It's funny, you know. I am quite happy to put my goal celebrating in abeyance while VAR checks the goal. I don't agree with those who would rather have a Brighton goal falsely chalked off, or a Zaha offside goal stand than be deprived of that moment of spontaneity. And yet I am quite happy for...
I remember seeing someone I know escorted out at Oldham for throwing his phone onto pitch side :mad:
And my dad told me that when he was a Millwall follower in the 1930s, the dock boys threw sharpened coins onto the pitch.
None of this, of course, makes today's nonsense remotely acceptable...
I understand your point (not that it is relevant to the main point about luzzing bottles, stoppered or not at players heads), but would it really have been better for the old fellah if a bottle with a top on had been knocked off the ledge onto his head? ???
Three degrees of separation: (1) any...
Although the thread title was somewhat facetious, you are of course correct. Also, the sort of dimbot who throws a bottle is not the sort of planner who would smuggle a spare bottle top into the ground for when an opportunity arose to luzz the bottle. I doubt much actual thinking goes into this...
The players have a right to celebrate and even gloat. All part of the panto. The supporters don't have a right to throw missiles at them. There is no such thing as contributory negligence.