Sent off for tackling a pitch invader in a mankini

[Bozza]

I can't believe this hasn't been on here, but if it has I didn't see it so it is likely to be new to others too.

Whilst researching Ben Dickenson 'just in case', I happened across this article and accompanying video (you have to watch the video)...

BBC Sport - Football - Dorchester's Ashley Vickers sees red over pitch invader

Amazing stuff - and WHAT A TACKLE on the japester who had interrupted play. He'll think twice about doing that again...

 

[Bozza]

Hilario...

"The security there were too slow but Vickers caught me quite well. He should be a rugby player.

"He hit me quite hard so by the time I had got up I didn't know where I was on the pitch because I hadn't expected the tackle."

 

[Birdie Boy]

Seen it before and sure it was on here. Funny as f***!

 

[Acker79]

Yeah, the original discussion is here Sent off for tackling pitch invader

 

[The Optimist]

"one of the BBC's top football pundits" and then Steve Claridge comes on. Top!! Surely he's well down the list of BBC football pundits.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Just googling 'Referee David Spain' and he is clearly very fond of his red card.

Sent off 4 in a match between Totton and Weymouth.

He sent off three in the match posted by Bozza.

 

[Gazwag]

These incidents are going to set a dangerous precedent if players continue to get red cards for stopping these twats.

 

[Pbseagull]

Hilario...


"He hit me quite hard so by the time I had got up I didn't know where I was on the pitch because I hadn't expected the tackle."

When I first read that I thought he was talking about the tackle hanging out of his mankini!

 

[mona]

Wasn't Ashley Vickers the player who broke Darragh Ryan's leg at Peterborough in the late 1990s?

 

[Man of Harveys]

These incidents are going to set a dangerous precedent if players continue to get red cards for stopping these twats.

Yes. I too am worried that civilisation as we know it is likely to come under the severest of threats from a referee sending off a thuggish non-league player in front of three men and a dog midweek at some bike shed of a ground for tackling a pitch invader who's wearing a mankini.