The feeble response of officials to tabloid accusations of ‘thuggery’ goes to the heart of why football in Australia needs noisy,committed supporters to thrive
furious football fans across Australia gain vowed to boycott A-League games this weekend, leaving embarrassing empty spaces in the stands.
Their immediate grievance is the perceived failure of Football Federation Australia (FFA) to respond more robustly in the two weeks since Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph published the names of 198 people who gain been banned from A-League grounds. That sparked inflammatory rhetoric approximately “general thuggery” (Daily Telegraph reporter Rebecca Wilson), and the Paris terrorist attacks (broadcaster Alan Jones),“grubby pack animals” (NSW assistant police commissioner Kyle Stewart) and “suburban terrorists” (News Corp columnist Susie O’Brien), and in turn a fierce backlash from fans.
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Source: theguardian.com