Quite. As I said, I think context was needed in understanding why the fans fought back after several days of unprovoked, extremely co-ordinated attacks where the English fans were outnumbered and given very little protection.
I chatted with the fan in question a few games before that incident on a train home and he'd had a previous ban but it was all done and dusted, if I remember rightly.
One of those bans was for celebrating a goal by shaking the goal netting. Utterly ridiculous. And I wonder if those figures also include the Brighton fans who were banned on the basis of video evidence alone of a ruck at the World Cup with Russian hoolies that was presented without context and...