If This Were During A Football Match...

[sp1814]

...I wouldn't be surprised.

But I can't recall ever seeing this at a rugby match before:

http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/28/fight-breaks-out-at-rugby-league-game-as-players-clash-with-fans-5781104/

A one-off incident, surely?

[piggynose]

but this isn't real rugby, its that silly type of rugby, called rugby league which is mainly played in the north. lol

[-Talbot-]

Rugby League attracts four times as many viewers, I wonder why that is?

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

I was not aware of a difference between League and Union fans.

But why doesn't cricket have hooligans?

I always assumed that it was down fact that cricket was so deathly boring that the crowd would be in no state to fight (having already slipped into comas).

[RandyMarsh]

cricket fans are usually too drunk to fight.

[anotheoldgit]

/// But why doesn't cricket have
hooligans? ///

Ah! but it does, one more point in the 'agenda' battle.

*** Habib Ur, 29, of Leeds, said Asian hooligans had put him off going to matches. He said: "They are young kids who get over excited. They are the same in everything they are involved in. It's down to their parents, their upbringing. They are not being looked after and there is a clash between both cultures." ***

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1309142/Hooligans-bringing-shame-on-Pakistan.html

[RandyMarsh]

that was not a fight AOG, that was at the end of the game.

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

/// that was not a fight AOG, that was at the end of the game. ///

Did I mention anything about fights, I was addressing SP notion that cricket doesn't have hooligans.

[piggynose]

depends on how you define the word " hooligan "

[RandyMarsh]

one example from 15 years ago does that eh?

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

/// one example from 15 years ago does that eh?

Then here's another example, and I can provide others if you so wish, but much easier to criticise our own, wouldn't want to put certain other nationalities in a bad light, now would we?

http://sports.ndtv.com/celkon-mobile-cup-2013/news/210811-fan-fined-banned-for-five-years-for-throwing-bottle-during-india-vs-sri-lanka-match

[Cloverjo]

Regarding cricket watchers: I wouldn't call them hooligans, but some can be very irritating. The Barmy Army have sparked complaints about their drinking, loud singing and trumpet-playing as well as their habit of passing a massive snake of plastic beer cups above the heads of people in the crowd. I am a cricket fan, BTW.

I was shocked to see the photo of the rugby player pinning the man by his throat to the ground. I've never seen that in any sport, before.

[Stephen_G]

I am a Rugby League fan and it's safe to say that crowd trouble is quite rare, but there have been a few incidents in the last couple of years.

It's one of the few sports where supporters of the most hated rivals can stand shoulder-to-shoulder on the Terraces. It's also one of the few sports where fans of other teams (Not including the ones playing) will also turn up to watch - I went to the Challenge Cup Final in 2014 and there were supporters wearing colours from a wide variety of teams, not just Castleford and Leeds who were contesting the Final.