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I know SBS was only joking. What kind of numpty would lob anything into a random crowd which will undoubtedly include women and children just there to enjoy a day out. Anyone with a genuine need to express how hard they are should step into the ring with someone of broadly equal size and...

You're just dodging the question and you know it. The fact is that there's never been a council that's threatened to make its home town club play behind closed doors in anything like these circumstances. You're trying to justify something exceptional by ducking and diving around. The point...

Here's the question. When did a council ever threaten to do this to a club previously because of a pitch invasion? Answer that one and stop whining about people not listening. We're listening fine, but you're not answering. Now's your chance.... waiting....

What, our owners, poor business acumen? Why that's an outrage - in just a few moments the thousands of SISU apologists who populate this forum will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger. Or something like that. :) Enjoy the game, as I'm sure you will.

You don't have to nod in synchro*, you might just want to try answering the question though without endless whataboutery... Otherwise it looks like you don't really have an answer but aren't quite up to admitting it. The link you sent has nothing at all to do with pitch invasions - it's about...

What voids most of your comments is that you still haven't answered the question. Other clubs have suffered similar and worse issues, when did a Council ever step in to threaten them with playing behind closed doors? "Never" is the answer, quite obviously. You just can't bring yourself to...

Not by their council, that was the FA. Took about three seconds to find that out: Blackpool fined £50,000 for Huddersfield pitch invasion Any other examples you'd care to share of where a council took this very unusual step? Despite the multiple protests at Blackpool by the fans against...

So again, show me a single council who have ever threatened to have their local football team play behind closed doors? You're clearly trying to defend this, I wonder why?

If you've been a part of this squad at any point in this season, I don't think you could have any great complaint if you found yourself looking for a new club over the summer. Having said that, it's not the worst theory I've heard - making sure that everyone gets a go before the summer. The...

Except of course that fans haven't been throwing flares at each other at CCFC matches*, so where's the safety issue that has led to the council to threaten to close down the ground? Indeed, where's the example of another council that have behaved in this way towards to their local football...

Trust me, dot counting beats watching the football. :) Sincere thanks for the updates... and the cheerfulness. Really looking forward to the big day.

Indeed - I wouldn't advocate it, but it feels very unlikely that the Council would take the same approach. I hugely dislike the idea of invading the pitch to protest, but suggesting that the pitch invasion against Sheffield and the one after the semi-final were in any related is farcical...

Like what I said, but clearer and to the point. :)

I think it's usually a condition of entry that you allow yourself to be searched on entering a football ground. In essence, it's part of the contract when you buy your ticket. However, as I understand it a steward must ask your permission before conducting a search, must be of the same sex as...

To be honest it's this kind of crap that puts me off more than the football. The endless pettiness of the stewards really grates on me - when you've got 7,600 going who really cares where you sit or what turnstile you enter through. I don't know if the stewards are being told to enforce all...

I don't want to worry anyone, but I'm a bit concerned that we're going to get drawn into a relegation battle if we keep playing like this...

If you're going to go for Hawkwind, then surely the best intro would be 'Master of the Universe'. Ah, I feel old now. Bringing it right up to date though, or at least the late seventies, I've got a thing for "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus - I think that's got a twenty minute intro. Or maybe...

Two things that spring to straight to mind here. The first is that almost by definition a serial arsonist isn't likely to be entirely careful when it comes to peoples' lives - at least one of the other fires occurred during working hours with people in the factory. Even when the fires took...

I'm not really one for conspiracy theories, but the chairman at Bradford was owned or connected to businesses that suffered a remarkable number of fires (Guardian graphic shown below). In adjusted terms it's said he received insurance and fire-related payouts of over £27m over the years. I'm...

Yes, fair point. I don't think the Chiltern trains back to Warwick/Brum all go through Oxford in truth, but there's going to be fans mingling at Wembley Stadium station and for at least part of the journey, I'd think. You've got to imagine that there will be a police presence though; surely...