Plenty of security at the game, but its impossible to stop some idiot running onto the pitch these days with crowd safety being paramount, would you want the return of fencing?
Lee Hendrys comments on Sky are pathetic, whilst I agree the person who ran on the pitch should be banned & sent down, deducting points & abandoning the game are such an overreaction.
Would he say the same if it had happened a villa park? I think not.
it's not impossible if security isn't made up of students and misfits.
the people who steward games have zero training. they work on zero hour contracts and volunteer for shifts to guard some of the biggest events in the world. the vast majority of them are morons (if they aren't doing it as a second job and are over 25). it's a minimum wage job where you are standing out in the cold for hours at a time, etc.
if they had proper security in it would mean they would need to at least triple the current security wage bill.
so yeah it can be done but would cost money which nobody is willing to spend.
as you can see none of the stewards ran after him. at events like this they only have 1 or 2 people allowed to chase someone on the pitch. so if he gets past the clueless steward nobody is going to chase after him unless he's near the 1 or 2 who's specific job it is to do so. with a pitch that size with 1 or 2 manning it that isn't sufficient.
again if you were being paid minimum wage would you be putting your face at risk to stop a yob? a lot of the stewards are also old and women too. also most of them don't do anything apart from watch the game.