It has already been said, but there are moron supporters of every club and then the entire group gets judged. It is ironic, because 99% of a clubs supporters would not associate with the ferals that do rubbish like this, but there is a habit of bonding all groups that support a club together... The irony is within your group of friends and colleagues... unless you are in a 1-2 team town, chances are that many different football groups are represented.
We are just as guilty of it, how many times have we as a group lumped all Richmond supporters in with those that rip up memberships, spit at the coach or dump manure at the club? Yet of course most are not like that. What about Collingwood supporters, I remember Tim Watson talking about a shower of spit as a player was carried off injured... Surely this doesn't represent the majority of pies supporters either.
Passion is a great thing, banter is a great thing. Physical violence over a game of football and especially now with all the woman and children at the football is reprehensible and the AFL needs to get really tough with life bans for these thugs and the police need to press charges.
Disgusting.