I was a steward in the West Stand at the old place for several years and that was the instruction from Rankin (ex copper)If thats true, its ridiculous. So many of these people who come on the pitch will just wander around there as long as they can and what, everyone is meant to just stand and watch it happened?
If they are instructed that then fair enough its more down to the people instructing them - but I doubt thats true, based on the fact that eventually a shed load of them did run on the pitch
who was in charge of security.
Just think in recent years if you have seen any games on TV (football, cricket.. any sport really) when the knob end runs on the pitch unlike the old "Keystone Cops" chases that you would see in the 70's and 80's they have their moment of fame and then get nabbed by the stewards when they try to get back into the crowd.
The TV cameras don't even show people that go on the pitch usually to help to prevent them from being glorified on MOTD or whatever.