(12-18-2022, 11:57 AM)DJC date Wrote:Popular sports in Australia are notable for remarkably good crowd behaviour. Throwing flares, invading the pitch and assaulting/injuring players and officials is abhorrent and must be stamped out.Yep, that is bullcrap behaviour that has gone on too long.
Rubber bullets and tazers from now on, but only after a year or two playing without crowds to let them all cool off.
I'd also ban anyone U18 from attending games, to free up authorities to be a bit more authoritarian. I'm thinking dogs, truncheons, riot shields and the like from the good old days of the EPL!
I think either the States or the Feds should fine the FA, and I mean seriously fine them 7 or 8 figures to force them to lift their game! I write that because the problem isn't just caused by the fans, it's almost encouraged by the authorities. The bosses grin like idiots when someone asks them formally about flares or venue damage, they take it as a joke question.
The same spoilt brat fans going to or leaving games destroy station platforms, buses and trains, they cost the public more than the sport is earning locally.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"