Pitch invasions

[crazyfists]

The way things are going, fencing will have to be brought back. Clubs should also be penalised for pitch invasions during the match.

This. Anyone comes on the pitch then that team loses the game 3 nil automatically and they are deducted 3 points as well from the next league campaign or current one if its during the season. That's the only way it'll stop, punish the clubs and the fans will stop the other fans from doing it.

[upthemaggies]

This. Anyone comes on the pitch then that team loses the game 3 nil automatically and they are deducted 3 points as well from the next league campaign or current one if its during the season. That's the only way it'll stop, punish the clubs and the fans will stop the other fans from doing it.

Won't happen and if it did, it'd be a near certainty that fans of rival clubs would be on the pitch to influence the outcome of the league table. With the amount of money at stake (Champions league places for example), I dare say somebody might even hire a group for that purpose with a very large amount of cash in a brown envelope changing hands.
You could do it only for a mass invasion rather than a small number, but where do you draw the line? What if loads come on and don't cause any trouble and then at another ground only a few come on but try to push over a player.

Fences would be the most depressing site imaginable and the pushback would be enormous. You could make a case that there's no chance of a repeat of Hillsborough but imagine having fences at Anfield, fans would be claiming (genuinely in some cases) that they're being triggered into a panic attack by the sight of them on TV, never mind being sat in front of one.