Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: mrfuse on April 08, 2011, 11:04:20 AM
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Sorry if this is discussed anywhere else but i couldnt see it, but a Sunderland fan is suing the club after being hit by stray Djibril Cissé shot the Supporter was knocked out by shot while watching training session.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/07/sunderland-fan-sues-club (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/07/sunderland-fan-sues-club)
Now i might not know all the details but this sounds ridiculas Im fed up with this country, on saying that im behind the goal at Villa park bring it on Ash haha!
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I sit in the Trinity Road family stand and still duck whenever Heskey lines up a shot.
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When I used to go to the ice hockey matches in the USA, an announcement was read out before each match saying that since the pucks may leave the playing area and spectators could be struck, you should leave now if that causes you any concerns.
AFAIK No one ever got sued - but I did see lotsa supporters get hit in the bonce and go out for medical attention. They usually came back looking like Terry Butcher.
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Madness.
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I may get my solicitor to contact Savo for a back dated claim.
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I would be most disappointed if the supporter won this case. Its says it was quite a serious injury, but exactly what precautions are Sunderland supposed to have taken to prevent such an accident happening ? What it probably now means is that none of their supporters can now ever gain admission to watch them training, no doubt other clubs will follow suit after receiving advice from their public liability insurers.
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He should be thankful it is not Stan the Wham Lynn with old brown leather ball.
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I was quite close to writing a strongly worded complaint to the Villa after burning my mouth on a steak and kidney pie before the Athletico Madrid game a few moons ago, it was blisteringly hot.
I ended up just adding it to my list of things to blame Doug for.
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I'm sueing David O'Leary for making my life a fucking misery between 2003 and 2006.
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What it probably now means is that none of their supporters can now ever gain admission to watch them training, no doubt other clubs will follow suit after receiving advice from their public liability insurers.
Speaking as one of those said insurers our issue is all down to risk assessments and H&S. If the club did everything reasonable to keep specatators safe and it was 'one of those things', then the claim is defendable. It shouldn't effect other clubs greatly as you would expect them to already have their's in place and other than banning fans there's not a lot else you can do.
As it goes I expect the club and the insurers will not want this dragged out due to negative publicity and it'll be settled early doors.
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I can't understand why someone would want to sue their football club. If you support them, 'love' them, then you'd just ignore something like this.
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I'm sueing Salifou for not living up to his reputation as the Togolese Zidane.
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At the risk of sounding old fashioned i hate the words risk assessments and H&S it really has gone to far because of this suing fashion age we live in.
Just because someone at work set the fire alarms off because he was a knob head who couldn't use a microwave i had to waste my day and go on a microwave training course.
I like the good old days when common sense applied and you couldn't sue people for ridiculas issues, okay if its serious negligence on the behalf of the company but we all know that its someone trying to make a cheap buck
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I should sue Steve Staunton.
At Forest, years ago, I was sat with my mate just to the left of the goal and the lads were warming up for the game. Staunton hit a screamer, as he quite often did, but I was looking away at the time. I only turned to see what was going on as the ball struck me smack in the face, to a collective 'ooooooooo' from those around me, and much hilarity to my mate.
Bastard.
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Are there not some grounds who have big nets behind the goal to stop this kind of thing on match days? I was once sitting in the Holte when Petrov hit a screamer in the warm up, the only problem being that it was about 5 foot wide of the target and heading straight for my missus until she ducked and it struck me smack on the forehead. Needless to say she was most concerned once she'd finished laughing!! I did think at the time that as there were no warning signs up and it was in the warm up ie prior to when you would expect Petrov to be firing the ball into the crowd that the club were leaving themselves open to some greedy money grabber to take them to court.
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They have nets behind the goalposts in Spain but I think that's more to stop the supporters from chucking the rather loose-fitting seats onto the pitch when a decision goes against them/their team loses after playing shite.
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Was anyone else at Walsall for the pre-season friendly a few years back when Lee Hendrie booted the ball in to our own fans deliberately because he was frustrated? He should've been strung up let alone sued!!
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When I used to go to the ice hockey matches in the USA, an announcement was read out before each match saying that since the pucks may leave the playing area and spectators could be struck, you should leave now if that causes you any concerns.
AFAIK No one ever got sued - but I did see lotsa supporters get hit in the bonce and go out for medical attention. They usually came back looking like Terry Butcher.
You cannot limit liability for death or PI in either the UK or the US.
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You cannot limit liability for death or PI in either the UK or the US.
In terms of the financial payment, no you can't, but actions like putting up signs are used as a defence to prove you weren't actually liable in the first place.
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Anyone want to join me in a class action suit against Houllier and the players?
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I should sue Steve Staunton.
At Forest, years ago, I was sat with my mate just to the left of the goal and the lads were warming up for the game. Staunton hit a screamer, as he quite often did, but I was looking away at the time. I only turned to see what was going on as the ball struck me smack in the face, to a collective 'ooooooooo' from those around me, and much hilarity to my mate.
Bastard.
Exact same thing happened to my mate at the Yawnthorns before Savo's debut in 1995, but it was Allan Evans that hit the shot (he was taking shots at Michael Oakes) so it was probably best left alone. Oakes was rolling around pissing himself laughing, it was so funny.
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I was stood behind the goal at The Dell when Neil Cox was warming up and he belted a ball towards me, I turned round with my hands in my pockets to see it flying towards me and hadn't time to raise my hands so headed it to great cheers. It brought tears to my eyes and i'm sure I saw stars, never turned my back on a game since.
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I reckon i should sue MON because the season we have had has me reaching for the Anti depressants more than usual.
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Im sueing Gareth Barry for not taking that penalty..
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For the Chelsea game a few seasons ago, (we lost 1-0 to an Anelka goal, I think) I was standing at the front of the Lower Holte watching the lads warm up. Young took a long shot and it ended up curling and pounding me in the chest. I was winded, but immediately laughed my arse off and now I think it's kind of a cool thing to have happened to me. Don't understand why a fan would sue their own club, when it would most likely have negative outcome on them as a fan (i.e, no fans being allowed at training)
However, I may have broken some sort of record for being the first person in a Villa shirt Young's ever actually hit from a free-kick.
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I was stood behind the goal at The Dell when Neil Cox was warming up and he belted a ball towards me, I turned round with my hands in my pockets to see it flying towards me and hadn't time to raise my hands so headed it to great cheers. It brought tears to my eyes and i'm sure I saw stars, never turned my back on a game since.
I got hit in the goolies by a stray one from Neil Cox, strangely enough at the The Dell during a warm up.
Everyone else saw it coming but I had my head buried in the programme, they parted like the Red Sea and I went down like a sack of 'tatas.
Maybe we could launch a joint claim.
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It's dickheads like this that will mean we will have to have giant nets behind the goals.
This country needs to grow a pair and stop being dictated to by stupid laws that shouldn't exist.
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I agree Shrek.
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In all my years of going to football, including many behind the goal, I have never once touched, let alone been struck, by a match ball.
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I've touched the matchball twice, once at Luton in the warm up and second at Reading on the front row, thank god I didn't get injured
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I got hit by a wayward Darius Vassell shot in a game against West Ham in 2002.
Like Chipsticks said, It's one of those funny stories I can claim happened to me. A friend of mine went out with him for a little while, she told him about it. The miserable git just laughed. Didn't apologise or nothing.
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When Nilis scored against Chelsea one of the players (think it was Merson) booted the ball into the Holte End. I jumped up to try and catch it and ended up stretching my finger backwards, causing the muscle/ligament in my finger to tear.
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If that twat of a Sunderland fan wins his case will this mean mass of sad gits trying to get seats in the front rows looking for compensation?
Bloody country has gone barmy. The prat should have the common sense to watch what is going on.
Maybe, people will start walking around parks in the hope of getting hit be some cloggers poorly directed wendyball and sueing them!