Got hit in the face by a coin, had a fan come onto the pitch to confront him but still laughing about it on twitter. 8)

At first I thought he’d poked himself in the eye when was celebrating!

Me too, laughed at him holding his face after celebrating, then Sky slowed it down and you can see the coin hitting him.

This throwing coins crap has got to stop, it’s not good and today some clot was an inch from doing Ferdinand proper damage.

Was a 2 euro coin, apparently City fans wont be needing them this year….

Would he be laughing about it if United had lost though?

I think everyone’s in agreement that its a bloody good job that we did win. Because if we’d have lost, after having a perfectly legit goal disallowed….. well…. do you imagine you’d ever hear the last of it?

And that’s coming from a United fan!

Do they throw coins in Yorkshire ?

Did anyone hear Paddy Crerands rant on th’wireless this morning?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2012/dec/10/rio-ferdinand-paddy-crerand-audio

Would he be laughing about it if United had lost though?

Don’t know, what are your thoughts on this complex hypothetical ? 🙂

I read about some of Paddy’s comments, to blame the players for getting pelted with coins is absurd. And there’s nothing wrong with fans celebrating either.

It’s very annoying when opposition players celebrate but I’ve never thought about digging in my pocket for coins to throw them! At least confront said player face to face…

…on which note, I recon Hart should have left the little boy/man to Rio, then have Rio destroy him. Then everyone do a Wenger…

I bet the prat who ran onto the pitch quickly had second thoughts when confronted by Hart, Rio isn’t exactly small either, I think being escorted away by the police was his least worst option.

Did i dream it or was a player killed by a coin once? (I am thinking south america and 90’s…)

[edit:no, I must have just dreamt it, but I did find a very long and grim list of other “died in action” football players on wikipedia…}

I remember Hugh Dallas got hit with a pound coin but luckily he never did have much use for his eyes.

Cages around the pitch I reckon – not sure who benefits more from that though!

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Was that when they were still sponsored by specsavers?

I think players should celebrate, on a couple of occasions its gone a bit far, actually at Man City when adebyour scored against arsenal a couple of years back and ran the length of the pitch to do it in front of the arsenal fans was ridiculous. Gary Neville went a bit daft against somebody(was it Liverpool??)

It would be mad to start putting fences and stuff in front of the fans again, we made a big step forward and that would just play into Platini’s hands of never giving anything to this country again in terms of major tournaments.
If clubs can afford massive salaries they can afford bloody good cctv and route fans out 1 by 1 every time there is an incident.

Cages around the pitch I reckon – not sure who benefits more from that though!

They tried that, a few people dies, and would need to be a pretty fine mesh to stop coins.

If clubs can afford massive salaries they can afford bloody good cctv and route fans out 1 by 1 every time there is an incident.

My missus got some tickets to a Chelsea game, I’m not sure if they’re an exception or the rule but even after spending the last 18 months on an engineering site in Teesside I had to get her to translate the abuse being thrown at anyone unlucky enough to be black/asian/jewish. The stuff aimed at the Norwich suppourters was self explanatory enough though and I doub’t even those singing it were taking it seriously unlike the rest of it.

Made the news a few weeks ago that a chelsea fan had been arrested for racist abuse seem allt he more supprising, just one? What did they do, hold a raffle of seat numbers and arrest the first person to be pulled out the hat?

Imagine the same happen in Rugby League?

I heard Crerand. WTF was he on about?

5LIVE should have just chopped him mid flow.

The suggestion that it’s the players fault when they’re celebrating in front of their own fans is plainly absurd. Neville and Adebayor were out of order tho.

Nealglover is bang on btw, little BITTERness there maybe?

Fair play Ferdinand – three words you wouldn’t normally expect in the same sentence. 😉

Was this the same guy who having decided that he didn’t agree with a refs decision earlier, chose to take matters into his own hands and badly foul a City player?

Why is no one commenting on the three coins and plastic bottle thrown at Rooney. Is it OK as long as no one gets hit? Bloody odd spectacle wendyfootball?

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Is it OK as long as no one gets hit?

It’s much easier to get people’s attention if someone’s got blood running down their face, and much easier to produce photos.

But yes, it’s alright to throw things at Rooney.

If Rio was hit by a kinder egg would he say it’s racist?

badly foul a City player

lol