>>149219562>>149219749>>149219592there are preventative as well as punitive measures against it, so some individuals are banned from attending sporting events or travelling overseas during sporting events, supporters of notorious clubs can be banned from attendance domestically, events can be ordered to be played in an empty stadium if necessary, clubs sometimes limit attendance to card-carrying members only, clubs can be banned from international play entirely if their fans misbehave etc
this one is likely (as the strip ran in the Daily Star from 1981 to 1986, and this is one of the later ones) comment on the 1985 Luton riot, in which Millwall supporters smashed up Kenilworth Road and much of Luton itself: ironically, Luton had been warned by Millwall to make the match ticket-only specifically to prevent large crowds gathering on the off-chance of a place in the terrace (in the end they broke down the turnstiles and mobbed in); there were 31 tried at Luton Magistrates the following morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emkW_QdMahg
numerous other high-profile incidents occurred around the same time (and the reaction to them is largely why you don't see this kind of American college football-style rioting any more)
it may alternatively be comment on the St Andrews disaster the same year, in which the police response (pushing the crowd back against a wall) resulted in a boy's death, tho I suspect it's more general comment on hooliganism if not the Millwall riot specifically
anyway preventative measures rule, crusty old biro tattooed half-dead 80s hools drool
