‘Everton home crowd on the pitch after the game’ / Source: The Guardian
After the match, the coach responded with a kick to the spectators who broke into the pitch and spit on them. This is a skit played in the English Premier League (EPL).
Everton won 3-2 against Crystal Palace in the EPL 33rd round match of the 2021-2022 season held at Goodison Park, Liverpool, England on the 20th (Korean time).
Despite conceding two goals in the first half, they conceded three goals in the second half and turned the game around. They finished 16th in the league with 39 points with one game remaining with a dramatic three-point win. It was a victory that confirmed their remaining in the first division regardless of the results of the remaining matches of Burnley (35) in 17th and Leeds (35) in 18th.
Excited Everton fans rushed onto the pitch as if it was natural. It was a look that made me think that the league championship was confirmed rather than ranked 16th in the league.
In the 40th minute of the second half, Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s goal came from behind, and before the game was over, the crowd poured in and the game was halted for a while. Stadium security guards and police did not properly stop it.
In particular, the opposing team, the Palace players and staff, had to leave the stadium without any protection at all. It was a situation in which he did not know what would happen to the excited fans.
Eventually things happened. An Everton hooligan continued to ridicule in front of manager Patrick Vieira Palace as he left the pitch and eventually sweared at his finger.
Director Vieira also exploded and kicked the man. Other fans flocked to push Vieira, and the situation calmed down as people rushed to stop him.
“I have nothing to say about the situation,” Vieira said in a press conference after the match. Everton manager Frank Lampard said: “We ran across the field for 80 yards in front of the fans, but there were no problems.I think it’s Hee,” and replied that there was no problem with the fans.
Vieira played as Arsenal’s midfielder from the 1996-1997 season to the 2004-2005 season during his active career, dominating the EPL midfield. In the 2003-2004 season, he played a leading role in an historic undefeated trophy, finishing 38 games with 26 wins and 12 draws.
He was so famous that he collided with Manchester United’s Roykin in a stadium tunnel.