Vieira and Everton fan

Those people asking for fences have to ask did they work first time around? They didn't so whats changed now? They will drive families out and you you will have more masculine Macho environments like in Italy and other countries which have fences, it will reverse the trend to less trouble. What is happening in grounds now could be as said by a couple of posters a reaction to lockdowns, it has affected people deeply and altered our social interaction. Imo the police, clubs and courts need to start highlighting these people, banning and jailing them, it will work and has worked in the past.
 
There needs to the combination of criminal punishment when assaults take place during these 'celebrations' and the clubs taking quick and strong action as well.

I think we have got the club punishment side of it about right.
 
RedAsABeetroot said:
What's to stop a group of mates buying a shirt going in the opposition end and running onto the pitch to "win" the game for their team?
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A bit of an investigation, such as simply looking at their social media posts etc, should uncover anything like that. And them all getting time in jail may be a deterrent too.
 
jeff_potato said:
Totally agree. There is that element in society who will wear the suit you give them. Put them in a cage, you'll get more animal style behaviour.

When the fines outweigh the Instagram/Snapchat likes and views, it'll suddenly stop. At our ground, however, we need a duty social worker, given how many kids get pushed over the barriers by idiotic parents.
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I totally agree with you.

Depressing as that we’ve gone from safe standing coming back within a few seasons, to seriously discussing the need for fences again for what is pretty much a social media craze.

It would be terrible if we had to go back to fans being caged in, and would make the situation worse.

I think a quick fix is massively increase punishments for it in a high profile way; and massively increase police presence around the pitch for high trigger games. It only happens at the end of the season, no-one’s invading the pitch after a 0-0 at Rotherham in October.
 
As a solution to pitch invaders, why not sacrifice the first three or four rows all around the stadium and cover them with netting / flags / advertising banners? Certainly at the Riverside nobody really likes those seats anyway, and it'd make it a safe barrier to prevent people from making their way onto the pitch.
 
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