Geordie #@&%!heads run riot at sunday league matches

Hundreds Newcastle fans ran riot at a Sunday League match ahead of the controversial Premier League clash against Wigan at the weekend, dropping their trousers, swinging on crossbars, ripping out corner flags, tearing nets and even stealing the match ball.

As many as 300 Toon supporters on their way to the DW Stadium piled off coaches and started causing havoc at the local pitches at Scott Lane where Wigan Cosmos were taking on AFC Leigh Centurions in a South Lancashire Counties League match.

The chaos began 15 minutes into the match when several coachloads of Newcastle fans turned up, apparently to watch the match.



"Some fans then chose to run onto the field of play, dropping their pants, causing the game to be stopped," the Wigan Cosmos said in a statement.

"Although good natured at first, the fans then started to rip out corner flags as they ran over the pitches and also took the match ball.

"We never recovered the ball, though we did manage to recover the corner flags.



"The so-called fans then decided to charge over to the adjacent pitch where Goose Green Reserves were entertaining Olympic AFC in another South Lancashire Counties Fixture.

"They again began by ripping out their corner flags. The fans then charged into the goalmouth, jumping onto the goalposts in an attempt to snap the crossbar with the sheer numbers clambering on them.

"They then started to rip the nets from the posts, tearing them and trying to take them. Our players helped to retrieve the nets.

"After spending quite some time singing and hanging on the goalposts the fans then ran back over to our pitch whilst singing “we’re Newcastle United, we’ll do what we want.”



The rampage lasted 40 minutes, and apparently left "families, dads, grandads and youngsters shaken", the statement added, as well as leaving the club with a bill for £200 for the replacement of damaged and stolen gear.

"This may sound miniscule to a Premier League Club that receives mass income from a variety of sources but it is a significant debt to an amateur non-profit football club that raises its funds from charity events and the weekly charge put on its players to allow them to enjoy a game of sport," the club added.

"The fact that these same fans have taken to Twitter and YouTube to boast about the incident and in fact revelling in it, showing no signs of remorse is possibly even more disturbing. Not only have they cost my football team a great deal of expense but they have shown a total disrespect to football itself."





It turned out not to be the only controversial incident that day: in the match itself, which kicked off just under two hours later at 4pm, Wigan's Callum McMananman produced a reckless challenge on Massadio Haidara that could have been career-threatening yet did not even earn him a booking.

Thankfully, Haidara's injury is less serious than originally thought - and it seems there could be a happy ending to the Wigan Cosmos as well. Wigan Athletic and Newcastle United have both been in touch with Cosmos and promised compensation, with Newcastle also working with police to identify and prosecute the fans at the centre of the trouble.

But even if the clubs had not done so already, it seems as if the vast majority of decent, football-loving Newcastle fans were already intent on putting right the wrong: several Newcastle fans disgusted at the scenese had apparently already been in touch with Wigan Cosmos and were offering to pay for the damage caused by their fellow Magpies supporters.

best fans in the world

What a bunch of @#%&!s :shakehead:

Gobshites, so zany

State of them lot :shakehead:

I'd love to spark that mong in the Guinness hat

did no-one think of simply motioning them away whilst shouting "h'away the lads"

£#%&!ing tramps......world's best fans

2nd to last pic, lad in a diarrhoea coloured jacket trying to aid breaking of the crossbar with a 3/4" plastic tube corner flag

Sums Jawdies up to a T

Saw the pics and presumed this happened in 1991 or something? Maybe earlier. A bay city rollers gig?

£#%&!ing state of them.

Originally Posted by My Name is Keith

Saw the pics and presumed this happened in 1991 or something? Maybe earlier. A bay city rollers gig?

£#%&!ing state of them.

Geordieland two decades or so behind the times?? Sounds about right, tbh

Can't help but look at those images and feel sorry for the Newcastle fans.

A mess of stark failure.

Originally Posted by Cream

Can't help but look at those images and feel sorry for the Newcastle fans.

A mess of stark failure.

Look at the ginger @#%&! in the 2nd picture

His hair matches his hood lining

It looks a right laugh. Grass roots football, shame they didn't turn up at an FC game.

That reminds I've not been to knowsley safari park for a while

United did this at blyth sparts in the 80s.

Originally Posted by elephantstone

United did this at blyth sparts in the 80s.

Is this a confession of sorts?

Looks like something Pop would do with Dalgleish.

Originally Posted by irk

Is this a confession of sorts?

We were on the way to Newcastle away and the game was called off just as we go to Newcastle. Some of the coaches went to Blyth Spartans where they ran amok.

Funny enough we play Blyth Spartans today, will report back on any retaliatory tactics.

Originally Posted by elephantstone

It looks a right laugh. Grass roots football, shame they didn't turn up at an FC game.

Innit just. Slapping that bunch of little #@&%!s around would be ace.