Hooliganism in sport

[Jason]

Put all your views and stories in here!

This is the latest story from the burnley - rovers match!

Burnley have confirmed that they will ban for life any supporter found guilty of marring Sunday's clash with Lancashire neighbours Blackburn.

In total, three fans made their way on to the Turf Moor pitch but it was the incident that occurred in the final few minutes that is causing most consternation.

One supporter managed to get on to the pitch, where he then proceeded to square up to Robbie Savage before attempting to resist police officers on his arrest.

Burnley wide Jean-Louis Valois was also struck by a coin, which when coupled with the incident involving Roy Carroll at Everton and Fernando Ricksen at Celtic, marks a bleak weekend for British football.

Clarets chief executive Dave Edmundson insists Burnley did all they could to stop trouble and that they will be taking the strongest possible line against the aforementioned fans.

"I am absolutely confident the operation in place was the best we could have done," said Edmundson.

"Obviously, it's always disappointing when things happen like they did, but if people are determined to get on the pitch then they are always likely to get through.

''You cannot legislate for everything.

''But we all knew the fixture we had here, and we tried to diffuse the talking up of the hostility and the rivalry between the two teams.

"There was a great crowd out there and I didn't sense a hostility to the game, although there was always that sort of incident bubbling underneath the surface.

"Unfortunately, somebody got onto the pitch and we have to look at that and deal with it. It's all on cctv and it will be looked at, discussed and action taken.

"If people are deemed to be in breach of ground security and safety regulations then we will apply life bans to those people for this ground."

Despite Edmundson's summarisation, Blackburn boss Mark Hughes insists more should have been done to ensure the safety of his players.

"For three people to encroach on the field of play was careless and it should be looked at," said Hughes.

"In this day and age it shouldn't happen. I know I've not seen it happen for many years.

"Sometimes it's difficult if people are determined, but sometimes stewards and the police have to be more aware of the potential of that. But they were slow to react.
"God forbid, the guy who came on wanting to have a fight with somebody, had had a knife."

Skysports.com understands that the fan who ran on to pitch was already banned for life from Turf Moor, prior to the game.

[wayneyboy1942]

We don't need these people at football,We know that all clubs get them, if it carry's on familes will stop going,do we want to go back to the bad old days? I don't want bricks bottles etc being thrown at me again thankyou! :(

[Jason]

I was shocked at the last line of the story,where the idiot was already banned from turf moor,how the hell did he get into the ground?
Security should be reprimanded for letting that happen!!

any body can get on the turf,15 mins before end of game all doors are unlocked so that early leavers can go.I have seen it happen many times before the doors are opened and loonatics get in,the stewards by this time are either outside watching the crowd starting to leave,or sat on the touchline whichever the case there is no one stopping anyone from getting in. call me daft if you want but i think somebody on these doors would make sense.:stop:

[Jason]

I couldn't agree more!!

[Col.Kurtz]

Where's Bertie when you need him?

[Kiki]

I think its awful that some people just want to mess up other peoples leisure time, when all they want to do is just look for as much aggression as they can get!Or maybe its attention they crave? Who knows? They are in my opinion wired up wrong! :(

[grannyclaret]

BRING BACK THE BIRCH

[janet]

These people are not fans of football at all, just out to make trouble.These people give clubs a bad name, i'm sure the true fans are there for the right reason.