Crystal Palace away fans threw a red smoke bomb after scoring a penalty at the London Stadium after a Declan Rice handball.
The smoke bomb narrowly missed a TV cameraman sitting behind the goal and landed on the London Stadium Claret carpet at the feet of a steward where it burned until stadium safety staff rushed in to put it out with a bucket of sand.
A second smoke bomb was let off in the away upper tier of the away fans.
Being in possession of a pyrotechnic device at a football match, or attempting to bring a pyrotechnic device into a football stadium, is a criminal offence under the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc) Act 1985. Any person committing such an offence faces arrest and can expect the Court to make a three-year football Banning Order.
London Stadium staff and Met police will review high definition CCTV footage of the Sir Trevor Brooking lower stand from where the bomb was thrown to identify the individual Palace fan who will then be arrested and charged as well as being banned by both clubs.
Great, as a Palace fan I hope you get the the idiot and he is banned for life, this is not what we want in football. However this is the second whinge on a W.H. Site. What is all this about an ALLEGED hand ball. What bad sports it WAS handball, you lost. Take it.
Club should be fined!
Stop being a load of sulking babies west ham are bad losers and expected to win tough thanks for the 3 points 🔴🔵🔴🔵
To all those Palace fans out there I have no qualms about the result, Yes it was a penalty by the laws of the game but do something about that disgusting and recalcitrant idiot Zaha and his spitting antics!
You mean his spitting which nobody except this website commented on? The article that only managed to record half of the screen? Please just do something about your deluded fans.
Al over social media. Amd on newspaper websites. Nice to knock of course but you are wrong
Beyond the media at large and social media plus the player himself on Instagram you mean?
He acknowledged it because of the crack video put up.
Even in the game both the linesman and rice don’t even acknowledge anything happened 😂
Clutching at straws
Well, to everyone who complains that the crowd is too far from the pitch the Palarce fan who allegedly threw that flare should have been in Doha, not the LS!
I’m looking forward to the follow up story on the WH fans who threw objects at Ayew after he scored. Completely agree that the smoke bomb was stupid from a couple of idiots in the crowd which I hope get action against them. I’m assuming you’re unhappy with the behaviour rather than the result and celebrating fanbase? If so a balanced journalist should be covering both stories and not just venting their frustrations because they have a website
Sort your security out then. How can people bring Pyros into a ground? Because stewards ain’t doing there Job is the answer!! I’m not condoning it but palace fans have been doing this for years all over the country. As for wilf spitting, no mention in the press so can’t have happened. The press love giving us a hammering, no pun intened.
I got sniffed and pulled over and searched & had nothing on me 🤷♂️ So how can the dogs miss a pyro
Lots of clutching at straws we beat you 2-1 get over it