Was the flare thrown into an area with no players or officials there at the time?
If so, then it will be difficult to charge any of the crowd with throwing it at someone. Griffiths, however, has no defence.
And for the record, the chants are wrong and have no place and decent society in my view, but players have got to rise above it for their own sakes, however difficult that may be.
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24-09-2021 01:45 PM #61
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Pyros at the football is a good thing
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24-09-2021 02:47 PM #66InconsequentialLeft by mutual consent!
In my opinion this incident has two wrongs - firstly the chants directed at Griffiths are abusive and a criminal offence. If it happened in the street arrests would be made. Football 'supporters' are by and and large free to shout abuse at a player. They paid their money which gives them the licence to abuse another person. Secondly Griffiths was reckless and shouldn't have reacted the way he did. But it's easy to say for other people when most will never find themselves in a similar situation. Griffiths snapped and reacted. Some people WILL react as it takes great courage to ignore and walk away.
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As it stands there is only one person committing a criminal offence and he’s been charged with that.
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24-09-2021 02:57 PM #68
Is it a criminal offence to verbally abuse someone these days? Who's decides what constitutes abuse?
I've zero experience with the law and I'm not trying to be smart, but if someone shouts and swears at me in the street I don't expect the police to arrest them. I'll tell them to f off and go about my day.
People are 'abusive' in all sorts of ways in daily life without the law being involved.
Ask anyone working in retail what customers can be like for example. The police would rarely get involved unless things got physical.
Call centre staff get abuse on a daily basis from irate companies, they don't go running to the police either.
Team sports will always, well, hopefully always, have a tribal element to the support. Causing offence to the opposition is part of it.
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24-09-2021 02:58 PM #69
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The guy is a liability.
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24-09-2021 03:04 PM #70InconsequentialLeft by mutual consent!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Public Order Act 1986. Harassment, distress or alarm. 1. A person is guilty of a criminal offence if he a/ uses threatening or abusive words.Last edited by Inconsequential; 24-09-2021 at 03:26 PM. Reason: Addition
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24-09-2021 04:00 PM #75
Least he got a shot on target.
Joking aside, stupid thing to do, fans would be in trouble if they got caught launching a flare pitch side, same would apply if a footballer launched something into the fans
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Are you really suggesting that if I shout abuse at a player or the ref that I would be arrested? In no way is that construed as a breach of the peace.
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I was a few seats along from the guy who threw the pyro onto pitch and wouldn’t have been very pleased if it got lobbed back and struck me instead of the initial culprit.
Throwing anything back into a stand full of supporters is just idiotic behaviour.
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Pyro is for wee laddies.
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I’m sure the supporter will be picked out and banned - will griffiths receive a ban that correlates that? No he won’t is the simple answer.
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