Why/how are we the only club that never does pitch invasions?

[Selly]

I reckon it might have died down with the rise of camera phones.

I think if anything its got worse - now every moron with a phone wants to get on the pitch so they can post "content" to their socials.

Quite why the police aren`t using this to bring charges en masse is beyond me - it would be like shooting fish in a barrel

 

[Varkanoid]

To be absolutely clear its a good thing that we don't do it and other clubs shouldn't do it.

However Burnley did it, Sunderland did it tonight- hell even Bristol City did it.

How have we managed it so effectively?

Due to the aforementioned clubs inc Nott Forest get away with it and our fans know if we did it we would get fined a gazillion quid.
People dont realise its illegal to go on the pitch and you can get a criminal record from it, a ban etc

I always think about when we went to Liverpool stadium tour for my lad they have signs all around the pitch reminding fans to stay off the pitch and any encroachment is illegal and will be arrested.

Plus a lot of us will still have those images in our minds of what happened to Billy Sharp.

 

[Chimpan-A]

Fans running on the pitch? We’ve had players who won’t do that!

 

[tyke1889]

I’m sure it was a tradition on the last game of the season ?!

It was, we even did it at home v Stevenage 2012 after the pigs pipped us to promotion

 

[JJBlade]

Because if one person invades the pitch at Bramall Lane the FA will fuck us over big time and Sheffield City Council and their mental safety authority will shut parts of the stadium down.

Meanwhile everyone else can do it without any problems at all, and SWFC fans can throw exploding fireworks and potentially injure or even kill one of our players without any comeback at all.

 

[FMBlade1]

I think if anything its got worse - now every moron with a phone wants to get on the pitch so they can post "content" to their socials.

Quite why the police aren`t using this to bring charges en masse is beyond me - it would be like shooting fish in a barrel

Exactly, and as a result various groups of fans think it's ok.

If Sunderland score a 122nd winner against us what's to deter them from doing it again?

(Ok Wembley has greater security but you get the point)

The lack of consistency and lack of punishment is really inappropriate.

 

[Aston max]

That game against Walsall, I witnessed one of the toughest guys I ever saw sat in the centre circle absolutely blubbering his eyes out
Mind you me and my best mate were shortly before hugging and crying on the kop

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Blades 3 Forest 2 in 1990 , first win of the the season for us. That was special.
Fast forward to 6m55s for the pitch invasion

 

[S74Blade]

First time I remember being on the pitch was v Peterborough in 1982 when we clinched promotion from Div 4. Only as the entire crowd was on by that point. I was on again the following week at Darlington. About ten years back, some last home match laps of honour were delayed / spoilt by people running on and we've largely stayed off ever since.

I lost my finger jumping off the fence against Peterborough. We were escaping the crush Went to Darlington the week after, great last day that was

 

[S74Blade]

27 Apr 1971
Sheffield United 5 v 1 Cardiff City.
Unforgettable pitch invasion.

That was my first ever Blades match. We were on the pavilion side of the pitch

 

[coaxingstar71]

I imagine the club clamped down on pitch invasions at the Lane after the infamous Walsall game in 1981, which almost descended into a full scale riot with several Walsall players getting assaulted as they tried to leave the field.

 

[JFK]

I lost my finger jumping off the fence against Peterborough. We were escaping the crush Went to Darlington the week after, great last day that was

Jesus's wept. I remember seeing you, I was starting to wonder if I'd actually seen it or if it was false memory. Made me and my mate feel quite queasy, although I bet you felt worse.

 

[Silent Blade]

I lost my finger jumping off the fence against Peterborough. We were escaping the crush Went to Darlington the week after, great last day that was

I remember reading in The Star about you losing a finger

 

[AWetFlannel]

2 'best' pitch invasions I've seen at BDTBL:

• Forest at home December 1990.
• Coventry in the fa cup quarter final 1998.

Both impulsive ones done purely in the joy of the moment.

Stevenage at home was the most tinpot.

As a young lad who started going regularly in our Championship relegation season, the Stevenage win and pitch invasion was a great moment, the biggest win since I'd been going.

Many Blades went over to the Stevenage fans to applaud them, we spoke to a group on the train home and it was all good natured and respectful.

I was pictured running on by a club photographer and saw myself on the website (or Bladesmad, can't remember)!

 

[DH9]

Pitch invasions are tinpot and I cringe every time we do one at Hillsborough

 

[mackempaddy]

I wouldn’t say ours was an invasion. More like a meek advance party who got repelled by some stewards and pensioners in suits.

Hopefully they’re all identified and banned, especially those running towards the Coventry players/staff to goad them. It’ll likely have been there first game of the season.

Be humble in victory, and magnanimous in defeat. Tossers.

 

[CrookesBlade]

Best one was after the Northampton beam back, that was a bit bizarre

That was great, everybody was looking at each other as if to say “what do we do now?” then a couple of blokes ran on doing knee slides and everyone piled on.

Great moment, almost made up for not being at Northampton

 

[Rusty view]

Think most folk know it’s a bit tinpot. It’s especially embarrassingly tinpot seeing grown men running on the pitch like they’ve just won the euromillions jackpot. Can see the appeal with young lads/lasses though.

We did it for the beamback v Northampton..now that was weird and bit sad. I mean I still went on...God knows why.

Edit. Just sen other posts

 

[Loco Blade]

Darlington , Leicester, Forest ( pesky wonder goal ) Northampton and MKD to name but a few ! I blame Gary Sinclair for telling us 17,000 times not to go on other night . Jesus the man loves the souls of his own voice doesn’t he .

 

[B.Lade]

Darlington , Leicester, Forest ( pesky wonder goal ) Northampton and MKD to name but a few ! I blame Gary Sinclair for telling us 17,000 times not to go on other night . Jesus the man loves the souls of his own voice doesn’t he .

I'm presuming he recorded it once and it was just played again and again and again and again and....

 

[Rusty view]

2 'best' pitch invasions I've seen at BDTBL:

• Forest at home December 1990.
• Coventry in the fa cup quarter final 1998.

Both impulsive ones done purely in the joy of the moment.

Stevenage at home was the most tinpot.

Coventry was pure class. Carrying Alan Kelly off the pitch...not me bit I walked alongside him being held aloft.

 

[Maidenhead]

It's just fabricated elation now. When I was younger a pitch invasion was for a huge victory and even them it was reserved only for either a tight game or an amazing win in said big occasion AND even then not everyone did it because they thought it was a bit much.

Now it's just the standard for fans to pretend it's something amazing when in reality it isn't. Sunderland pitch invasion for winning nothing other than ... A progression to the next round.

Was once something some fans did in the heat of the moment and now it's pretty much almost planned. I think it was Derbys promotion last season? We was in a pub when it was on and was on the telly and you heard the commentary say "the fans moving down the stands for the pitch invasion at the final whistle"

Absolutely spot on.

These days they're all preplanned and executed by wankers with cameras wanting to impress their mates.

Nowt to do with elation or celebration.

 

[bakeblade]

We did it for the beamback v Northampton..now that was weird and bit sad. I mean I still went on...God knows why.

Edit. Just sen other posts

So did I, couldn't miss an opportunity to tread on the hallowed turf

 

[Eskimo]

Because we’ve had startlingly few pitch invasion worthy moments.
It has to accompany certainty and be something that marks the turning of a corner for it to be something that sparks such scenes, and usually needs to be at home.
We did it at Northampton in 2017 because the league one nightmare had needed emphatically.
We didn’t do it against Ipswich in 2019 to get to the prem because it wasn’t mathematical.
We didn’t do it against West Brom in 2023 when it was mathematical because it didn’t feel like promotion to the premier league was a bold new step given the recency of 2019.
We didn’t do it after going to Wembley because we have done that before in the past only to suffer pain and humiliation in London, making such celebrations seem mute.
We’ve also been to Wembley many times now, for some clubs going there still feels like once in a blue moon whereas we seem to manage it every few years or so.

I sort of agree. I don't think it’s because Blades fans are better or have learnt from experience etc. Its more that we have been in the position for the last five years of being a yo yo Championship/Premiership club and that has affected expectations and behaviour. We have been there recently have seen how everything is stacked against the promoted clubs, so enthusiasm is tempered with reality a bit, probably a good thing We are disappointed at not going up automatically and frankly I’d rather the playoff final was at Old Trafford. I passionately hope we win and I’ll be going with all the family again to Wembley. We have a good side. Its about the team do their thing on the pitch not over excited fans. So turn up, cheer them on and let the lads get the job done.

 

[borg elite]

"And he's off". "PLEASE KEEP OFF THE PITCH".

 

[Cappy]