Manchester derby prompts PFA to consider protective netting

[lastlid]

"Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor says it might be necessary to introduce netting around pitches to protect players.
Taylor was speaking after Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand was hit by an object as his side celebrated a winner against Manchester City on Sunday.
"I think you've got to consider, as has been suggested, some netting in vulnerable areas," said Taylor. "It could be behind the goals and round the corner flags.""

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20666119

[bigmarco]

I understand Ferdinand was hit in the eye by a coin. I'm assuming it was a Euro as they wont be needing them again for a while.

[les_taxi]

What a stupid suggestion-punish everyone else for a few idiots
Just say if you are caught throwing something dangerous like a coin you get 5 years minimum-punish the bas....s

[Dedworth]

Manchester Police have confirmed that a drugs testing kit was also chucked at Rio Ferdinand but he somehow managed to avoid it

[lastlid]

Plus of course the racism charges - 11

"1) If you see the car rocking, don't come knocking
In November 2005 Terry was accused of cheating on then-fiancee Toni Poole in a public car park.

Jenny Barker, 17, said the star sent her sexy texts after she asked for his autograph and later canoodled with her in his Bentley.

She said: "He smiled and put on sexy Luther Vandross music from a selection on a huge screen in the car. One thing led to another but we did not have sex. I didn't want to give in to him like I can imagine every other girl does."

Terry was claimed to have cheated on Poole with nine different women - including one fling with former porn star Karina Clarke.

He said before they married in 2007: "I really regret what I've done to Toni. I'm not going to cheat on her ever again."

2) The nagging doubts
In 2004 Terry and then best friend Wayne Bridge, together with Scott Parker, were reported to be gambling £40,000 a week between them on horse races.

Close pals Terry and Bridge were alleged to gave blown £13,000 in just three hours in a Surrey bookies. They later travelled to Las Vegas for Terry's stag night - which was held after his wedding to Poole.

3) The disabled parking bay
In March 2008 there was more car trouble for Terry as England's captain spurned a 50p-an-hour public car park yards away in favour of dumping his black Bentley in a spot for disabled drivers outside Pizza Express in Esher, Surrey.

The subsequent £60 fine was peanuts to a player reckoned then to be on £135,000 a week and who had therefore earned £1,600 in the time it took him to polish off his dough balls and American Hot.

4) The supermarket sweep
In March 2008 Terry's mother and mother-in-law were officially cautioned by police after being accused of shoplifting £800 worth of goods from Tesco.

The supermarket giants then launched a civil action against the pair.

The affair was a huge embarrassment for Terry as Tesco are official England sponsors.

5) The £10,000 guided tour
In December 2009 Terry was accused of taking £10,000 from undercover reporters in return for a private tour of Chelsea's training ground.

Terry told the pair he would give his share of the fee to charity but cautioned them: "If the club finds out, it's a little bit. . ."

6) The nightclub incident
In August 2002 Terry wept with relief after being cleared of attacking a nightclub doorman with a bottle.

He and then-team-mate Jody Morris walked free from court after a jury fought them not guilty of causing a fight at London celebrity haunt the Wellington Club.

The court heard rouble had flared when Morris was accused of spitting a drink on the floor and shouting obscenities at a member of staff.

The jury cleared Terry of affray, having an offensive weapon, wounding with intent and unlawful wounding.

7) The 9/11 party
With their flight to an away match at Levski Sofia grounded in the aftermath of the Terror attacks on New York and Washington in September 2001, Chelsea players found themselves at a loose end. Some went home to watch CNN, but Terry, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Frank Lampard and Morris had other ideas.

After visiting a couple of pubs - where a "hammered" Gudjohnsen stripped off and threw peanuts at punters while Lampard and Morris urinated in a rubbish bin outside - the group went on to a local bowling alley where they hurled themselves down the lanes and saw former colleague Frank Sinclair, who by now had joined the party, almost decapitated by the pin-changing mechanism.

Finally they ended up in the bar of the Posthouse Hotel at Heathrow, where stranded travellers, many of them Americans, had gathered to watch events unfold on TV. Instead they were treated to the players throwing food around while pictures were shown of sobbing firemen searching through the rubble for the dead, before one player exposed himself to the appalled throng.

Chelsea FC subsequently fined the trio for their behaviour.

8) The 'dealing' dad
In November 2009 Terry's dad Ted was caught on camera appearing to sell cocaine in an Essex bar.

Terry Snr was seen arranging to pass three grams of drug to an undercover reporter in return for £120 and telling him: "This is just between me and you. Don't tell him that I'm John Terry's dad."

9) The wee bit of bother
In February 2002 Terry was fit to burst after visiting the Time and Envy nightclubs in Romford, Essex.

He told friends he needed the toilet but that an injured toe was bothering him - so whipped out his manhood, urinated into a beer glass and dropped it on the floor.

Security staff saw the incident on CCTV and escorted the player off the premises.

10) Peeing in his own backyard
Arguably John Terry's most celebrated faux pas to date has been his dalliance with then Chelsea team-mate Wayne Bridge's girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel. Not only did he do the dirty on his former pal, but he also made her pregnant. The affair almost cost JT his marriage - and led to a spate of internet jokes ."

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opin...cle304737.html

[lastlid]

Like this guy says, finding a mesh fine enough to stop a £1 coin yet without impairing visibility may well be impossible.

Stadium designer Paul Fletcher feels the idea is unworkable as finding a mesh netting small enough to stop coins could prove impossible.
Fletcher worked on the design of Wembley Stadium, as well as stadiums at Bolton, Coventry and Huddersfield and was formerly chief executive of Burnley.
He said: "To stop a £1 coin going onto the pitch is going to take some fine mesh netting and I have never seen that.
"In foreign stadiums they do have netting, but that is to stop bigger objects like flares. I have certainly never looked at finding something to stop coins when designing stadia.
"I have never seen a mesh you can see through without feeling it affects your view of the game."

[les_taxi]

Manchester Police have confirmed that a drugs testing kit was also chucked at Rio Ferdinand but he somehow managed to avoid it

True but he still got punished

[Dedworth]

What's the connection between lengthy copy & paste post # 5 and people throwing things at Rio Ferdinand

[lastlid]

What's the connection between lengthy copy & paste post # 5 and people throwing things at Rio Ferdinand

Your indirect reference to Ferdinand's alleged association with drugs. Rather silly question.

Yes, John Terry's history is quite lengthy - well spotted.

[Dedworth]

Your indirect reference to Ferdinand's alleged association with drugs. Rather silly question.

Yes, John Terry's history is quite lengthy - well spotted.

You've completely lost me - have you been hit on the head by something ?

[lastlid]

Manchester Police have confirmed that a drugs testing kit was also chucked at Rio Ferdinand but he somehow managed to avoid it

You've completely lost me - have you been hit on the head by something ?

I wasn't the only one to read between your vitriol charged lines in the same way.

Where did you get the report from?

[Dedworth]

I wasn't the only one to read between your vitriol charged lines in the same way.

Where did you get the report from?

Hands up anyone else who spotted the vitriol - it always used to be known on here as banter

I have mates who text & email me jokes and funnies. Here is another please don't take it the wrong way :-

Rio Ferdinand was hit with a coin during the Manchester derby as he celebrated the winning goal.

I think it's a disgrace that things like this are happening in football.

It should have been a brick.

[lastlid]

Hands up anyone else who spotted the vitriol - it always used to be known on here as banter

I have mates who text & email me jokes and funnies. Here is another please don't take it the wrong way :-

Rio Ferdinand was hit with a coin during the Manchester derby as he celebrated the winning goal.

I think it's a disgrace that things like this are happening in football.

It should have been a brick.

I have never spotted an ounce of vitriol in any of your posts. . It just isn't you. You are the antipathy of the meaning of the word.

[bigmarco]

Here's one I got

After the drama of the Manchester derby, a description of the fan who threw a coin at Rio Ferdinand has been released, police are looking for a man dressed in full Chelsea kit with the number 26 on his back.

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Ashley Cole’s mum says City fan who hit Ferdinand should get a medal


"According to tomorrow mornings Daily Mirror, Ashley Cole’s mum Sue has said that whoever threw the coin at Rio Ferdinand on Sunday should get a medal.

The article suggests that a message appeared on her son Matty’s Facebook page under her name saying “Give the fan who threw it a medal.”

The message would have been swiftly deleted, much like Ashley Cole’s recent jibe at the FA, but that isn’t to say it didn’t happen.

She’s definitely right – ignore the fact that a man was almost blinded for celebrating a winning goal in a football match in front of his own fans, the scum bag who threw it should be rewarded."

http://thepeoplesperson.com/ashley-c...d-get-a-medal/

You can smell the stench of desperation down at the Bridge now.

[bigmarco]

It seems that the mirror are pre occupied with Ashley Coles Mums supposed Facebook Posts

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...helsea-1431978

anything for a story I suppose.

[lastlid]

And the sun.....

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...Ferdinand.html

[lastlid]

Time to tackle thug element! End the coin-throwing now, or expect some more serious damage

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I have been to an enormous amount of games where coin throwing has been overt. I gather it is better now, as the Daily Mail writer says, but it is still happening. Though I never saw it at Old Trafford in recent times.

Next time a coin might take a players eye out. Like Rio Ferdinand said, a bit of banter is okay, but the coin throwing goes too far. Some people don't know where to draw the line.