KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Incitement-a straight red card!

After reading your posts guys, I'm gonna have to concede and say you have convinced me that it shouldn't be a straight red. I don't change my mind often but things like Suarez's swallow dive do make the game that much more interesting and emotional. I don't want that to disappear from the game.

Unlike you Moyes saw the funny side of that.

Comedy gold on Luis' part.

We have players in the AFL celebrate in front of opposition fans all the time and we rarely, if at all, have issues! The opposition fans quite often sit next to each other and apart from the odd incident, most of the time it's just a bit if fun filled banter. Believe me we are just as passionate about our game as well!
I don't think a red should be issued. Players should be allowed to express their joy and celebrate how they wish. The fans are the ones who need to control their emotions and those offending fans should be ejected immediately from the stadium and banned for a long period of time.

+1

I think we have to separate the ideal from the reality.

In an ideal world, the fans would be sensible and react to an opposition player celebrating in front of them with humour or something acceptable.

The reality however is that there will probably be some nutters in the crowd, or even people who aren't nuts normally but take on a completely different character at a football match. Much of this is also perhaps fuelled by alcohol. If we know this is the case, surely we can't just let things happen and deal with them afterwards.

Sometimes it's better to prevent something silly from happening in the first place. It would be difficult/impossible to identify the idiots before they've done anything so we can't stop them attending the game in the first place. In this situation, I don't think that asking players to tone down celebrations near opposition fans is too much too ask.