Violence and bad behaviour

    Incidents were reported at more than half of all matches (53%) - 1,609 of the 3,019 matches played

    Around 70% of fans arrested last season were aged between 18-30

    In 2018-19 - the last full season before Covid-19 restrictions - there were 1,381 arrests and reported incidents at 1,007 matches, equivalent to one-third of the games played
    It means reported incidents were up by 60% last season compared with 2018-19

    There were 441 pitch invasions reported last season - up by 127% on 2018-19

    Football-related arrests were up 59% - the highest number of arrests since 2,273 were made in 2013-14

    516 new banning orders were issued - down on 549 in 2018-19

    Top three clubs for new banning orders - Millwall (33), Leicester City (2 and Everton (26)

    The most reported types of incidents were pyrotechnics (729 matches where incidents were reported), throwing missiles (561) and public order or anti-social behaviour incidents involving youth supporters (444).

Getting on a bit now, even when I was young, I never ever understood the reason for this dumb behaviour. It achieves Nothing except more costs for clubs, in paying fines for these idiots behaviour. Personally I don't think the deterrents and big enough.

I mentioned this on another thread but it's probably getting worse because they've now included so called online hate to the list of things you can get a banning order for.
Old Bill just has to trawl the Internet and forums in his, her, their armchair and up go the statistics.
Worrying times.

We are not immune either. I remember reading about some bloke that took a kids flag and deconstructed it.

Shocking behaviour.

more arrests made in every town centre ,every sat night,non story ,move on

I wonder in how many of these so called crimes has an actual punch been thrown? Yes, plenty of plastic chairs and tables get thrown across roads, most "crimes" will probably be just mouthing off, saying words like homosexual, and other woke butt hurt phrases.