Some people take the game way too seriously. As Shankley said " Football is not a matter of life or death, it's much more important then that".

All jokes aside the lad who ran on the pitch needs to be jailed and for a very long time .

I don't agree that this guy takes football too seriously; quite the opposite. He clearly is loving it coming off and is only there for non footballing reasons.

Not long til 'he's not a real fan' comes out. 

No offence, Vidic but what does that post even mean? 

Sorry, thought was clear. 

Lads falling over themselves to say this lad should be banned for life, Birmingham docked points etc, basically trying to show how much they care and how much of a disgrace they think it is, more so than everyone else. 

Everyone has to put their best face on social media but do f**k all in real life and would've done nothing of they were there. People giving out about the homeless crisis but doing nothing to help is my current pet peeve.

Saying someone isn't a real fan is always trotted out too, which is never true, if you'd paid your cash and follow your team about you are a fan, you might be a **** but you're still a fan. 

As for this incident, yeah it's mot great but we'll all watch the video over and over again so it's a lie to say we don't enjoy watching it and talking about it even if we pretend that's not the case. 

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Not saying its a good thing! 

Virtue signalling is the term so dunno what you'd like me to say instead! Five/ten years ago nobody would've given a toss to have their opinion heard but now everyone has to get onto twitter to virtually hang draw and quarter the lad and the club just to make themselves look good, I hate it. 

Ah, give over ffs. There was about 6 posts on here about it and half of them were joking about it. Comparing it to the homeless crisis? Are you joking me?

This was a serious assault on a player by a fan, you don't see the like of it often. A dope of a Leeds fan shoved the Wednesday keeper a few years ago and it was a huge story, this incident is far far worse. The lad should get banned for life and should face an assault charge. Sky will milk fukk out of it because that's what they do. 

Social media is full of idiots, what do you expect? Those that moan about 'virtue signalling' by posting about it online are signalling in the exact same way. There's nothing that screams snowflake more than getting outraged over sh1t like that.

Anyway, actually glad to see Grealish get what looks like the winner even if he is a tan coont.

That's virtue signalling by you. You're saying you're better than him because you care more about domestic football. 

You see how stupid this gets?

For a man who didn't know what it was 30 mins ago you're an expert now 

Thanks for twisting my words though, I was pointing out how it has nothing to do with domestic football but that lad felt the need to post about it to make himself look better on social media, which I despise. 

Dozens of accounts doing the same thing. 

Lads getting annoyed they've been caught doing it I reckon!!

I know exactly what it is, I just had no idea the point you were trying to make, particularly when you said people were doing it on here.

And my point about you doing exactly the same stands. 

Anyway, that's my vent of the day done and dusted. 

I'll give you the line about people saying the lad who invaded the pitch isn't a football fan. Gary Rowett just said it on Sky. It's BS, just coz someone is a scumbag or a hooligan doesn't mean they can't be a football fan. Sh1loads of scumbags and hooligans are football fans.

He came across very well in the post match interview. 

Exactly!!!! 

It always gets rolled out though, one of the worst clichés

I immediately take anybody that uses it less seriously. That isn't to say that there isn't 'virtue signalling' and that it shouldn't be acknowledged, but, like 'political correctness', the people who mention it most usually haven't a notion what it actually is or what it is about. It has become a 'buzz' term, thrown around with abandon.

Quite correctly used here though! That's some fine  ranting there Vidic, a lot of truth in it too. I have a real hatred for the 'not real fans' bollocks myself, especially as it often comes from the type of fan who would leave their club die in a crisis; meek, middle-class types. Tory voters in the main. The type who only get passionate every second Sunday in the missionary position.

This deep sociological understanding of the problem is exactly the type of bollocksology I was referring to!

I missed this one. 

If you could even call it a beard.

The Eastern firms are all based on the British firms and they'll admit it too. So these Irish lads are copying the brits. I never understood why people don't want to wear their teams colours. Is it not "cool" anymore? Especially on sunny days when the obvious thing to wear is your teams Jersey or something similar. 

“virtue signaling” is also a cliche. Can’t hear without thinking of Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson or one of those other YouTube cockroaches who think they are Christopher Hitchens.

You’re right about the “not football fans” bollocks. Football fans are quite frequently complete ****s. Anyone who’s been to an English league game should know that.

Sorry but if that's a serious post, it's a load of boll1x.

Just because someone is into exactly what you describe doesn't mean they're not a football fan. It means they're a knuckle dragging idiot alright but most of them are hugely passionate about their club and generally fairly knowledgeable about the club as well.

And to a lesser extent Rovers? 

Yes this is a serious post,. These type of idiots are a waste of oxygen.

Hugely passionate? and “fairly knowledgeable?

Let’s be fair that’s bull. I’m come across many of these idiots,. 99% of done have a care in the world about the result,spend the game giving abuse to members of the Garda, volunteer stewards ect and seen what criminal damage can be done while giving the fingers to the visiting supports.. hypocrites will be all on hill 16 together come summer.

Was down in Galway a few years ago and Galway was playing bohs on a Saturday, They  intimidation these shower of absolute scum bags put on member of the public was horrible, thankfully the hurled them  into a single carriage coming home like wild animals they are.. decked out in all the casual gear like anyone gives a f**k he owns or robbed a expensive jacket.

It’s people like them is stopping people bringing family’s along to games.. thankfully it’s more of a Dublin problem no surprise really but anyway we’re going away from the original post now 

 

No idea who any of those people are! 

Ridiculous post of week winner 

Brilliant celebration from Grealish and the Villa fans, f**k knows what the steward was at though!

That is the crucial issue here.  Grealish will be fine and he responded in the perfect manner and fair play to him.  

All the other stuff regarding virtue signaling, grealish not playing for Ireland and eire32 in Galway with casuals is all just hot air. 

People don't wear colours because Irish games are played at night and people like going out drinking afterwerds. I don't what the pub scene is like in Offaly but you wouldn't get into a pub in town in the cities with soccer jerseys on.

 In the UK , many pubs won't let you in with colours on.

You’re pretty spot on that the “Virtue Signalling” term is misused. To me it should be applied to those who act their political and sociological preferences through social media. The never attend protests, they don’t campaign for political parties, they don’t suggest policy, but they’ll be on the ball tweeting, liking, sharing stuff that suits their agenda, they’ll send social media solidarity from behind their keyboard and never once engage. And it is both the left and the right that can virtue signal. It’s a real thing, that has become real in the Internet age, where you can believe you are politically active on the back of your posts and likes, rather than any activity.

To Eire32, elements of football fans made their bed over the last four decades, and by extension made it for us. There are many legitimate reasons why football fans can’t bring a beer to their seat, or that most clubs operate a track record policy for fans. We saw it as recently as Euro 2016. Football has always tried to exonerate itself by saying they aren’t football people, but they are. And rather than passing the buck there needs to be an acceptance that these fans exist and how do we manage them.

As Neville says if they are not careful the fences will be back up.  

Mightn't be a bad thing! To paraphrase Frank Skinner 25 years ago; the one good thing about football hooliganism is that it keeps the middle-classes away!

Don’t think football should have to be treated like animals to keep a few nutters away and to disencrouage more fairweather fans.  Class should be irrelevant if you are a fan regardless of your background. 

Tongue was (mostly) in cheek!

This is Brexit Britain.

Seemingly this is the kunt responsible.

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Nothing more than a stupid kid, based on his Twitter account anyway.

Great that he got the winner  

No, around the 65th minute I think 

I believe he was a photographer who's equipment got stamped on by the Villa players celebrating. I've a little sympathy for him although he'll probably lose his job over it. 

Watching Sky Sports News now and Sky saying they are no longer legally allowed to show the incident on tv due to it potentially causing prejudice against yer man thus not giving him a fair trial. Did you ever hear such sh*te!   How is showing a factual incident unfair?  I noticed they blurred out his face yesterday as they showed the incident.  Why the fook would you protect this scum's identity??  They'll be banned from showing suspects faces on crime watch next.

oh god, two (one man) ptich invasions in one day and the fenses ae going up...

on motd2 last night shearer wants st andrews closed down... he never said anything about the emirates.... ..obviously ok for the premier league 

 

And it was the biggest load of bollocks that ever came out of Shank's mouth.

 

Absolutely scumbucket behavior, fair play to Grealish how he dusted himself down, didn't roll around like a tool, got up and got on with getting the winner, he's gone up hugely in my estimation.

 

It's lucky too for the bastard that attacked him that the steward got there before Glen Whelan who looked he wanted to burst him.

What is needed is a moat around the pitch, though it may lead to more incidents like this

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Whelan and Tammy Abraham looked like they both wanted to kill him

Newcastle were well ahead of the curve on this when they allowed Raoul Moat's ashes to be sprinkled around the St. James's Park pitch. 

Moaty is still missed. I hope he's up there now on that riverbank in the sky, fishing and eating his chicken and beans for lunch, washed down with a can of lager.

Gazza's here, Moaty, Gazza's here. 

 

You'd swear there had been a terrorist attack with multiple fatalities the way Shearer was going on last night.

The quote was tongue-in-cheek, Proud seemed to grasp the intent with which it was delivered. It was the greatest quote every made on football because it grasped both its importance and complete lack of importance at the same time. It is mad how often it is taken out of context.

Spot on. You got to love El Loco!

 

How do you know? He maybe has a season ticket and has had one for years.

 

 

I like this idea. Put obstacles above the moat they must traverse as well. Could be like an episode of Takeshi's Castle where the winner gets to dig a footballer of choice in the back of the head. 

Because he obviously wasn’t thinking about the consequences or caring about the image it gives to his club. You could even argue he cared too much, enough not to stop and think that his intense hatred for Villa could destroy his life.

In reality, it wasn’t that either. He obviously has other problems in life, as Bielsa said.

This idea that fans who do things that other fans don’t condone, can’t be ‘real’ fans is a nonsense. It is like there is some sort of rule book for being a fan. Is he not a real ‘man’ either? Because I am sure a ‘real’ man wouldn’t attack someone blindsided and throw a punch? Or not a real (insert job title here) because this gives his profession a bad name? Or is he a real Brummie even? Bringing his city/area/village into disrepute!

 When you pay your money and you emotionally invest in a team, you’re a fan. In this instance, it just so happens that the fan happens to have been a f**king idiot.

Given the police murdered 96 people at a football ground, I would feel safer with none at all there.

I don’t know why lads wear them, they may as well put on a neon sign that says “I like illegal drugs”. 

 

I was in Birmingham a year ago, Birmingham v Villa was on the day I was leaving so we went down the Irish Club in Digbeth to watch it before going to the airport.  It was full of Blues, not one Villa fan and I can honestly say, the vast majority of them were absolute headbangers.  I wasn't surprised Grealish got attacked, the mob in the Irish club that day were nuts, atmosphere in the place was insane.

He's a 27 year old nurse who's married with kids apparently so not your average scrote. Dunno if he has previous but he's rightly gonna pay a heavy price now. Crazy carry on. 

pre Madonna wrote: That’s absolutely disgraceful! If he is going to go around acting like that he should get a more suitable job like plasterer or benefit cheat. This inability to conform to stereotype is destroying Britain.

What makes a football fan a 'real' football fan?

How do I apply?

Toughest job in Britain, just ahead of getting benefits you are entitled to. 

Our your man from Happy Gilmore!

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