Rambo
1st team Player
Posts: 1,662
|
Post by Rambo on May 2, 2010 16:02:16 GMT
Just picked up from the K'sForum : -
Further to discussions with the Directors, playing staff and representatives of the Supporters Club, the Chairmen have decided that the assault by a spectator on a Kingstonian player during the playoff final yesterday had a serious effect upon the ongoing performance of the team.
The club has therefore decided to lodge an appeal to the Ryman League forthwith. Club secretary Gerry Petit is in the process of notifying the league secretary.
Manager Alan Dowson comments, "Yesterday's playoff game should have been the biggest game of their careers for my players and the biggest the club has had in years. You can take what happens in a game, but not what went on at Boreham Wood's ground. That was disgusting and it's left us feeling sick.
"We have an honest bunch of players and they just want to play football, not have your skipper Francis Duku punched in the face by a man running on to the pitch. You try and get on with it at the time but they were affected, no doubt about it. We went from our best spell in the game to falling into our shells. We had young lads and players with their families in the ground out there and when four of five of them are saying they want to come off and get away from it you have to wonder about their state of mind.
"The referee said to me afterwards that he'd never seen anything like it in the game and would be writing a report. Our people handled themselves unbelievably in the circumstances and for that I'm proud.
"The situation was nothing short of a scandal and if hooligans can do as they please to a game of football then maybe the game doesn't have a place in such society anymore. I hope that the powers that be have a long thought about this."
|
|
taz
Top Performer
Posts: 3,760
|
Post by taz on May 2, 2010 16:43:51 GMT
Wood will be censured and fined, but I seriously doubt a replay will be ordered.
|
|
bh
1st team Player
Come on you Us
Posts: 1,573
|
Post by bh on May 2, 2010 17:04:40 GMT
Can we appeal against K's having a bloke who scores wonder goals!!
|
|
|
Post by fluffy rascal on May 2, 2010 17:22:03 GMT
Well i was standing next to the k-scum before kick off and they were throwing stuff at us, can we get ours replayed then?
|
|
|
Post by Nick the Greek/The Speshul One on May 2, 2010 17:43:47 GMT
I honestly think the manager should have taken the players off the pitch, and let the ref. and league reps deal with the situation from there.
|
|
|
Post by os on May 2, 2010 18:58:43 GMT
I honestly think the manager should have taken the players off the pitch, and let the ref. and league reps deal with the situation from there. I think that is the point at 0-0 K's decided to stay on the pitch and the ref decided it was safe enough to continue, therefore I do not feel K's have any grounds for a appeal. Thats not saying it did not effect them but they had a opportunity while the game was still 0-0 and to lodge a complaint now is not going to wash. I cannot think of a precedence for it?
|
|
|
Post by salmonboy on May 2, 2010 19:13:43 GMT
Didn't K's have a game replayed some years ago after a Peterboro' fan threw a coin at the keeper? I remember it was played behind closed doors. If that happened, then there's no reason this cannot be replayed considering the severity of the event.
|
|
taz
Top Performer
Posts: 3,760
|
Post by taz on May 2, 2010 19:38:50 GMT
There won't be a re-match for one simple reason. The Ryman does the PO's in 1 week like they do so that us poor clubs don't have to pay an extra weeks wages.
Contracts will be up, players off on their hols.
And anyway, with the speed the Ryman usually move at most of the participants in saturdays match will have retired from the game by the time they make a decision!
They'd need to sit down, well now really, to make a decision and try to get any game replayed next saturday absolute latest.
Let's be honest, it's just not going to happen is it?
|
|
|
Post by Chalmers on May 2, 2010 20:00:34 GMT
Didn't K's have a game replayed some years ago after a Peterboro' fan threw a coin at the keeper? I remember it was played behind closed doors. If that happened, then there's no reason this cannot be replayed considering the severity of the event. Yeah, think i remember that, Adrian Blake is the name that springs to mind getting the coin in the head, all a bit vague though!!
|
|
|
Post by vern on May 2, 2010 20:15:46 GMT
Kingston should effing take it like a man...bunch of wusses.
|
|
cuff
Spectator
Posts: 30
|
Post by cuff on May 2, 2010 20:33:05 GMT
At first I had a bit of sympathy. I'd definitely get put off my job if someone punched me. Totally out of order from BW Then I wondered if I'd get put off if someone threw a firework at me. Then I just started laughing at kingston again. You reap what you sow
|
|
garethl
Top Performer
Posts: 4,003
Member is Online
|
Post by garethl on May 2, 2010 20:33:57 GMT
Nonsense. I think they've got a good case. We'd be complaining in a major way if it was us. There's no place for this in sport. The game should be re played. I've no time for Ks in any way but I side with them on this.
|
|
|
Post by fox on May 2, 2010 20:58:10 GMT
I hope with the volume of the pictures taken the guy is identified and gets punished for several offences.
|
|
|
Post by guestsimon on May 2, 2010 21:42:27 GMT
Ok, K's fan here - who was there yesterday, too.
Taking the above comments in order, briefly:
Taz: I fear you're right re the fine as opposed to re-match, but see below; bh - lol (sorry, we're keeping him I think, quicker than you can say 'Eddie Akuamoah'...) fluffy - hmm, would you rather be 'attacked' by confetti or the fist of a pitch intruder carrying God knows what having consumed God knows what? Come on... Nick the Greek/os - of course the obvious thing would have been to leave the pitch - east to say on a wet Sunday afternoon, but not such an easy decision to take on the spur of the moment in the heat of a very tense play off final; Chalmers - yes indeed, it was our g/k Adrian Blake who was hit and nearly killed after being felled by a 50p coin which caught him on the back of the head, having been fired by catapult - not thrown - from the crowd in 1992 at Peterborough. Interestingly, we were already 3-0 down and sinking fast, so the replay was clearly on a point of principle, not possible result; vern, cuff - no comment, because... ...garethl - you've said it all (except I do have time for K's, of course); fox - as I saw it, the bloke who punched (nb not 'slapped') Duku was eventually apprehended by persons in uniform on the half empty terrace part-occupied by BWFC supporters. Presumably he will now face charges of trespass, assault and resisting arrest.
Sour grapes? Not really. We lost the game as such clearly, many comments on our website - including my own - testify to that. So what's the problem? One of principle. There was systematic and repetitive unacceptable behaviour (all catalogued on our website Forum - if you can stand going there). No-one can prove the incident affected the result but, perhaps more importantly, no-one can prove it didn't. For the last 35 minutes or so, K's were attacking a goal no more than 5 yards behind which was a group of hostile people who had already proven that they had both the ability and desire to come on the pitch and assault away players. Fair contest? I don't think so. If you had beaten us on Tuesday with a penalty from a blatant dive and a second goal from a handball that would have made Thierry Henri blush (not that I think you ever would do that, but you see what I mean), I would have been furious. If you had then gone on to BWFC and lost in the circumstances we lost in yesterday, I would nonetheless have been among the first non Us fans to put my name to any petition to get your final replayed. Without being too precious, what happened yesterday (literally and metaphorically) crossed the line in a way that, for the wider good of the game at this level which we all love so much, must NOT be allowed to pass without serious redress of some kind.
If the Ryman decided you, Aveley and we should now play a round robin play off from scratch (ie wiping out our 4-2 win); or that we and Aveley should play for the place in next year's BSS; or that we should replay BWFC behind closed doors at their place or at any other venue; I'd accept any of those as symbolic redress for an unacceptable day's events at BWFC yesterday.
Finally, before I forget my good manners as a guest on your Forum, good luck against Godalming in the SSC final.
Cheers all,
Simon
|
|
rex
Spectator
Posts: 38
|
Post by rex on May 2, 2010 21:55:10 GMT
Just a few pictures from yesterday to illustrate the difference between the sets of fans: (from Andy Nunn, with thanks)
|
|