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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    Well, you can. That’s why we have laws to protect us from reckless, immature knobbeads.
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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    Making our grounds safer is not punishment
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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    I have to say I have heard that a lot from kids in schools. As you get older you learn to value the good things about living in a community and accept the compromises that need to be made. In the old days ‘taking ends’ was quite common. It involved charges across terraces. The culmination was...
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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    Ah, but your judgement on safety will be different to mine. That is why we have society so as to make that decision for us.
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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    I’m pretty certain that whilst you can use your knife to make your dinner but you cannot walk down a street carrying one. I would certainly call the police if I ever saw you doing so. In similar fashion you can run over any public park as many times as you like but on privately owned football...
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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    Not a great argument. There are laws to prevent people carrying knives…
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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    So did I :) Seemed ok at the time and was toleratated by the authorities. Things change though and (like you) although I’m not necessarily advocating a clampdown I’m just saying I won’t be surprised if there is one.
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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    It’s copycat and until there are actual consequences it will get worse and worse. That’s what happened in the 70s and 80s.
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    [Football] Punishing all fans for the sins of a few ?

    It’s living in a society rather than a bunch of individuals with ‘rights.’ It’s all very well taking the good times when things are going well but that works the other way as well. Rules are there to protect us all. If it comes to it and the authorities feel that pitch invasions are too...

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