alot of interesting point raised in this thread.
my opinion (for what its worth) that football is predominantly a working class game. history has shown that it is male orintated from blokes "letting off" steam at the weekend. swearing, whether you like it or not has always been on the terraces. who decides what is exceptable or not?
when i was a young one, the fellas screamed Abuse and unrepeatable words. my dad did nothing but explained that it was wrong. i loved the atmosphere, BUT guess what, i swear now! NOT infront of my mother or young son, and believe it or not, infront of my bosses or infact i can hold it together in any convesation.
i find myself now in the same boat as my father when i take my son.
i tend to find at football that the people who complain the most about swearing are the ones who have been brain washed by the government,FA, clubs themselves.
morecambe is a big enough stadium now to have designated areas for families who feel that strong.
personally, its all about the game, and the saturday letting off steam.
the issue around policing etc, totally aggree. way over the top. the stewards at my club are nothing but power crazed idiots (i am not suggesting this applies to Morecambe as i personally know alot of them), but the away fans (at my club), are treated awful. just reading our forum and the amount of people getting banning orders for standing up after celebrating a goal is unreal. the police are heavy handed talking to them if you have a problem treat you like the crap football fans have been painted over the last 20 years.
this is interesting and sums up really the problems with policing of the game.
http://www.fsf.org.uk/news/Batman-and-R ... anager.phpother threads worth reading but may contain bad language are,
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread ... t=stewardsor one of the biggest injustices of our time,
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread ... al+stationnow this jase lad.
reading only from what has been put on here, i have no sympathy with him at all. i can understand that people on here might want to support him from what he has done in the past, but being drunk, throwing stuff, assault? this is the behaviour that has caused over zealous attitudes from policing of football. especially when they were playing them horrible lot who would and always have brought trouble where ever they go.
i remember a few years ago a long standing morecmabe lad getting the same sort of treatment for his unacceptable actions. if you make mistakes you get the punishments.
maybe if he is banned he will be able to reflect on his actions and come back a stronger character who will understand that his behaviour leads to consequences for other law abiding fans.
just my oopinion not posted to offend or upset anyone!