I Think it's an offence to have a flare or smoke bomb in a football stadium is it not?

 

"If people want to use things safely to create an atmosphere, that should be their choice and what is wrong with that?"
This. As regards that actually happening but it is years if not decades off happening, very little appetite amongst anyone with any power to change things to have it changed even though punishing people or groups for them has so far been ineffective and reckon it's probably out of the clubs hands, took years of Police Scotland dragging their heels to get the standing section introduced

 

You should be able to wear flares if you want, personally I prefer straight leg trousers but if your a 70's person and into flares who are the board to tell you what to wear. I was in Ireland about 3 months ago that whole country is still wearing flares. They also think the Bay City Rollers are number 1 though.

 

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If I remember rightly the catalyst for bans was the Wales v Romania game. A guy from Wrexham took a naval distress flair into Cardiff arms Park & set it off, but instead of going vertical it went horizontal & killed a Welsh guy on the other side of the stadium. Haven't googled it but that's off the top of my head.

 

The "pyro" doesn't really look all that great. When an air bomb goes off it sounds horrible. You can imagine as well people paying good money to go to a game and breath in all those nice toxic fumes.

 

Keep this in the supporters thread. It's all related.

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