Crossbar challenging?

[Winchester Royal]

Surely if you turn up to a football match, you'll assume that footballs will be kicked around from the time they start warming up to the final whistle.

Those who need telling obviously shouldn't be allowed near a football stadium.

Why can't the club bung it on small print on the back of tickets or something? Print a T&C of ticket purchase at the start of each season. Perhaps they can also send a warning as to the shite quality of football this season? Marks and Sparks would do a product recall.

[weybridgewanderer]

and as for the bloke with the pump action air gun that shoots T-Shirts into the stand, that can stop too

[Rawlie19]

I have heard of troubles in the North Stand when our players have a go at the crossbar challenge. Has anyone on here suffered or seen the results of flying footballs at half time or before the game?

I saw a lady get hit in the face on Saturday from a Darren O'Dea rocket. He was very apologetic and went over to make sure she was ok as soon as he did it, and at the final whistle.

Something I mentioned in the moments of the decade thread, but I saw Andy Hughes completely knock someone spark out with a bullet shot in 2003. Cracked me up!

Thank you for a serious response - I heard someone had a broken nose and I wanted to find out if it was a widespread problem that needs to be raised with the club. Crosses during the game are not at all what I was talking about as you can be expected to be watching the ball but before the game and at half time most people still in the stands are not watching the pitch and so can be taken by surprise and hurt or covered in hot coffee.

But if you all want to take the pi$$ that is fair enough.

I sit in the North stand and before the game tend to be standing up. In front of me is a pretty old lady and one Saturday I suddenly saw a ball come flying towards us at a belting speed. It was heading to hit her smack in the face but I managed to instinctively lean forward and bat the ball away (stung my hand like nothing, so I'm convinced it would have killed her if it had hit). This wasn't from them trying to hit the crossbar though, it was a shot from Sal Bibbo in the warm up. I have never liked the way the players all like to huddle around and try and hit the crossbar repeatedly... I mean, shouldn't they be practicing getting the ball IN TO the goal?

[LoyalRoyalFan]

I also sit in the North Stand, right behind the goal. It always seems to me that Sal Bibbo has a better shot, than our strikers. My point is proven right, when either Shane Long or Gregorz Raisak consistently shoot into the stands.

[working class hero]

If Starliaison wishes to moan about people taking the mick.... why is the alter ego of starcampaigns also joining in?????

Have a word.