I'm not sure why we dub any perpetrators 'fans' - less they're dressed in the paraphernalia - but those 'so-called' fans are not us - And they aren't real fans of the club or league either - not with behaviour that brings the whole code/Australian football, let alone their own club, into disrepute!

They're not fans or whatever, they're thugs and perhaps technically criminals, committing criminal behaviour. Many even utilise the game, the excuse/cover waypoint of the code and it's active support to commit such acts. They are just crims hiding in our game and they stain, take down the whole code, with them.

Most of us have a basic understanding and even appreciation for civil society, law etc... let alone the troubles inherit with the game and the struggles it continues to face in this country, within (like this) and without (Coverage, Marginalisation etc...). But such behaviour is troubled youths taking their gang culture into the football culture perhaps. Probably nothing new, circa old days, but it's something the club, FFA and all of us in a way, have to manage or deal with, in this delicate time as Wanderers and the A-League expands it's reach ever further!

Will the Wanderers and their fantastic success be undermined by small minded criminal behaviour of a minority or not?

Edited by GloryPerth: 21/1/2014 09:21:38 PM

Classic reaction of a hypocrite. Somehow you are above all the "usual scum" despite taking pot shots yourself.

Of course. You're just better and smarter than the rest of us aren't you?

Rest assured that yes, I am better than the likes of you, Heinekken, and Crusader.

I highly doubt that given you can't even spell my username correctly. :lol:

His analogy is not as ridiculous as it seems, and is more relevant than citing the trouble in Melbourne like you did (i.e. the crowd trouble in this article has absolutely zero to do with attacking people with poles as they waited for their own game in Melbourne). In the original post, you will see that the event happened several kilometres from the Sydney football stadium (NOT Parramatta where the Wanderers play); before a match between CCM and SFC (NOT the Wanderers), on a day that the Wanderers weren't even playing and (if you look this up), you will realise the Wanderers were playing away in Adelaide the following day (so weren't even in the same state but were 1375 kms away!).

The Wanderers cannot be held responsible for this in any way, and whilst his example seems ludicrous, it just shows how ridiculous it would be for the FFA to punish them.

But maybe this would be a better analogy. Imagine Manchester United were in Vienna (a comparable 1425 kms away from airport to airport compared to Syd-Adelaide's 1375 kms) to play FK Austria Wien in the Champions on Sunday. Now we find out on Saturday, that a small group of people who may be United supporters are reported beating up some Liverpool supporters a few kms near Anfield before Liverpool's match with Birmingham (distance by car between Parra stadium and SFC is 37km and a travel time of 35 minutes, between Old Trafford and Anfield is 54 kms and a travel time of 42 minutes). The time and location distance is almost the same as this supposed Wanderers incident. Now would you argue that Manchester United are thus responsible for this crime? That they should have done something? That it is their fault for not stopping their fans from committing crimes a large distance from their own stadium, when they are themselves basically on the other side of Europe? Unless you can say yes to this (and I would find that hard to believe), you cannot say blame the Wanderers either FULL STOP.