Hearts now compared to 30 or more years ago the change is startling.For the most part, it is. Celtic and Rangers as clubs encourage it, profit from it and the majority of each fanbase aligns themselves to a certain persuasion.
Hearts, Hibs and Airdrie have elements who are just as bad but the majority of their fanbase no. That's the difference. Someone linked a Cercle Bruges forum to me the other week where the Cercle fans were discussing Hearts fans behaviour including racism and constant anti IRA chanting from their support. Hearts fans made a thread about it on their own forum with the vast majority calling their own out and trying to disassociate.
That's the clubs who have problems. As I see it in Scotland, nobody else does - there will be the odd isolated incident I get that, but as a general standard it's those 5 who have problems to differing extents.
Still of course their is work to do and in my opinion you will sadly never ever eradicate the problem.
European away trips seems to bring them out a lot more than SPL games for some reason