of affairs. Football should be proud of the way Grealish handled the event. Reply with the ball in the net.
Can you please be more specific about WHICH attack you’re on about. The pitch invader or the steward that attacked him when he scored
/ Football Stadiums could be made safer from Pitch Invasions or from Thrown Objects? By enclosing the Pitch with Mesh or Clear Plastic or Reinforced Glass ?
Did sky say the same when Cantoba attacked a fan?
No it didn’t.
Nothing new here. Birmingham fans banging a bloke from behind.
Over the top comments.
This is a bit ironic. Sky talking about things that have killed football.
No it didn’t,some idiot just went over the top and will be punished,no need for the drama
No it didn’t, football has gone trough much worse than this.
Yea a bit over dramatic.
Fine him + jail him
Blues have had full scale riot's in the stadium with Leeds Stoke villa Millwall over the years tad over the top in comparison
Bit dramatic...
Deffo not an over reaction what so evere
Could of ended badly!! Sort out the security.i was at a match today,watch a steward chat up a women for half the match!!
A bit dramatic but certainly going to impact the smaller clubs when calls for tighter security and more stewards. Just a stark reminder that sometimes having stewards aint enough (the steward did good btw) but the fan shouldnt have got there luckily no weapon was involved
What about at Arsenal where a fan ran across the pitch waving his arms and shoved a player without being challenged by a steward? Did another bit die there too?
Not just football the fabric of society is falling apart. This is mirrored in our Parliament. We haven’t any natural leaders and worse still, no vision.
Football has been dying since the birth of the Premiership!
make them spend 3 hours a day listening to Gary Neville Gnev2 they will commit suicide after less than a week
Football died when you gave all the premier leagues teams loads of money and left us all to struggle bcfc
Which part? Defence?
Birmingham City need to be playing behind closed doors for a while to deter the rest of the idiots out there thinking of doing this that if they do then their clubs will suffer for not having enough protection for players, their stewards kicked Jack today and racist chants
Society is completely broken!!! Stabbings on the streets and now a series of attacks on people playing football. What makes people think they can behave this way?!
Did it die when the Sunderland fan ran on and pushed Harper over in 2011?
A part of football died? Get a grip
This unfortunately can happen in any sport, remember Monica Seles in 1993... hopefully the sentence he receives and condemnation from family, friends etc will deter others from doing so.
Did the author of the article say the same when a Leeds fan slapped Kirkland, when Cantona attacked a fan, or even the incident that occurred in Scotland on Friday night? No. The tool will be locked up of that they'll be no question. But a part of football died today? FFS now!
Have you been on a hyperbolic writing course?
He deserves a slap for that hair style 🤣
and this..
A bit dramatic
This is where clubs should get together, LIFE BAN FROM EVERY FOOTBALL GROUND IN THE UK. Ring the pitches with fencing, Or dock the club who's 'FAN' goes onto the pitch with 10 Points. No use fining clubs with millions in the bank, pointless.
Propaganda
No it didn’t
Football mentality 🙄
Call that a punch...
Hahaha
Perhaps another deterrent would be match abandonment and 3-0 win awarded to the other side?
it didn't die i promise you that, we just got rid of one idiot.
Are you mates with jonnygould
Let’s not blame just Birmingham fans, all teams have a certain ‘bad’ following let’s say! & the idiot that attacked him, what a bloody useless waste of space! He runs up on an unknowing victim, throws a punch & cant even land one properly, says it all about this pillock!
He wants sending down the scum who did this,he could have been armed with a knife,let it be a wake up call for football ground security to be a lot tighter
What the fuck? Really... it's happened before it'll happen again. It's not acceptable no, but the mass hysteria is also over the top! 1 persons stupidity is not the common actions of the majority.
I can't see how the club can recover from this Playing games without fans watching fines Non effective control of fans
Idiots Sky. So over the top for christ sake
Not as big as the part that died when sky got their mitts on the game back in 1992
Bore off wankers. It’s happened many times before.
No it didn’t.
Shocking incident but I don’t think the minority in this case will see the game off ottmuch
Phil259 Bcfc need serious consequences
The club will be punished severely and this thug will get a smack on the wrist ...
Law abiding minority? Proof read, desk edit. Awful journalism
Sadly, nothing has changed. A game for thugs.
A stadium closure for 3 games is needed, I know some think that’s extreme, but then a large amount of BCFC were applauding him! I feel sorry for the true fans, but s strict punishment is what’s needed to deter others from such disgraceful scenes!
Why are you making a big deal of this now? Don’t you remember the Scottish Cup Final 2016 when loads of Hibernian fans attacked RangersFC players?
Absolutely sickening. I’d be amazed if Neil Harris took his players to the Trillion Trophy Stadium on Wednesday without assurances surrounding the safety of his players. The EFL must do everything within it’s powers to punish the club.
This the first time football has been associated with violence is it?
Slightly over the top.
Massive exaggeration headline cos some knobhead knocks a footballer over, how bad was it? Well he scored later.
It is symptomatic of the anger that society is feeling at the moment... everyone of my generation felt that same feeling in the 70's of discord, unease and alienation that our politicians aren't or won't listen to the opinion of the people.
That element is to football what anti-semities are to the Labour Party. Those in charge have turned a blind eye to this sort of aggressive, thuggish behaviour for years at all levels with platitudes about ‘respect’ & it’s a working class game etc. Watch any Saturday park game!
Overdramatic me thinks
Nothing died, a cretin drank strong lager.
if he’d have smuggled something into the ground things could be a lot worse, needs a harsh punishment so anyone thinks twice about it in the future.
Birmingham City, always cursed...
The idiot himself should have the book thrown at him. The club should be fined if there was an issue with the stewarding, which is evident with him being allowed to get onto the pitch. A points deduction and being made to play games behind closed doors is too far in my opinion.
Not only Birmingham but Edinburgh on Friday Night (Hibs v Rangers) & this afternoon (Arsenal v Man Utd )
Oh calm down sky... i've seen far worse than that
.alfieperkins_ needs locking up too due to his despicably evil tweets.
This is what happens when you don’t act hard on people who want to spoil it for the rest of us sent him to prison if that happened on the streets oh wait nothing would happen Needmorepolice
He needs birding off The fella that tweeted about his young brother passing away also needs to face lawful punishment
its calculated assault, jail terms will stop idiots.
He should at least be charged with GBH. There’s millions of witnesses
Be glad it was just a punch. Need to learn from this and prevent it again
The moron that did this is laughing about it on Twitter
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