Top 10: Fan Missiles; from a pig's head to Mars Bars

23 September 2010 14:35
After the bottle-throwing incident at Brentford on Tuesday night, Football.co.uk's Daniel Jolly takes a light-hearted look at some of the more unusual objects thrown by fans.

10. Vegetables: Linked to a crude terrace chant, throwing celery onto the pitch at Chelsea was a tradition that began in the 1980s.

Fans were banned from bringing the item into the ground in 2007, after Cesc Fabregas was pelted while trying to take corner in a Carling Cup final.

Strangely this isn't the only example of vegetable related abuse. On the back of an embarrassing defeat to North Korea in the 1966 World Cup, Italy players had tomatoes thrown at them.

9. Mars Bars: When you think of Paul Gascoigne: you think of 'that' goal in Euro 96 and his penchant for both food and drink.

At the beginning of career at Newcastle, he quoted in an interview that he loved Mars Bars.

In 1988, he left the Geordies to sign for Tottenham and on his return to St James Park, home fans threw Mars Bars at him during the game.

The midfielder wasn't fazed and nonchalantly picked up one of the bars and took a bite.

8. Socks: Before an F.A. Cup replay against local rivals Everton in the 2008-09 season, visiting Liverpool supporters dreamt up an idea on forums to hurl rolled up socks and chant 'sock robbers' at their Merseyside counterparts.

Aimed to mock the Toffees for their plans to move to Kirkby, a suburb where residents used to be known by the nickname.

The actions of Reds fans didn't go down well with Evertonians, Merseyside Police and even some sections of their own support.

7. Tennis Balls: After owner and tennis player David Lloyd purchased Hull City in 1997, he became unpopular with the Tigers faithful almost instantly.

First, Lloyd merged the football club with Hull's rugby team and then gave any money available to the latter to succeed.

He also branded the people of the city as "crap", antagonising the supporters even more.

Miffed by their owner's actions, City fans decided to throw tennis balls at a game to protest. It worked as he sold the club at the end of 1998.

6. A Wheelbarrow: In a quarter-final match in the 2004 Copa Libertadores between America and Sao Caetano, things became heated at the final whistle.

On the pitch, both sides clashed and wanting to get in on the act, a fan - armed only with a wheelbarrow- decided to throw it over a fence at security officials and police.

5. Car Door: During a warm-up match for the 2002 World Cup, a man interrupted the match by carrying a car door onto the pitch.

As the game reached a close, the stadium announcer appealed for Chilean fans not to invade the pitch, adding that they shouldn't bring “any car parts onto the playing surface.”

4. Dead Cat: After a goalless draw, most fans are disappointed. But one man decided to take his anger to the next level after a 1982 game between Charlton Athletic and Luton Town.

The Addicks fan threw the front half of a dead cat in the direction of the visiting fans, with the remains of the animal nearly hitting a policeman.

The copper calmly proceeded to kick the moggy away.

3. Leg of Lamb: In a 2-2 draw between Northern Irish sides Ballymena United and Distillery in 2008, a lamb's leg was thrown onto the pitch.

After an equaliser by Distillery in the ninth minute of stoppage time, the object came on, apparently in response to a horse's head being left outside the house of a hockey player.

2. A pig's head: Luis Figo completed a controversial switch from Barcelona to Real Madrid in 2000 as the era of the Galacticos dawned.

Barcelona fans always heckled the Portuguese winger when he returned to the Nou Camp, and two years after his move they stretched to new levels.

On his way to take a corner, Figo had various items launched towards him including a whiskey bottle and a pig's head, prompting officials to withdraw the players for 13 minutes for safety reasons.

1.Scooter: During a Serie A match against Atalanta in 2001, Inter's 'Ultras' stole a scooter from an Atalanta fan before the match, and brought it into the San Siro.

They then proceeded to drop the vehicle from an upper deck into an empty section of the lower deck, intending for it to reach the pitch.

Source: DSG