What marks these recent incidents out compared to decades of celebratory pitch invasions that have gone before, is the level of aggression and ultimately violence, from a minority. It should be about euphoria not aggression in that moment.
It might be covid keeping people pent up before this season, it might be drink and drugs, it might be something else or a combination. But something is slightly different.
Didn't really see much of that in our pitch invasion though. There were lads who went over towards the half empty away end briefly for a bit of a 'who are ya' but that wasn't much to write home about. We aren't exactly the most vociferous home fanbase after all.
Not sure its fair to call our pitchie the starting point.
Before all these recent week's incidents it was being reported that there's been a rise of general football related violence around games, not really seen since the 80s. Stuff like this was being written in the spring. Again things like lockdown and drugs were being suggested as causes.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/feb/18/the-shocking-rise-of-disorder-at-matches
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...g-as-12-the-new-face-of-hooliganism-rn53v7022
I'd argue the pitch invasion stuff where its gone wrong should be seen as an extention of this trend, not a specific issue of pitchies to tackle in isolation and potentially ban.