The new Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill will, if approved, ensure a stricter more severe punishment for people who disrupt football matches or show threatening, abusive, disorderly or offensive behaviour. Any of these can lead to a five-year sentence, whereas current law dictates a maximum of a one-year sentence. Even online hate crime, such as abusive or offensive Twitter messages, are included and carry the same heavy punishment.
Community Safety Minister Roseanna Cunningham said: ''We saw a very ugly situation developing towards the end of the last football season, very ugly - an image of Scotland going around the world which we really, really do not want to see continuing.''
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---http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tougher-laws-for-football-hate-crimes-2298875.html
My take on this:
I'm not a very big sports fan. One of the things that I despise about sports such as football is their fanbase. I don't get how you need to fight other supporters, trash everything you run into while extremely drunk or disrupt the match itself if things aren't going your way. By this logic I think it's a very wise decision to step up the punishment level for hooligans and the likes. Sports should be about sports, competitiveness, support and fun and to be honest I don't see how random acts of violence are fun or sports related.
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