Palace face points deduction after unprovoked assault by manager

I believe the way Goodison is set up at the moment his exit was across on the other side from him. He could have tried creeping round the edges I guess, but why would he feel like he needed to do that?

This is the third pitch invasion in a week and they've all had some amount of violence between players and fans. Billy Sharp was violently assaulted, Oli McBurnie is being called before the FA because it looks like he stamped on someone, Swindon players were attacked by Port Vale fans last night and Vieira has swatted some little gobshite away from him as well. I just don't understand the mentality of it. Pitch invasions feel less spontaneous now and more something people are planning to do in likely circumstances, and I guess that means you get fewer expressions of pure happiness as a result and more people on the pitch because they want to be on the pitch behaving like themselves, and often they're arseholes. I've never understood the people who whose first instinct when their team scores is to start making wanker signs at the opposition fans instead of actually celebrating the goal, and frankly if those people are forgetting that they're not protected by stewards and nets when they're on the pitch and getting clouted then excellent, but you can't have players and staff being attacked. It's absolutely ridiculous, and if it gets put on social media then it will happen more and more. That's why you can't watch an England match outside anymore without getting covered in beer, people are just waiting to do the thing they saw on the internet.

Football fans always get the harshest treatment - 5 year bans for being caught with cocaine at a game as if there isn't some wider societal issue to address - and if these idiots aren't careful something will be done to make it harder to get on the pitch, and that will come at a cost to atmosphere