Since returning to games from covid, there’s been all sorts of issues regarding fans at football games. Those sneaking into the Euros final and the scenes surrounding that, people invading the pitch at many other games and hitting players, even the racism at our last home game (and I know, that idiot doesn’t represent any of us) or the Sheffield Utd smoke bomb being thrown into our disabled section in the East. As much as we hope the perception of our sport changes in the media, we have this small minority continue to “prove them right”.*
It does feel as though the authorities felt it would have been better to sit this one out than risk minute’s silences not being observed or chants offending/being out of taste.
* I don’t think they are “right” but I mean continue to fuel their claims and give them more ammunition to beat us over the head with. Giving them content to create headlines with and garner the most attention even when the vast majority of us don’t behave anything like it.