From The Indie:
'Watching professional football, like playing the game, has become a grim business. What happened to the humour?
Where have all the inflatable bananas gone? Banished when the seats came in? Since the really big money came in to the game some fans believe they have the right to sling foul abuse at the players, sometimes even those from their own team if things are going badly.
The terraces were once renowned for their ingenuity and wit. Now all we hear is banality and obscenity. And we tolerate it.
Every so often pleas are made in the match programmes which are promptly ignored. Inside the grounds nobody protests because we have a remarkably high tolerance level.
And gradually the abuse increases in vileness and somebody, misguidedly, takes the law into his own hands. And it won't always be a corner flag as it was at Watford. It could be a knife next time. Where will tolerance have led us then? For, as a series of tragedies demonstrated only too well in the 1980s, the enemy of safety is complacency.
Why should the behaviour of what is, after all, a minority of supporters oblige us to apologise for being football followers time after time? Why should we so often be embarrassed?
As Karren Brady said, there were 30,000 inside St Andrew's and the number who invaded the pitch was minuscule in comparison. Joe Kinnear, the Luton manager, objected to giving publicity to the few out of the 14,000 who attended Vicarage Road.
I still love football. I'm just not sure I like it all the time. So what can be done to improve the atmosphere inside grounds?'
How about bringing back terracing Graham?
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