So rugby ruins it eh ? Thanks then to the mindless idiots who trampled all over it today. To do so is actually a criminal offence (as it constitutes entering the playing area).

If only they could all be locked up.

Reminded me a bit of the pitch invasion by the FC fans at Huddersfield except no posts were damaged today.

Not sure I'd go as far as locking them up, but maybe they where a tad inconsiderate to the immediate future users of it.... However, I defy any loyal, hardened fan to not do the same in such circumstances

You've already been warned for derailing threads. Consider this a final one

made a similar point myself

in years well a memory I was thrown out of the Boulevard for "throwing an item onto the pitch" said item was a sweet wrapper, and I dropped it behind the well, but I guess Plod was bored and wanted to do something.

entering a sports field is an offence, and thousands did it at City yesterday, I could also throw a charge of masquerading as a Premier League player in there, but they will all get found out.

Standard practice in the 70s and 80s. Always ran on at the end to ask for the players tie ups.

so was racism and sexism, maybe we should return to those.

maybe then you wouldn't be out of date too?

Who said I agreed with it?

I posted this originally as an example of the double standards of city fans who blame us for ruining the pitch.

Yes I have been on the pitch at Boulevard many times but that was then and this is now.
My point is really this - do city now condone this behaviour, which will have done far more harm to the pitch than a game rugby ?

Of course they do, it was pub(l)ic fallaction of the "Dr", ego boosts like that cost about £30m, especially when you've raped a few companies on the way.

Football fans in "Running onto the pitch on the last day of the season to celebrate promotion" shocker

before promotion was confirmed, when a panalty was yet to be taken, with 2 minutes to go??

I have no concerns with the pitch. That will recover quickly with some TLC from ground staff. It's the club owner that I will watch with interest. I'm sure now City are back in the premiership the ownership of the KC will soon raise its ugly head.

Why, does promotion negate our lease agreement, or the position of the council, or the fact that the KC is a crown asset?

are people, with respect, really this silly?

Hell yes,whilst her indoors is doing my tea as i watch love thy neighbour.

Didnt last time they went up and we now have a labour council instead of that nutjob Minss...now he would have bent over backwards for Allam.

The good doctors parting shot was that he'd never entertain the council again with regard to the KC. I trust that he's a man of his word...

I never said that. Allam, I'm sure will assume that city deserve the KC to be their own now they're playing with the big boys. £120 million from promotion may give him some ideas. He may insist that if the council will not sell the KC he may threaten to build his own.

he's tried that before, and failed.

a new stadium would cost in excess of £50m, and that is IF he could get plannning, would also take 18 months of planning and consultation before the diggers could even come in. Bear in mind the land he proposes to use isn't his, and i earmarked for housing, a way higher yiel than £50m for a 6 acre site.

He's a dreamer and a chancer.

They will be down before he even gets planning permission.This arguement will keep coming up if city are up or arent.

I agree Standee. I just have a feeling that he will start making demands. Being the owner of a premiership wendyball club will no doubt inflate his ego.

As I say, he's already made demands, and they have fallen on deaf ears, he doesn't have the money to do what he promised at the KC, he doesn't have the money to build anywhere else. He doesn't have the money to build a Premiership squad, look at Arsenal, wading in cash and won nothing for years, even Chelski, with RA Billions behind them, struggle to win anything other than the Europa.

City fans are deluded, but we saw that from the TV pictures yesterday.

For someone who is supposedly intelligent you aren't half naïve

how am I naieve?

Allam cannot change the lease agreement without the secretary of state's aprroval, and as a crown asset it may even be called to the privy council.

I'd say I'm maybe a little better informed?