That Apparent Assault By Stewards On The Would-Be Pitch Invader At The Final Whistle

Tom Hark Preston Park · Aug 9, 2014

Some mutual friends in the front row at the away end report that the admittedly-idiot 16 year old kid that tried to encroach on the pitch at the end was put on the ground by half a dozen stewards, at least one of whom proceeded to get his jollies by giving him a good kicking. You'll maybe say, good, he had it coming to him, but could have provoked a riot. Nearly the whole Wednesday team tried to intervene, such was the reportedly excessive force used. Nevermind, there will be plenty of mobile phone evidence available. Hope the kid gets the fine and banning order he deserves. Hope the club take a good look at the stewarding also.

HawkTheSeagull · Aug 9, 2014

Apparently assaulting him is fine according to some of our fans, yet if it was one of our own NSC would be in meltdown.

Its unacceptable, yes, he needed dealing with - but not like that. More stewards who clearly thought they were police officers.

Picture from Twitter

Ernest · Aug 9, 2014

Shouldn't have come on the pitch, he deserved all he got. For all the stewards knew he MAY have been ARMED and was going to KILL one of the players. Better be SAFE than sorry

TomandJerry · Aug 9, 2014

He got what was coming to him

GingerBeerMan · Aug 9, 2014

Ernest said:
Shouldn't have come on the pitch, he deserved all he got. For all the stewards knew he MAY have been ARMED and was going to KILL one of the players. Better be SAFE than sorry

****.

worthingseagull123 · Aug 9, 2014

Stewards can be liable for assualt charges if it is proven they did not use reasonable force in restraint.

grumpyoldgit · Aug 9, 2014

It did seem heavy handed by the stewards, but the Wednesday players getting involved made the situation a lot worse because this then inflamed their fans even more and could have got out of hand.

dingodan · Aug 9, 2014

I hope the kid gets punished, and I hope so does the steward. Don't want to see that happening at my club.

I don't know exactly what happened and if it was as bad as this, but like someone else has said this kind of thing can start a riot.

Observe:

LamieRobertson · Aug 9, 2014

grumpyoldgit said:
It did seem heavy handed by the stewards, but the Wednesday players getting involved made the situation a lot worse because this then inflamed their fans even more and could have got out of hand.

Agree with all of this ...watched from East Upper....thank fully died down....although there were a few spats outside the East on the way to the station

wellquickwoody · Aug 9, 2014

Kid was a ****, if he got away back to the seats no problem, but he got caught and taken down, his problem as he was acting the ****.

Wednesday players getting involved should have the book thrown at them, could have caused major issues.

nwgull · Aug 9, 2014

Got what he deserved. I'd rather see zero tolerance and heavy handed stewards than perimeter fences.

melias shoes · Aug 9, 2014

Heavy handed stewards at the Amex? Well I never.

Pretty pink fairy · Aug 9, 2014

Ernest said:
Shouldn't have come on the pitch, he deserved all he got. For all the stewards knew he MAY have been ARMED and was going to KILL one of the players. Better be SAFE than sorry

the only tool he had was in his under pants
regards
DR

Mackenzie · Aug 9, 2014

Was he a Wednesday :lolol:

fan?

Wellesley · Aug 9, 2014

Too many horrible, sweaty northern ruffians for my liking. I was in two minds to go over and give the bloody lot of them a ruddy good fisting.

seagullsovergrimsby · Aug 9, 2014

Dickheads like this going over the perimeter wall deserve all they get. A mass pitch invasion at the end of the season is a different matter altogether

BUTTERBALL · Aug 9, 2014

Situation was made worse by the intervention of the Wednesday players no question. It all kicked off then and took a good 15 minutes to calm down. Stewards were a bit heavy handed mind.

Tom Hark Preston Park · Aug 9, 2014

seagullsovergrimsby said:
Dickheads like this going over the perimeter wall deserve all they get. A mass pitch invasion at the end of the season is a different matter altogether

Really? You don't remember the crop-haired psycho steward at Withdean who used to parade the South Stand and who did his best to break some innocuous kids wrist after the last game of the season in the latter years? He was panting heavily. Some say he had a visible stiffy. Some say his description closely matches one of the stewards getting his rocks off today.

Guy Fawkes · Aug 9, 2014

seagullsovergrimsby said:
Dickheads like this going over the perimeter wall deserve all they get. A mass pitch invasion at the end of the season is a different matter altogether

According to some of our fans that loss signalled the end of our season - maybe he was a home fan in the away end?

seagull 1979 · Aug 9, 2014

GingerBeerMan said:
****.

GBM - Please can you use an asterisk so we know exactly what you are saying, for example C@nt, w*nk, co€k, sh1t. ect ect.

Thanks

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