To be honest, I just think there is a massive difference in views towards atmosphere at football between the older generation and the younger generation. We don't have as many match going fans who are in their mid 20's to mid 30's than other clubs for various reasons (Just my view) and I think anyone older than that got to see English football when it was the pride of Europe. English teams were something to be feared, with Liverpool/Forest/Villa winning the EC something daft like 7 out of 8 years! British fans were loyal, loud and respected, getting comfortably bigger gates than any other country in the world. Now the younger generation who never saw terracing or hooliganism, and who have only ever lived through the disenchanted world of Sky Sports, look at our European competition with these ultras groups and different approach to supporting their teams and are jealous and want something similar i.e. standing. But these leniencies aren't possible in a country with as much red tape in the works as England. Hence why you get some knob heads who go to the games looking for fights and you get other knob heads going to the games with smoke bombs to try and mimic European football fans in a kind of 'what ever you can do we can do better' way. They aren't organised here and you end up with people who don't want to be involved unwillingly getting involved, which is the issue here. And as I said earlier in the post we haven't had the integration from the older generation to the younger generation that some other clubs have had because we have missed out on a lot of 'would have been blues' around that age gap. Hence more contrasting views and a big split right down the middle on views towards this type of thing. 99% of people under the age of 25 would probably say they like smoke bombs... and then maybe 99% of people over 40 would say they hate them! But my point here is posting about it and having a conversation like we are having now won't change everyone's views and more importantly won't stop people bringing smoke bombs or other offensive material into the stadium. The only way to do that is getting the police/stewards to do their job right and actually search people! I'm less concerned about smoke bombs getting in the ground than other things....
