This would be a good way of identifying them. Also, if someone put my school in a bad light when I was a kid, there would have been hell to pay! Parents would be in no doubt as to the matter in hand. As it stands, parents will believe that their 'little darlings' are off to the match and then they come home. Nothing more.
This episode can be used to set a few ground rules and educate a few kids as to how they shold behave if they want to remain in the stadium for a whole match or allowed in at all for that matter!
This is the clay we have to work with and if we can mould them into loyal, well behaved fans of the future then how can we miss this opportunity? Not all the young fans are badly behaved, we are talking the usual 10%.
The vast majority are happy to turn up and behave, Please don't forget this Barry!
I did observe that the invaders quickly moved off the pitch when the supporters in the stands let their feelings known. Maybe we all have a small responsibility here. Didn't we all have the guiding hand of our more senior fans to help us make the right choices at the match?
We were all warned of the consequences of encroachment but it happened. Kids who don't yet get it were guilty. When they do get it they will be true 'tics...
Nobody encroached at the end. Maybe a lesson learned?