my apologise to those who only kicksin and NEVER intended to ACTUALLY do anything
ok ok fellas i come like bhaji now
Ah know plenty men does read "The Knowledge" on the guardian.co.uk
Allyuh check out this article and the bolded part.... allyuh feel that woulda be a suitable protest for de gameÂ
Also take in Blanco antics as we just recently had a thread bout he
http://football.guardian.co.uk/theknowledge/story/0,,1746558,00.htmlWEIRD OBJECTS THROWN AT FOOTBALL MATCHES (2)In last week's Knowledge, Brian Cowell asked what the strangest items to be thrown from the stands on to a football pitch were. And your emails have been flooding in with further examples ...Lars Ellensohn and Andreas Schärfinger noted that, "the recent local derby between Betis and Sevilla saw fans throw a bottle of rum, a flare and a living cat on to the pitch." Hmmn, not bad, but how about this from Chris Weaver? "When Charlton were at home to Luton on January 19, 1982 at the old Valley, the game was mostly memorable (it ended 0-0) for the item lobbed out by home supporters in the first half. Without warning, the front half of a dead cat sailed over the heads of away supporters, landing a foot or so short of the touchline. A passing policeman, who the cat had narrowly missed, nudged it gingerly to one side with his foot and that was that."
Somewhat more tongue-in-cheek was Reading's PANTS protest (possibly an acronym for Players Are Not Trying Sufficiently) on December 18 1999, where an estimated 4,000 Royals supporters brought an item of underwear to wave - or hurl on to the Madejski Stadium pitch."Probably the most bizarre thing I ever saw happen at a game was at Chile's World Cup 2002 warm-up match against the New Zealand Football Kingz in Auckland," recalls Leila Gilchrist. "Someone actually ran on to the pitch 10 minutes before the end of the match carrying a car door! The presence of a few hundred New Zealand-resident Chileans excitedly massing by the touchline had prompted the announcer to ask fans not to invade the pitch at the end of the game. After the car-door incident he had to follow this up with a request for fans 'not to bring car parts on to the pitch'."
Dr Chris Wood in Mexico thinks he can trump that, however. "After the America-Sao Caetano Copa Libertadores quarter-final in 2004, both teams decided to ignore the ball and start whacking each other in the final minute. Cuauhtemoc Blanco, previously red-carded, sprinted back out of the tunnel to join in the fun, which upped the ante even further. While fights were breaking out all over the pitch, the crowd decided they fancied a bit of that too, and all hell broke loose on the terraces of the Azteca. Why and how I do not know, but at one point a wheelbarrow came flying over the fence to whistle past the noses of the attendant police. A wheelbarrow?"
However, our favourite tale involves the late Chic Brodie, a Knowledge favourite (who was once knocked out by a falling crossbar before his career was ended by a canine pitch intruder who shattered his kneecap). Brodie was playing for Brentford against Millwall on November 6, 1965 when - of all things - a hand grenade was thrown at him from the Lions' end. DJ and washing-up powder vendor Danny Baker recounts the tale: "Did he panic? No, he did not. He simply waved one arm, then more urgently two, towards his nearest official, a linesman. After a brief exchange, the linesman walked towards the hand grenade and, from about eight feet away, confirmed it was bona fide. The linesman then ran toward the other end of the pitch waving his flag furiously. Startled players made [a] gangway for him. Catching the referee by the arm, there is no record of what he said, but it's a fair guess to say it was along the lines of: 'I'm sorry, Mr Kirkpatrick, but the Millwall supporters have thrown a hand grenade at the Brentford 'keeper. What's the form on this?' Mr Kirkpatrick - a man of action - hastily blew his whistle and led a charge towards the tunnel."
