but there’s good reasons why fans are not allowed on the pitch, period, and I’d rather not see a return to the 80s fences or before that hordes of malicious opposition fans surrounding us and occasionally kicking a few innocent heads in. For every Hereford you’ve got a Luton v Millwall and it’s impossible to know who’s on the pitch with good intentions and who bad (don’t think you’ve got time to conduct a survey of them before they scale the wall). If everyone stays off the pitch, it’s better for everyone and less chance of an escalation and ugly scenes.
I certainly see where you’re coming from but at the same time I don’t see why such a hard & fast line needs to be drawn: if you are violent or whatever, you deserve what you get. If you go on the pitch briefly in celebration, where’s the harm?
When I was younger, I remember running on the pitch at the end of test matches, it was brilliant. But the authorities frowned on it and now there are massive fines for pitch encroachment, which I think is a real shame because as a young kid I found it so exciting to get the chance to go on the outfield at the end of the match and watch the presentation.
