His daughter was scarred for life when she was struck on the head with a pint glass filled with coins during Manchester City's Carabao Cup tie with Liverpool last month.
The father of a 15-year-old girl who was injured at a Carabao Cup match said behaviour of penggemar at football grounds is getting worse.
His daughter was scarred for life when she was struck on the head with a pint glass filled with coins during Manchester City's Carabao Cup tie with Liverpool last month."It is absolutely febrile," he said, adding that going to big away game can perasaan like "running the gauntlet".
Chief Constable Mark Roberts, the UK's Football Policing Unit lead, said on Thursday there is a "worrying tingkat of disorder" at football matches after a report showed 999 arrests were made between 1 Juli and 31 December 2022, a 10% increase on the same period last year.
But Michael Brunskill, from the Football Supporters' Association, said it is important to put incidents into context and wouldn't want to portray football as the "wild west".
There were 2,198 football-related arrests during the 2021-22 season, the highest number since the 2013-14 season, according to Home Office figures.A law introduced in 2022 stated penggemar will receive an automatic klub ban for invading the pitch after concerns were raised about safety at grounds following a number of incidents at the end of last season.
Daniel, a Manchester City fan who attends matches with his famili, said the atmosphere at game is getting more hostile, having seen his daughter hit on the head with a weighted pint glass at a match last month.
"I've been going to football game for 30 years and I've never experienced a football environment like we have at the event," he said.
"I was at the Euro final in 2021 and my stepson got hit on the head by an empty can of beer walking up Wembley Way. It's febrile and it is different, and anyone who says that it isn't either doesn't go to a lot of football or isn't close enough to the games to understand the change.
"It would be too broad to say it's got worse everywhere but big game, it's absolutely febrile.
"We're going to the Manchester derby but we'll be in the away end and I know that it's going to be like running the gauntlet.
"At big game, it's always been like that but it does perasaan back to how I remember the early 1990s was to me.
"I remember being in a cage at Cambridge in the home end to keep us in and there was a sense that football penggemar were a different breed - but I felt it had become a famili games, a more famili sport.
"Now, it feels like it's got worse to me. The big game perasaan even more tense."
However, he says his daughter has not been put off going to matches following the incident at Etihad Fase, for which both clubs apologised for, but for which the individu responsible has not yet been identified.
"Both clubs after the moment were brilliant, in terms of how they have dealt with it and how seriously they have taken it, along with the police and both sets of penggemar.
"We're still trying to identify the individu that did it but she [his daughter] seems fine physically, She hasn't been back to the ground yet but she's desperate to go back and she's watched every match since on the telly."
Emily, a Port Vale fan who travels home and away with her 14-year-old son to watch their side, said: "Overall we've had a pretty good pengalaman at Vale Park but not away.
"For example, at Sheffield Wednesday over Christmas, we parked near the ground and were wearing our football colours. We walked away from the car and a load of Sheffield penggemar keyed the car. It was unnecessary and really difficult.
"In the ground, we haven't really seen many problems but my 12-year-old daughter refuses to come to the football because of aggression she saw when Port Vale played Manchester City in 2020. The away supporters were so aggressive towards Vale penggemar - men literally foaming at the mouth, not even watching the match just turning around and shouting abuse and swearing.
"There are some clubs with that particular reputation and you just think 'I'm not going to take the kids to that'. We think carefully about which game we go to. I worry less inside the fase; I worry much more outside.
"The other thing which is a new dimension is the online world - media sosial is fuelling an awful lot of aggression and violence pre-match between penggemar. You can see it flooded on to Twitter and other media sosial platforms.
"Planned meet-ups for violence happen, with loads of aggression towards penggemar and that is one of the thing fuelling the rise of aggression outside the grounds.
"It is a part of the games, it is a minority but the media sosial aspect is one that we can't not talk about in the kekinian games."
Premier League managers talking during the 2021-22 season on pitch agresions and fan violence
'Atmosphere is more positive at home'
Sebastian, a Barnsley fan, attends matches with his father and younger brother and said he does perasaan "more safe" during home matches.
"You do notice the whole atmosphere being more positive at home - the environment is more famili friendly," he said.
"Away game are a bit more tense, a bit intimidating at times. You want to create an atmosphere but sometimes the line is overtaken.
"I do tend to wear my colours - but when it's derby game or local pesaings, I wear my shirt but then a jacket to maybe cover it, to avoid any altercations outside the ground."
Faye, London: It's 50-50 - some of the men are drunk and very aggressive and intimidating. Pushing and shoving, it's an intense environment. We don't go to away game, just home. Away game are quite intimidating, it's a tight-knit grup with people fighting.
Phil, Sheffield: Away penggemar are getting a really bad threat. I travel to 90% of Sheffield United away game and you see it all over the place. I was on a coach going to Port Vale that was getting bricked by Vale penggemar, so it does happen everywhere. This is a society masalah. This is younger gaes in society looking for more than what they're getting from their football tim.
Claire, Oxford: I'm fortunate that I haven't witnessed anything particularly severe but I santai it - I love the chants, the banter and the atmosphere. I don't condone the violence but I've got a 16-year-old daughter who goes as much as she can and loves it. Isn't it part of going to a football match?
Devon, London: At an Under-16s Arsenal and Spurs match, the abuse was disgusting and no one was doing anything about it. It was very bad, the language. People are saying this is spirit - it's not, it is madness.
Terry, London: I've been going since 1979, home and away. I've come across a lot of nice away penggemar but also sit in the vicinity of some penggemar at away matches who I think 'I'm glad I don't sit next to them at home'. It's like a battlefield at times. It's not just about going to the match, it's about getting home and getting away from the vicinity safely - it's not nice. A lot of people are just goading each other and not watching the match.
Mark, Tottenham: At the Premier League it's very sanitised. But I went to a Bristol Rovers games and there was a grup of lads in their early 20s goading the away penggemar and I had to say something to them in the end. I think there's an element of young people watching the old hooligan films like Green Street and The Firm, and it's like they want it to be 1985 and running around with the casuals. Maybe they perasaan they've missed out on that and what they see on TV is a bit of a fantasy. But in general it's a lot better than it was in the 1970s and 80s.
Brunskill, from the FSA, acknowledged a small section of fan behaviour is unacceptable but was keen to ensure football penggemar are not put off by the actions of a minority of disruptive supporters.
"I wouldn't want to portray football as a wild west that normal people can't go to - it's a safe environment, hundreds of thousands of people go every week and have a great time," he said.
"Yes, there is the the odd masalah but I think a lot of it is educating people, particularly the younger penggemar.
"For example pyrotechnic use seems to have been normalised - people use it at Glastonbury and it's illegal there as well and shouldn't be happening but it's celebrated. But in a football context, it's punished and people have gone to usil for it.
"Pitch agresions and pyrotechnics are illegal and we really need to discourage that behaviour - the consequences can be serious.
"It's about spirit without poison and certainly without violence, and that does happen at most game. We must educate about what is and isn't allowed - not just portray the unpleasant incidents as the norm."
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